Wildly successful novelist Seth Grahame-Smith has three Hollywood adaptations in the works. His most buzzed about movie, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, will be released to theaters June 22, 2012 and stars Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia! and Captain America: The First Avenger)
The rights to produce popular erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Gray” by E.L James has been jointly acquired by Focus Features and Universal Pictures. Universal will own the rights to the book trilogy, while Focus will distribute and market the film. The story…
A phenomenal idea just struck the creative center of your brain, and you know that it will make an amazing movie. You must write the script for this masterpiece, but the question is how do you develop that fleeting concept…
(Written by Mary Ann Back) Congratulations! You’ve written a literary masterpiece. Surely, a Pushcart Prize awaits you! Before sending your work out into the world, you decide to do the smart thing and submit it to your online writing group…
It’s that time of year again. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is accepting submissions for the Nicolls Fellowship in Screenwriting contest. From the web site: The Academy’s Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is an international screenwriting competition established…
The most basic structure of telling a story is to have a beginning, middle, and end. Screenwriting is a bit more complicated than this as not only do you have to tell a good story with interesting characters, but you…
Screenwritersdaily’s 2005 article on How to Pitch a Cartoon has been very popular over the years. When I wrote the article it was one of the first and only topics available on pitching a cartoon on the internet at that time and since, it has been used as the basis…
Marketing Magic: A Do It Yourself Press Kit Can Help You Market Like The Pro’s. by James W. Layne, Jr. ©2006 The biggest challenge to any self publisher is marketing the product and the personality. No matter if you have…
The Practicality of Screenwriting Websites Article by E. Hughes Are websites capitalizing on your dreams? I know it may seem oddly hypocritical for me to ask such a question, given the fact that I am writing for a screenwriting website.…
October 11, 2009 What is a logline? A logline is a brief, but captivating one-liner used to advertise a movie or screenplay. Generally, the more high concept your logline sounds should increase the odds of the right people paying attention to…
Defending Your Art – by E. Hughes February 8th, 2006 Writers, filmmakers, actors, and others in the media and entertainment industry, at some point in their careers will have to defend their art. But when the artist bows to public…
Remember the old days when vanity publishers charged writers thousands of dollars to publish and distribute their own books? I can smell a vanity publisher a mile away. The goal of vanity publishing is to make money off of the…
April 7, 2009 Finding an A-list actor to read your screenplay will be a monumental task. The purpose of attracting talent is part and parcel of a marketing strategy to attract attention from financiers, production companies, or directors; generally people…
Articles: “Spielberg Favorites” By “The Smoking Critic”, M. E. Krueger ©2006 Hopefully, the majority of movie fans scanning this offering are not afflicted by that most heinous and undeniably foul habit of smoking cigarettes, but alas, I am. Although I…