Seg Fault with fscanf

I'm sure I'm just making a stupid error but I am getting a seg fault when I fscanf on line 15. Do you know the reason? Btw I'm not done with the program.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
  4 #include <string.h>
  5 #include <stdlib.h>
  6 void readnames();
  7 void sort();
  8 void write_names();
  9 void free_memory();
 10
 11 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 12 {     
 13        int amount;
 14        FILE *fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
 15        fscanf(fp, "%d", &amount);
 16        char** last = (char **)malloc(amount*sizeof(char*));
 17        int i;
 18        for (i=0; i<amount; i++)
 19        {     
 20                last[i] = (char*)malloc(15*sizeof(char));
 21        }//creating last array
 22        char** first = (char **)malloc(amount*sizeof(char*));
 23        for (i=0; i<amount; i++)
 24        {     
 25                first[i] = (char*)malloc(15*sizeof(char));
 26        }//creating first array
 27        char* middle = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char));
 28        readnames(amount, argv[1], last, first, middle);
 29       
 30       
 31       
 32        return 0;
 33 }//main

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Are you sure that fp is not null?
Are you sure that the argument from the command line is there?
Are you sure that the file you specify exists?

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