Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Wolfgang Petersen, Harrison Ford, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, John Travolta, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Family, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant, Kopelson Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures. Corey’s students have gone on to sell or option scripts to Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Disney, Fox, Dimension Films, MGM, Universal, Showtime, FX, Netflix, NBC, HBO, MTV, AMC, Hulu and Amazon. Others have been staffed on such shows as Community, The Fosters, This Is Us, Bones, Justified, Playing House, The Mentalist, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, Up All Night, State of Affairs, Rosewood, Chicago Fire, You’re the Worst, Pretty Little Liars, Treme, Mozart in the Jungle, BoJack Horseman, The Blacklist, Jane the Virgin, The Leftovers and Succession.

The Industry Is Still Buying Scripts

In the past two weeks, I’ve heard from eight students who have sold scripts and pitches. Despite the current health crisis, the industry is still very much open for business. But to sell a project, it’s got to be the right one. To help give your scripts the best possible chance of success, I’m offering…

Free Writing Training Videos

I’ve been getting a growing number of emails from folks with some free time, as they shelter in place, asking for some training exercises they can do to help improve their writing. So I decided to create some free training videos: Improving Your Writing Style. The Big Why? The Big What? How To Launch Your…