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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Summertime and the Living’s Easy: The 1 Big Reason to Get Screenplay Coverage This Summer
With the official first day of summer just a week away, I thought it would be a good time to recommend getting professional coverage for your screenplay from a service like Monument Script Services. Having a professional reader evaluate your screenplay is always a good idea. In fact, most professional writers that I know won’t …
5 Ways That March Madness Can Teach Us About Screenwriting
As many sports fans know, the first weekend of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is one of the great weekends on the sports calendar. Sixty-four teams enter the weekend on Thursday with dreams of making it to the Final Four and sixteen teams remain with their dreams intact at the end of Sunday, with the …
Five Reasons the Outline Should Serve as the Foundation for Your Screenplay
There is so much more to writing a screenplay than just writing the screenplay. Before you ever get to writing scenes and dialogue, you need to spend hours and pages writing treatments and character biographies and answering series of questions on tone and mood, and just figuring out what kind of story you want to …
My Thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been out for a few weeks, and I’ve taken some time off around the holidays, I thought I would add to the ever-growing list of masses who feel compelled to wax on the merits and faults of the latest entry into the Star Wars pantheon. Something you …
My Top 5 Science Fiction Films of All Time
Perhaps you’ve heard that there’s a little movie coming out this weekend called Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I love the Star Wars series. The first film came out when I was 6-years old. I had all of the toys when I was a kid. I used to have marathon sessions where I would watch …
3 Reasons to Get Professional Coverage for Your Screenplay Before the End of the Year
The Holiday Season is upon us and is in full swing. Holiday parties at friends’ homes and at offices rob us of time as well as the money that we need ot use for all of those white elephant gifts that we have to buy. For most people at this time of year, if it …
Professional Coverage Vs. Writers’ Groups
Many writers, especially new and young writers eschew getting professional coverage in favor of getting notes from writers’ groups. Perhaps it’s the expense that they don’t like, figuring that they can get the same quality notes from a writers’ group that they can get from a professional reader at no cost to them. Personally I …
Three Reasons to Start the New Year With a Professional Analysis of Your Screenplay
Now that we’ve all recovered from our New Year’s hangovers and have unwrapped all of the presents and eaten our way through the holidays, it’s time to get serious about our writing again. Here are three reasons to consider starting out the year by getting your script analyzed by a professional reader: First, the start …
Monument Script Services is offering a Holiday Special!
These rates are good through the month of December. Standard Studio Notes – $85 for 72-hour delivery (Normally $115), $115 for 48-hour delivery (normally $140) and $140 for 24-hour turnaround (normally $165). Expanded Studio Notes – $200 for 72-hour delivery (Normally $250), $225 for 48-hour delivery (normally $275) and $250 for 24-hour turnaround (normally $300). …