31 Publishers Paying for Articles on Movies, Film, & TV

Writers! Today for you, I have a list of 31 publications that pay for articles on movies, film, and TV. This is a mix of pop-culture publications, general entertainment publications, philosophically focused publciations, and niche publications focused on film, cinematography, or the film industry.

We’ve researched payment rates and contact information for these publishers, so you can easily contact the right editor.

If you’re new to pitching, I encourage you to spend time carefully studying the publications you would like to write for. Learn their style, how they’re organized, the types of writing they publish, and even the general lengths of the articles they publish. Also, pay special attention to the way they write article titles, as this is often vital to the pitch writing process.

Once you’re familiar with the publication, you can brainstorm ideas, and then carefully craft a short pitch to the appropriate editor at the publication. For paid subscribers, feel free to send me a draft pitch, and I’ll give you my feedback.

If you’re looking for even more opportunities to get published, you should browse the many lists we’ve published so far on this site.

1. Crooked Marquee is a movie website. They entertain, inform, and empower their readers by providing them with amusing insights and unique perspectives regarding the industry. 
   They seek opinion and analysis of movie trends, specific current films, or current news in the film world. They also welcome actor or director retrospectives, re-examinations of older films, personal essays, and creative or satirical pieces. Their pay starts at $50 per piece. To learn more, read their writers guidelines.

2. Certified Forgotten is a podcast in which film critics Matt Donato and Matt Monagle “unearth the most memorable horror films that feature five or fewer reviews on RottenTomatoes.” They are expanding into editorial content and are seeking pitches for features. Word length is 1,000 and 1,200 words. They pay $75 per feature.To learn more, refer to this page. Read their pitching guidelines here.

3. GamesRadar+, a part of Future US Inc., is a website about games, movies, TV, and comics. Rates begin at $125. To learn more, refer to their U.S. managing editor’s post and their pitching guide.

4. Layered Butter is a magazine about “art, design and the movies.” They build each issue of the magazine around a particular abstract theme/genre/director/actor, and open up the submission process 2 to 3 months before the submission deadline. They also accept off-theme pitches and submissions. They’re open to “other aspects of formal analysis and cultural criticism, interviews, essays, etc.” Their essays and criticism works are usually between 1,000 and 2,000 words. Rates are $100-$500. To learn more, refer to their submissions page.

5. IndieWire is an online publication that features film and TV news, interviews, reviews, and industry analysis. They welcome pitches on a range of topics relating to film, TV, and new media. The standard rate for their essays and reported pieces begins at $300. To learn how to pitch them, refer to this page.

6. The Drift is “a magazine of culture and politics.” They want “socially engaged cultural criticism; class-sensitive analysis; pieces that point out what’s being avoided or talked around in politics, media, arts, or even academia; upbeat cynicism; un-self-serious screeds; generous takedowns; entries from the margins; fiction; poetry; 1-3 sentence book/ movie/ TV/ art reviews.” They pay:

   - $2,000 for essays
   - $500 - $1,000 for short stories
   - $150 for poems
   - $25 for Mentions

   To learn more, refer to this page.

7. Metro Magazine is Australia's film and media magazine, run by the Australian Teachers of Media association. They publish essays, articles, reviews and interviews that analyse the film and media cultures of Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Word length is expected to be 1500 words to 3000 words. They pay in Australian dollars, $300 for 1500–2500 words, $350 for 2500–3500 words, $80 for scope column (800–1000 words), $700 for NFSA Restores essays (6000–8000 words), $200 for Peer-reviewed articles. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.