How do you get Hollywood to recognize your screenwriting?
409489
I know with acting you need a agent. But I think it's like music. You send them a copy.
710967
There are only two ways that I know of that are effective: the best is via an intermediary who knows the performer or his/her agent personally. The other is a letter to the editor in a major newspaper or magazine. The performer's press agent will see it and may or may not pass the information on.\n\nThese days it might be possible to leverage a blog or YouTube to get your point across. But I don't know how.
480125
Why not indeed? Maybe they just havn't found a good enough script but somehow i doubt it, get writing to the studios, as a consumer this is what you want to see.
1010120
You need a screen writer.  But first you need more than some special effects...come up with a beginning of your story and what you want to happen at the end.  The screen writer can help with the middle.  Go to guru.com to find a screen writer.  Or go to the Screen Writers Federation of America.  You also need to join one of these associations and submit your story idea and get it logged in.  Try clickandcopyright.com also.   And yes as soon as you have something concrete seek legal counsel....Good Luck!
424224
find an agency, look in the phone book. make sure that they are a member of SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and they will not charge you. anyone that is legitimate wont at least. they will get something like 15% to 20% of what you make on each gig. you will have to go on casting calls and do not get discouraged, it will take a lot of them before you get a gig, usually. Good Luck.
278747
You had better start taping who your doing and sending it in as an audition. Of course you will have to do the director and some of his friends too.
96489
A good friend of mine recently became a movie star.  She seems to talk to a lot more movie stars now that she's in the biz.  Maybe you should become a movie star, too!!!
1040953
You can try WGA (Writers Guild of America) and try to find some writers. Go to www.wga.org for more information or you can post an ad at some website if your looking for screenwriters.
878135
Almost everyone in Hollywood starts in the mailroom.  It could be an agency or a studio but that's how you make the connections to get other jobs.  The only other way is to know someone.
804271
The Addams Family (1991)\nAnswer = Orion Pictures\n\nScreenPlay, Inc. \nMarc Shaiman ASCAP\n\nBarry Sonnenfeld Director\nSonnenfeld got his first work as a director from Orion Pictures on The Addams Family (1991), a box-office success released in November 1991. \nhttp://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001756/bio\n\n\nThe Writers Guild of America\nThe Writers Guild of America (WGA) has a well-defined process for determining credits on projects produced under its jurisdiction. These productions are generally USA-controlled live-action film and TV projects, produced either by studios or major independent producers. In 1999, the WGA began furnishing credits directly to IMDb. The absence of the WGA indicator on earlier credits should not be construed as a sign of unofficial status, merely a sign of age. \n\nIn general, the credits determination process works as follows: \n\nWhen the film is finished shooting, the producer sends a notice to the guild and the writers proposing the writing credits. If any writer disagrees with those credits, or if the proposed credits require mandatory arbitration (e.g., a producer or director sharing a writing credit), a WGA arbitration committee reads all drafts of the script and various supporting materials and determines the actual/official credits. \n\nIf there is no source material (novel, play, article, etc.) and the same writers receive credit for both the story and screenplay, the credit is "written by". \n\nThe "story by" credit is used when the basic narrative structure was originally written with intent to be used for a movie (as opposed to a short story) and the actual screenplay had different authors. A shared "story by" credit is the minimum awarded to the author of an original screenplay. \n\nIf there was previously existing source material but the writer creates a substantially new and different story from the source, then the "screen story" (or "television story") credit is used. \n\nFinally, the "screenplay by" (or "teleplay by") credit is used to denote the screenplay (teleplay) authorship if the story credit had to be separated as above. \n\nIn rare cases, "adaptation by" can be awarded to a writer who shapes the script without qualifying for one of the above credits. \n\nThere are other specialized credits used for television programs such as documentaries and audience participation shows. \n\nWithin each of these categories, members of a writing team are joined by "&"; teams or writers working on separate drafts are joined by "and". \n\nThe IMDb will not accept uncredited writers for titles with WGA-determined credits. \n\nThe WGA is also on the world wide web. Their address is http://www.wga.org/ for those west of the Mississippi, and http://www.wgaeast.org/ for those East.
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ahhahaha\n\nwell umm, sell your fiction to publishers\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=list+of+publishers&btnG=Google+Search\n\nor you can try to promote it yourself at lulu.com\n\n\nif your writing is worth any salt, and becomes famous, then only then will it become a movie.\n\n\nplenty of tragic lives though
514274
One thing you can do to guarantee not getting ripped off, is whats called a "poor man's copyright". This is how you do it. First, make a copy of your script, outline, storyboard etc., whatever you have. Put the original in a shipping envelope (the manila colored ones with padding work best), now, take it to the mailbox, and mail it to yourself, honestly, the post office will do this. They will take the letter, process it, in processing they will stamp it with their location, and the date, then when it comes back to you, DO NOT OPEN IT, literally leave it closed, forever, but keep it safe. The reason being, if someone steals your idea, the "poor mans copyright" will hold up in court if the date is visible (and before the other person says they made theirs), and the envelope is unopened, that way they know it was not tampered with in any way. This is a great help to struggling writers who dont have the money to spend on copyrighting their ideas.
835524
Make sure that you write up the idea and then have it dated and notorized and copyrighted. Then you would need an agent or be really agressive to pitch it to a network. They will wan to you to have experience etc, but if you are aggressive enough someone may listen. you want to try and pitch to the development department.
396415
um... a friend of mine gave some advice on getting noticed as a writer once that was 'ass to the chair.'  it's a very similar philosophy.  play your asses off.  get gigs, any gigs.  if you're any good or you get better it will lead to better gigs.  then someday, after a lot of hard work and dedication you'll get noticed.  unless of course you're totally freakin awesome right off the bat... which is an oddity.
303994
get a new agent\n\nor become a better actor
518126
You probably mean copyright rather than patent.  You can simply add copyright information to the cover (and header or footer of the document if you wish) which offers some protection.  To add a few more teeth to the copyright you may choose to register it with the US Copyright office ( more info here: http://www.copyright.gov )\n\nYou may find additional resources for screenwriters around the web.  There is a collection of such resources here: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Writers_Resources/Screenwriting/\n\nBest of luck
36560
Most major studios and TV channels all have a website and I imagine you can do it from there, just look them up on a search engine.  But I wouldn't bother sending them a script, it will just get tossed in the garbage or the e-mail deleted.  Best way to go about doing that is first get a lawyer and copywrite it then get an agent and let them try to sell it.  Most get thousands of scripts a year by mail and all of them get junked.