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The Screenwriting Bible™

Sir William K. Coe™

SHOWCASE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Warner Center

21800 Oxnard St, Suite 150

Woodland Hills, CA 91367 U.S.A

818-715-7005

Fax: 818-715-7009

SPLENDID PICTURES

2980 N. Beverly Glen Circle, Suite 300

Bel Air, CA 90077

310-475-5900

Fax: 310-475-5901

STAG FILMS

1001 N. Sierra Bonita Ave.

West Hollywood, CA 90046

323-874-2769

Email: prod@stag-films.com

www.stag-films.com

STARWAY INTERNATIONAL

12021 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 661

Los Angeles, CA 90025 U.S.A

310-458-6202

Fax: 310-458-6102

STORM ENTERTAINMENT

127 Broadway, Suite 200

Santa Monica, CA 90401

310-656-2500

Fax: 310-656-2510

SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

1630 Stewart Street, Suite 120

Santa Monica, CA 90404 U.S.A

310-309-8400

Fax: 310-828-4132

STUDIOCANAL FRANCE

301 N. Canon Drive, Suite 207

Beverly Hills, CA 90210 U.S.A

310-247-0994

Fax: 310-247-0998

TAURUS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY

5831 Sunset Blvd.

Hollywood, CA 90028 U.S.A

323-860-0807

Fax: 323-860-0834

www.taurus-entertainment.com

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TOMORROW FILM CORPORATION

9250 Wilshire Blvd.

Beverly Hills, CA 90212 U.S.A

310-385-7900

Fax: 310-385-7990

TRI-HUGHES ENTERTAINMENT GROUP

11601 Wilshire Blvd. 5th Floor

Los Angeles CA 90025 U.S.A

310-235-1459

www.trihughes.com

TROMA ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

The Troma Building

733 Ninth Avenue

New York, NY 10019 U.S.A

212-757-4555

Fax: 212-399-9885

www.troma.com

USA FILMS

65 Bleecker Street, 2nd Floor

NY, NY 10012 U.S.A

212-539-4000

Fax: 212-539-4099

www.usafilms.com

VILLAGE ROADSHOW PICTURES INTL.

3400 Riverside Drive, Suite 900

Burbank, CA 91505 U.S.A

818-260-6000

Fax: 818-260-6001

www.village.com.au

VORTEX PICTURES

9420 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 250

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

310-278-1450

Fax: 310-278-0885

WALKING BEAR ENTERTAINMENT

284 Cross Country Loop

Westerville, OH 43081

614-899-3169

http://www.wbei.com

Email: postmaster@wbei.com

XEOLUX

1250 Sixth Street, Suite 305

Santa Monica, CA 90401 U.S.A

310-576-6383

Fax: 310-576-6384

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www.xeolux.com

Email: info@xeolux.com

Production Companies:

Columbia Pictures

10202 W. Washington Blvd.

Culver City, CA 90232-3195

310-244-4000

http://www.spe.sony.com

Dreamworks SKG

1000 Flower Street

Glendale, CA 91201

818-695-5000

http://www.dreamworks.com

Fox Searchlight

10201 W. Pico Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90035

310-369-2359

Hollywood Pictures

500 S. Buena Vista St.

Burbank, CA 91521

818-560-1000

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

10250 Constellation Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90067

310-449-3000

http://www.mgm.com

Miramax Films

c/o Tribeca Film Center

375 Greenwich Street

New York, NY 10013-2338

8439 Sunset Blvd.

West Hollywood, CA 90069-1921

323-822-4200

http://www.miramax.com

New Line Cinema

116 N. Robertson Blvd., St.. 200

Los Angeles, CA 90048

310-854-5811

http://www.newline.com

Paramount Pictures

5555 Melrose Ave.

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Los Angeles, CA 90038

323-956-5000

http://www.paramount.com

RKO Pictures

1875 Century Park East, St.. 2140

Los Angeles, CA 90067

310-277-0707

Twentieth Century Fox

10201 W. Pico Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90035

310-369-1000

http://www.fox.com

Universal Pictures

100 Universal City Plaza

Universal City, Ca 91608-1085

818-777-1000

http://www.universalpictures.com

Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone

500 S Buena Vista St.

Burbank, CA 91521-0001

818-560-1000

http://www.disney.com

Warner Brothers Pictures

4000 Warner Blvd.

Burbank, CA 91522-0001

818-954-6000

http://www.warnerbros.com

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Common Forms You’ll Encounter

Release Form:

DATE:________________________

Dear ______________________________,

I am submitting to you the following material

(hereafter referred to as "The Material")

TITLE: ________________________________________________

FORM OF MATERIAL: ____________________________________

(e.g. screenplay, treatment, outline)

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS: _________________________________

________________________________________________________

BRIEF SUMMARY OF PLOT: ________________________________

________________________________________________________

WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA REGISTRATION # ________________

I am submitting to you herewith certain written material (the

"Material")

identified above.

