Today, major studios won't purchase or develop anything that isn't based on a comic book or theme park ride or board game or whatever. Only a very small percentage of screenplays are ever made into films, and only a small percentage of films are ever distributed widely. Best bet is either to learn to direct yourself, or meet a young, up-and-coming director who is interested in your script.
Best thing to do is to write something that could be made into a film on a very, very low budget. It should take place in only a small number of everyday locations, should have only a few characters, and shouldn't contain too much crazy, expensive shit, basically. You have to actually write the script, and if you want it to even have a chance, it needs to be flawlessly structured and entertaining. Meaning, you're going to revise/ rewrite about 50 times. But you don't just "send it somewhere" and then it's a movie. That was very rare even in the earlier days of cinema. Unless you're already famous, and your work has made lots of money for lots of people, you can do absolutely nothing with a "scenario."
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