by John | Oct 20, 2023 | 2023 Screenwriting Contest, Development Notes, Elite Consulting, Industry Diary, Matt Rose, News, Pitching, Screenwriting Contests, WriteMovies News
Our Development Notes have been getting our winners ready for industry.
Major wins for all writers this month with the WGA and AMPTP reaching a tentative deal expected to end the strike, and meeting many of the WGA’s demands! For a breakdown of the deal, see the WGA’s Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA. And thanks to this, we’re resuming pitching and relishing it!
With the strike coming to a close, we are thrilled to soon resume pitching our winning scripts from the last contest cycle! Polished through a cycle of incisive WriteMovies development notes and exciting rewrites by our wonderful writers, we are ready to cast a wide net in pitching these stories to studios, producers, and financiers. We have been researching a wide variety, from big names to indie powerhouses, to contact with our pitches and strategically crafted one-sheets when the time is right. And that time is near!
Maintaining relationships with our winning writers, our team has offered their analysis and insight on numerous drafts, in order to make these scripts as compelling as they can be and ensure they pop off the page for potential producers. As we reach the climactic pitching preparations for our last contest cycle, we are also ramping up on a new screenwriting contest that is currently accepting submissions. Resuming pitching is an exciting time for all of us and we’d love you to be a part of it too…
Have you written your next (or first!) masterpiece but you’re not sure how to get it off the ground? Need the motivation to finally finish a story you’ve been yearning to tell? Get your script in before the submission window closes! A contest submission guarantees your script is getting out in the world and getting read by a panel of analysts and industry judges. Winners will receive development notes and the full pitching force of WriteMovies.com. For all entrants, we guarantee feedback on your first 10 pages, and you may opt-in for full-on development notes as well. We look forward to reading your stories! (And, hopefully, one day, watching them on the big screen!)
See our current contests here!
by John | Dec 7, 2022 | Alex Ross, Development Notes, Elite Consulting, Script Mentoring offers, WriteMovies News
by WriteMovies | Feb 2, 2017 | Development Notes, Trainees' Examples
Example Development Notes: top-quality, constructive feedback on the DANCES WITH WOLVES script.
““The Western may be a genre that has come in and out of fashion over the years, but this is a story that transcends it and speaks to our humanity.” Extracts from a script report by our Director of World Wide Development Ian Kennedy from his initial work with us, based on the DANCES WITH WOLVES script. The script is hosted at The Daily Script. (more…)
by John | Jul 29, 2016 | Competition Offers, Development Notes, Elite Consulting
There’s no point anyone spending six months, two years, $80m or more on a script that has avoidable flaws. We all miss things in our own work that only an experienced professional can spot and help you rectify. If you put any value on the time and effort that your scripts require, then make the most of our other Summer Consultancy offers to take your writing and script to the next level.
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by WriteMovies | Mar 13, 2016 | Trainees' Examples
“The script is built upon the interesting and unusual concept of a couple choosing to erase all traces of each other from their respective memories when their relationship ends…” Extracts from a script report by our trainee Daniela Piper-Vegh, based on a reading of the ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND script: CLICK HERE to read the script. (more…)
by WriteMovies | Feb 25, 2016 | Trainees' Examples
“The story also provides a refreshingly modern outlook on relationships…” Extracts from a script report by our trainee Daniela Piper-Vegh, based on a reading of the script 500 Days of Summer. (more…)
by WriteMovies | Feb 5, 2016 | Development Notes, Trainees' Examples
“It is Victorian values and culture that are indicted by the failures of the Titanic, and those are what go down with the ship in our eyes…” Comments from us and extracts from a script report by our trainee Daniela Piper-Vegh, based on a reading of the script of multiple Oscar Award winning TITANIC: http://movie-scripts.net/T/Titanic.pdf (more…)