I recognize that your files are replete with ideas and stories for

theatrical motion pictures and television programs, and that new

ideas for motion pictures and television programs are constantly

being submitted to you or being developed by you. I also recognize

that many stories and ideas are similar and often different stories

and ideas relate to one or more common underlying themes.

In consideration of the foregoing and your agreeing to accept and

review the Material, I agree to the following:

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I acknowledge that the Material was created and written by me

without any suggestion or request from you that I write or create the

Material.

You agree that you will not use the Material or any part thereof unless

you either:

enter into an agreement with me granting you the right to use the

Material or determine in good faith that you have the independent

legal right without my consent to use all or any part of (or any

features

or elements in the Material either because (i) I do not own or control

such Material or such features or elements, or (ii) the Material or

features or elements used by you and claimed by me to be the Material

or embodied in the Material is in the public domain, is not new or

novel, is not legally protected or protectable, or was independently

developed by you or obtained by you from other sources including

your own employees.

I hereby acknowledge and agree as follows:

a.I warrant that I am the sole owner and author of the above

described material and that I have the full right and authorization to

submit the material to you.

b.I agree that any part of the submitted material which is not novel

original and not legally Protected may be used by you without any

liability on your part to me and that nothing herein shall place you

in any different position with respect to such non-novel or

non-original material by reason hereof.

c.You shall not be under any obligation to me with respect to the

submitted material except as may later be set forth in a fully

executed written agreement between us.

d.I realize that you may have had access to and/or may have

independently created or have had created ideas, themes, formats

and/or other materials which may be similar to the theme, plot, idea,

format or other element of the material now being submitted by me and

I agree that I will not be entitled to any compensation by reason of

the use by you of such similar material.

I have retained a copy of the Material and agree that you shall not be

obligated to return the Material to me, and I release you from all

liability

if the Material is lost, misplaced, stolen or destroyed.

I acknowledge that you are under no obligation to use the Material in

any manner. I further represent and warrant that the material is

original

with me, that I am the author and sole and exclusive owner of the

Material and of all rights in and to the Material, and that I have full

power and authority to submit the Material to you on the foregoing

terms

and conditions, each and all of which shall be binding on me, my

agents,

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heirs, successors, licensees and assigns.

Signed: _____________________________________

(Your Signature)

[If co-authored, co-author should sign too:_____________________]

Received by:__________________________________

Date Received:________________

Life Rights Contract:

This is a sample of the contract you might use if someone agrees to let

you write a script involving their true story.

I, ________________, hereby irrevocably consent and agree that you,

________________, and your successors, licensees, and assigns in

perpetuity and throughout the universe have the right to use,

fictionalize, and/or exploit in whole or in part my life story, my

name, likeness, poses, statements, writings, photographs, anecdotes,

acts, appearances, and voices. I understand and agree that you may

portray me and my life story in any manner and by any actor/actors,

under my name or any other name. I hereby waive any objection that I

may have that your use of such material may be defamatory, constitute

an invasion of privacy, or otherwise violate any right which I may have

in connection with such material. I hereby waive any right to bring

and prosecute an action for defamation, invasion of privacy, right of

publicity, or any similar action, whether my life story is used by you

or your successors, licensees, or assigns.

You will have the right to add to, subtract from, arrange, alter, and

revise my life story and all materials relating thereto in any manner

and to combine such materials with materials relating thereto in any

manner and hereby waive any rights of "droit moral" that you may have

in my life story. All rights, licenses, and privileges granted to you

shall be cumulative, and you may exercise or use any of said rights,

licenses, and privileges separately from, simultaneously with, or in

connection with any other such rights, licenses, and privileges.

