by WriteMovies | Apr 20, 2020 | Updates, WriteMovies Academy, WriteMovies News
Magazines on Sunset Boulevard, soon before the lockdown – the world will still need content throughout the crisis: yours can be the answer!
Make a difference, and commit to the best opportunity you’ll ever get to focus on your writing and personal development, guilt free…
So listen:
- If you identify yourself as a writer, if you’ve been waiting for a chance to make things happen, NOW is your time. Make it count.
- The industry needs new material like always, and with the writer’s strike combined with the lockdown, they’re not getting it – so make yourself their answer.
Last week, in our Director’s personal analysis of how the Covid-19 outbreak is transforming everyone’s lives and the future, we committed to promoting positive approaches every day to help writers through this unprecedented scenario (click HERE to see why). Today we’re setting out a plan for how writers can do their part to keep themselves healthy, progressing and on track to come out of the other side of the crisis with new strengths and momentum. That’s not encouraging anyone to be selfish: fact is, we all need the people living in lockdown who aren’t sick or bereaved, to stay strong themselves in order to support the people and initiatives that depend on it. (more…)
by WriteMovies | Apr 13, 2020 | Updates
I guess all the customers at cinemas like this one at Universal City are invisible themselves right now.
As Easter passes, the world looks utterly different to how it did a month ago – and perhaps it always will. Back then, I was compiling a week of my ‘L.A. Diary’ to reveal publicly for the first time a week of meetings that show how we pitch and promote our winners’ scripts directly to industry, and how we network and build synergies and opportunities together with them. But as the tragedies and restrictions grew in China, Italy and Spain, a shadow was looming over us all. All of the normal industry meetings and trips I featured in the L.A. Diary became impossible in California just a few weeks later. Filming became impossible, box office revenue has evaporated from one market after another and another, and the industry is suspended with no sign of when business as usual can restart, or even if it’ll be possible. Not just the Hollywood industry – London and Bollywood are on hold too, like so many other places. (more…)
by John | Apr 3, 2020 | Updates
Our Quarter-Finals are where we start to narrow down the field and start to see which scripts have the most potential – and that alone always makes them an exciting time for us!
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by John | Mar 27, 2020 | Highlights, Industry Diary, Pitching, Updates
Our Summer 2020 Screenwriting Contest is now LIVE! One of the big prizes for our top three scripts is pitching them to industry – and here’s a sneak peek into how we do just that. See the latest instalment of Ian’s LA Diary below, featuring a trip to BAFTA LA and a meeting with SCARFACE co-producer Peter Saphier… (more…)
by John | Mar 23, 2020 | Updates
As the impact of Coronavirus sweeps across the globe, we’ve reshaped our packages to give the best possible support to writers, whatever challenges they’re facing right now – and we’ve opened a new Grand Prize contest early. The Summer 2020 Screenwriting Contest is now OPEN, with new offers to help writers out!
We’ve got all the usual prizes on offer, but we’re also offering a special discount on repeat submissions for our script reports – so if you buy a second script report from us, you’ll receive a $10 discount, and if you buy a third, the discount goes up to $20! That means you can get Studio Coverage for your third script for as little as $79, or Development Notes for as little as $129!
And that’s not all. After you receive your report from us, you can resubmit the same script FREE OF CHARGE until the end of the contest!
That’s on top of all the great prizes on offer. We offer a Grand Prize of $2000, and the top three scripts all receive a year of free script development and we GUARANTEE to pitch them to industry too! With recent meetings with the likes of BAFTA and the producers of the films SCARFACE, GET OUT and BLACKKKLANSMAN, we can get your script into the hands of top decision-makers who can make things happen.
Keep an eye out too for our next genre award, which launches next week – the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award 2020. But for now, make sure you submit to the Summer 2020 Screenwriting Contest for the chance to win big and get your script out there – click here to enter now!
by John | Mar 4, 2020 | Highlights, Industry Diary, Pitching, Updates
To give a picture of how we engage with industry and pitch our winners’ scripts, our Director Ian Kennedy is sharing a week of his L.A. diary with us. He’s got meetings with major producers, organisations and other industry professionals to share with us, plus images from the scene. Today he meets the producers of Oscar-winners GET OUT and BLACKKKLANSMAN, plus THE MESSENGER and many other top films. (more…)
by John | Mar 2, 2020 | Updates, WMC
Parting is such sweet sorrow… and we can’t bear to say goodbye to our Winter 2020 Screenwriting Contest just yet. So as a result, we’ve decided to give this contest a one week extension!
You’ve now got until Sunday March 8th to submit, giving yourself a chance to win great prizes from us here at WriteMovies – not to mention the prestige of becoming one of our winners!
We’ve talked enough about what the contest prizes are in our newsletters and articles – but if you need a reminder, there’s $2000 up for grabs for our Grand Prize winner, plus a year of free script development and guaranteed pitching to industry for our top three scripts!
Our Director, Ian Kennedy, will be sharing some of his Hollywood/LA diary with us over the next few weeks, with news of meetings at major studios and with elite producers, giving you insight into what goes on behind the scenes at WriteMovies. Make sure you don’t miss out, so you know how we present our winners to industry.
And in the meantime, put yourself in the best possible position by entering our contest! The window of opportunity is still open… for the moment. Click here to submit by Sunday March 8th for your chance to win the WriteMovies Winter 2020 Screenwriting Contest!
