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"For decades, James Bawden and Ron Miller have established themselves as maestros of provocative interviews, giving fans unmatched insights into the lives of Hollywood A-listers. In their fourth collection, the authors pay tribute to film pioneers who lit up Tinseltown from the 1930s through the 1960s. They Made the Movies features conversations with legendary directors who created many of film's all-time classics, including Frank Capra (It's A Wonderful Life, 1946), Richard Fleischer (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954), Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, 1960), Ralph Nelson (Lilies of the Field, 1963), Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, 1965), and Chuck Jones (How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1966). Tantalizing firsthand details about many acclaimed films are revealed, such as the revelation of Mervyn LeRoy's first-choice of lead actress for The Wizard of Oz ("Shirley Temple . . . but Shirley couldn't sing like Judy [Garland]"), Billy Wilder's insights on directing ("You have to be a sycophant, a sadist, a nurse, a philosopher"), and how megaproducer Hal B. Wallis purchased an unproduced play titled Everyone Comes to Rick's and transformed it into Casablanca ("The part [of Sam] almost went to Lena Horne, but I thought she was too beautiful"). The authors also celebrate the contributions of marginalized filmmakers such as Ida Lupino, James Wong Howe, Oscar Micheaux, and Luis Valdez, who prevailed in Hollywood despite the discrimination they faced throughout their careers. They Made the Movies appeals to film and television enthusiasts of all ages"--

The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development provides the first comprehensive overview of international script development practices. Across 40 unique chapters, readers are guided through the key challenges, roles and cultures of script development, from the perspectives of creators of original works, those in consultative roles and those giving broader contextual case studies. The authors take us inside the writers¿ room, alongside the script editor, between development conversations, and outside the mainstream and into the experimental. With authors spanning upwards of 15 countries, and occupying an array of roles ¿ including writer, script editor, producer, script consultant, executive, teacher and scholar, this is a truly international perspective on how script development functions (or otherwise) across media and platforms. Comprising four parts, the handbook guides readers behind the scenes of script development, exploring unique contexts, alternative approaches, specific production cultures and global contexts, drawing on interviews, archives, policy, case study research and the insider track. With its broad approach to a specialised practice, the Palgrave Handbook of Script Development is for anyone who practices, teaches or studies screenwriting and screen production.

Lawrence J. Saint nos propone bordear el genuino camino del género negro, con disparos, gansters, soplones, traidores, armas, escondites, frustraciones y muertes, pero también con otro más amable: el trabajo honrado, el compañerismo, la amistad,...el amor. No diríamos que es una novela policíaca. Los protagonistas son detectives con buena relación en la Comisaría, pero al servicio de una empresa privada. Por circunstancias de su tráfico mercantil, Martin O¿Hara y Robert Kane encarnan la responsabilidad de su empresa para custodiar un cargamento importante de vacunas antiCovid en los albores de la pandemia. Dado su importante valor económico, varios esbirros mercenarios tratarán de asaltar el convoy que las transporta. Opera prima en el género, Lawrence J. Saint, no deja de utilizar un lenguaje correcto y ameno que llega a cautivar por la agilidad y la intriga en varios escenarios

This book shows a replica of a Spec Script, 116 pages long. Hunter Harrison has just saved the ex-president's life. However, he struggles to save his own as the U.S. President dispatches him to Moscow. His mission: to foil a plot to take out the Russian President. The Year 2035.

Write Your Screenplay with the Help of Top Screenwriters!It's like taking a Master Class in screenwriting … all in one book! Discover the pitfalls of writing to fit a budget from screenwriters who have successfully navigated these waters already. Learn from their mistakes and improve your script with their expert advice."I wish I'd read this book before I made Re-Animator."-Stuart Gordon, Director, Re-Animator, Castle Freak, From BeyondThe book covers (among other topics):Academy-Award Winner Dan Futterman ("Capote") on writing real storiesTom DiCillio ("Living In Oblivion") on turning a short into a featureKasi Lemmons ("Eve's Bayou") on writing for a different time periodGeorge Romero ("Martin") on writing horror on a budgetRebecca Miller ("Personal Velocity") on adapting short storiesStuart Gordon ("Re-Animator") on adaptationsAcademy-Award Nominee Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan") on cheap ways to make it look expensiveMiranda July ("Me and You and Everyone We Know") on making your writing spontaneousAlex Cox ("Repo Man") on scaling the script to meet a budgetJoan Micklin Silver ("Hester Street") on writing history on a budgetBob Clark ("Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things") on mixing humor and horrorAmy Holden Jones ("Love Letters") on writing romance on a budgetHenry Jaglom ("Venice/Venice") on mixing improvisation with scriptingL.M. Kit Carson ("Paris, Texas") on re-writing while shootingAcademy-Award Winner Kenneth Lonergan ("You Can Count on Me") on script editingRoger Nygard ("Suckers") on mixing genresThis is the book for anyone who's serious about writing a screenplay that can get produced!Grab it today!¿¿¿¿¿"A perfect read for anyone who wants to write a film script or for anyone who just enjoys watching movies."-Fred Willard, Actor, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman"This volume is packed full of useful little nuggets of information."-Jonathan Lynn, Director, My Cousin Vinny, Clue, Nuns on the Run, The Whole Nine Yards"Packed with war stories and savvy advice for beginning screenwriters."-Larry Gross, Screenwriter, 48 hrs., Streets of Fire, True Crime

