Screenwriters Brooks Elms and Glenn Sanders recently made the trades when they set up their sci-fi thriller Near Earth Object with Chinese studio Le Vision, who plans to make it with an international cast. Not long ago, they were just two guys entering contests — one of which was our own Writers on the Storm,…
Ah, the age-old question. If you want to know the real answer, watch this video (8 mins).
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…
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…
(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…
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…
…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…
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…
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….
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…