When a Los Angeles family man’s secret neo-Nazi past resurfaces, to avoid life behind bars he must become the man he swore he never again would be and infiltrate a white-supremacist terrorist organization before it seizes the White House. Let’s hear it for our second consider of 2023: Philip Elliott’s thriller pilot AMERICAN SWASTIKA, which…
Here is our weekly column of screenwriting tips. For all previous columns, please see our blog entries right here. In our last column, we’ve talked about the Inciting Incident. This week, let’s talk about the rest of Act One. What does that mean? Well, the inciting incident has happened, the monkey wrench has been thrown,…
Hi folks! It’s that time of year again – Get Repped Now time. As always, we’re looking for the best scripts and pilots out there – and ones that are maybe only a draft or two away. So the CI management team – Jim, Anna, and Tanya – have compiled a list of pet peeves,…
Get Repped Now begins again for 2023 March 13, and we are super pumped to announce this year’s panel. Truly the best of the best, the elite, the movers and shakers whose clients regularly get on The Black List and whose tastes are regarded as the best in the biz. Without further ado: You’ll notice…
This is where you earn your money. When people read a script, they are predominantly looking at your dialogue. Oftentimes scene descriptions get glossed over or even ignored, but your dialogue will always get read. And it’s also the key element that attracts “talent” — the performers whose involvement can get your project greenlit. Fun…
Writer, producer, CI story analyst, and former manager/development executive Mike Kuciak talks about the importance of the first 10 pages to grab a reader’s attention. By Mike Kuciak The first ten are the most important in the screenplay, because in the bare-knuckle real world of the film industry those pages often determine if…
David L. Williams’ script thoughtful sci-fi drama INTERGALACTIC was one of our Get Repped Now considers for 2021. He wound up getting signed by managers Gramercy Park and lit agents Verve, and now big things are happening for him. CI founder Jim Cirile caught up with David to see how it all came together for…
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,…