HOW MUCH ARE STUDIOS PAYING FOR
                 SCRIPTS FROM FIRST-TIME WRITERS?

 

LATEST SALE!

Cindy Rosmus, a Hollywood Scriptwriting Institute Graduate, just sold her script entitled "Jury of Wives" to Fox Studios for $l50.000.

Edward Case, a Hollywood Scriptwriting Institute Graduate, just sold his script entitled "Alexander the Great" to LLP Productions for $30,000 plus $l50,000 upon release.

Ronnie Christensen sold his "Garden of Eden" script to Disney for $400,000 plus $150,000 upon production.

Gregg Shabot & Kevin Peterka (former milkman & bus driver) sold their script, "When Heros Go Down" for $100,000 plus $400,000 upon production.

Dominic Biondi sold her script, "Lost City" to Stephen Cannell for $200,000, plus $300,000 upon production.

Hollywood Pictures purchased "Bankroll," by Robinson Young, his first sale, for a low six-figure sum.

Paramount pictures paid $500,000, plus upon production, $200,000 for "Pathfinder," a script by first-timer George Nolfi.

Fox 2000 acquired "Air Speed," from first-time writer Cooper Layne, for a mid six-figure sum.
Universal Studios paid $300,000, plus upon production, $300,000 for "No Safe

"Haven" by first timers Drew Yanno and Tony Borghi.

Live Entertainment paid a low six figures against mid six figures for "Lunatic Fringe," by first-time writer Robert Franke.

Hollywood Pictures paid low six figures against a potential total $1,000,000 for "Rubicon," written by first-timer Eric Small.

The average cost of a studio motion picture today is $40 million dollars. If the writer is paid the signatory five percent, that totals $2 million dollars.