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Foreword by John Hamburg
Introduction
PART ONE: SELLING YOUR MOVIE
1. Getting Started in Hollywood
2. Why Isn’t Anyone Buying My Brilliant Script?
3. How to Pitch Your Movie
4. Joining the Writers Guild of America, West
5. I SOLD IT! Now What Happens?
6. Idiot Check
7. Coverage! or How a Kid Getting College Credit Can Make or Break Your Movie!
8. Have I Made It Yet?
9. They Love My Script! … and I Got Fired?
10. Why Does Almost Every Studio Movie SUCK Donkey Balls?
11. The Art of Nodding or How to Take Notes
12. Directors
13. Producers
14. Herbie: Fully Loaded
15. Redlighting or How to Get Your Movie Un-Greenlit!
16. Turnaround
17. How to Pimp Your Movie
18. Naysayers
19. The Silver Lining
20. Our Lunch with Jackie Chan
21. Credit$
22. Living in Los Angeles
PART TWO: WRITING A SCREENPLAY
23. If Your Screenplay Doesn’t Have This Structure, It Won’t Sell, or Robert McKee Can Suck It
24. In a Few Pages, We’ll Teach You How to Formulate Characters in a Script
25. How to Write a Screenplay
26. Writing Action and Description
27. Advice for Writing with a Partner
28. Rewrites: You Want It When? And I’m Getting Paid What?!?!?!!?
29. Martin Lawrence Has a Few Thoughts or How to Take Notes from a Movie Star
30. Arbitration or Who Wrote This Crap?
31. Sequels!
32. Getting the Book Rights
33. I’m Drinking Too Much. Is That a Problem?
34. Final Thoughts
Appendix: Sample Outlines
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
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