DVD Reviews

The DVDs which appear here, have all been reviewed in depth in various issues of movieScope Magazine. To purchase any of these titles, please visit our fulfilment partner, The Screenwriter’s Store.

Dreams on Spec

Most of us are familiar with the miserable statistics when it comes to screenwriting: that of the approximately 50,000 scripts that are registered yearly with the WGA alone, only a few hundred are actually produced; So the question remains, what does drive people to write the large number of scripts that come into existence on a yearly basis?

THE DIALOGUE SERIES:
Interviews with Screenwriters

STUART BEATTIE (COLLATERAL, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN)
MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ (BLOOD DIAMOND, THE LAST SAMURAI, GLORY)
NICK KAZAN (AT CLOSE RANGE, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE)
SHELDON TURNER (THE LONGEST YARD)
SCOTT ROSENBERG (CON AIR, HIGH FIDELITY)
SUSANNAH GRANT (ERIN BROCKOVICH)
ALEX KURTZMAN AND ROBERTO ORCI (ALIAS, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III)
SIMON KINBERG (MR. & MRS. SMITH)

These title and 19 more including Paul Haggis, Jim Uhls, Ted Griffin, Paul Attanasio, Billy Ray, Ed Solomon, Robin Swicord, Jeff Nathanson, Bruce Joel Rubin, David Seltzer, Nia Vardalos, John hamburg, Callie Khouri, Jose Rivera, David Goyer and Ganz and Mandel, all available From:

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