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Rom-Coms have slowly fallen out of grace with Hollywood. As the scripts got worse and more formulaic, audiences grew tired of them — and so did actors.

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Screenwriting contests have become the ultimate way to penetrate those thick studio walls.

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The truth is, Hollywood has a tendency to treat female protagonists as second-class citizens. The majority of female characters are still mothers, girlfriends, wives. or the “means well” secretary/assistant to the male hero.

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Hans Gruber would prove to be one of the most beloved movie villains of all time. His sleek hair, his overly groomed mustache and goatee, his five-thousand dollar suit, and his small notebook are just a few of the token images we remember from this mastermind.

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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

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You have to ask yourself what kind of show you’d like to create and where you see that type of show debuting.

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My first memory of childhood was of a gold-plated, metallic, humanoid figure walking through barren sand dunes with the seemingly endless skeleton of an unknown, but gigantic, creature in the background.

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What can we learn from Jedi masters, a scoundrel turned hero, alien beings, droids, a farm boy from the desert planet of tatooine, a princess, and beyond?

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Luck is an integral part of success in Hollywood, or often anywhere in life. But we don’t have to be a slave to it. We don’t have to sit by the phone, waiting for it to call.

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As screenwriters venture deeper and deeper into the waters of movie studio development offices, agencies, and management companies — after years of trying to break through and finally seeing some attention — it’s imperative that they are prepared for the meetings, the conversations, the emails, and more important, the terminology.