“Know your audience” is an oft-repeated phrase in Hollywood. Most ideas target specific audiences, and some of those audiences are larger than others. Naturally, if you have an idea for a high-concept blockbuster, the audience is going to be huge. However, there is much value to be found in something that might be more niche. …
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Own the Future: Why Screenwriters Should Embrace AI
To say the movie industry is in a transitional stage would be an understatement. Studios are still behind their pre-strike production output. Despite the outcome of the strikes, AI is still seen as an existential threat to professional screenwriters and the screenwriting community at large. The trend of studios staking all their output on tentpole …
Corporations That Own Hollywood Studios are Killing the Golden Goose
We all know how challenging the year 2023 was in the entertainment industry. We don’t need to rehash the double strikes, the layoffs, the mass exodus out of town, or the lives and careers that were either stalled or completely snuffed out. As challenging as the spring and summer were, optimism abounded in the autumn …
A blog that I did for Stage 32
https://www.stage32.com/blog/the-truth-about-the-animation-industrys-recent-setbacks-3111 The Truth About The Animation Industry’s Recent “Setbacks” Brian Smith 15 hours ago There has been a lot of negative news whirling around about the animation industry lately. Whether it’s about layoffs at Netflix or unreleased projects from Warner Bros. and HBO MAX or unmet box office expectations by even the likes of PIXAR, …
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Spring is a time for new beginnings. With that in mind, Monument Script Services wants to help you get started on a new beginning for your screenplay by offering 20% off of any first-time coverage service between now and April 1st. Having a professional reader evaluate your screenplay is an integral step in getting you …
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Monument Script Services congratulates our client Tiyan Newman, whose script Hope Runs Deep is a quarter-finalist in the 2014 Screencraft Comedy Script competition! Well done, Tiyan!
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Monument Script Services congratulates our client Julie Brimberg Rothschild. She has been offered $5 million to finance the making of her script Housebound, for which Monument Script Services provided notes on 5 drafts. Best of luck moving forward, Julie!
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Thoughts on Lucas and Spielberg’s Comments on the Future of Film
I know this is old news, but I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, and Steven Spielberg and George Lucas made their comments right as I was going on my vacation. The comment I’d most like to take issue with is the one that Lucas made about studios only making tent pole films that …