Ask the Pros Screenwriting: 101 Questions Answered by Industry Professionals

Final Draft Presents Ask the Pros: Screenwriting answers the questions screenwriters have been yearning to have answered, from formatting to dealmaking. This book addresses every screenwriter question and problem head on, many with multiple answers that offer a range of approaches and perspectives from multiple areas of the film and television world.
Final Draft and the editors have been able to interview the top studio and television executives, literary agents, managers, script consultants, producers, produced screenwriters and distinguished screenwriting authors to answer the important questions on the minds of screenwriters today. Professionals from ICM, UTA, Writers & Artists Group International, DreamWorks, MGM, Paramount and many more take the time to stop and answer your questions. Experts will tell the reader what's right and what's wrong with a screenplay - and offer ways to fix it.

This book is the result of countless questions that Final Draft users have been asking us throughout the years. Questions like "How do I get started in the business?", "What do I do when I finish my screenplay?", "Do I need an agent and how do I get one?" We went straight to the Hollywood pros in our database for answers to many questions. Final Draft screenwriting software is more than the industry-standard software that Hollywood uses to write its film and television scripts. We have made it into a community, one that each and every Final Draft user is a part of. A unique community, of highly imaginative writers, that everything and everyone in film and television needs as an integral part of the Big Picture. It all starts with the script, baby. There are no studios without us. There are no power lunches and fancy tailored suits without us. We at Final Draft remain dedicated to the writer. It has been my long-standing goal to right a wrong in Hollywood: the tradition that thewriter is the bottom of the totem pole. Our aim in ‘asking the pros’ was to show the writer, in an entertaining way, how to have a refreshing and invigorating swim in these shark-infested waters. Come on in, the water’s fine.

Marc Madnick, Founder and President, Final Draft, Inc.