Hi folks, here’s an appeal from our pal, screenwriter teacher/coach Barri Evins. She’s looking for someone to care for her little cutie kitty until December. In exchange she’s willing to offer a $350 screenplay consultation. Not a bad deal, plus you get to save the cat! Blake Snyder would approve 🙂 Here’s Barri: Help! My…
Just caught up with our buddy Jake Wagner, one of the hottest young managers in the biz, formerly from FilmEngine (Jake is about to land elsewhere but we cannot disclose where just yet.) As always, Jake fired off a flurry of great advice, and we just had to share this bit: Jake’s the one on…
COVERAGE INK’S BIGGEST SALE EVER. In celebration of the launch of Writers on the Storm VI, we are launching one monstrous sale. From now until 9/23/12, our standard analysis (for features) is 99 BUCKS. That’s a $30 discount! TV writers, you’ll receive a flat $20 off our already ridiculously low TV coverage prices. And to…
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…