Max- This script appears to have been written for you!
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Max was terrific in the part. It appeared that the script was written  for him!!
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What kind of blurb is that??!!  It just doesn't say much does it.....well let me tell you!  M.J. is roped into taking a job in San Francisco where she will be doing readings on items that people think are haunted or possessed.  The kicker is she will be filmed with an audience and working with three other psychics.  The one thing I didn't mention is how Gilley, M.J.'s best friend, signed her up for it without asking her first!!  After a lot of yelling and arm twisting, M.J. finally comes to terms with having to do this job, even though she has never heard of any of these "psychics" that the show has procured.

So, we are off to a great start, right?  LOL!  Poor M.J.  Man, was she pissed at Gilley, and so was I!!  Gosh, Gilley even talked to Steven, aka Dr. Delicious, about it first, wth?  To dig the hole even deeper, the show's producer, Gopher, has arranged for the filming to take place at one of the most haunted hotels in America, The Duke, as well as being their accomodations, bahahaha.........ooooh, Gilley is dead meat!

When the trio arrives at the Duke, M.J. is already slapped in the face with her first ghost bust/crossover job.  The woman can't even check in without being bombarded!  This is how she is introduced to Detective Ayden MacDonald.  He turns out to be very open minded about M.J. abilities, and a crucial asset in the end.  After Gilley and Steven get them all checked in, M.J. is off to a Meet 'n Greet with the show's producer and other psychics that will be on the show.  The intros to the others were not good, as she meets Angelica DeMarche, Bernard Higgins and Heath Whitefeather.  They are discussing the woman M.J. encountered when arriving at the hotel and how she came to her untimely death.  M.J. knew right off the bat that Angelica and Bernard were phonies.  Heath seemed to be the only true psychic amongst them, along with M.J., and she was hoping to not get paired with the other two during filming.

The story takes on a whole new life when a dagger appears on the table during filming with no one to claim it.  The whole atmosphere turns sour, and the true ghost busting begins!  Let me just say how utterly upset I was with Gilley!  He basically forced M.J.'s hand to take this job, and she was really against it!  Then for him to NOT get it when she tried to explain to him how bad this could end up for her and their business!  I was just screaming in my head, DENSE MUCH?  Why aren't you understanding her!!  This feeling of angst between them went on for most of the book, pretty much every time something horrible happened.  Gilley was totally at fault, and he did not deserve any slack about it!  I truly hope that he learned his lesson and doesn't pull this stunt again in future books, or he will permanently stay on my black list!  Then, there is poor Steven.  He only wants to help the business, but he's also torn with wanting M.J. to be safe, so he does see both sides, and right when things get dangerous, he has to go back to Boston for a lecture he is scheduled for.  This little trip was only supposed to be over a weekend and turned into a week-long nightmare.

