Cdrzewie

Had a friend among their readers: ~40 scripts/wk in the initial round. No revelation here but the scripts that advanced had good scene depth. That was biggest complaint: scenes focused just on plot, or just on character, and theme nonexistent.

thats an insane amount of scripts to judge pr/week... Also just realized the notification dates I found online were from 08', so yeah its prob not this week

Letter I received on 8-13 said mid September for announcements by mail.

or "voices" because he's Ahab's son with multiple personalities on the hunt for Moby Dick's son. Or it was all in his head... cue sirens from inception here.

Here's to swimmin' with bowlegged women.

Make him autistic, but a savant with the ways of currents and fluid dynamics as his thing. And absolutely no fear of large fish. Then give him a fear of wind. Imagine a sailor afraid of wind. Put Freud on the boat and you're talking 7 figures. Assuming Godyssey doesn't suck all the air out of the room. Hey, it's the holidays.

Where's the LIKE button?

Nice! Seems like everyday someone from the TB crew gets some good news. Lovin' it!

gracias

Or splicing "fuck" or "fucking" into a title (as though that lame-ass attempt to be witty that makes up for piss-poor writing...)

agreed.

Double Agreed. Fucking Man-over it.

Agree.

+2 (aka I agree also)

Do mainstream movies have b-stories? I thought they had gone the way of character actors.

B Story is usually the love interest anymore, or the overall bad guy story; i.e. BOURNE. The A story is Jason Bourne trying to solve the mystery of who he is and what he is and all the action that comes with. The B story is the soap opera within the intelligence agency - house oversight committee, secret ops without approval, etc. The love interest with Franke Potente is just window dressing for the A story. But I think that's a good example of an A/B story that works.

"Fig Hunt" was one of the Nicholl Finalists -> http://forum.tracking-board.com/index.php?/topic/5308-fig-hunt/

ill check it out thanks mikey

"Life of Brian" was a bit of a mock, was it not? :-)

I tried to so hard to get in on any of the days, but alas, it was brutal trying to buy tickets.

I got lucky, I picked one up right at the start then went back like two hours later after the site came back up and picked up tix to fri night and sunday

I just want the poster

If you're not going to take it, we might swoop in and snatch it up :-)

I'll second Hwood Trojan. Race you to it?

She must have talked to the Psychic Friends Network

Reason 1: It's hard for the writer. You submit a spec CSI to the Bones people, they might know the show, but they're judging you on concept, pacing, dialogue, general writing skill,etc... But you submit a CSI spec to CSI producers who know every tiny bit of that show inside and out... You're opening yourself up to a whooping. They'll pounce on even the tiniest mistakes. It's like copying a painting, then asking the original artist to judge you. Never gonna win.

Reason 2: Legal... You submit a spec to a show. Now whatever's in your script, they can never do an episode or character beat like that for fear of being sued for theft. And let's face it, there's only so many stories. You send a spec about a dead hooker at the MGM... And they've already got one about a dead hooker at Mandalay ready to shoot -- oops. Now they have to dump the ep they already wrote. It's easier just to have a blanket policy of not reading their own.

Exceptions to the above? Very very few... However -- In the 90s, the various Star Trek shows did actually accept specs of their own. That's how Bryan Fuller started his career.

Just from reading the first 15 pages, I think Waltz could walk away with another Oscar... but I need to read the rest...

I thought it was tough not hearing him exactly like Hans Landa in my head while reading it, its a prefect role for him

Hanz Landa + the ghost of Cleavon Little = Hilarious!

Not QT's best script...but will a be a good film. Not to mention, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT fro everything out today...and it WILL be made!

if it's the same one I'm thinking about - if not, I'd still recommend it.

if it's the same one I'm thinking about - if not, I'd still recommend it.

It is. Review will be up next week

Script uploads are put in The File Exchange thread.

Head into that thread, start a new topic, list the script title , etc. and then if you scroll down a little bit beyond the box where you write your post you'll see the "attachments" section. Just choose the file from your harddrive and select "attach this file.

Some people have been having issues uploading lately, but I think it's fixed now.