Starting a new thread for people who made the semifinals.

If you are complaining about the contest or posting something negative, visit the other thread. Thanks.

Here you go, everybody! The top 50 scripts of over 1,000 submitted. So this represents the top 5% and that's quite an accomplishment! The 20 semi-finalists will be announced on August 1st.



Abeyta, April & Kim Nunley — Super Ted

Amdahl, Joseph- A Boy in the Woods

Axelrad, David & Michel Plaxton — Machine Gun Kelly: The Real Story

Barlowe, John & Irin Evers — Miss Christmas

Bauer, Kristin — Edultery

Booth, Thom — Jaunt

Bowlden, Kelli — Venus Envy

Brown, Harold — Dewey and the Magic Library

Burningham, JR & Tess Ortbals — Terra Incognita

Cambria, Craig — Canaries

Catz, Sarit & Gloria Ketterer — Instant Karma

Cecchini, Ron — Blue Lady

Dilier, Matthew — The Sandbox

Donald, Mike — Cortex

Donald, Mike — Shadow Trade

Donnelly, Scott & Joe Douglass — Cows

Downs, Christine — The Jupiter Syndrome

Evans, Corey- Death's Horizon

Farrand, Carol — Nobody in My Family Has Sex

Fass, Rick- Love Erasers

Figel, Rich — The Doll

Fortune, Jules — Better Than Broadband

Headley, Jason & Michael Tumino — Seniors

Hoover, Stephen — Buried South of Galatians

Hoover, Stephen — Ghosted

Hoover, Stephen — To Live, Press 1

Luu, D.N. — Faithful

Jackson, Ryan — Fix

Knutson, Forrest — Samurai High

Lammey, David — Shotgun Wedding

McCoy, Michael — Under the Rising Sun

McMinn, Dave — O Boy

Moore, Sherry Lynn — Hunting Season

Nolan, Tom — The Quick Way Home

Puterbaugh, Joseph — The Jack Johnson Story

Ridone, Steve — Colby on the Potomac

Rosen, Jane — Ancestral

Sayle, Allie & Liz — Troublemakers

Sheehy, Rich — The Intake

Simpson, R. Ian — Paraplizzle

Spiegelman, Bruce — IsiS

Stein, Christopher — Moment of Conception

Shyu, Tony — Macau Twilight

Stirling, Bruce — The Embalmer's Apprentice

Wasserman, Daniel — Stowaways

Watson, Robert Keith — Bank Robbing for Dummies

Wiggins, Joseph — Amsterdam XXX

Wolfe, Celeste Chan — Spotnik

Tze Yun, Sun — The Sun Rises East

Zakalik, Marc — Drumadoon

Next cut is August 1st.

Good luck!

Thanks, Chris!

You know, with all the storm clouds surrounding this contest, there may well be a silver lining (pun intended). I bet Julie's going to work extra hard to promote her winners this year and make sure good things happen for them. Right, Julie? ;-)

Best of luck to you, Stephen, and to anyone else on this board who's still in the running!

Thanks, Karen. Glad to still have a shot. Tough competition getting through any contest.

Umm...really? What about people who didn't submit, can they read this post?

I'm all about the free exchange of opinions, and I was on board with your standpoint, Stephen, until I read this. This is just childish.

I wish all of those that advanced the best of luck in this, and any endeavor.

Okay, I just read the other thread (that presumably prompted this) so I see where you're coming from...but still.

This whole thing has gotten out of hand on all levels. I, like many others I'm sure, am ready to move on.

Seen any good movies lately?

James,

Thanks for stopping by my post -- though you aren't a participant in the contest and really not part of this.

This thread is for people who have advanced in the contest to share information and updates.

Thanks for stopping by and for NOT posting on my thread in the future.

Childish? Perhaps. But this thread is for "Winners Only."

Good luck next year in your contest endeavors.

Well, excuuuuse me! I didn't advance in this contest so guess I didn't have the "right" to post here either.

I'm not sure Frederick wants people to be excluded from contributing to threads based on how well they do in contests. It is, after all, his message board.

Do you have a policy on this, Frederick?

I don't actually have anything to say, I just reject the idea of a private thread on a public board. Who's to keep us pesky posters out?

If you want to pat each other on the back without having to field the snide comments of the disenfranchised, you can form a private Yahoo or Gmail group.

Disenfranchised? LOL!

Okay, that's my laugh for today. Sure show up and have a party here.

That really is a classic.

My point was there's a CONTEST taking place. What's the topic of this website? Contests. Right? MovieBytes = contests.

But you guys are cracking me up. Keep it up.

Yay, I made someone laugh today!

Now back to work and see if I can do that with my screenplay (although it's a dark thriller).

Kudos to all of us!

Marjorie,

A writer friend that avoids the boards because of flame wars told me she pretends whatever person is annoying her in life the most is the next victim in her thrillers. So there ya go!

Feeling a bit like the "leave Britney alone" YouTube guy. Hope we move on to the next topic of controversy soon.

Now, Stephen. Congratulations, but this seems like a bit of a self-serving promotion.

Do you really need a thread to update each other about this contest? Seems a bit shady. I'm familiar with a lot of names on this board and only recognized two from this board on the results. I'm sure you realized the same, considering you are much more active then me on the boards. I did not enter, so this isn't about me.

You need not pat yourself so much upon the shoulders. You have a lot of people who respect you here and do that already.

Good luck to you, but settle down :)