Heath and M.J. team up with Gil and Gopher to ghost bust the whole damn hotel and to face the most dangerous entity any of them has ever encountered!  The in-depth story behind it all was such jaw-dropping genius that  I never saw things coming, and it had me on edge until the end!  M.J. always has something new and scary she discovers, and that it is what keeps me going with this series.  Not once in the four books that I've read so far have I felt, oh, we been there, done that!  This book opens up a whole new chapter for M.J., and I can't wait to get started with her on the next one :)
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Script-reading, admittedly, is an acquired taste/skill, but I picked up a copy of "33 Variations" with the intent of providing aid/insight to an actor-friend of mine prepare for his upcoming role.  I also downloaded the music itself to listen along to the musical accompaniments as they are cued in the script.  A long, rainy afternoon was the setting...and I was enchanted.  Admittedly, my friend's involvement, my LOVE of Beethoven and some parallels with Katherine's issues has favorably weighted my opinion, but...this is ART we're talking about, so a wholly-objective assessment is impossible.  Show opens next month and I know I'll have to see it at least twice!
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Chris Soth delivers again!  His latest Mini Movie Method book is extremely helpful for novices and more experienced writers as well.  Breaking up a script into 15 minute segments makes the completion of a quality screenplay all the more manageable.  Chris' MMM has been invaluable to me as a writer and I can't wait to read the next in his series.
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Max has this tribal schtick figured out. If you die hards want Sepultura or Nailbomb then dust off those old CDs! This is a new band with a new objective. This release is a nice balance of heavy in-yer-face tracks like the title track, Execution Style and Defeat U, a Portuguese native named Porrada, and a great tribute to Helmut in their fine cover of In The Meantime. Soulfly breathes on with new members and Max's growing fan base.
Keep in mind, those "bouncy simple 4 string ESP Viper riffs" are self proclaimed as Max admittedly rips off the other two strings since he isn't very good at guitar. No prob - give me a scream MAX!
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Okay, this is a must have! Read it. Loved it! Wow, talk about a guy who gives you the guts and confidence to write, call or befriend, an agent, producer or studio executive and say, "Gotta minute? Let me pitch you my latest script!" Save the Cat by Blake Synder has practical, no-crap wisdom. It's interesting, fun and insightful. Synder invites you into his realm, especially when it comes to Hollywood and what works, and most importantly, what sells! I laughed a lot, too. Synder's excitement is contagious and his screenwriting structure, "The Cat-method", helped me tremendously. I was completely motivated and creatively inspired. Synder's professional sense and clarity make it The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need. Because the guy is for you and when I was done with the book, I knew I'd be a success. Now that's something to write about!
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If you've seen the film enoughto be fiarly familiar with it's structure and narrative,this script will be a revelation. As stated in the title,this is a "shooting script",the original version submitted to the producers at the onset of the film's production,before the actors and director started fiddling with it. There are many,many scenes and passages here that greatly clarify the direction of the story and provide crucial motivations and psychological subtexts that you may miss in the completed film. However,scriptwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaczewski provide insight into this in the fantastic forward to the script,in the process giving a fascinating glimse into all the labirynthine exigencies involved in getting an original spark of insiration into the multiplex. They explain the step-by-step process of telling Kaufman's story-what to put in,what to leave out,how to handle certain aspects of his life,shaping the messy,complicated,and open-ended events of his career into something resembling a coherent,three-act drama. Ultimately,they decided-wisely-to treat the film as Andy would have,to let his art and performances define the film,just as they defined his life,and to use a constantly shifting base of perspective to keep the audience on thier toes,a brilliantly executed exercise in what-is-real and what-isn't. If you loved the film,this script provides an essential companion that will give you a new appreciation for it,but even if you're not particularly fond of it,or even Andy Kaufman hiomself,this is still a fascinating look at the creative process,and how it holds up throughout the production of a film. Highly recommended.
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Simple safe heroic script.  The writers enhance our concern for the three US Paratroopers by inserting key flashbacks that effected each of their lives.  Predictably this all plays out in the final battle scene.  Even a German soldier finds redemption.  Beware ladies!  Have your supply of tears ready!  Produced with a low budget and reenactors there is a feel of the quality of a bigger picture. Makes for a good rental!
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Three, Volume 2" gives us episodes 7-12 from the senior year at Sunnydale High School for Buffy and the Scoobies.  This is the eighth volume of scripts available to date, the rest dealing with the previous two seasons and the "Once More With Feeling" musical episode of "BtVS."  The attraction here for those who are trying to carrying on now Joss Whedon's legions of fans are down to watching "Angel" and waiting for Buffy to make a guest appearance is that these are the shooting scripts for these six episodes.  You can look for typos and other mistooks that they failed to corrupt, but the attraction is getting dialogue and even full scenes that were cut before the final version was broadcast on the WB (the idea of deleted scenes out there is as maddening as the smell of fresh blood would be to newly risen vamp).  I used to suggest that you could read along with these scripts while you watched the episodes on DVD, but I think most of us know the episodes so well by now that we can easily pick up on what was added, omitted or alterred in the final aired version (e.g., the tree sellers in "Amends," p. 216).  Still, you have to admit it is a lot easier to read the script this way than going frame by frame when one of them is available on the DVDs.  But even when there are not changes you get Joss Whedon's wacky stage directions, a type of humor that has obviously rubbed off on some of the other writers as well (e.g., "Anya looks deeply perplexed," page 165).
Included in this second volume of Season Three scripts are: "Revelations" by Douglas Petrie, "Lovers Walk" by Dan Vebber, "The Wish" by Marti Noxon, "Amends" by Joss Whedon, "Gingerbread" by Jane Espenson (story by Espenson and Thania St. John), and "Helpless" (previously "18") by David Fury.  These half-dozen episodes bring us up to the point where Giles is fired by the Watcher's Council, which means in Volume 3 we will see means the next volume (which should have the next five episodes) will begin Faith's slide toward becoming a rouge slayer.  Interesting to note that "Amends" which was the episode submitted by Whedon for Emmy consideration from Season Three, and "Helpless," are both entirely "WHITE" shooting drafts: no revisions as in no "BLUE" pages, no "PINK" pages (I know, you cannot tell by the color of the pages in this book, but they are labeled at the top so you can see what was revised and hazard your guesses as to why).  This latest volume reaffirms that "BtVS" was rich series where every script has a few choice morsels on which we can subsist while we wallow in despair that the show is now part of cult television history.
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From a blog post about recent reads-
[...]

Maybe this is a cheat, because the author, a WNY-bred and Buffalo-living LJ friend of mine, glamberson, made clear that it was only a novella.  His post about it also explained that it was a diverted screenplay- one which he'd not managed to secure funds and filming rights on the historical site to bring to a screen, but which seemed right to him to bring to a Kindle as his first electronic-only self-pub.

Dude? Ya done good.

