By Jim CirileYep, it’s hard as heck to break into Hollywood. But it’s even harder for someone with indie sensibilities. Come with us as we investigate how an indie-minded writer can make a living in the film business nowadays. Wither indies? The answer, sadly, is yes. Indies, as we’ve always understood them, are not only…
by Steve Kaire Since most screenplays get optioned rather than sold outright, writers need to know how options work. In general, options are a bad deal for writers. Writers are basically renting their material out for a fixed period of time, usually from six months to two years. Option prices vary from no money up…
By Tanya Klein We’ve come across a little e-book, The Top 10 Reasons Why It’s a Great Time to Be a Filmmaker (2012, 124 pp., Michael Wiese Productions www.mwp.com). It’s a compilation of essays by industry professionals and, best of all, it’s free. If you’re looking for a how-to book, this certainly is NOT it….
Coverage Ink Films’ second short, LIBERATOR, premieres Saturday 8/11 at Grauman Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, at the Holly Shorts Film Festival. LIBERATOR stars Lou Ferrigno as a disgraced, washed-up ex-superhero whose secret black ops past comes back to haunt him as he tries to put his life back together. Like the LIBERATOR character, the heat…
Meet CI story analyst Alex Cramer, better known to some of you as AC. Alex has been on a roll lately, and has just set up one of his projects at Disney Channel — “Pants on Fire.” That makes two CI consultants (joining Kevin O’Hare, who sold two pilots to Universal) to sell TV projects…
Hi everyone, just a quick note to let everyone know that Writers on the Storm Screenwriting Competition 6 is a GO. We launch September 24th and will continue until 1/1/13 (a nice, easy to remember final deadline!) We’re still putting the prize packages together so we’ll have plenty to say about that in the next…
Comes a time in every writer’s career when throwing in the towel seems like the move. But sometimes hanging in there just a little longer can make all the difference in the world. Just ask Jeff Maguire. By Jim Cirile We’ve all been there. You spend months, years maybe, on a piece of material, and…
2010’s first Pitch Summit, brought to us by our friends at InkTip.com, was tremendous mix of both opportunity and discombobulation. Now in their second year, have they ironed out all the bugs? By Tanya Klein I recently checked out InkTip’s Pitch Summit III. Having attended the very first one — which was riddled with logistical…
Think your rep is giving you the real skinny? Maybe not. There are certain secrets they will never divulge to the likes of you. Let’s pull back the curtains, shall we? by Jim Cirile Agents and managers by definition are wheeler-dealers. So don’t expect a lot of honesty from them, right? You’d be surprised. Our…
It is with enormous pride that we announce that our client Paul Moxham, hailing from lovely Monbulk, Victoria, Australia, has won the Gold Prize in the Action/Adventure category of the 2011 Page Awards! Almost two years ago, Paul came to us with this concept, and we loved it. We gave him notes over a…