Writing Movies for Fun and Profit How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!

Name: Writing Movies for Fun and Profit How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!
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ISBN: 9781439186756

ISBN-10: 1439186758

ISBN-13: 9781439186756

Edition: 2011

Authors: Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant

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Description:

A hilarious and revealing guide to the movie industry by two writers whose movies have made over a billion dollars.

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 7/5/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Selling Your Movie



Getting Started in Hollywood



Why Isn't Anyone Buying My Brilliant Script?



How to Pitch Your Movie



Joining the Writers Guild of America, West



I Sold It! Now What Happens?



Idiot Check



Coverage! or How a Kid Getting College Credit Can Make or Break Your Movie!



Have I Made It Yet?



They Love My Script! ... and I Got Fired?



Why Does Almost Every Studio Movie Suck Donkey Balls?



The Art of Nodding or How to Take Notes



Directors



Producers



Herbie: Fully Loaded



Redlighting or How to Get Your Movie Un-Greenlit!



Turnaround



How to Pimp Your Movie



Naysayers



The Silver Lining



Our Lunch with Jackie Chan



Credit$



Living in Los Angeles



Writing a Screenplay



If Your Screenplay Doesn't Have This Structure, It Won't Sell, or Robert McKee Can Suck It



In a Few Pages, We'll Teach You How to Formulate Characters in a Script



How to Write a Screenplay



Writing Action and Description



Advice for Writing with a Partner



Rewrites: You Want It When? And I'm Getting Paid What?!?!?!!?



Martin Lawrence Has a Few Thoughts or How to Take Notes from a Movie Star



Arbitration or Who Wrote This Crap?



Sequels!



Getting the Book Rights



I'm Drinking Too Much. Is That a Problem?



Final Thoughts



Sample Outlines


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Index