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7 Steps to a Perfect Pitch

In previous posts I talked about theme and how you can use your protagonist’s arc to clarify what your story is about. You can also use this arc as the spine for pitching your story.Knowing how to pitch your script can be a challenge particularly deciding what’s essential information and what you can leave out. Everyone is diffe...
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There Will Always Be A Market For A Script We Can’t Put Down

“There Will Always Be A Market For A Script We Can’t Put Down” Says Seth Renshaw. He worked in PR, media sales and then with CAA’s Marketing department before transitioning to film and television with David Dobkin’s Big Kid Pictures at Warner Bros.  He is currently the Head of Development at Benaroya Pictures, a writer of variou...
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Screenwriting Within A Budget

Screenwriting Within The Parameters Of A Film Budget - Films are very expensive to make, and very expensive to market. Even TV series on streaming networks such as Netflix, Hulu, and HBO are dealing with multi-million-dollar film budgets per episode. If you're trying to work in Hollywood, you may be under the impression that Hol...
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Carolina Groppa Explains Exactly What Producers Do. So Be Nice To Them

  • Caroline Grappa
  • .June 23, 2022
(REPOST) For as long as the film industry has existed, so have producers. But so has the general public’s confusion about what producers actually do. It’s surprising how poorly it is understood given the importance of this high profile position. In a nutshell, a producer brings all the elements of a film together to create a fin...
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How Staying Local Brought Hollywood to Me

  • Stephen Camelio
  • .April 25, 2022
"Move to Montana” is not the advice you’ll get when you tell someone you want to break into the entertainment business. Especially, if like me, you were working at one of the biggest magazines in the country owned by a parent company that also ran TV and movie studios. At that job, I interacted with bold face names and their pub...
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Film Finance - Cobalt Capital Ventures Kevin Christoffersen

  • Kevin Christoffersen
  • .February 16, 2022
(REPOST) The film financing world has become more lean and nimble. The days of indiscriminate seven-figure check writing are behind us. We spoke with Kevin Christoffersen, co-founder of venture capital firm Cobalt Capital Ventures which specializes in production, financing structures, investment negotiations, distribution projec...
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Why Screenwriters Should Write With A Producer’s Cap On

  • Charles Borg
  • .January 25, 2022
Screenwriters need to think strategically about what they’re writing and why they’re writing it. Are you writing for yourself, a screenwriting contest, or are you looking to position your work in the marketplace? Charles Borg talks about how screenwriters might adopt a producer’s mindset to consider how their screenplay may be p...
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Theresa Bennett Discusses Character, Limited Resources & Social Animals

  • Theresa Bennett
  • .November 9, 2021
Writer-Director Theresa Bennett Discusses Character, Limited Resources & ‘Social Animals’:Making films is a curious balance of writing an entertaining screenplay and balancing it with whatever resources are available to bring your vision to the screen. We talk with writer-director of the film Social Animals Theresa Bennett.There...
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Create Your Pitch Part I: Baiting the Hook

  • Lee Nordling
  • .September 7, 2021
This begins a two-part series on various ways you can improve your hitting percentage with pitches. This is not going to be about self-promotion, which is always useful, or how to network successfully within the industry, which may be one of the most valuable tools a beginning professional can learn, or how to pitch verbally, wh...
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Why The Film & TV Industry Needs Producers

  • Michael Lee Simpson
  • .December 6, 2020
“The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows’ ears every day of the week.”So says Louis B. Mayer, one of the most celebrated movie moguls in cine...
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Networks, Platforms and Studios Open For Development

QUESTION FOR FILMTVLAW.COM:Thanks for the amazing articles Brandon! Hey, I want to get out there with my series but I’m nervous about the big production halt. Is it a good time to try to set up a series?ANSWER BY BRANDON BLAKE, ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER:Thanks for the positive words! Our firm has never slowed down with development an...
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Table Read My Screenplay Winner Releases Short Film

  • July 14, 2019
Felix Morgan, Winner of the 2016 Table Read My Screenplay Competition, Releases Short Film with Louis Norton Selzer After meeting in 2016 at the Table Read My Screenplay - London showcase, Felix Morgan and Louis Norton Selzer struck up a conversation about getting Felix’s winning script Thanks for the Memories made. After a few ...
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What You Need To Know To Graduate From Screenwriter To Film Producer

  • November 13, 2018
It is no longer enough for screenwriters to write screenplays. In the current film industry climate, screenwriters need to be more proactive in shaping our careers. In many instances, you may need to expand yourself and wear different hats. Creative Screenwriting spoke to entertainment attorney John Cones.If we compare a reasona...
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