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Example (from ROTK): ARAGORN and LEGOLAS battle the ORC - LEGOLAS JUMPS onto the BACK of a GIANT MUMAKIL bringing it down ... he lands on his feet in front of GIMLI . . . GIMLI That still only counts as one! The MUMAKIL react with terror as SPECTRAL...

That Two Towers script looks like a transcript, but Return of the King looks legit.

OTOH, there's a famous example from the script of Charge of the Light Brigade, in which the screenwriter - when the big climactic scene came - simply wrote, "They charge." In a screenplay, you can describe the battle in general terms, but punctuate it with important points. (e.g., "There is a...

Script registration is a nicety. Copyright is automatic upon writing (in the US, anyway). It helps to have a record of your script's existence, but registration is not iron-clad proof. It does provide evidence should the WGA need to come to your defense. It's also a nice way for the WGA to...

Okay, the interview with director Joey Ciccoline is now posted at the site. Really useful info for anyone interested in shooting SF on a shoestring budget, IMHO.

While I certainly wouldn't give Avengers as low a rating as you did, I do agree with many of your points. My wife - who has a casual interest in these movies and almost no memory of the preceding films - stopped watching halfway through. Me, I've seen it 3 times now - but then I'm a total geek...

Not too late! Actually sending today (Wednesday).

I'm sorry but I find that really bizarre: They're turning down work on your film because of your age? Something doesn't add up here, and it's not the years.

Hey - Spoke to the guy this week. Got a good bunch of questions from here and my facebook account (same user name, if anybody's wondering). My homework this very night is to put them together into something coherent and fire them off to him. Depending on his timeliness in responding, I...

The Deep. They don't make em like that anymore! 8/10 Think I'll start on a 70s kick now. Queuing up all the Airport movies...

Halloween H20 6/10 - Nowhere near as much fun as I'd remembered. Still better than most (all?) of the other sequels. ParaNorman 9/10 - Great, subversive animation... that might be just a little too "inside baseball" for the non-geek audience, and is certainly too scary for younger children...

That said, if your plot really is all told in subtext, that may not be such a good thing. That can work for prose fiction, but you might consider using a b-story to illustrate your subtext or theme. This is a technique often used in television writing - although it might not work if your film...

On EXACTLY this point (this is from an interview on my site with a very talented filmmaker): "Trust your audience to be smart. Don’t over-explain your setting or story. The more exposition I cut from the script, the better it was. Too much detail makes things seem small, because it feels like...

Okay, last call! Any more questions?

I discovered it on Vimeo, where it had no such label. But yeah, good flick.

I, too, am confused. You're writing a big-budget man vs. nature epic to compete with... The Hangover Part 2? Is this a joke? (EDIT: Oh, I see. Hangover 2 was filmed in Thailand. It all makes sense now. I guess.)

You must take your horror very seriously. I much prefer Evil Dead 2 (and Drag Me to Hell) to Evil Dead 1. Granted the original has a certain scrappy energy that comes from being made by kids on a shoestring. But 2 feels like the product of someone with vision, someone getting comfortable and...

I think that's right on. I've recently set up a projection system in my home for watching movies on blu ray. It's an entirely different experience from watching on TV. When you turn the lights down, and your entire field of vision fills with the image... I also think it has something to do...

We're speaking on the phone Tuesday to arrange an actual interview. Probably within the next week or so. We haven't decided yet whether it's going to be via email or via Skype for a podcast.

Ah, well, there you go. The remake of House of Wax was crap. Learn from that!