The Free Movie Idealist
Free Movie IdeasWriting about screen storytelling every ten days or so, from your friend Emerson.
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5 Founders: A Movie Treatment
Over on Instagram, I post recent headlines that would make good movies. I also post tweets, tumbles, and >greentexts that would make good movie #characters. Thoughtful readers send me screenshots all the time, and a few weeks ago one of the...
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My Favorite Movies of the Year 2025
It seemed like a pretty good year for movies. Bad year for people who work in the movie business, with a record-low number of productions in Los Angeles,1 the uppity and consistently wrong yammering of the AI-invested goobrains,2 further in...
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I'm a screenwriter and I created and run the largest assembly of royalty-free movie ideas in history. Yes, they're really free: https://www.instagram.com/freemovieideas/
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