3 Tips for Low-Budget Spec Scripts

3 Tips for Low-Budget Spec Scripts

Low-Budget Success With the recent sale of the low-budget film Buried at the Sundance Film Festival, and the success of movies like Paranormal Activity, a lot of screenwriters are hoping to craft the next great low-budget film. Here are three things screenwriters...

Movie News and Links: 01-28-10

Here are some interesting movie-related stories and links I’ve discovered for January 28, 2010: Popular Mechanics has picked their top sci-fi, military and environmental films at Sundance 2010.  It’s pilot season in the television world, and...

Real Life Pandora “Plant”

This is cool Apparently fiction is sometimes as strange as truth. Check out this undersea “plant” (soft coral?) that has the same defense mechanism as the disappearing plant on Pandora, from James Cameron’s little indie film, Avatar. Via...
Top Four!

Top Four!

Writing feature screenplays is hard work. Every now and again I find a great excus — er… exercise, that allows me to focus on something else for a while.1 So when Julie Gray, of the popular web site JustEffing.com, held a one page scene competition, it...