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Unreleased movie scripts pdf pack9/5/2023 ![]() The ‘a great story will win out’ rule still applies but you make it a lot harder to have your great story read in the US if your material isn’t presented as folk there expect. Mostly because it serves as a shortcut method of reducing the size of their ‘have to read this week’ pile. ![]() Readers, agents and producers really do care about this stuff. I’d not have believed it myself but I had meetings - both informal and formal - with industry folk in LA in late-2001. And, given how fetishistic the US film industry is about this stuff, such an attitude will actively harm a writer’s chances. That won’t help sell screenplays, however. Personally I’d love to say ‘stuff it, the rest of the world uses A4, and it’s about bloody time you switched.’ These non-standard, non-metric, peculiar to the US (actually, peculiar to the US film industry in particular) requirements represent a real barrier to people outside the United States marketing their work into the US film industry. These requirements don’t apply outside the US film industry.Įven for those marketing their work into the US, this shorthand advice is of Which is all well and good but overlooks two things. Ask about it on most mailing lists or web-sites or at most screen-writing seminars and you’ll get a variation on the following:
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