Selling a Screenplay: The Screenwriter's Guide to Hollywood

by Syd Field

Book Overview

This ultimate insider's guide to selling a screenplay shows you how to crack open today's movie and television markets. "An informative, engaging look at the inside of the dream factory. This is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440502446
• ISBN13: 9780440502449
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.7" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Promoting Your Screenplay

Syd Field's advice, as always, is excellent.I certainly intend to follow his suggestions, when the time arrives to promote my screenplay. All of his textbooks are intensely readable, which says alot for his writing skills. The dishes pile up, the bed doesn't get made, because I can't put the damn thing down. Nough said?

Helpful if your serious about screenwriting

This is a concise straight forward guide to everything from packaging your screenplay to getting and dealing with Agents. I have read so many books on this subject, but this one was well worth it.

Syd Field CAN!

I really can't understand the reviewer from Hollywood who says Syd Field can't. He CAN! And luckily for us he DOES! Syd Field is a creative consultant of many years standing who works on more than one thousand scripts per year and knows the industry inside and out--better than anyone now writing books on screenwriting! In this book, Syd shares his wealth of knowledge with us about how Hollywood works. Exactly how it works. And you have to know if you want to make it in this tough, competitive field. I've learned more from Syd's books than from all the other books on screenwriting combined. You can't go wrong with Syd, believe me! Thanks!

If you want to know how HOLLYWOOD WORKS !

At first, I thought this was a book about the nuts and bolts of selling your screenplay. Boy, was I delightfully mistaken. This book shows me how the process works that enables you to sell your screenplay. For that, it's absolutely wonderful!! I never knew how buyers buy and sellers sell. Now, that I understand the process, I can taylor my own scripts to the real world, not some phoney intelluctual garbage about what "the market is."I have other books of Syd Field's and I find them useful, inspiring and knowledgeable. I've even bought his video and find it extremely valuable and encouraging.

Doesn't QUITE tell you HOW to SELL your script....

Field is an amiable interlocutor, getting copious bon mots from the requisite titans of the film industry -- and they'll tell you WHAT they're "LOOKING FOR" ... but not WHERE to LOCATE THEM WHEN they are LOOKING.No list of agents, no "these-are-the-steps-you-must-follow-in-submitting-a-script" to ______ or _______ or _______.It seems that even if "follow all his (genuinely good and accurate, I'm sure) advice" and even if you have the world's best-script in your hands, say, 1 year after having read this book -- you STILL won't KNOW what to DO with it, nor if or how you may get an agent with it, or a meeting, or a sale, or ... anything ....An initially inspiring, but ultimately, pretty frustrating read ....