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OUR CATEGORY : Selling Your ScreenplayInteresting Way to Fund a Low Budget FilmIn the pursuit of your dream, funding is probably the most difficult part of the puzzle. That’s especially true when you’re putting together a low budget Indie film and investors are demanding stars and distribution before putting up a dime. Here’s a possible solution. Steve Moramarco (ProSeries 27) just raised five thousand dollars using [...] How to Get an Agent – Part 2Some people look at agents as the savior who will guide their career and make them rich. Some see agents as the sharks of the entertainment industry. Some see them as a necessary evil. In reality, agents are business people who have a certain function — selling screenplays and packaging movies. Their power comes from [...] How to Get a Screenplay AgentWhether you need a screenplay agent right now or next year, you should bookmark this series of articles. Over the next two weeks, I’ll give you a list of strategies to get an agent. These are strategies that are working for our ProSeries Alumni writers. But rather than just listing the strategy, the real value [...] 15 Ways to Sell a Screenplay OnlineHere’s a secret that could help you sell a screenplay. There are more ways to break into Hollywood (including the Indie market) and sell a screenplay than there have ever been. And after you read this article, you’ll have a new level of access and freedom to make your career happen. It is as simple [...] Why the Bidding War?After posting the news on Twitter about first-time writer David Guggenheim’s bidding war with the script “Safe House,” I had some people ask about how it happened. Good Question. Let’s see. Slashfilm.com — Universal has purchased David Guggenheim’s spec Safe House for $600k against $900k, winning out against two other movie studios in a bidding [...] Selling a Screenplay From Outside L.A.?For the last 50 years, you had to live in L.A. if you were selling a screenplay and building a screenwriting career. It is just the way things were… …but there is change in the air. We recently finished up an event where I interviewed 16 producers and 2 agents in Los Angeles for [...] To Write a Screenplay On Spec or Not?It’s going to happen to you. When you get to a certain point in your writing, you’ll get requests to work on spec. It is just a natural part of your development as a screenwriter. Your writing has become good enough that some small producers want to work with you. Very likely, they’ll want you [...] If Studios won’t take my pitch, then what?Hal, I hear studios won’t take a direct pitch. Normally! you get, “We do not receive unsolicited materials”. You have to go through agencies and when one receives your information most of the time you don’t get any feedback. How can you pitch a story directly to a studio? Nick Nick, Let me can clear [...] What Goes in My Query Letter?Mr. Croasmun, What goes in a query letter? How many requests should I expect from a blast service? Narda Hi Narda, I’ve heard people give percentages (1% – 5%) as some kind of average for what to expect from blast services. But that assumes that every script has the same quality pitch, which is hard [...]
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