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Stage 32 + Mark Creative Management Partner For Exclusive Opportunity for Writers to Land Representation!
Insider Intel: Packaging your Project- The Chicken or the Egg Dilemma
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Insider Intel: 2025- Your Year of Breakthroughs (+ What's Coming in 2026)
As the year comes to an end, I want to take a moment to celebrate you and express how rewarding it is working alongside this community to empower creatives around the world. 2025 was your year. More than 85 writers in our community found success this year—signing with representation, getting their projects shopped, being hired for open writing assignments, securing options, and landing development deals. Writers like you proved that breaking through isn't just possible—it's…
Stage 32 + DramaBox Join Forces to Launch World's First Vertical Drama Incubator
As recently announced in The Hollywood Reporter, the world's leading vertical micro-drama producer has opened their doors exclusively to our community and we're excited to announce we've partnered with DramaBox - who are offering a $5,000 option contract to the winning writer of our joint screenwriting competition! Open to feature screenplays, TV pilots, and short scripts! Direct-to-Production Access Drama Box is the world's leading short drama platform launched in April 2023. Covering…
Insider Intel: Packaging your Project- The Chicken or the Egg Dilemma
A conundrum is plaguing Hollywood: to get buyers or financiers interested, you need A-list talent or a director attached, ideally underlying IP, and a production company already involved. Most agents and managers don't have the bandwidth to package for their clients, and producers are chasing projects that are further along. In this marketplace, it can seem impossible to "break in." But here's the silver lining: these challenging conditions are forcing writers and filmmakers to become e…
Don't Let the Momentum of November Write Club Die: How to Stay Active Into 2026 & Beyond!
Happy Monday, Stage 32 Community! We're coming into the home stretch of 2025, and I want to talk about something that doesn't get enough attention: what happens after the momentum stops. November Write Club has been incredible. Hundreds of writers showed up every day, engaging in the lounges, commenting on blogs, supporting each other, pushing toward their goals. The energy has been real, the progress has been tangible, and the wins have been stacking up. But here's what I always see …
Coffee & Content: Why Your Next Step Matters More Than the Perfect Step
Happy Sunday, Creative Army! Have you had a creative weekend so far? Whether you’ve been writing, filming, editing, or simply dreaming up your next big idea, I’ve got some inspiring content to fuel your passion and keep you moving forward. So grab your coffee, and let’s dive in. This week, I want to spotlight a video that hits on something I think many creatives forget: the power of risk, reinvention, and saying yes before you feel ready. Today’s featured video…
Insider Intel: 2026 Predictions
Just last week, I predicted that A-listers would start gravitating toward genre projects, taking smaller pay cuts for bigger backend deals, as Ethan Hawke did with SINISTER back in the day. Today, Scarlett Johansson was announced to star in the new EXORCIST remake. As studios become more risk-averse, it makes perfect sense: combine the most popular genres at the box office with household names and proven franchises to hedge your bets. A-list talent lending credibility to commercially s…
Coffee & Content: Reinvent the Story, Reinvent the Industry
Happy Sunday, Creative Army! Have you had a creative weekend so far? Whether you’ve been writing, filming, editing, or simply dreaming up your next big idea, I’ve got some inspiring content to fuel your passion and keep you moving forward. So grab your coffee, and let’s dive in. This week’s featured video comes from FilmSpeak, about one of the most unexpected and bold evolutions of a major franchise in years: Predator Badlands. If you haven’t seen this yet…
Insider Intel: A-listers Are Dead. Long Live A-listers.
Recent A-list-driven movies are bombing at the box office and the trades are now writing Hollywood obituaries. But movies like SINNERS and WEAPONS that ‘saved the summer box office’ built their marketing strategy around recognizable talent. So did WICKED. And the sequel is projected to reach monster numbers. So is star power dead? Or is it just evolving? The problem isn't A-listers. It's $200M prestige dramas that nobody asked for. Here, I said it. I believe next we'll see a…
Stage 32 + Mark Creative Management Partner For Exclusive Opportunity for Writers to Land Representation!
Exclusively on Stage 32, Eileen Cope's management company has opened their doors to our community and we're excited to announce we've partnered with Mark Creative Management - who will develop and package the winning script of our Film & TV Drama screenwriting contest, giving Stage 32 writers a real chance to land representation! Direct Manager Access Founded by industry veteran Eileen Cope, Mark Creative Management is a boutique literary management company representing screenwrite…
Coffee & Content: Opening Doors & Taking Control of Your Creative Path
Happy Sunday, Creative Army! Let’s kick things off with a huge shoutout to everyone who has already jumped into this month’s Introduce Yourself Weekend. Thousands of creatives from around the world are connecting, sharing their stories, and building relationships that will lead to collaborations, opportunities, and lifelong friendships. If you haven’t yet made your introduction, you’ve still got time! Head over to the Introduce Yourself Lounge before the weekend…
The Importance of Proper Script Formatting
We all remember our English teacher in primary, secondary school, and college, spending months teaching us formatting for different types of papers, right? The MLA, Chicago, APA, and other forms of formatting might still haunt our dreams and writing, but they were and are an extremely important written form of communication. This allows people to immediately recognize what they are reading and what type of information is being shared. Scripts have the same need; they need to be formatted…
Insider Intel: The $10-15M Sweet Spot Hollywood's Chasing Now
I spent this week talking to two financiers and two buyers, and the landscape has shifted. The new sweet spot for horror and thrillers is $10-15M…a significant jump from where we were just 18 months ago. Action films are climbing even higher into the $30-50M range. Even companies that built their reputation on sub $5m dramas are now chasing bigger, more theatrical projects. This is why I'm hearing more and more that projects are too small. That's creating a massive gap in the ind…
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