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The Ins and Outs of Packaging
The Ins And Outs of Packaging by Michele Wallerstein In the hopes of selling a screenplay many writers turn to packaging to enhance their project. They are told that bringing in an actor or director will make producers want to buy their material. What few people...
What’s Your Blind Spot?
The Blind Spot There's an exceptional writer in one of my screenwriting groups. We'll probably all be enjoying her movies in a few years, but in the meantime, she has what I call a "blind spot." A blind spot is a fundamental problem with a script that, for whatever...
Book Review: Mind Your Business
The Questions Congratulations. After years of writing, you're finally at a place where you have several great scripts. Now what? Do you need an agent or should you look for a manager? A personal manager or a business manager? What about an entertainment lawyer? What's...
How NOT To Handle Theme
The best movies use theme to subtly convey a viewpoint, message or idea. Ideally, a theme should behave like parents watching their child perform on stage -- easy to spot when looked for, but not so obvious as to be embarrassing. The dream team of Stephen Baldwin, Tom...
Originality in Storytelling vs. Artwork
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings The Year is 30,000 B.C. Otok and Glart have returned from a successful hunting trip (i.e. they didn't catch anything, but both survived). Otok,...
Avatar 2 Trailer
Looks like Avatar 2 will be even more original than its predecessor!
Tales from the Script: Director Peter Hanson
Dozens of acclaimed Hollywood screenwriters get the last word in the documentary, Tales from the Script, which is currently in limited release. Curiously the Netflix average rating for the movie is a measley 2.3 stars (out of 5), while the IMDB rating is a stellar 9.3...
What’s in a name?
That Wily Shakespeare In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet makes the argument: What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Bollocks to that! If the play had instead been called Brent and Hildred, or Addison and Payton, or...
Q & A with 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: (Anonymous) I had a recent experience with submitting my sitcom project for agent representation. I had submitted an email...
Hollywood Access: A Self-Authorizing Password
Da Vinci Code? A few years back I went on a Dan Brown binge and read all of his novels. It's a bit of a blur, but I remember in one of his books, there was the concept of the "self-authorizing password." The idea behind the self-authorizing password is that the code...
St. Patrick’s Day Must See
After you've guzzled down a few pints of green beer tonight, if you're looking for a fantastic Saint Patrick's Day themed DVD to watch -- do I have a treat for you! State of Grace stars Sean Penn as Terry Noonan. He returns home to New York's Hell's Kitchen, where he...
Interview with Scott Rosenberg
Kid In The Front Row has a posted a great interview with screenwriter Scott Rosenberg (Beautiful Girls, Con Air, Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead, Gone in Sixty Seconds). Here's an excerpt: There's a big myth for writers trying to get into the industry; who...