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screenplay treatments

What’s the difference between a screenplay synopsis and a screenplay treatment

July 21, 2010

I got this question recently: “I’m a little confused. Say you have the Hollywood Creative Directory and have only the fax and address of a given company. Do you fax the query and treatment or just the query by itself? And if you use use snail mail, do you send the query and treatment? What [...]

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Will you read my screenplay treatment

January 27, 2010

I got this questions recently: “As someone who’s not in the screenwriting business but thinks he has a “great” idea for a movie screenplay, I was wondering if you’d be willing to read my treatment for a movie I’ve had swimming around my head for 15 years? The treatment is 10 pages long but what [...]

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Selling a screenplay pitch or treatment

June 22, 2009

I’ve never sold a screenplay treatment or pitch so I may not be the best person to ask about this.  While I know this does happen it’s usually established writers who make these sorts of sales because the only people buying pitches and treatments are established producers and studio executives – and they’ll usually only [...]

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