by Trevor Mayes | Jan 31, 2010 | Low-Budget
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...
by Michele Wallerstein | Jan 29, 2010 | Industry Advice, Michele Wallerstein
Do you have a question that you’d like to have answered by a longtime Hollywood literary agent? Send it in! questions@scriptwrecked.com Question: (from Anonymous) What a great opportunity!! I would really love to know how someone unknown with no sales under...
by Trevor Mayes | Jan 28, 2010 | Links
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...
by Trevor Mayes | Jan 27, 2010 | Miscellaneous
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...
by Trevor Mayes | Jan 26, 2010 | General
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...