It's a very hard time to be a writer in Hollywood, especially over the last decade. The studios have been making fewer and fewer movies since the early 2000s. As soon as they found out tentpoles would give them a larger return, they began to phase out the mid-budget movies that dominated the 80s and 90s and took shots directed at intellectual property and sequels. Fewer movies meant less work. If you were a writer breaking into Hollywood, the idea was you'd write a spec that might sell and be made, then get hired for a few studio projects and make a name for yourself with your hard work. But that quickly changed. Now people were writing great specs that would become samples. You write a few of them in hopes of one being made, or one would be so good that you get hired to write or rewrite something based on someone else's intellectual property. Do enough of those, hopefully for WGA signatories, and you might get into the WGA or get a shot at a studio gig. That's where the sweepstakes or bake-off pitch comes in. What are they? Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 1 October, 2020