Writing Movies for Fun and Profit
How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!
by Thomas Lennon
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Screenplay, Screenwriting, and Most Recommended Books.
This is the only screenwriting guide by two guys who have actually done it (instead of some schmuck who just gives lectures about screenwriting at the airport Marriott); These guys are proof that with no training and little education, ANYONE can make it as a screenwriter (Paul Rudd).Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennons movies have made over a billi...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Screenplay, Screenwriting, and Most Recommended Books.
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Anna Kendrick
“Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, is hilarious, but more than that, it’s insanely accurate — right down to what your parking assignment when visiting a studio really means.”
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