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Tycoon is a screenplay editor and a marketplace. Write in the app or upload a draft, list it, and producers read it in a matrix next to its comps: the TMDB titles it is like, and what they made.
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Sample of the seeded listings. Ratings and vote counts are from TMDB.
Salt Line
Signal MediumFeature, 112 pp, Mara Ellison
A NOAA cartographer finds her brother’s tide charts are a smuggling map.
- Frozen River2008 6.6 373
- No Country for Old Men2007 8.0 14k
- Sicario2015 7.4 10k
The Understudy
Signal HighFeature, 8 pp on file, Mara Ellison
An understudy is hired to impersonate a missing star, then inherits her threats.
- Black Swan2010 7.7 16k
- Carrie1976 7.3 5k
- Whiplash2014 8.4 17k
Second Service
Signal MediumFeature, 3 pp on file, Mara Ellison
A night paramedic starts getting calls from patients she already pronounced.
- Weapons2025 7.3 4k
- Midsommar2019 7.1 9k
- The Ritual2017 6.3 4k
| Script | Logline | Comparable titles | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Line Feature, 112 pp Mara Ellison | A NOAA cartographer finds her brother’s tide charts are a smuggling map. |
| Medium |
| The Understudy Feature, 8 pp on file Mara Ellison | An understudy is hired to impersonate a missing star, then inherits her threats. |
| High |
| Second Service Feature, 3 pp on file Mara Ellison | A night paramedic starts getting calls from patients she already pronounced. |
| Medium |
Ratings in the sample are shown as 7.7 with votes such as 16k.
Write
A screenplay editor that formats as you type, with Final Draft keys, autocomplete for names and locations, revisions, and PDF, Final Draft, and Fountain export.
Upload
A PDF is read by its margins into scene headings, cues, and dialogue, so an existing draft gets the same breakdown and can be edited here.
Breakdown
Speaking roles, locations, night exteriors, and scene lengths in eighths, counted from the draft. Producers see it next to the comps.
Comps
Saving a script ranks TMDB titles by shared genres and keywords. Writers pin their own. Producers see budgets, grosses, and the multiple for each.
Credits
A writer stores a TMDB person id. Tycoon reads that person's writing credits and shows them next to the script.
Requests
A producer asks for the file and keeps private coverage on every script. The writer accepts or declines from the desk. Decisions are emailed when mail is configured.
What happens after the script
Guides for writers on options, development, financing, and budgets. Signed in, each one reads your own draft: the days its pages suggest, the band its comps put it in, and how far it has gone.
Read the guides- From spec to release
The stages a script goes through once it is written, who makes the decision at each one, and when the writer gets paid.
- How a film is paid for
Budget bands, where the money comes from in each one, the order it is paid back in, and what a comp's gross does and does not tell you.
- What the pages cost
How a line producer turns a draft into a schedule and a budget, and which choices on the page move the number.