Script Coverage

Script coverage is the standardized report a professional reader produces after evaluating a screenplay, so that executives can make decisions without reading every submission themselves. Classic coverage contains a logline, a full synopsis, craft-and-market comments, and a verdict — traditionally pass, consider, or recommend.

Coverage exists because volume is brutal: a mid-size production company can receive thousands of scripts a year and greenlight a handful. The reader is the filter, and coverage is the filter's paper trail.

The catch: coverage is an internal document. Writers almost never see it, which means the most useful diagnostic ever written about their script stays behind the studio wall. Our free scorecard is coverage with that wall removed — the same rubric (structure, market, budget realism, comps, a readiness verdict), delivered to the writer with a next step instead of a closed door.

For the full history and how to read your own report, see What Is Script Coverage, Really?