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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 12:28 pm Post subject: Amazon to Crowdsource Hollywood Movies with Launch of Studio |
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Amazon.com launched Amazon Studios, a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full-length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made.
Amazon Studios will offer a total of $2.7 million to the top submissions received by December 31, 2011, and will seek to develop the top Amazon Studio projects as commercial feature films under its first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.
Writers are invited to add scripts, and filmmakers are invited to add full-length test movies to Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios has produced five test movie samples, in different styles and genres, which can be found on its Getting Started page.
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elgato
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| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Amazon to Crowdsource Hollywood Movies with Launch of St |
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"Why Amazon studios is Bad for Wannabe Screenwriters"
Entering the production side of the movie industry, Amazon launched Amazon Studios, which offers writers and filmmakers a potential way to break into the industry by offering up their work to Amazon for exclusive, 18-month contracts. Once the work is the property of Amazon, it competes in contracts, is subject to rewriting and can potentially turn into a real movie one day.
A piece by Drew on HitFix cautions writers to avoid submitting to the program, arguing that it victimizes frustrated creative types by dangling a potential easy path to success while locking their work down.
Drew writes:
“Line after line of the legalese on these pages just confounds me. "You agree to be automatically entered into any future contests for which your work is eligible. The specific contest rules for future contests will be posted on this page when they are announced." And considering one of the rules of this contest grants Amazon Studios a free 18-month option on your work the moment you upload it, the idea that they can enter you in a contest later and tell you the rules after they do so seems positively batty.
The "development agreement" is a contract you're signing, not an entry form for a contest, and in it, you grant them a free option on your work for a year and a half, and if they do end up producing your work, there's a set fee. Period. That's all it is. A set rate. The same no matter what the project is, and no matter what happens with it. That is, simply put, immoral."
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ArthurIhde
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