I grant you and your successors, licensees, and assigns in perpetuity

and throughout the universe all motion picture rights (including,

without limitation, all silent, sound, dialogue, talking, and musical

motion picture rights), all television rights, remake and sequel

rights, novelization rights, and all allied, ancillary, corollary

rights, subsidiary, merchandising rights including, without limitation,

videocassette, videodisk, soundtrack interactive, online which may be

produced in any and all media, now known or devised in the future in

any and all languages, and any and all other rights pertaining thereto,

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and the right to exploit the aforesaid rights in any manner and by all

means, whether now known or hereafter devised.

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:

___________________________

Signature

___________________________

Name

___________________________

Date

__________________________________

Signature

___________________________________

Name

___________________________________

Date

Screenplay Option Contract:

___________________________

Title of screenplay

___________________________

Author

___________________________

Producer

This letter, when signed and dated by you, ________________, and

returned by mail to me, _________________, will confirm the agreement

between you and I regarding any and all motion picture, television,

broadcast, home video, remake, sequel, CD-Rom and all other computer-

assisted forms of media, merchandising, allied, subsidiary and

ancillary rights now known or hereafter invented throughout the

universe and in any and all languages (exclusive of book publishing) to

the screenplay written by you called _____________________________.

OPTION

In return for $______, development services and other valuable

consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, you hereby

grant me the exclusive option to purchase the Rights to the screenplay

for an exclusive period of ___ months from the date of my receipt of

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this signed contract. It is also agreed that the option may be

automatically extended without any additional consideration at the end

of ___ months for an additional ___ days by giving notice if there are

negotiations with a buyer in order to conclude negotiations. The

option may be extended on the same terms for an additional ___ months

upon mutual written consent.

If the property is set up with a production company, the option may be

automatically extended for a period of ___ months upon notice and

payment to you of $_________. Thereafter, the option may be extended

for an additional ___ months upon notice and payment to you of $_______.

PURCHASE PRICE

1. Theatrical Motion Picture

If the initial release is a theatrical motion picture, the purchase

price is __% of the "direct approved budget" (i.e. excluding legal,

interest, contingency, overhead, and completion guarantees) with a

floor of $__________ and a ceiling of $___________.

2. Television Movie

Network: If the initial release is a television movie for a U.S.

network (ABC, CBS, NBC, FBN) the purchase price is $___________.

Cable: If the initial release is a television movie for a cable or

non-network broadcast, the purchase price is $______________.

3. Sequels, Prequels, Spinoffs

50% of original.

4. Remakes

33 1/3% of original

5. Television series

For a U.S. broadcast network (ABC, NBC, CBS, FBN) prime time series,

payments will be $_______ per produced episode of up to 30 minutes;

$________ per produced episode up to 60 minutes; $___________ over 60

minutes.

For a series on any other broadcast or cable entity, payments will be

$_______ up to 30 minutes; $_________ up to 60 minutes; $_________ over

60 minutes.

WRITING SERVICES

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And additional writing services shall be paid according to appropriate

WGA minimums.

PROFIT PARTICIPATION

___% of 100% of net profits from all sources to ____________(Production

Company.)

You warrant that you, ____________, have (a_ exclusive 100% ownership

of the Rights free and clear of any claim, right, adverse interest or

encumbrance and (b) the authority and unencumbered right to enter into

this Agreement and grant the Rights to me.

Until such time as we execute a more detailed document incorporating

these and other provisions standard for such agreements in the

entertainment industry, this will constitute an agreement binding on

____________ and ____________ and their respective successors, assigns,

heirs, and legal representatives. ____________ (Producer) shall

consult with you or your representative regarding the assignment of the

Agreement but shall have at her sole discretion the right to assign

this Agreement or any of her rights hereunder, but no such assignment

shall relieve her of her obligations hereunder unless the assignee

assumes all such obligations in writing.

This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding between us with

respect to the subject matter hereof and no modification of this

Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing executed by us

both. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to create or constitute

a partnership between or joint venture by us. This Agreement shall be

construed in accordance with the laws of the State of _________

applicable to contracts negotiated, executed, and to be wholly

performed within said state. Reference to _______________(producer)

shall include ________________(production company) and conversely.

ACCEPTED AND AGREED:

_____________________________

Name

_____________________________

Date

_____________________________

Name

_____________________________

Date

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