(More) TEST YOUR SCREENWRITING IQ by Steve Kaire Here we go again with more Q’s to tickle your brain stem. A couple of these are gimmes, but a few of them may stump you. Good luck! True or False: 1. “Pay or play” is a term that means a writer has to be paid whether…
Fellow scribes, It is with a heavy heart that I write this. Today I heard unconfirmed reports that Creative Screenwriting magazine has filed for bankruptcy. To my understanding, that could mean one of three things — either CS plans to continue operations, and will use the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to restructure; or…
Friends, Romans, etc., etc… Thank you all for your patience! We really tried to make our original quarterfinalist announcement date last week, but we were delayed due to reshoots on our film “Liberator” as well as the Without a Box-mandated final extension that chopped two weeks off our reading period. But enough excuses. Here are…
Much scrambling to get these ready, folks! We’re shooting to post them before midnight tonight (Weds 9/14) if possible. Might have to be the morning, but we’ll see. Hang tight! Jim C.
Hi folks, my new 10th Anniversary Agent’s Hot Sheet column Then and Now is now out in the latest issue of Creative Screenwriting magazine. It’s frickin’ hard to believe I have been writing this column for a decade. That’s an awful lot of 45-minute phone interviews I’ve transcribed… sigh. Seriously, though, writing that column is…
August 2011 FINAL DEADLINE edition! 1) JC’s Intro Blather 2) Shorties 3) Jim’s Screenwriting Tip o’ the Month 4) Barri Evins – Big Ideas Interview 5) Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems 6) Lettuce +++ I’ve been on a tear lately. I’m so stoked about the fact that we got LIBERATOR in the can for about the…
We Shoot the Winner’s Chris Soth WE SHOOT THE WINNER/WRITERS ON THE STORM SUPER TEAM-UP! Wow, this reminds me of the great comic book team-ups I loved as a kid. You heard We Shoot the Winner‘s Chris Soth and Writers on the Storm‘s Jim Cirile on their teleseminar “The Five Myths of Screenwriting Contests,”…
WHO is your movie about? Use the first ten pages of your screenplay to SHOW us. It’s called “establishing your protagonist in his/her known world.” After the “hook,” which is a visual scene that sets the tone for movie (pages 1-3,) spend the next 7 pages leading up to the catalyst, AKA the inciting incident,…
By Jim Cirile We met former development exec and President of Debra Hill Productions Barri Evins at Great American Pitchfest in June, and we found her immediately impressive. A lovely and charming woman who comes from the bigs (and quite clearly knows her stuff,) she is a ball of energy and positivism. In addition, she…
Every up and coming writer dreams of breaking in. But what then? Here’s how to keep from going broke as a successful writer. Reprinted courtesy of Script magazine By Jim Cirile Ah, the life of the Hollywood screenwriter – fame! Fortune! Okay, not so much fame. But still – fortune! Right? Heck, your spec script…