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Academy Award ®-nominated writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio want to share with you what they know about writing a script that will sell.

With 52 to-the-point columns about screenwriting, you can spend less time reading and more time working on your script.

After you've read them all. That is.

There is even an option to have them emailed to you. There simply is no excuse not to read them.

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New Online Screenwriting Tool

I just came across a new website that promises online screen writing functionality. It promises to make collaboration easier. I haven't used it myself, but it looks like it might be something I try in the future.

From the about page:

The advantages of web-based applications are obvious - no software to install, no updates to keep track of, easy portability, and automatic off-site backup of data. Screenwriting, in particular, enjoys significant benefits from this architecture. By hosting the software online, we are able to offer easy and intuitive collaborative features. Users can work privately as they do today, collaborate with a few friends, or even collaborate with the entire web community. We automatically manage revision history and maintain a record of authorship. Also, by offering a web-based application, we can easily reach a diverse population of writers and build a dynamic community that is not possible with traditional screenwriting applications.

zhura.com

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Internet Movie Script Database

Perhaps trying to latch onto the success of IMdB, the Internet Movie Script Database contains many scripts to popular films and television shows. All of the scripts are html webpages. I'd much prefer to be able to download them in a PDF format like the other scripts I've linked to in past posts, but free is fine with me.

The site's disclaimer claims fair use rights for posting these scripts. For more information you can read the "Fair Use" section from U.S. Copyright law.

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Download John August's Scripts

This page contains .pdf versions of various projects I’ve written over the years. The best way to learn screenwriting is read a bunch of scripts, so these are intended for educational purposes only.

Reading screenplays written by seasoned professionals can really help a amateur out. From my own experience, one of the hardest things a beginning screenwriter faces is finding a way to accurately describe what he sees in his mind on paper.

John August has generously uploaded the final shooting scripts for Go and Big Fish. There are also film story outlines and television pilot scripts.

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Brick: Shooting Script & Novella

Brick writer/Director Rian Johnson has placed the shooting script (with footnotes) and the novella he wrote before the script on his website. Johnson said that when he began writing the story he didn't know how to format a script. The footnotes reveal more about adapting the script to the screen.

Check out Brick on imdb or the official movie website.

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