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Screenplay writer’s fees
Just what is a screenplay writer worth? Of course there is no easy answer. The writer that gets their script produced in a Halle Berry/Jodie Foster movie making over $200+ million profit is very different from the small indie film that sells a couple of thousand DVDs and just breaks into profit, with many movies [...]
Continue reading...Mamma Mia! script search update
Thursday, October 30, 2008
You’ll know from a previous post that I was looking for the screenplay of Mamma Mia! My delightful sister-in-law sent me this link to a website as I’d been looking for the Mamma Mia! screenplay (yippee, she reads this website!) The Editing Room provides spoof scripts based upon films the writer may (or may not) [...]
Continue reading...Mamma Mia screenplay – script
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Open question to all our readers – you! If you have a copy of the movie’s screenplay, could you please send it to: www.FILMandMOVIEmaking.com As the leading movie of the year, I’d like to read it, without seeing the film. You can send it here, our contact page. Many thanks in advance. Related PostsMamma Mia! [...]
Continue reading...Writing for the theatre
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
My latest writing assignment arrived last week. What a fun and an excellent challenge. I was asked by a theatre production company to write a piece for their next theatre show. Being one for a test I set off immediately to gather my thinking; in fact I had my initial thoughts during the briefing. My [...]
Continue reading...The death of popcorn?
Saturday, August 30, 2008
You go to the cinema. That horrible smell lingers throughout. You crunch some under your feet. It’s everywhere; it’s a mess. It’s worse than confetti for clearing up. That awful stuff we’re told we have to love at the movies – popcorn. I know it sounds like a very poor script and it certainly can’t [...]
Continue reading...Save The Cat by Blake Snyder
Tuesday, August 19, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Olympics Beijing 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Opening ceremony – outstanding! How many times did you say ‘wow!’? Firstly, apologies guys, this one beats all previous openings. How will the Brits beat that in 2012? What would you have produced with the sort of financial plan used in that wonderful opening ceremony? The budget just for the fireworks alone would be sufficient [...]
Continue reading...Making Short Films (2008) by Clifford Thurlow
Wednesday, July 23, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Nims Island (2008)
Monday, June 9, 2008
4 stars**** Jodie Foster just has to be one the best actors currently working. I may have to add the word ‘ever’ to that phrase soon, or perhaps I should already before she’s even reached fifty. She works in an elite group, along with Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine; you know their performance on screen [...]
Continue reading...2007 The films I saw and those I wanted to see
Monday, March 10, 2008
A good year for the world of film and movie making; the first ten will make the top two lists; great films and very good movies. 5 stars***** 1. A Mighty Heart – The movie of the year A film that moved you all the way through, made you angry and put you in admiration [...]
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
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