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When my writing partner, John Chriss, and I finished writing our thriller western feature, Echoes of War, we felt really…
Legend has it (okay, well, actually it was the Los Angeles Times) that Joe Eszterhas once sold a script written on…
As you probably know, finishing (or finding) a script is only the beginning of any moviemaker’s odyssey from page to…