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Save The Cat Strikes Back (2009 book)
Save The Cat – The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need – laid out the basics to help any new (or current) screenplay writer. His second book – Goes To The Movies – gave examples of how his screenplay structure worked in big name movies. The third book is all about being a screenplay writer – in real life.
Continue reading...Cherie Currie’s NEON ANGEL
6. February 2010
Cherie Currie’s NEON ANGEL: A Memoir of a Runaway Hits Bookstores March 16, 2010! Press release: The RUNAWAYS Movie (starring Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning, produced by River Road Entertainment, and distributed by Apparition and Summit), In Theaters March 19, Was Based On This Book LOS ANGELES, January, 2010: When Cherie Currie, the lead singer of 1970s [...]
Continue reading...G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
13. August 2009
2 stars** Leave your common sense and orderly life at home; you won’t need it with you when you go see this movie which is completely ridiculous on many levels as it provides high levels of enjoyable entertainment, something so often missing at the cinema these days. From the opening scene until the fade out you can [...]
Continue reading...Black Light Rising by Michael F Rudder
3. December 2008
4 stars**** Michael F Rudder’s first novel brings a breathtaking and exciting story set in the Caribbean, but potentially affecting almost the whole world. He sets small island government off against large world superpowers. The Barbados government changes its boundaries to extend their fishing facilities at exactly the same time as a new [...]
Continue reading...Hollywood Animal by Joe Eszterhas
29. November 2008
5 stars***** You recognize it’s a gigantic creature when you pick up the book, all 728 pages. I wouldn’t normally pick up a book so large for fear of wearing my hands out holding this object, but in this case, it was worth turning every page. Some people live ordinary lives and others [...]
Continue reading...Screenplays or novel writing?
3. October 2008
In a recent article we looked at what the top earning screenplay writers achieve for top script sales, including some which don’t get made into movies. Now we can see whether you’d be better off moving your writing skills in to the world of novels. Forbes magazine has just unveiled its top list of novel writers [...]
Continue reading...Save The Cat by Blake Snyder
19. August 2008
5 stars***** There’s a substantial difference between wanting to write a superior screenplay that you would like to write and a killer screenplay that you want to win the academy award. If you follow Blake Snyder’s rules you’ll be on target for your academy award rather than the screenplay you really sought to write. Blake shows us [...]
Continue reading...Making Short Films (2008) by Clifford Thurlow
23. July 2008
Our rating 3 stars*** I really wanted to like this book, it gets such enthusiastic reviews from many commentators. However, as hard as I tried, it didn’t really do it for me in the way I expected. I wanted to find out about film and movie making. I felt like I was in a history lesson at [...]
Continue reading...Raindance Writer’s Lab Write + Sell The Hot Screenplay
9. July 2008
Our rating 5 stars***** If you only choose one book on being a screenplay writer, then this should be your choice. This is the book that takes you through the various parts of writing your screenplay, how to complete it, who to get it to and lays out all of your business resources exactly where you want [...]
Continue reading...Short Films … how to make and distribute them by Nathan Parker
11. March 2008
Buy it from kamera.com 4 stars**** This book is so good for the short film maker, that it should be kept handy at all stages of the short film creation. You’ll need to make notes and refer to it time and time again. It really does take you through all the stages of making a short film. [...]
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13. April 2010
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