I get a sleazy feeling reading some of the tv production company announcements.
But since my work is sleazy, it might be the right place for me.
30 minute horror stories, shot in video, cheap plots.
Like Outer Limits from the 1960's
I suspect some scam script calls on LA craigslist are...
now I wait.
I sent them to film companies listed as accepting unsolicited screenplays. But I have only sent queries with loglines in most cases.
One was sent a synopsis, as they requested.
I tried to look for the sleaziest companies first, based on the sleaziness of their films.
One thing I...
I heard that elmore leonard was mad at burt reynolds for the latter's direction of the Leonard story, Stick.
Leonard thought Reynolds put a beat after every dialogue line, and that this ruined the story.
How do beats work? Can they put in or taken out by the scriptwriter?
Orson Welles used...
These three production companies are accepting scripts or queries.
I would like to know if anyone has any knowledge or experience with any of them and if they would be recommendable.
World Films
http://www.worldfilms.co/about.cfm
Iron Fist
https://www.ironfistproductions.com/
LLeju...
Would anyone have any thoughts on negotiating payment when a filmmaker likes a script?
Some points I have seen discussed include the following:
- how to negotiate the best initial compensation. Is a lump sum paid?
- What are the terms and pitfalls of an option?
- how much to charge per...
Is there one person mainly who has to approve the expenditure of funds?
a producer, accountant...
If a cameraman or set designer needs a new piece of equipment that must be purchased...
would they have to go to that person and ask permission?
would they have to go up a chain of command? If so...
For example -- which agent would accept someone like Spacey as a client now?
I recall that the writer of The Hitcher and Body Parts used to use the pseudonym Eric Red.
Would devices like that still be used in this back-biting era we have entered?
I have been a member for a long time and am now returning after a long hiatus.
I write scripts and stories that can be made into scripts.
My subjects are scifi action/adventure.
My stories are B-movie and exploitation-level stories.