May 2011
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Amazon Studios Announces $175,000 in Test Movie...
Amazon Studios, an online movie development process, today announced $175,000 in April awards: Best Test Movie ($100,000 to Dead Forever), Best Drawn Storyboard ($25,000 to Myth of a Modern Man), Best Dialogue Track (Evolver) and two Best Script Awards ($20,000 to The Nevsky Prospect and Sky Pirates). Guest judges included writer/director Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3), Endeavor...
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Shane Black Spills "The Big Secret" of...
Writer/director Shane Black, an action hero to screenwriters everywhere, served as a guest judge for the Amazon Studios April awards — and took some time to answer a few questions (and dodge a few about Iron Man 3).
Shane Black’s voice, so deliberate and enunciated, takes on a conspiratorial tone. I hold my breath. “Here’s what people don’t know,” he says. “Here’s the big secret.” It’s not about...
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Amazon Studios Feedback Update: More Scripts, New...
Amazon Studios has added another round of script feedback to the site, providing our Story Department’s take on how to make strong stories even stronger. It’s an informal process, completely separate from contests, but one that we hope Amazon Studios participants will consider a helpful part of our development process.
Of course, it’s up to the writers what they choose to do with that feedback. It...
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An Amazon Studios $100,000 Winner On How He Did It...
Gary Milin has been writing ever since he can remember. “I still have a collection of stories I wrote as a kid. I think my earliest is from the first grade,” he said. “But it wasn’t until I was in university that I became interested in screenwriting. And for the past 10 years now, I’ve been writing full-time in order to master my craft. I’ve studied screenwriting at university and read tons of...
