Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!

This isthe only screenwriting guide by two guys who have actually done it (instead of some schmuck who just gives lectures about screenwriting at the airport Marriott); These guys are proof that with no training and little education, ANYONE can make it as a screenwriter (Paul Rudd).Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennons movies have made over a billion dollars at the box officeand 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. Wellmaybe not the best of them, but certainly the most successful. (If youre aiming to win an Oscar, this is not the book for you!) But if you can type a little, and can read and speak Englishthen you too can start turning your words into stacks of money!This is the only screenwriting book you will ever need (because all other ones pretty much suck). In these pages, Garant and Lennon provide the kind of priceless tips you wont find anywhere else, including:The art of pitchingGetting your foot in the doorTaking notes from movie starsHow to get fired and rehiredHow to get credit and royalties!And most important: what to buy with the huge piles of money youre going to make!Writing Movies for Fun and Profit will take you through the highs and lows of life as a professional screenwriter. From the highs of hugging Gisele Bndchen and getting kung fu punched by Jackie Chan to the soulcrushing lows of Herbie: Fully Loaded.Read this book and youll have everything you need to make your first billion the oldfashioned wayby selling out in show business!A portion of the authors proceeds from this book are being contributed to the USO of Metropolitan Washington, a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving active duty military members and their families in the greater Washington, DC, region.