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Oh, man! I remember seeing that film long, long ago when HBO first began. Haven't seen it for 30 years! Must see again. A recent supernatural thriller I really like is The Woman in Black. I've wanted to do the stage version of it for many years. You'd really appreciate it, Alcove, as it's...

That was cool, ray. Thanks for posting.

I've shot a couple of times in cemeteries, and can offer this food for thought: I highly recommend you find an old one, where all of the space was used up long ago and no new burials have taken place in many decades. You will have a much easier time gaining access to it. Many of them pass...

I've come to the realization that the low-budget horror genre is not very different from porn, in that the typical viewer isn't really interested in thinking too hard about it, but wants to be engaged on a more - er, shall we say - "visceral" level.

:lol: Hooray for Aliens fans! :D

That looks pretty good to me.

Don't know if this will help you at all, but the Kill Bill transparency effect in that clip was achieved live on the set, not in post, using a technique called a "theatrical scrim". I have used it a couple of times on stage plays for which I've designed the lighting. Francis Ford Coppola also...

harmonica, check out my post in this thread on a similar topic: http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?t=46520

Spencer, if I may share a cautionary tale, I felt (and feel) exactly the same as you do. But here's the hard lesson I've just learned: I read all of the stats detailing how horror, sci-fi, and action are the only 3 genres that can obtain distribution without a name actor attached. Since a...

This is like asking, "How high is up?" What a writer is paid depends on myriad factors. Writers have worked for back end points on low/no budget movies, and consequently received nothing (that would be me :( ). A freelance writer who actually sells a spec script to an independent production...

Uncle.

I don't know too many other ways to word this: Of course they are not replying. Most production companies are not interested in unsolicited submissions, which is why people go through agents. If you don't want to go through an agent, you will have a much more difficult time getting your stuff...

I'm not quite sure what you were expecting. I recommended that you perform an online search for production company web sites, but it sounds like you would rather have one of us do it for you. Either that, or you believe that someone here is withholding a cache of e-mail addresses from you for...

Just do a search for "motion picture production company" or something similar. There are hundreds. I'm just curious, is there a particular reason you believe you'll have better luck going "over the transom" (which means directly contacting production companies), versus querying agencies, who...

Love the title!

Sorry, did not realize that posting a link to an example of one of the best limited location screenplays ever written qualified me as being a "smart ass". Thanks for the heads-up.

Your avatar should give you a clue. Read the screenplay for Reservoir Dogs. And you don't "need" 60-80 scenes. See above.

How about this: I pitched a script idea to my manager. He liked it so I spent the next year and a half writing the screenplay. We weren't crazy about the title, so I came up with a better one. On a whim, I did a google search and found another script with the same title, similar plot and...

The phrase "indie studio" is a contradiction. A movie is either made within the studio system, or made independent of the studio system. There are "independent" production companies, who raise funds for their projects themselves, and there are production companies that have "studio deals" --...

This is a nice thought, but it ain't necessarily so. My scripts have been brought to studios by A-list producers, at least two of whom have a Best Picture Oscar on their mantel. To date, the studios have declined to option the material for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with the...