Over six months in. Still on evaluating.

7 1/2 months in evaluating.

Customer Support assured me 3 weeks ago that it was not forgotten and they escalated it, and told me I'd receive an e-mail update the next day. I never got one.

Meanwhile since then Nick Hall has been promoted to the Head of Drama at AS.

At this point I imagine I'm as close as possible to there being a chance it'll get optioned.

8 months in evaluating and it's pending a business decision.

1 month later and still evaluating. Still pending. No change in status.

Most boring, slow thread ever, I know.

Update: After 9 months in evaluating, it jumped straight to complete. They passed.

After reading this thread a few weeks ago i decided to submit something. Mine is currently stuck on 'deciding'. Whether that's better than being stuck on 'evaluating' or not i'll let you know. Gotta be in it to win it.

Good luck!

I have something in Deceiding right now too, but after 9 months of evaluating I've pretty much completely written AS off. But it DOESNT HURT AT ALL to submit everything you have.

Quoted from GregoryM Update: After 9 months in evaluating, it jumped straight to complete. They passed.

Sorry to hear. That's a long time to wait for disappointment. And they don't give a word of feedback, either, do they?

No. They dont provide any comments. I resubmitted it after they passed, since they passed right after the previous guy in charge left. And its been in evaluating for 4 months now? 3? A long time. Another one of my projects on there has been in deciding for 5 months, but I've kind of written off their open submissions. Still, it doesnt hurt to try.

Bloody hell, 9 months just to get a pass. That's ridiculous!

I have something I was considering submitting but to wait that long is insane.

Is it free to submit, Gregory?

Lol - after saying all the above I went and checked out the process. Not only is it free to submit but they don't stop you submitting to other competitions, festivals or trying to get the script optioned/produced. So I've submitted one. Sure they can still try and steal my idea but it's registered with the Library of Congress and there's always a risk anyway.

As it could be 9 months before they pass, I'll try to forget about it and move on to other projects.

I believe that once you submit to Amazon, you've given them a free "first look option", so that you are NOT free to option or sell your script to someone else unless Amazon passes within the time they're allowed under their terms and conditions that you would have had to agreed to before you send your script.

If you do option or sell your script to someone else while Amazon remains alive under its terms, and Amazon later exercises its option, you'll be in middle of a legal dispute.

Bogey - That's the way it was initially, but Amazon changed their policy a few years ago.

There's no downside to open submissions through their site. and it's no longer an option, just submission for open consideration.

That said - it's definitely a submit and forget situation over there.

My script Shadows Beyond has been in deciding for 8 months, and The American Dream, a recent submission in evaluating for 2.

Notably, the day after I submitted TAD, another project I had in evaluating for 5 months got passed on. So they DO make decisions on projects that get past the initial 1 week overwhelming denial phase, but it's not quick by any means.

Quoted from GregoryM Bogey - That's the way it was initially, but Amazon changed their policy a few years ago. There's no downside to open submissions through their site. and it's no longer an option, just submission for open consideration. That said - it's definitely a submit and forget situation over there. My script Shadows Beyond has been in deciding for 8 months, and The American Dream, a recent submission in evaluating for 2. Notably, the day after I submitted TAD, another project I had in evaluating for 5 months got passed on. So they DO make decisions on projects that get past the initial 1 week overwhelming denial phase, but it's not quick by any means.

The current Submission Agreement doesn't even mention the word option. It does, however, give Amazon some pretty broad rights to your uploaded content if you choose to make it public.

You can switch it back to private if you get some outside offer.

Seems simple enough, but the included-by-reference Account Agreement includes this gem buried in paragraph 10:

Quoted Text If the rights granted to Amazon under this Agreement or any Amazon Studios Agreement should revert to you under any copyright law or similar law, and if you are at any time thereafter prepared to enter into an agreement with a third party for the license, exercise or other disposition of all or any of those rights, you will, before entering into the agreement, give Amazon notice of the proposed terms (and all modifications of the terms) and the party involved. In each case, Amazon will then have 10 business days in which to elect to acquire the rights involved on the terms contained in the notice.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think that only applies if you yank Amazon's rights by some means other than making the project private (though I have no idea why you would).

It's over.

Amazon studios closed submissions forever today.

My two projects still being considered will 'still be considered' but submissions are closed, and in 2 months the site will be deleted.

RIP