How Do I Get an Agent?
Ah, the age-old question. If you want to know the real answer, watch this video (8 mins).
Get Repped Now Fall 2016 Considers (So Far)
We’re just about done reading all the Fall 2016 Get Repped Now submissions, and we are super excited about the material. While only four scripts that made the cut so far (down from ten last go-round,) the quality of them all is through the roof. We can’t wait to drop them on our manager…
Aaron Sorkin MasterClass: Review
by Jim Cirile CoverageInk.com MasterClass.com caught screenwriters’ eyes in a big way last year when they launched their Aaron Sorkin video tutorial series. For $90, far cheaper than the cost of most screenwriting classes, we could spend 35 video lessons with the esteemed writer of A Few Good Men, West Wing, and The…
5 WAYS TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING IN 2017
(And Good Riddance, 2016) By Jim Cirile From the American Screenwriters Association blog Ahoy, fellow scribes! We’re finally done with 2016, that blizzard of putrescence – and not a minute too soon. Some of the lowlights: Trump, DNC chicanery, and Wikileaks revealing that Citicorp had selected Obama’s entire cabinet. And we lost so many…
Film Grants!
Hey, friends! Want some money? Then check out FilmDaily.TV’s huge list of FILM GRANTS and see if you might be able to get a piece. There are a few really awesome and well-known ones here, including Sundance Institute, Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship, Slamdance, Nicholl Fellowship and the BBC. But there are also some lesser-known ones which…
TOP TEN BIGGEST WRITER MISTAKES
…According to Agents and Managers By Jim Cirile www.CoverageInk.com Seven leading industry reps tell you what not to do and what drives them nuts. Stay on the rails and save your career. Excerpted from “Agent’s Hot Sheet: Ten Years of Screenwriting Wisdom from Hollywood’s Top Reps.” I have made every single mistake listed here. How…
GET REPPED NOW – Last Chance!
What a Manager? Final Deadline Midnight Dec. 4 This is it. At 12:01AM Monday morning it’s all over. Your last chance in 2016 to participate in Get Repped Now. Send us your script for in-depth script analysis. If it garners a “consider” rating, it will be read by our oanel of five top motion picture…
COMPLETE SCREENWRITING DVD set – On Sale Now!
Save $100 Now + Free Shipping + Free Gift! Sale Ends Dec. 4 Well, it was only a matter of time before someone did it — crammed an entire screenwriting master’s class into a DVD set. Hollywood script guru and consultant Jim Mercurio has stepped up with COMPLETE SCREENWRITING. And what a set it is….
Get Repped Now EXTENDED – MUST END Dec. 4!
Howdy, fellow escribadors! Well, this is somewhat concerning. Normally by this point in our twice-yearly GET REPPED NOW event we have at least 6-8 “considers.” by that, I mean scripts that have come in for coverage which we have rated a “consider” or better for script, which generally equates to about the top 5%. By…
First Get Repped Now Consider!
Big news, guys! Get Repped Now! has its first “consider.” We’d like to congratulate Joseph Balczo for bringing it with his TV pilot BLOODLANDS. The script concerns an Indiana conservation officer who uncovers a web of crime and conspiracy when he goes looking for two missing fellow officers. Joseph definitely has the goods…