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Novel (and graphic novel) adaptations are the hot item in April, including the sci-fi Anomaly with Joe Roth producing, and The Graveyard Book with Disney at the helm. Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Live By Night , set in the 1920s during the Black Sox scandal. Since we've gone way too long without a good poker movie: DiCaprio also producing a film with Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake about illegal online gaming, Runner Runner . And former Script Pipeline Workshop "Recommend" writer Michael Starrbury will write an adaptation of The Great Unknown , originally published by Image Comics.
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Profile of the Top Screenplay and Screenwriting Contests, 9/02
If you’ve written a screenplay and are not sure what the next step is, you might want to consider submitting your latest work to one or more of the many competitions. Though all of the competitions have some fee for entry (usually about $35), the benefits to an unknown screenwriter can be worth the small cost. Without shmoozing, networking, or encountering some Hollywood figure, the chance of an individual breaking into the film industry is nearly impossible. Writers are often the lowest on the totem pole, but these competitions provide some hope for unrewarded talent.
“Oz Rudd” has been caught trying to pass off a number of scripts from the SimplyScripts Unproduced section of the site as his own. If anyone reading this is working with the above named individual on a script or a production, please be aware that you could be working with someone who has plagiarized the script from SimplyScripts.
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Mark Litwak's Entertainment Law Resources - Articles - Film
A literary acquisition contract is an agreement to acquire all or some rights in a literary property such as a novel or a play. Producers typically use it to obtain screenplays or movie rights to literary works. Purchasers, (e.g., producers) will want owners, (e.g., writers), to warrant that they own all the rights they are selling, free and clear of any other obligations (encumbrances). Sellers will disclose their copyright registration number so that Purchasers can check the copyright records and review the chain of title to ensure they obtain all the rights they desire. Each agreement needs to define the extent of the rights being sold.This letter, when signed and dated by you, ________________, and returned by mail to me, _________________, will confirm the agreement between you and I regarding any and all motion picture, television, broadcast, home video, remake, sequel, CD-Rom and all other computer-assisted forms of media, merchandising, allied, subsidiary and ancillary rights now known or hereafter invented throughout the universe and in any and all languages (exclusive of book publishing) to the screenplay written by you called _____________________________. In return for $______, development services and other valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, you hereby grant me the exclusive option to purchase the Rights to the screenplay for an exclusive period of ___ months from the date of my receipt of this signed contract.