You don't have to attend film school to take a screenwriting course with the master teacher in the field -- it's all in his book! Meet Hal Ackerman, up close and personal, just as hundreds of his students have known him through the years. Hal Ackerman offers a treasure trove of information on the writing of quality, saleable screenplays by teaching the art of story structure, substance and style. Over the last quarter century, dozens of screenplays written in his classes have been sold and several have become films, including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Christian Bale, Hilary Swank and Diane Lane. They have won accolades in many prestigious contests and have been the gateway scripts to writing jobs in feature films and TV including HBO, Showtime, TNT, OWN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney, and more. With this book every professional writer gets a lifetime collaborator and every aspiring writer has a teacher in residence on his or her shelf. *Newly Revised and Updated edition featuring Pose, Moonlight, La La Land, Juno, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, among others. *Top-selling screenwriting book for almost 20 years -- 20th Anniversary Edition

In-depth tome exploring long lost horror films like DRACULA'S DEATH (1920) and LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1928), plus unproduced scripts like WOLF MAN VS. DRACULA (1944) and BLACK LAGOON (1952).

"If your journey is anything like ours, at some point you'll hit a wall. Festivals will reject your screenplay. Agencies will pass on representing you. Executives are going to tell you no. Then maybe one day, someone will say yes to your script." -Screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, "A Quiet Place"(from the forward to "Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles")Every screenwriter faces fear and failure. The legendary screenwriter William Goldman once said he was "programed to fail." Yet he went on to have a long career that included winning two Oscar Awards. Susannah Grant put a positive spin on constant failure saying "that free-falling feeling you get right on the knife edge of total disaster may in fact be an essential ingredient to doing anything worthwhile." Arguably the worst failure for the new screenwriting is either not finishing a script -or not even starting the writing process. You'll find throughout this book that talent and hard work are essential to succeed at any level. You can't teach that. But distilled from over 3,000 posts from Emmy-winner Scott W. Smith's nationally recognized blog Screenwriting from Iowa . . .. and Other Unlikely Places, these 10 chapters will hopefully guide and inspire you to improve your writing and output. Sprinkled throughout these pages are quotes curated from an eclectic and diverse mix of many top screenwriters and filmmakers throughout the history of film and television.CONFLICT - Why is this a key foundational concept in all storytelling? It's one thing that movies, plays, television and streaming shows, documentaries, and dramatic podcasts all have in common.CONCEPT - Screenwriter Terry Rossio ("Shrek") believes new writers make one common mistake at the start.CHARACTERS - Why does David Mamet think Wile E. Coyote can be a good role model for your characters?CATALYST - How did screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini grab audience's attention early in their movie "Winter's Bone?" No matter what genre you're writing (drama, comedy, horror, action, etc.) something disruptive must happen in the first act.CONSTRUCTION - Why Rian Johnson ("Knives Out") says structure seems antithetical to the free-wheeling creative process but is actually essential to understand.CLIMAXES/ CONCLUSIONS - What does "Toy Story 3" screenwriter Michael Arndt think makes the difference between a good, a bad, and an "insanely great" ending? CATHARSIS - Francis Marion, the first screenwriter to win two Academy Awards (and she wrote one of the first books on screenwriting back in 1937) understood that the goal of writing for film is to make a spectator feel. CONTROLLING IDEA - Perhaps no concept is more divisive that the idea of a theme. Find out how screenwriters Ryan Coogler, Rod Serling, Kelly Marcel, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wes Anderson differ on handling theme. CHANGE - Why is asking the question "What's changed?" so critical to every scene you write?CAREERS AND COWS - Aaron Sorkin, Diablo Cody, James Cameron, Callie Khouri, Barry Jenkins, LuLu Wang, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu all had day jobs (some "survival jobs") before they found filmmaking success. Where one artist found inspiration in an unusual place. And what's the one thing you can do to help get Shonda Rhimes to ask what your spec script is about?

Inseguendo i Doors è la storia (in sceneggiatura) di qualche giorno della vita di Adam, un ragazzo italiano che trascorre il suo tempo post-universitario cercando di cogliere l'attimo, assaporare con la stessa importanza ogni momento. Nella fase più importante dello scritto, Adam incrocerà i propri sentimenti sopiti con Alisea, una ragazza sordomuta, che riuscirà ad estirpargli la voglia di reagire all'indifferenza di ogni giorno.

