Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Twilight Zone: The Trunk (TV script)
Willie Gardner, the manager of a run-down hotel, has suffered many indignities in his life. But when he stumbles upon an old steamer trunk that seems to respond to his every wish, will his life change for the better -- or get a lot worse?Digital Fabulists presents the complete TV teleplay from the 1980s revival of Rod Serling's classic series The Twilight Zone.Packed with special features: ● Complete and unabridged script, newly edited and formatted ● New introduction by the original authors ● Rare behind-the-scenes production photos ● Biographies of the authors ● Full-color cover created especially for this new editionA must-have for all fans of The Twilight Zone, screenwriters and aspiring screenwriters who want to read a produced teleplay,and any readers who want to go behind the scenes ... in The Twilight Zone!..
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Monday, May 30, 2011
CHECKMATE (A Screenplay)
FOUR PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A BAG WORTH 200 MILLION DOLLARSThe Crown Jewels are stolen from the Tower of London by US Navy Intelligence officer and master thief John Thaddeus. Working for notorious crime boss, Artimis Cote, Thaddeus is instructed to smuggle the jewels back to New York where they’ll be fenced. Thaddeus unobtrusively boards the USS Raven with the jewels concealed in a Samsonite case. Unfortunately, Thaddeus’ simple plan is blown to smithereens when the Raven collides with a minesweeper off of Greenland. He’s forced to abandon ship with the jewels and survive at sea. After being rescued by a Canadian fishing boat, Thaddeus kills the crew and makes his way to Canada and back into the United States. Veteran Scotland Yard detective Raleigh Macleod and rookie FBI agent Kelly Stokes begin a worldwide manhunt to find the jewels and bring Thaddeus and Cote to justice. Their unrelenting pursuit takes them across the globe in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.EXT. LOND..
Vieux Carre
Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact.The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love--both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, and education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in ..
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
THE HISTORY BOYS. THE FILM
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!
Finally, a guide to screenwriting by two guys who have actually done it (instead of some schmuck who just gives lectures about screenwriting at the airport Marriott). Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon’s movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office—and now they show you how to do it yourself! This book is full of secret insider information about how to conquer the Hollywood studio system: how to write, pitch, structure, and get drunk with the best of them. Well . . . maybe not the best of them, but certainly the most successful of them. (If you’re aiming to win an Oscar, this is not the book for you!) But if you can type a little, and can read and speak English—then you too can start turning your words into $TACK$ OF MONEY! This is the only screenwriting book you will ever need because all the other ones pretty much suck. In these pages, Garant and Lennon provide the kind of priceless tips you won’t find anywhere else, including: • THE ART OF PITCHING • GETT..
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
The Twilight Zone: Stranger in Possum Meadows (TV script)
Danny's new friend seems perfect, almost otherwordly -- and that's exactly why Danny should think twice about trusting him.Digital Fabulists presents the complete TV teleplay from the 1980s revival of Rod Serling's classic series The Twilight Zone.Packed with special features: ● Complete and unabridged script, newly edited and formatted ● New introduction by the original authors ● Rare behind-the-scenes production photos ● Biographies of the authors ● Full-color cover created especially for this new editionA must-have for all fans of The Twilight Zone, screenwriters and aspiring screenwriters who want to read a produced teleplay,and any readers who want to go behind the scenes ... in The Twilight Zone!..
Where The Cypresses Danced In Air
Elaine Bank's new life begins in her attorney's office at the closing of her new home after her divorce is finalized. As a successful realtor, she is able to afford for her daughter and herself a beautiful new home in an upper middleclass town with her live in nanny. As she settles into her new life, she is thrown into the politics of her daughter's school while trying to compete in her ever changing highly competitive luxury real-estate office. With many new challenges, Elaine starts to realize that the hard economic times has affected her and her coworker's business and getting qualified clients has become increasingly more difficult. A new influx of management and new recruits has tilted the balance of availability of leads and opportunities in the office that she once enjoyed being a part of. Along the way, Elaine meets the very successful and charming Michael Mason. Michael is established in the financial world and newly divorced himself. The instant attraction between Elaine and ..
