The writers of the scripts for the One Week Challenge have been revealed

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page we have twenty six original works up for your reading pleasure - Don

Thanks to “Silly String” and Daily Script read the November 4, 2005 shooting draft of Normal Adolescent Behavior by Beth Schacter.

Wendy and her friends avoid the heartless world of random hookups and friends-with-benefits by spending all their time together. When she meets Sean, Wendy is torn between her genuine affection and desire for him and her commitment to her friends, especially her best friend Billie: and Billie isn’t interested in losing her friends. That and other can be found on the Movie Scripts page - Don

Thanks to “Mumbles” for the heads up on these five pdf format scripts from Paramount Vantage, the art-house and specialty label of Paramount Pictures. Paramount Vantage has posted, for your consideration, the script for the controversial movie The Kite Runner, A Mighty Heart, Margot at the Wedding (which will star Nicole Kidman), the Sean Penn written and directed Into The Wild and Paul Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.

You can find these on the Paramount Vantage Vantage Guilds page or by going to the Movie Scripts page - Don

{update: if you are having trouble downloading the screenplays, try right clicking the links and using “save as” to download them to your computer. - Don }

Better Days Episode 03 “Jason vs. The Giant Chicken of Doom” by Steven Cameron
Read by iScript.com

Taunted by his hatred for men in chicken suits Jason sees an add for a exhibition boxing match vs. a chicken man, Jason signs up and Kenny helps him try and get in shape for the fight. While this goes on Barbara gets a date outside the friendship and Jason and Kenny follow her, this proves as a true test of the friendship between Jason and Barbara.

Short Series - Comedy
Rated R (for language)

Read the script (25 pages - html format). Discuss the script. Listen to the script:

 

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{note: This audio recording is released under a Creative Commons, attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives 3.0 license. You can share the audio recording in its entirety, but you can’t change it or sell it. }

Directing Your Movie: A Two-Day Intensive Seminar - November 17-18, 2007

Offered by the UCLA Professional Programs at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Is there a Coppola or Spielberg inside of you? Did you ever want to know how a movie or television director thinks, or how they approach their craft? Or how a director tells a story not in the broad strokes but in the minutia? How a director impacts his or her audience, works with actors, and guides the creative ship? In this two-day course, we will see how directing is about good planning, collaboration, trust, and delivery.

For more information, go to http://www.filmprograms.ucla.edu/short_courses.htm. - Don

Vern. Don’t fret, I’ll be giving away another signed MOH DVD in November.

Thanks everyone who entered. Vern, drop me a line with your addy and I’ll get this off to you.

Is over on the Movie Scripts page. Thanks to Donovan and Daily Script.

Masters of Horror announcement to follow… - Don

Matt has posted his film Producing Fiction (originally entitled Lights, Camera, Action?).

You can Read the Script (pdf format) or comment on his film.

Over on the Unproduced Scripts page there are fifteen scripts up for your reading pleasure. Among them is Au Jus (15 pages in pdf format) by the writing team of Antonio Gangemi & Aimee Parrott. Au Jus was a finalist in the NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness 2007 Screenwriter’s Challenge.

A perfectionist cannibal must prepare the meal of a lifetime for the visiting king. - Don

Update:The UCLA Extension Writer’s Program Script Library “is offline at the moment” to use their words. It may come back or not. Just don’t know - Don