Congrats to CI reader DEREK STUCKERT for being selected for the Imagine Impact 2 program! Spearheaded by Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, the program received 4,000 submissions from 57 countries. Imagine Impact works like a fellowship in that it pays creators to come aboard and develop television series ideas, all under the tutelage…
We’re back! After a lovely 2-year hiatus (during which time we made a movie,) we’re bringing back our “nontest” Get Repped Now for a limited time: Sept. 3 to Oct 20. During that time, all scripts we receive which score a “consider” or better for script are advanced to our manager panel along with our…
Hi everyone, It was another killer webinar this weekend. Thanks to everyone who participated and asked questions. And if you missed it, just click below to watch the whole thing (85 minutes. Boy, we cannot seem to keep these things to an hour no matter how hard we try.) Special thanks to our guest TIM…
Howdy, fellow scribes! It is with sublime joy that we bring you our next CI Pro free webinar: SECRETS OF GREAT DIALOGUE. CI’s own Jim Cirile and Tanya Klein will host as always, and this time out we’re stoked that writer/producer and screenwriting instructor par excellence Tim Albaugh will be along to share his…
Happy birthday to us! Feb. 18 is our 17th birthday! Over 60,000 screenplays and pilots evaluated, tens of thousands of clients, and through it all, we still do everything by hand. No cheaptastic, cookie-cutter “Uber” coverage like some of the other services out there. With CI, it’s always hands-on customer service and communication with us,…
Howdy, fellow scribes, It was a super fun and informative webinar this past weekend, and we painstakingly laid out many common (and a few not-so-common) gaffes we all tend to make — both while we’re up and coming as well as after we get repped. In case you missed it, here’s the video! https://youtu.be/rcWre_Jv9D8 Questions…
Back in the ’90s, I was working with a producer of some note on a go movie project, and that producer wanted things a certain way. Now I did not agree with that producer’s take; in fact, I thought his approach was so appallingly wrongheaded and destructive to the project that I literally gave myself…
Our friend across the pond Lucy B. Hay, a terrific screenwriting guru in her own right, has assembled a wonderful article with feedback from 22 story analysts and development types (including yours truly.) If you want to find out what the industry is tired of and what not to write next, click here to read…
Great question today from client Gary T., who asked: “Once I have your views on my script, what do I do to get a studio working on making a movie out of it? I don’t need my ego stroked, I want to see my work on the big screen.” Yeah, that is the…
by Jim Cirile Season’s greetings, fellow scribes (as well as anyone kind enough to consider buying a screenwriter a gift.) If you’ve been agonizing over gift ideas for that screenwriter in your life, look no further! We’ve assembled our top ten picks that the writer in your life is sure to love. We have…
