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Selling a Screenplay: The Screenwriter's Guide to Hollywood

by Syd Field

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- Breaks Down the Business of Screenwriting

- Explains What the Buyer Looks For

- Shows You What to Do to Get in the Door

- Tackles the Pitching Process

- Provides PersonalInsights from Famous Screenwriters

Everybody has a story to tell. Everybody wants to write the great American screenplay. But what do you do after it's written? How do you sell it? Studiohonchos. Development Executives. Independent Producers. What do they want? Do you need an agent or manager to get it into production? Selling a screenplay can mean earning $250,000 or more, so competition is fierce.

Syd Field gives you an insider's look at the movie and TV industry, packed with essential tips from the pros. Selling a Screenplay is a must-have guide for every screenwriter, filled withfrank real-life advice from Hollywood's most powerful deal makers and most celebrated screenwriters.

They all started somewhere.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

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First he told readers how to write it, then he told them how to perfect it, now Syd field takes them behind the movie moguls' closed doors and shows how to sell a screenplay--and earn upwards of $100,000 in the process.

About the Author

Syd Field is the internationally acclaimed screenwriter, producer, teacher, lecturer, and author of the bestselling books Screenplay, Selling a Screenplay, The Screenwriter’s Workbook, Four Screenplays, and The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver. Published in 1982, Screenplay has been translated into seventeen languages and is used in more than 350 colleges and universities across the country. At present he is creative consultant to the governments of Mexico, Argentina, Austria, and Brazil, and has been a script consultant for Roland Jaffe’s film production company, 20th Century Fox, the Disney Studios, and Tri-Star Pictures. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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9780440502449
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Field, Syd
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Delta
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Syd Field
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New York, N.Y. :
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General
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Reference
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Marketing
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Composition & Creative Writing - Play/Scriptwriting
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Personal and practical guides
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Personal & Practical Guides
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Film - Screenwriting
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Motion picture authorship
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Motion picture plays
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Screenwriters
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Screenwriters -- United States.
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Motion picture plays -- Marketing.
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Film & Video - Screenwriting
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General Reference
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Reference - General
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Film and Television-Screenwriting
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Reference/Writing
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
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Performing Arts-Film & Video - Screenwriting
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Trade paper
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26
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19891131
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English
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Yes
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304
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