All you need to know about writing a screenplay that will WIN a reputable script contest.The author Robert L. McCullough has nearly 300 produced script credits and is a founder of The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards. He and his team read nearly 2,000 scripts each year, and he knows what it takes for a writer to win the big prize. With a Master's Degree in Screenwriting and a long professional career in which he has helped fledgling writers to become prominent Hollywood producers and showrunners at every major studio, Bob now reveals the principles of writing screenplays that win big in the world of screenplay contests. 10 short no-nonsense chapters show exactly how to write a screenplay that wins major competitions and attracts serious attention from Hollywood studios and producers. Read this book--or listen to the audiobook--and you'll write a screenplay that can be your ticket into the world of highly-paid Hollywood professionals. If you're serious about your screenwriting, then you're serious about seeing your scripts produced. This book delivers the point-by-point essentials behind every successful screenplay and shows you how to demonstrate the professional expertise that will get your scripts noticed. It's a quick, concise read that gets to the bottom line with an irreverent no-nonsense approach to putting your writing on a level with Hollywood's working professional screenwriters. Making movies is a complex matter that is so difficult that very few people do it. And it all starts with writing the script, an equally challenging and complex task. Buy this book now...and tomorrow you can be writing a script that WINS contests.

The most commonly used rejection line spewed by studio executive honchos when passing on a script is, "I liked it, didn't love it." What happensto your screenplay or novel when it leaves your hands and is submitted to a studio or production company? What does "in development" really mean? Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis answer those questions and more in this newly revised, greatly expanded 3rd edition of their criticallyacclaimed book, long considered the quintessential bible on development. A required textbook at universities worldwide for writing, producing, and development courses, the book sheds light on the inner workings of the feature film and TV development process, who all the playersare, and how they fit together as content creators at film studios, TV networks, agencies, and production companies. They tackle how to findnew ideas, what it takes to be a development executive or a story analyst, tips on pitching, and how television and the Internet are changing and evolving, creating greater opportunities for storytellers.Are you ready for Hollywood? Get the answers from industry Pros, Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis. Through personal experiences and examples they'll teach you what it takes to make it in Hollywood as a development executive, producer, writer or director. Chapters also include exercises that will help readers find new ideas and developing them as well as offer tips on pitching your projects, a comprehensive resource chapter and much, much more.

The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift?the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significanceIn the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before written a screenplay. Using a few photographs in the footnotes to a 1928 biography of a famous pre?Civil War industrialist as inspiration, McCarthy and Pearce roamed the mill towns of the South researching their subject. A year later McCarthy finished The Gardener's Son, a taut, riveting drama of impotence, rage, and violence spanning two generations of mill owners and workers, fathers and sons, during the rise and fall of one of America's most bizarre utopian industrial experiments. Produced as a two-hour film and broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener's Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was shown at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals.Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own and operate the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. The action opens as Robert McEvoy, a young mill worker, is having his leg amputated after an accident rumored to have been caused by James Gregg, the son of the mill's founder. Crippled and consumed by bitterness, McEvoy deserts both his job and his family.Returning two years later at the news of his mother's terminal illness, McEvoy arrives only to confront the grave diggers preparing her final resting place. His father, the mill's gardener, is now working on the factory line, the gardens forgotten. These proceedings stoke the slow-burning rage McEvoy carries within him, a fury that will ultimately consume both families.

A FRIENDLY VACATION TURNS DANGEROUS WHEN A LARGE STORM HITS THE LOW COUNTRY AND THREATENS THE WAY OF LIFE FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS

Die Drehbuchforschung ist ein junges, sich rasch entwickelndes internationales Forschungsfeld. Der Sammelband führt Forschungen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum zusammen, die sich mit dem Drehbuch als schriftliches Artefakt und als Teil des Produktionsprozesses auseinandersetzen. Neben grundlegenden theoretischen Konzepten der Drehbuchforschung stehen historische und archivbasierte Analysen sowie gegenwartsbezogene Problemstellungen im Vordergrund. Praxisnah finden außerdem Akteure und Abläufe der Drehbuchentwicklung sowie Fragen der Dramaturgie Beachtung. Der Sammelband verschafft somit einen Überblick über die Bandbreite interdisziplinärer Ansätze des Forschungsfeldes und veranschaulicht das Erkenntnispotential der aktuellen Drehbuchforschung.

There are over 1,094 books on Amazon that show you "how to write a screenplay"... but next-to-nothing on how to break into Hollywood, sell your script, and build a successful writing career. Until now. As a producer, Gary W. Goldstein's movies have generated well over $1B in global box office receipts. His portfolio includes Pretty Woman, Under Siege, and The Mothman Prophecies.But more importantly - over the last two decades - Gary has nurtured, mentored and launched some of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters. In his book, Conquering Hollywood, he reveals proven career-making strategies, planning and advice for aspiring (and established) screenplay writers. The strategies in this book will help you whether you're looking to sell a spec script, option your screenplay, land a writing assignment and get hired, attract an agent or manager of your dreams...or get a producer to take a meeting with you.

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For more than twenty years, Writing Screenplays That Sell has been hailed as the most complete guide available on the art, craft, and business of writing for movies and television. Now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest trends and scripts, Hollywood story expert and script consultant Michael Hauge walks readers through every step of writing and selling successful screenplays. If you read only one book on the screenwriter's craft, this must be the one.