Script Central Competitors

Final Draft, a Cast & Crew Company, has published Final Draft® software – the number-one selling screenwriting application in the world – for 27 years. Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards, allowing writers to focus on what they do best – writing scripts. Used by such industry giants as J.J. Abrams, James Cameron and Aaron Sorkin, Final Draft software is the professional’s choice and the entertainment industry standard. In addition to its flagship software product, Final Draft offers the annual Big Break℠ Contest – a screenwriting competition that launches careers, and awards over $80,000 in cash and prizes. Final Draft also offers the Final Draft Mobile® app for iPhone and iPad, making creativity truly portable. To learn more about Final Draft and its products and services, visit: www.finaldraft.com

The Black List is a platform for writers to showcase their projects for industry professionals and get evaluations from readers we vet and keep checking. It began as a survey. In 2005, Franklin Leonard asked seventy-five film development executives to name their favorite screenplays that no one had yet produced, and published the answers. The list has run every December since, and it has always been free. Since 2005, more than 500 scripts on the annual Black List have been produced as feature films, grossing over $30 billion at the worldwide box office and winning 60 Academy Awards from 284 nominations — including four Best Picture Oscars since 2007 and 13 of the last 38 Best Screenplay Oscars. Those are the annual list's numbers, not the platform's. In 2012 we built the platform. Writers anywhere in the world, working in English, host their screenplays, pilots, plays and novels, and can pay professional readers to evaluate them. Readers are paid a fixed fee per read, and two-thirds of every evaluation dollar goes to the reader. Development executives, agents, managers, producers, directors, actors, and editors search it, read the work they find, and sometimes they get involved with bringing it to audiences. The Black List is also a submission partner to the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

StudioBinder is video production management software for film, TV, commercial, and branded content teams. Write and format scripts, build shot lists and storyboards, tag script breakdowns, generate shooting schedules, send call sheets, and manage cast and crew. All in one browser-based platform. Production teams use StudioBinder to replace the spreadsheet-plus-PDF-plus-email workflow that breaks the moment a schedule changes. Everything lives in one project, so a script revision flows through to the breakdown, the stripboard, and the call sheet without anyone rebuilding a document by hand. What's inside: - Screenwriting and AV scripts with industry-standard formatting - Script breakdown software with element tagging and breakdown sheets - Shot list software and storyboard software with mood boards - Production scheduling software: shooting schedules, stripboards, DOOD reports - Call sheet software with delivery tracking and confirmations - Cast and crew contact management, task boards, production calendar - Media library and file sharing for the whole team Who uses it: production companies, creative and ad agencies, in-house brand video teams, broadcasters, studios, film schools, and independent filmmakers, from one-day commercial shoots to multi-week episodic productions. StudioBinder also publishes one of the largest free filmmaking education libraries on the web, covering cinematography, screenwriting, directing, and producing, plus free downloadable templates for shot lists, call sheets, storyboards, and script breakdowns. Start free at studiobinder.com.