ScreenTalk REWIND: PITCH YOUR SCRIPT TO HOLLYWOOD – The William Morris Agency!
(Originally Aired on 2.11.09)
Callers will be able to pitch their screenplay to Christopher Lockhart who is the story editor for legendary talent agent Ed Limato at the William Morris Agency. He is looking for potential projects for a small roster of “A” list clients including Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington and Steve Martin. He is also a creative consultant for COLLATERAL producer Julie Richardson and has set up several projects, including A RHINESTONE ALIBI (Paramount) and THE MIDNIGHT MAN (Dimension).
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ScreenTalk #15: Mike Rich
This week we are excited to feature professional screenwriter Mike Rich. Mike’s screenwriting breakthrough came in 1998 when his script FINDING FORRESTER was honored by the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship competition. Within weeks it was picked up by Columbia Pictures and was a holiday season release in 2000, starring Sean Connery and directed by Gus Van Sant. Mike’s second screenplay THE ROOKIE starred Dennis Quaid and Rachel Griffiths and was both a commercial and critical success for Disney in 2002. The following year, Mike wrote the script for RADIO which starred Ed Harris, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Debra Winger. He has been a contributing writer on MIRACLE EIGHT BELOW and “INVINCIBLE Mike’s most recent works include MANHUNT a historical piece on the search for Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, “The Nativity Story,”THE NATIVITY a feature film on the Christmas story starring Keisha Castle Hughes and Oscar Isaac, and SECRETARIAT a feature film currently in development at Disney. Mike and his wife Grace continue to make their home in the Portland area.
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ScreenTalk #14: Chris, Devin, Script Girl, and Bill Martell!
Script Girl is here to update us on the latest and hottest script deals in Hollywood! Also, Bill Martell who has written 19 films for cable and video and will join us to discuss Writing the Perfect Action Scene! Also, Devin checks in from the Nashville Film Festival and Chris is lost somewhere in Colorado! We’ll of course discuss the latest Hollywood developments, screenplay trends, and a screenwriting tip of the week.
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ScreenTalk #13: Documentary Screenwriting & Making the Big Spec Script Sale
On this episode of ScreenTalk we are proud to feature two interviews. First, writer/director and producer Harold Jackson III will join us to talk about Documentary screenwriting and filmmaking. His documentary BURN is based on the 1921 race riot in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma and his latest film SEEMLESS was just released on DVD. Also on this show we are joined by professional screenwriter and author Chris Soth whose spec screenplay FIRESTORM sold for $750,000 in 1995. He’ll tell us about making that big spec script sake and much more!.
Finally, Script Girl will join us for the latest Hollywood Script Deals and co-host Devin Watson whose first feature film THE CURSED is do out this summer has a problem with his newest script! But, no worries, we’ve called in the Script DR. Marilyn Horowitz (author of “How to Write A Screenplay in Ten Weeks”) who will help analyze Devin’s problem.
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ScreenTalk #12: Max Adams
Max Adams is a former recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting and an Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Award. Her original script EXCESS BAGGAGE was released by Columbia Pictures in 1997. Her uncredited adaptation THE LADYKILLERS was released by Touchstone Pictures in 2004. Her current project, SAVING ROSE GILLESPIE, is in pre-production with director Michael Listo attached. Max is also an instructor with Gotham Writer’s Workshop, the author of “The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide; Or Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War” (Warner Books), a Nicholl Fellowships reader and a former WGA online mentor.
Also on this show, Bill Martell (19 produced films) chimes in on the art of screenwriting and Script Girl gives up her latest picks for script sales of the week in Hollywood!
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(photo credit: Photo by Colleen Patrick)
ScreenTalk #11: To Be A ScreenWriter
Our special guest on this show is Scott Myers, who has been a screenwriter since 1987 when Universal Studios bought and produced K-9, a spec script he co-wrote. His other movie credits include: ALASKA (1996), starring Thora Burch, and TROJAN WAR (1997), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Currently, he is an Executive Producer with Distillery Pictures. In his spare time he teaches screenwriting at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and online through UCLA Extension, receiving the Writer’s Program’s Outstanding Instructor of the Year award in 2005.
Also on this show is Marilyn Horowitz, adjunct creative writing professor at NYU, script consultant for the Warner Bros. film AND THEN CAME LOVE, starring Vanessa Williams. Also, Chuck Williams, producer of THE TELLING.
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ScreenTalk #10: How to be a “B-Movie” Writer & LOVE IT!
We are proud to announce this special show featuring Script Girl, Script News, and our special guest Martin Lopez, writer of the B-Movie Cult Classic MUTANT ON THE BOUNTY. Don’t laugh, a B-Movie writer is a professional screenwriter and is making money YOU are NOT.
On this show we will explore the in’s and out’s of “Writing the B-Movie” and how you can make a career of it! Also, our newest member of ScreenTalk, Bill Martell, screenwriter of 19 Hollywood movies joins us as a regular co-host!
MUTANT ON THE BOUNTY tells the tale of an interstellar musician who finds himself on board the spaceship Bounty after traveling through the cosmos as a light-beam for over 20 years. There, he must flee from two crooks who are intent on unleashing a vial of deadly gas aboard the ship.
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