Best of the Web 2 Mar

Story & Structure :: Interview: Cary Fukunaga Talks HBO’s ‘True Detective’ etc :: Screenplay Review – Fantastic Voyage Script Perfection :: Downside of a Microbudget Empire :: We’re Just Making Movies Pitching & Selling :: How to Vet a Potential Agent or Manager :: More Opportunities, Less Pay? :: Why TV Networks Are Interested in … Read more

Best of the Web 23 Sep

Story & Structure :: Exposition Techniques: Part 1 :: Exposition Techniques: Part 2 :: High Concept Comedy :: Screenplay Review: ‘Rehab’ by Sam Laybourne :: The Astonishing Power of ‘The Master’ :: Thinking Big – How to Sell Your Small Town Story Script Perfection :: The Yellow-Brick Road to Hollywood :: Screenwriting Website of the … Read more

Screenwriting: from Fail to Sale (3/5)

Two years back a friend said to me, why don’t you enter some of your scripts into scripts comps. Phooey, I thought, (yes I thought Phooey – great word huh, so under used.) -By Samuel Bartlett PART THREE – THE TRUTH ABOUT COMPS I conjured images of those competitions you find in supermarkets where all … Read more