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Doctor Who: The Audio Scripts Volume Two
Since 1999, Big Finish Productions has produced the official audio adventures of Doctor Who. This book presents the original scripts for four of Big Finish’s most popular audio plays. This collection includes The Eye of the Scorpion, The One Doctor, Dust Breeding, and Seasons of Fear. Each book also includes exclusive interviews, rehearsal scripts, annotated scenes, notes from the director, and more...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Plays from African Tales: East, West And South Africa (Plays from Asian Tales Series) (v. 1)
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Doctor Who: The Audio Scripts Volume Four (v. 4)
Since 1999, Big Finish Productions has produced the official audio adventures of Doctor Who. This book presents the original scripts for four of Big Finish’s most popular audio plays. This collection includes the scripts from Omega, Davros, Master, and Zagreus. Each book also includes exclusive interviews, rehearsal scripts, annotated scenes, notes from the director, and more...
Talking Heads 2
Characterized by the author's understatement, observation and knowing irony, these six Alan Bennett monologues were written for the second BBC1 series of "Talking Heads", the first having been transmitted 11 years earlier, in 1987...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series (Translated and Illustrated)
This book has unique illustrations that were uniquely produced especially for this special edition.PLAYS BY ANTON CHEKHOVSECOND SERIESTranslated, with an Introduction, by Julius WestCONTENTSINTRODUCTIONON THE HIGH ROADTHE PROPOSALTHE WEDDINGTHE BEARA TRAGEDIAN IN SPITE OF HIMSELFTHE ANNIVERSARYTHE THREE SISTERSTHE CHERRY ORCHARDINTRODUCTIONThe last few years have seen a large and generally unsystematicmass of translations from the Russian flung at the heads and heartsof English readers. The ready acceptance of Chekhov has been one ofthe few successful features of this irresponsible output. He hasbeen welcomed by British critics with something like affection.Bernard Shaw has several times remarked: "Every time I see a playby Chekhov, I want to chuck all my own stuff into the fire."Others, having no such valuable property to sacrifice on the altarof Chekhov, have not hesitated to place him side by side withIbsen, and the other established institutions of the new theatre.For these reasons..
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Tempest (Shakespeare Library Classic)
The Tempest is a Comedy written by English playwright William Shakespeare, who is widely considered to be the greatest writer of the English language. The Tempest is a play about a sorcerer, Prospero and the Duke of Milan, who lives with his daughter Miranda on an island. Prospero confronts those that have usurped his throne, including his brother Alonso. The Tempest is an important work of William Shakespeares, and is highly recommended for fans of his works as well as those discovering his plays for the first time...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Power Your Screenwriting Structure Workouts
How do you orchestrate your story into a dynamic, unified whole, with intensely dramatic shaping of all the elements that create a screenplay the industry can’t resist? How do you write action lines that leap off the page and make your script ‘breathe’? How do you write the shots without using camera angle directions?Follow the manuals, trying to squeeze your unique story into a rigid straitjacket called the ‘3-Act Structure’ designed to be universally applied to all scripts is not much help if you’re aiming to write outstanding screenplays that are wholly original and have market potential. Few of the great screenplays follow the so-called ‘rules’ about screenwriting structure. The secret of shaping your script into a story that keeps your audience spell-bound from beginning to end and beyond, is to find ways to keep everything in your story breathing. Treat your screenplay as though it is a beating heart, a dynamic movement of tension and release and the story starts ..
Piano
This is the screenplay of the film starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. Ada, together with her nine-year-old illegitimate daughter Flora, and her piano, leave Scotland to arrive in the remote bush of 19th-century New Zealand for a marriage arranged by her father...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
So You Think Your Life's A Movie? - Ten Steps To A Script That Sells
This book is a combination how-to for screenwriters and a memoir of a woman's journey to becoming a working writer in Hollywood. It is vital instruction for writers of all genres who want to learn to get to story fast. Filled with stories from the show biz trenches, it educates as well as entertains...
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