Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! PDF
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Touchstone A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2011 by Third Baptist Holding Corp, and Lennon Entertainment, Inc. “RENO: S.O.S!” © Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Touchstone Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. First Touchstone hardcover edition July 2011 TOUCHSTONE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or [email protected]. [email protected]. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at http://www.simonspeakers.com. Manufactured in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garant, Robert Ben. Writing movies for fun and profit! : how we made a billion dollars at the box office and you can, too! / by Robert Ben Garant & Thomas Lennon. p. cm. 1. Motion picture authorship. I. Lennon, Thomas. II. Title. PN1996.G34 2011 808.2’3—dc22 2011011985 ISBN 978-1-4391-8675-6 ISBN 978-1-4391-8677-0 (ebook) This book is dedicated to entertainment lawyers everywhere— especially Karl Austen A portion of the authors’ proceeds from this book are being contributed to the USO of Metropolitan Washington, a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving active duty military members and their families in the greater Washington, D.C., region. CONTENTS Introduction by the sellout authors: If you’re gonna sell out, make sure you make big money. That’s the best part of selling out—the money! This book will tell you how we made over a billion dollars for the studios and bushels of dollars for ourselves, and earned the love and respect of film critics everywhere.* * That last part is not true. Foreword by John Hamburg Introduction PART ONE: SELLING YOUR MOVIE 1. Getting Started in Hollywood 2. Why Isn’t Anyone Buying My Brilliant Script? 3. How to Pitch Your Movie 4. Joining the Writers Guild of America, West 5. I SOLD IT! Now What Happens? 6. Idiot Check 7. Coverage! or How a Kid Getting College Credit Can Make or Break Your Movie! 8. Have I Made It Yet? 9. They Love My Script! … and I Got Fired? 10. Why Does Almost Every Studio Movie SUCK Donkey Balls? 11. The Art of Nodding or How to Take Notes 12. Directors 13. Producers 14. Herbie: Fully Loaded 15. Redlighting or How to Get Your Movie Un-Greenlit! 16. Turnaround 17. How to Pimp Your Movie 18. Naysayers 19. The Silver Lining
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