So… DEADLINE Hollywood just ran a jaw-dropper of an article titled WGA Data: 87% Of All Scripted TV Shows Are Packaged …With 79% of those packages coming from CAA and WME. Yikes. What does this mean? A) Only 13% of pilots that sell are off the script alone. In every other case, there is a package…
Howdy, friends! Recently we asked our newsletter subscribers to email us any questions, and I’d do our best to answer them. So here please find a selection of some of the more interesting or universal ones along with my replies. Hopefully some of these might speak to you and your own experience. As always, feel…
Stephanie Palmer from Good in a Room posted this great primer, a must-read for anyone thinking about writing for TV (which should pretty much be everyone nowadays, since that’s where all the action — and money — is.) Stephanie of course knows whereof she speaks, but I will add a minor correction: the word “generally,”…
We proudly present the eleven screenplays and pilots which scored a coveted ‘consider’ for writer as part of our Get Repped Now promotion in 2017. One huge heap of talented bad-asses right here! We’ll be blasting these scripts to our manager panel the first week of February. So let’s all pull for these amazing writers!…
Plus: the CI Query Letter Template! by Jim Cirile Coverage, Ink When someone opens a query email, you have ten seconds. You have to bring your “A” game and blow them away. The words you choose to paint a picture of both you and your idea are key. A lot of writers will tell you…
Fellow storytellers, 2017 is a wrap, and thank Jeebus. I mean, it was pretty much a trainwreck of a year as far as the planet is concerned. For me personally, it wasn’t so terrible. Made a lot of progress with business ventures and hell, made a movie (we just completed animation this week, yay!). Home…
By Jim Cirile Coverage Ink Ho ho ho, and a bottle of rum! Yes, it’s that most wonderful time of year, when we all spend money we don’t have on obligatory tchotchkes for our loved ones. But gulp – what if one of those loved ones is — horror of horrors — a screenwriter?…
Or, Where All the Women At? by Tanya Klein Once again, I feel a rant coming on. As you probably know, it’s currently Get Repped Now! time. For a certain period of weeks, anybody who sends in their screenplay or pilot for coverage and scores a “consider” for script will have their work read by…
Howdy, fellow scribes! I thought I’d share four observations that come from running Coverage Ink and Get Repped Now, as well as from my decades in the trenches (this is my 30th anniversary as a professional writer — I optioned my very first screenplay — for $500 — thirty years ago this month!) For, er,…
NO PRICE INCREASE! Plus: SECRET FINAL Extension just for CI Newsletter Readers Writers love deadlines. I learned this years ago when we hosted the late, great CS Open live writing tournament at the Screenwriting Expo. For those of you who never got the opportunity to partake, the CS Open was a unique, timed event…
