Join us for a Halloween horror extravaganza! Jim Cirile, Tanya Klein and our team of CI horror experts will take you on a fast-paced, no-BS exploration of horror screenwriting for 2022 and beyond. Featuring special guests including working screenwriters and top-tier horror reps! We’ll be covering a lot in two hours, so hold on tight. Writing…
Our September 2022 Zoominar, BEHIND THE CURTAIN: SECRETS OF THE SCREENPLAY READER is now available on Vimeo for $14.95. Learn all about how the coverage biz works from one of the most senior readers in town. In this fast-paced 3-hour Zoominar, USC screenwriting instructor, development exec and CI senior story analyst Beverly Neufeld explains it…
Click HERE to register for the Zoominar! If you’ve ever sent a script in anywhere, you’ve likely gotten coverage. Coverage is simply a reader report, a summary of the material, so that execs don’t have to read everything that comes in. Coverage is essential to how Hollywood works. Oftentimes (but alas, not always,) these readers…
Many thanks to everyone who submitted to Coverage Ink’s GET REPPED NOW this year. In the eight years we’ve done this (well, nine, but we took one year off) we’ve never had so many near misses as we had this year. Out of 425 submissions, we had 44 “consider with reservations” for script. In other…
WAIT! Think you’re ready to submit your feature script or pilot to Get Repped Now — or anywhere else? Don’t pull the trigger until you tick all the boxes below. The Coverage Ink/Get Repped Now Last Looks Checklist – five essential things you need to do before making that submission. Time’s a wastin’ — let’s…
A quick tip of the hat to these four amazing writers(so far!) who have entered the Coverage Ink Get Repped Now! winner’s circle. Alfred Thomas Catalfo & Morgan Webster Dudley OIL AND WATER Becky Fink STUCK ON CHRISTMAS Jane Gideon INTO THE LION’S DEN This is of course fluid – there WILL be more considers…
By Jim Cirile In the 20 years I’ve been running CI, not to mention over a decade writing about the biz, interviewing producers, agents and managers for The Wrap as well as the late, great Script and Creative Screenwriting magazines, well, you pick up a few things. And so as we dive in to…
Announcing the Get Repped Now 2022 industry panel! 15 reps from 13 top companies, all searching for the next great screenwriting voice. Last time out we helped three of our considers land representation. So get those screenplays and pilots ready to rock. Get Repped Now launches April 4th.
Last year’s GET REPPED NOW saw us read over 600 pilot and feature scripts, and 13 were awarded the coveted “consider” for script (around top 4%.) While many of those scripts got the writers meetings with our reps, alas, it doesn’t always work out, for various reasons. The most common: the rep has recently seen,…
We couldn’t be more excited for former CI story analyst par excellence Sal Cardoni and his writing partner Brian Rawlins. Well done, lads. Deadline (Hollywood): Unseen is the next project from Epix’s and Blumhouse’s eight TV movie deal and will star Jolene Purdy (The White Lotus) and Midori Francis (The Sex Lives of College…