‘The Night’ Producer Mammoth Pictures Launches Screenplay Competition, Winner Will Get Feature Produced

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EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Pictures has announced that it’s bringing back its Mammoth Pictures Screenplay Competition, for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.Mammoth looks with its competition to discover and support emerging writers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds.

The competition is unique in that the Grand Prize-winning screenwriter will have their screenplay developed, financed and produced as a feature-length film by Mammoth Pictures, with the screenwriter receiving a standard pay scale.

Mammoth Pictures has partnered with Coverfly for the first time this season to accept submissions for the competition on their platform, which can be entered now.Mammoth’s new Head of Development Alexis Brontë is heading up this year’s competition, which is geared toward genre feature screenplays — particularly those under the speculative fiction umbrella in the categories of horror thriller, psychological thriller, mystery thriller, crime thriller, science fiction, dystopian and fantasy —  though it remains open to scripts in all genres.

The competition more specifically looks for screenplays that are contained in regards to locations and cast, with unique stories and well-developed characters, particularly those from a unique background.