How That Movie Got Made
How movies get made, screenwriting / film / TV "how the sausage is made", how your movie could get made, and the occasional cinematic short story.
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A Plain English Explanation Of The Things You'll See In Your First Option Agreement For A Screenplay
And One Thing You May Not Know To Ask For, But Definitely Need To
The very first time you option a screenplay to a production company, it’s very exciting. Your mind immediately jumps to the fantasy of the movie getting made and you being p...
9 Years Of Not Glamorous Work That Led To 400 Million Dollars
Obsession recently crossed 400 million dollars in worldwide box office gross. How did Curry Barker create a film so adept at entertaining audiences? 9 years of dedicated practice, in a setting where the audience can click away at any second...
I Got My First Serious Money Writing Assignment By Doing Two Things That Anyone Can Do
But One Of Them Might Not Be Obvious Until You Do It
Writer/director Peter Hyams loved the idea of “the plodder”, the person who just puts his head down and does unglamorous work, so much that he put a very similar speech about it into two...
Original Summer Movies That Make People Actually Go To The Movies In The Summer
It seems like every year, there’s some original movie that comes out in the summer that exceeds expectations, and actually makes people physically go to the movies, in droves. If someone looked at those movies across the last 10 years, what...
How "Ass In The Chair" Time Can Allow Any Screenwriter To Easily Reach Hundreds Of Film Producers (Seriously)
The Readily Available Hack I Never Hear Any Screenwriters Talking About
I wrote a script! Why aren’t any producers clamoring to read it? I’ve been shouting from this cliff for fifteen minutes!
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Former film exec. Produced writer of film, TV, & scripted podcasts. Set up numerous cinematic short stories for film/TV adaptation. I'll be posting generally about how movies get made (and the weirder short stories) + various film/TV musings.
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