I've never been to Lily Dale, but I know from it. One of my earliest law-clerking ventures in law school back in the early 1980s, for the father attorney of a college friend, was to help brief an obscure Religious Corporation Law issue about the Spiritualist Assembly that runs seances and other psychic things in the county an hour to the south of here. So when a powerful Fundie from three centuries earlier starts haunting and (maybe?) killing in that community in the present day, I had to pay attention.

We meet that spectre- along with a cast of dozens from the spiritual grounds; several Mulder-Scullyish FBI agents; and a pair of Chautauqua County sheriffs' deputies who are right out of Twin Peaks down to the pie. They're fun, and scary (but not too), and the work reaches a nice denouement in about an hour if you're doing your cardio right.
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There are those who believe that a movie critic is usually someone who wouldn't know how to make a movie if his or her life depended on it. I won't argue this point, but I do know that at the core of the process there is writing, which I do know something about. A movie script contains two kinds of writing and is usually composed in two columns. One column is the dialog, while the other contains notes about the setting, the tone and the actors' body language. Some scripts that a studio buys contain a great story but lousy writing. This has created a whole other profession, that of the script doctor. After watching The Skulls, I thought to myself, "Is there a doctor in the house?"
The Skulls is about a secret society that has existed for decades in an Ivy League university. They never say which school it supposed to be, but since the letter 'Y' is seen several times, I suppose it's Yale. The alumni of this society are very rich and very powerful. To be selected to join it means that one has a leg up in life.
Luke McNamara [Joshua Jackson] is a student from the lower middle class who is working his way through college. This is a stock character in such movies and is written to evoke sympathy in the audience, which is presumed to care less about the ins and outs of rich kids. Luke needs a lot of money to get through law school. The Skulls, he thinks, would be of great benefit to him. When he is chosen he is thrilled, but it doesn't take long for him to find out that there is now a barrier between him and his best friends, Caleb and Chloe [Hill Harper and Leslie Bibb]. When a grisly murder occurs in the society's mansion, Luke discovers he could lose a lot more than just his friends.
This brings us back to the writing, which is so bad that it makes The Skulls enjoyable in a way no one intended it to be. It is one of those movies that make us laugh in all the wrong places. This is the kind of entertainment we watch in morbid fascination, gleefully hoping it gets even worse. In this, The Skulls does not disappoint. There is, for example, an initiation scene in which the new recruits are literally branded on the wrist. They are each then given a new Rolex watch to wear, I guess because this is a secret society. Give us a break! The dialog is so silly that it is impossible to tell if any of the young actors can act or not. Paul Walker, who plays Caleb Mandrake, has a lot of pained expressions on his face, but I can't say for certain if these looks pertain to the lines he is forced to utter.
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For a book written by a cat :) Nice job. At some point, Max's human might enlighten us on the frustration regarding the Air Force. Obviously a very good writer - would like to know more.
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NO JOKE TO THE ABOVE TITLE.  If you are currently writing a screenplay and have not read this book...STOP!!!...BUY!!!...READ!!!  If you are currently throwing some ideas/concepts around in your head before sitting down to write that Oscar Winner...STOP!!!...BUY!!!...READ!!!  If you are SERIOUS about writing a screenplay that works, is competitive in Hollywood, and doesn't get thrown in the trash straight away...STOP!!!...BUY!!!...READ!!!  And even for the most seasoned Professional Screenwriter...Adam knows what is currently HOT...what is NOT...and what SELLS.  A MUST READ for every screenwriter who wants to get their screenplay noticed and recognized by TOP INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS who have the power to turn your well-written words into reality. ~Rita  /  ~Chad
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I have always been a fan of reading scripts, now that I've become a writer I wanted to see the other side. I write in deep 3rd POV and was trying to learn how to write more as if you were in a film. I found this gem of a book which blew me away. Carson Reeves knocked it out of the ballpark for me. His explanations were clear and concise. His actual film comparisons were on point. But what I enjoyed more was how he created a snapshot of the films "Scene Agitator Alerts", "Backstory Alerts", Show Don't Tell Alerts" & "Irony Alerts" these topics were invaluable to connect the dots and cross the t's. Yes, he created this book for screenwriters but honestly, we are all storytellers and this book is filled with nuances & powerful observations to help develop greater stories for all genres and mediums. Hope to see some more from this astute author.
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I need to remind my self that just because J.K. Rawlings wrote it doesn't mean that I will like.  This is my first & last screen play, I prefer a story written in book form.  The previews for the movie look awesome, looking forward to seeing it.
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Great job you two. I enjoyed that thoroughly. I would suggest the addition of some scenes from the movie that you reference throughout, but, Im sure that means licensing, red tape and other headaches. I'll watch again, but, this time I'll watch along with the movie. :) Thanks for sharing!
Shudddup Ralphie!! lol
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God, is this pathetic!  Found footage meets overacting meets a script written by a third grader.  The concept is a solid concept but, buddy, raise a few more bucks and do it right.