By David S. Cohen
During this interesting survey of latest reveal craft, David Cohen of Script and diversity magazines leads readers down the lengthy and harrowing street each screenplay takes from proposal to script to monitor. In interviews with Hollywood screenwriters from around the board—Oscar winners and beginners alike—Cohen explores what units aside the blockbuster successes from the downright disasters.
Tracing the fortunes of twenty-five motion pictures, together with Troy, Erin Brockovich, misplaced in Translation, and The Aviator, Cohen deals insider entry to again plenty and boardrooms, to studio heads, administrators, and to the over-caffeinated screenwriters themselves. because the tale of every movie evolves from the planning stage to the large reveal, Cohen proves that how a script is written, bought, built, and filmed may be simply as dramatic and exciting because the motion picture itself—especially whilst the ensuing motion picture is a fiasco.
Covering motion pictures of all kinds—from tongue-in-cheek romps like John Waters's a filthy disgrace to Oscar winners like Monster's Ball and The Hours—Screen performs is an anecdote-filled, frequently inspiring, continuously revealing examine the alchemy of the motion picture enterprise. With Cohen as your professional advisor, monitor performs exposes how and why sure motion pictures (such as Gladiator) turn into "tent poles," these runaway successes each studio must continue to exist, and others develop into teach wrecks. filled with serious clues on tips on how to promote a script—and stay away from seeing it destroyed ahead of the director calls Action!—it's the only booklet each aspiring screenwriter will locate impossible to resist.
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077 See Espionage in Tangiers (1965) Man from Music Mountain See Texas Legionnaires (1943) Marcelino See The Miracle of Marcelino (1955) The Man From Nevada See The Nevadan (1950) Marcelino, Pan y Vino See The Miracle of Marcelino (1955) Masculin Feminin See Masculine Feminine (1966) Mask of Dust See Race for Life (1955) Mask of Fury See First Yank into Tokyo (1945) Mask of Satan See Black Sunday (1960) Alternate Titles Index 23 Massacre at Fort Holman See A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1973) Massacre Hill See Eureka Stockade (1949) Massacre Mafia Style See The Executioner (1978) Massa’ot James Be’eretz Hakodesh See James’ Journey to Jerusalem (2003) Master of Evil See The Demon Lover (1977) Master of Lassie See The Hills of Home (1948) Master of the Crimson Armor See The Promise (2005) Mat i Syn See Mother and Son (1997) Matango See Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) Matar al Abuelito See Killing Grandpa (1991) Mater Dolorosa See The Torture of Silence (1917) The Mating of the Sabine Women See The Rape of the Sabines (1961) Matir Moina See The Clay Bird (2002) Matka Joanna Od Aniolow See Mother Joan of the Angels (1960) Matt Riker See Mutant Hunt (1987) A Matter of Life and Death See Stairway to Heaven (1946) Mauri See Big Mo (1973) Mausoleum See One Dark Night (1982) Mauvais Genres See Transfixed (2001) Mauvaises Frequentations See Bad Company (1999) Mavri Emmanouella See Emmanuelle, the Queen (1979) Max, My Love See Max, Mon Amour (1986) Mayerling to Sarajevo See De Mayerling a Sarajevo (1940) Mekagojira No Gyakushu See Terror of Mechagodzilla (1978) Mikan No Taikyoku See The Go-Masters (1982) Mme.
The Aztec Mummy (1959) La Mort en Ce Jardin See Death in the Garden (1956) La Morte Vestita di Dollar See Dog Eat Dog (1964) La Morte Viene Dalla Spazio See The Day the Sky Exploded (1957) La Morte Vivante See The Living Dead Girl (1982) La Motocyclette See The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) La Muerte de un Burocrata See Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) La Muerte Viviente See The Snake People (1968) La nina de tus ojos See The Girl of Your Dreams (1999) La Nina Santa See Holy Girl (2004) La Historia Oficial See The Official Story (1985) La Nipote del Vampiro See Fangs of the Living Dead (1968) La Horriplante Bestia Humana See Night of the Bloody Apes (1968) La Noche de la Muerta Ciega See Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972) La Illusion Viaja en Tranvia See The Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1953) La Noche de los Mil Gatos See Night of a Thousand Cats (1972) La Invasion de Los Vampiros See Invasion of the Vampires (1961) La Noche de Walpurgis See The Werewolf vs.
The Aztec Mummy (1959) La Virgen de los Sicarios See Our Lady of the Assassins (2001) Las Vegas Strip War See The Vegas Strip Wars (1984) La Vita E Bella See Life Is Beautiful (1998) Lashou Shentan See Hard-Boiled (1992) LD 50 Lethal Dose See Lethal Dose (2003) Le Battement d’Ailes du Papillon See Happenstance (2000) Le Blonde de Pekin See The Peking Blond (1968) Le Bossu See On Guard! A. (1965) Last of the Cowboys See Great Smokey Roadblock (1976) The Last Outpost See Cavalry Charge (1951) The Last Page See Man Bait (1952) Last Resurrection See Haunted Symphony (1994) Le Coeur au Poing See Street Heart (1998) Le Comte de Monte Cristo See The Count of Monte Cristo (1999) Le Confessionnal See The Confessional (1995) Le Corniauds See The Sucker (1965) Le Cri du Hibou See The Cry of the Owl (1987) Le Crime de Monsieur Lange See The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) Le Danger Vient de l’Escape See The Day the Sky Exploded (1957) Le Declin De L’Empire Americain See The Decline of the American Empire (1986) Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe See Picnic on the Grass (1959) Le Dernier Metro See The Last Metro (1980) Le Diable au Corps See Devil in the Flesh (1946) Le Nouveau Monde See New World (1995) Legend in Leotards See Return of Captain Invincible (1983) Les Demoiselles de Rochefort See The Young Girls of Rochefort (1968) Le Diable, Probablement See The Devil, Probably (1977) Le Pacte des Loups See Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) Legend of Cougar Canyon See The Secret of Navajo Cave (1976) Les Demons See The Demons (1974) Le Diner de Cons See The Dinner Game (1998) Le Papillon See The Butterfly (2002) Le Pays Bleu See Blue Country (1977) The Legend of Gosta Berling See The Atonement of Gosta Berling (1924) Le Distrait See The Daydreamer (1975) Le Peau Douce See The Soft Skin (1964) Le Docteur Petiot See Dr.