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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: July 2015
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Bridesmaids Analysis 1 – Concept and Character. For the next few weeks I am going to do an in-depth analysis of Bridesmaids. Written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo). Why Bridesmaids. First of all, it was a big hit, grossing $169 million in the U.S. on an estimated budget of $32.5 million (according to IMDB. A: This on...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: February 2015
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Friday, February 27, 2015. How to Know if Your Idea is Marketable. My friend and fellow screenwriter Paul Guay. Liar Liar, Heartbreakers. It takes a lot of time and energy to write a spec script. Why would you want to invest that time on an idea you don’t love? And why would you want to invest that time on an idea that you can’t sell? Now, dig ...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: June 2015
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Thursday, June 25, 2015. 7 Questions for Better Scenes. You’ve got your outline all worked out and you’re writing your first draft. You sit down and prepare to write the next scene. What should you be thinking about? Is there any special preparation or planning? Or do you just dive in and start imagining stuff? Is it a major plot point? The mai...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: August 2015
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Friday, August 28, 2015. Bridesmaids 5 – Set Pieces. I’ll complete my in-depth analysis of Bridesmaids. A guy getting hit in the face with a pie is only humorous if the guy has some reason to be dignified. So if you just throw something like that into the background of a scene, you get the physical but not the humor. Also notice how this scene ...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: November 2014
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Friday, November 21, 2014. I just finished reading the 2nd edition of the book, The Hollywood Economist. Is the perfect business-of-Hollywood book for a screenwriter because it discusses the economics in the language of lay people. (It also explains why you’ll never see any income from those net points in your contract.). Another example of the...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: October 2014
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Friday, October 31, 2014. Daily Habits of Successful Screenwriters. Today I’m going to address a suggestion from Michelle Hall (hopefully she's still reading my blog): “As a newbie wanting to pursue screenwriting full time, what tasks to pursue on daily basis? Is a good source of free info, but if you want to be a pro, it’s probably worth...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: December 2014
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Friday, December 26, 2014. Interview with Simshar Writer/Director Rebecca Cremona. Shortly after I started teaching at Art Center College, a young woman from Malta named Rebecca Cremona developed a screenplay in my Screenwriting 1 class called Simshar. I am very interested in how large political issues actually influence mundane life, so this f...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: Interview with David Simkins
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Thursday, July 2, 2015. Interview with David Simkins. The Hollywood Pitching Bible. The book I co-authored with producer Ken Aguado, is now available as an audiobook. Screen and television writer David Simkins ( Adventures in Babysitting, Warehouse 13, Grimm, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles. And how important has pitching been in your career?
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: Three Traps to Avoid in Love Stories
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Friday, July 24, 2015. Three Traps to Avoid in Love Stories. Minor spoilers: The Theory of Everything, Along Came Polly, Notorious, The Fighter, Sweet Home Alabama, 50 First Dates, Wedding Crashers. 1 The characters love each other because it’s a movie. But neither of those scenarios makes the romance truly compelling. You want the audience...
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting: Bridesmaids Analysis 1 – Concept and Character
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Let's Schmooze - Doug Eboch on Screenwriting. Screenwriter Douglas J. Eboch (Sweet Home Alabama) discusses screenwriting, pitching, and the business of Hollywood. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Bridesmaids Analysis 1 – Concept and Character. For the next few weeks I am going to do an in-depth analysis of Bridesmaids. Written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo). Why Bridesmaids. First of all, it was a big hit, grossing $169 million in the U.S. on an estimated budget of $32.5 million (according to IMDB. A: This on...
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