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Post by Charles on Nov 17, 2012 11:36:02 GMT -5
There's a great many blogs and sites out there with great information. If you find anything of use, please share it here on Film Engine.
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Post by Charles on Nov 17, 2012 11:38:26 GMT -5
Good in Room by Stephanie Palmer Stephanie helps creative people learn to pitch ideas and sell their projects. She is a former MGM studio executive and the author of the book Good in a Room. She has been featured on The Today Show, in the LA Times and on National Public Radio. Here, she shares effective pitches from the worlds of film, TV, start-ups and more. goodinaroom.com/blog/ |
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Post by Charles on Nov 17, 2012 11:42:51 GMT -5
John August's site and blog is one of the best resources on screenwriting. He's smart, willing to share insider insights and is not only approachable, he's developed relationships with some his readers, who in turn have shared their own insights on the blog. Definitely useful. This site belongs to John August. I wrote everything here, unless it’s specifically credited to someone else.
The site has been around since 2003, and now has more than 1,500 posts. (If you’re curious, you can see snapshots of what it’s looked like over the years.)
I’m mostly known as a screenwriter. My credits include Go, Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, Titan A.E., Charlie and Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie. johnaugust.com/ |
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Post by Charles on Nov 17, 2012 11:51:29 GMT -5
The Black List is where moviemakers find great scripts to make and scripts find moviemakers to make them.
It began as a survey. In 2005, Franklin Leonard surveyed almost 100 film industry development executives about their favorite scripts from that year that had not been made as feature films. That first list - many of which have been made since - can be viewed here. Since then the voter pool has grown to about 500 film executives, 60% of whom typically respond.
Over 200 Black List screenplays have been made as feature films. Those films have earned over $16BN in worldwide box office, have been nominated for 148 Academy Awards, and have won 25, including Best Pictures SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE KING'S SPEECH and five of the last ten screenwriting Oscars. A complete list of Black List films is below.
In September 2012, we launched a membership site for industry professionals that functions as a real time Black List and screenplay recommendation engine. You can learn more here and sign up for membership here.
In October 2012, we extended our mission further by allowing screenwriters from the world to, for a small fee, upload their scripts to our database, have them evaluated by professional script readers, and subject to that evaluation and our recommendation algorithm, sent to our - at present - over 1000 film industry professionals. You can begin the process of being discovered here.
The Black List is also home to Scott Myer’s blog Go Into The Story, the official Black List screenwriting blog, and Xander Bennett's Screenwriting Tips... You Hack. blcklst.com/ |
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Post by Charles on Nov 17, 2012 11:57:48 GMT -5
If you're a beginner or just need inspiration, or are always trying to improve your craft, nothing better than reading some of the strongest scripts ever written and produced to help you along. This is just a list, so you'll still have to hunt the actual scripts down. But, many of them should be easy to find with a quick Google search. The Writer's Guild of America (WGA) sent out ballots to its members in the summer of 2005, asking them to list up to ten of their favorite produced screenplays. This is the result of the polling as voted upon by the organization's professional film and television writers - a list of the 101 Greatest (Film) Screenplays of All-Time, to celebrate the greatest achievements in film writing in cinematic history.
Facts and Commentary About the List:
Any film, past or present, English-language or otherwise, was eligible.
The 101 notables in the list included the film title, film year, film director, scriptwriter(s), and one memorable line of dialogue (and the performer/film character who spoke the line). The list was also to be showcased in the May 2006 issue of Premiere Magazine.
Credit was finally being given to the scriptwriter: "Like a composer of a classic symphony or an author of a beloved novel, the most memorable and moving pictures would not exist without their principal architect: the screenwriter." The description of this definitive list stated: "101 Greatest Screenplays will finally set the record straight by celebrating the best in film writing and bringing recognition to the wizards behind the curtain: the men and women who wrote the greatest films of all time."
Writers with multiple films on the list included: Woody Allen (4), Francis Ford Coppola (4), Billy Wilder (4), William Goldman (3), John Huston (3), Charlie Kaufman (3), Ben Hecht (2), Michael Wilson (2), James L. Brooks (2), I.A.L. Diamond (2), Carl Foreman (2), Ernest Lehman (2), Frank Pierson (2), Mario Puzo (2), Paul Schrader (2), and Preston Sturges (2).
There are 4 films from the 1930s, 14 from the 1940s, 12 from the 1950s, 14 from the 1960s, 18 from the 1970s, 18 from the 1980s, 17 from the 1990s, and 4 from the 2000s.
45 were original scripts while 56 were adaptations.
In terms of genres, there were 60 dramas, 26 comedies, and 15 comedy/dramas.
75 of the 101 films on the list received either an Academy Award for Best Screenplay (39) or an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay (36). See this site's writeup about the Best Screenplay and Writing Academy Awards. www.filmsite.org/101greatestscreenplays.html |
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