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You’ve heard it all before. “Selling a script is impossible. It just doesn’t happen. I don’t know anyone in the film business so I have no chance at all. It just isn’t fair. I’m just not a lucky person.” Well, selling a screenplay
does happen. But – (here it comes) – truth be told, selling a script is like winning the lottery. Some people do win the lottery and some writers do sell their scripts. Here are some tips that might help you become one of the latter.
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It’s another busy week in Hollywoodland, with the business of entertainment rolling along with plenty of comings and goings, hirings and firings, launches and partnerships. Not to mention the promotions that occurred, and there were a few of those, as well. Click on the link to get the full list and see all of the action.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
The studio and the production company announced an extension of their long-standing production agreement through 2020. The new agreement replaces the first-look deal set to expire this year. Working Title has produced more than 100 films grossing over $6 billion worldwide—$5 billion of which have resulted from the more than 50 films the company has made with Universal Pictures.
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Award-winning TV director Otto Bathurst, a veteran of shows such as
Luthor and
Peaky Blinders, will helm
Robin Hood: Origins for the mid-major studio, which comes from writer Joby Harold. The story shows how the title character returns from the Crusades to discover Sherwood Forest and the surrounding area teeming with corruption and crime. So he forms a group of outlaws and becomes a force for good. Lionsgate hopes to shoot early next year.
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Studio is developing a remake of the 1984 sci-fi/romance
Starman, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen, with the plan to bring it more in line tonally with the hit teen drama
The Fault In Our Stars. Adam North will oversee development for the studio, while Michael Douglas, who produced the original, will produce under his Further Films banner. This is on the heels of word that Dwayne Johnson will star in a remake of
Big Trouble In Little China.
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Based on David Shafer’s darkly comedic debut novel,
Chuck alum Zev Borow will write and executive produce the adaptation, a half-hour comedy about three young adults grappling with the usual thirty-something problems — boredom, authenticity, and omnipotent online oligarchy.
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The Peacock Network is shifting
Heartbreaker out of the fall because the show’s star, Melissa George, is pregnant with her second child. The show was originally set to air on Tuesdays at 8 pm, but that spot will now be taken by the Dick Wolf show,
Chicago Med. NBC's moves allow George some extra time before and after giving birth. Both shows are still set to start production in mid-summer.
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Dave Chappelle, Nick Cannon and Wesley Snipes have joined the cast of Lee’s new film, which is getting ready to shoot in Chicago. The film, which is a retelling of the ancient Greek comedy
Lysistrata, will center on a woman’s quest to end gang warfare in Chicago, likely via similar methods as used by Lysistrata: no sex for the men in the middle of the gang war, until the violence ends. And, it all unfolds as a musical comedy.
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Gillian Jacobs, Kristen Schaal and Chelsea Peretti will star in the live, staged reading of the 2014 Black List script
The Shower next Saturday, June 13th. Adam Pally and Ginger Gonzaga will also take part in reading the script by Jac Schaeffer, who will also direct the reading. Story follows a group of college friends reunited at a baby shower who have to save the world after a meteor shower turns men into women-eating monsters.
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DreamWorks Pictures and Fox 2000 have released the first trailer for the upcoming spy thriller, based on real events about a pivotal event in the Cold War. Tom Hanks stars, Steven Spielberg directs a script from Joel and Ethan Coen, and the film hits theaters October 16th.
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