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Please cancel my account. I cannot find a way to do so. And stuff you politics where the sun don't shine.

Yes, that's the thinking. We the viewers are brain dead sheep as far as the financial end of the Industry sees it. If we bought it once, we'll buy it again. And it gets worse. I have a horror film that I can shoot for half a million with a couple of C or D list Actors already on board and a B...

!00% original screenplays are called Non-Derivative Screenplays and it's easier to find Big Foot. Besides, these days investors demand financial comparisons to at least three existing films. They runaway at the word "original".

If this is a spec, you need to remove all the CUT TO: That's directing, and they hate that from writers! The only time to have more than 4 lines without white space is in dialogue. So this (which is just a couple words over 4 lines in the script) must be cut down: ARJUN sits on a rock next to...

Yes. Getting things started is what I do as a Producer.

Do you have $25 mil to invest? 'cause you're going to need it. But even if you do, you stand zero chance unless you hire a connected entertainment professional. The smart way to go is to become a hands-on Executive Producer and learn the trade from the top down. Half a million gets you up and...

A double hyphen is correct as there in no pause. And since there is no pause, you must use CON'T to weld the broken sentence. Whoever told you otherwise was wrong. It needs to be in there for post. Ask yourself, what will it mean to the editor? "..." might mean he needs to snip the dialogue...

I thought you were alluding to the TV Show "Get Shorty"?

It depends on your goal. Do you want to be an Indie Filmmaker, or do you aspire to working your way up within the Studio System? Indie Filmmakers quickly learn that they don't just get to be Director, they are de facto everything else, too. From Executive Producer to Receptionist. It's a big...

So you're saying it is incapable of originality. It can only regurgitate. That's exactly my point.

Not for the reason you purport. ALL screenplays are put through thier paces to see if they are a feasible production. This is a financial thing, not a creative one. They used to use paper and pen, now we use computers. This is one of the jobs I do. Again, it has NOTHING to do with creativity...

You're reaching. I'm a Studio System Trained guy. I don't "think", I know, because I ask. JGR laughed at the idea. Look around-- Even Cameron, the man who wants to get rid of Actors, is a rewriter.

Your argument is logical but not reasonable. How would you judge which of 10 million scripts is the good one? With a computer? There are NEVER a million FEASIBLE alternatives, but the computer considers what's logically possible, so it considers cannibalism every time a character gets hungry. So...

"Set criteria" is the operative phrase. What you're describing is striving for mediocrity, and that's what's wrong with movies these days, they are all formula. Firstly, Machines can be logical, but logic itself is not always reasonable. That's why computer games can be outsmarted. There is no...

You can't teach Talent to a Human. How you going to program it into a machine? Besides, Emotions, like music, are not digital. Both Feelings and notes bleed into each other.

I'm no Director, but as a Producer, if I had $50,000 to spare, I'd shoot a topical pilot/POC and promo for a half-hour TV show, package it and hit up the distributors.

Stage 32 is a scam. They are Dream Stealers. Read the fine print. All they sell is notes, and NOBODY there works in development. No one there works in the Studio System, either. Their notes are worthless. Some of them are straight up con artist. There are a couple of old time TV Writers there...

Baloney. Name the PC that does that. Besides, ever hear of Copyright Law? Every failed screenwriter claims theft. But why steal? Right now, I could call for scripts with the stipulation that the Screenwriter gets credit only an dno money, and I'd have 50 submissions by tomorrow.

Not only is it exploitation, it's illegal for anyone who can move your project forward to take money from you to read your script. Pay for a class and learn, but do not pay for a "recommend" or so-called "script coverage". You get read by pitching, not paying.

Here's why PCs don't take unsolicited material: 1) They'd constantly get sued for "stealing ideas". Non-pros all think thier script is "original". It's not. A Non-Derivative Script (as it's called) is extremely rare. If I read your war script, reject it, and then start making a war movie...