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How do I sell my life to Hollywood?
7 secrets to selling your TV show and movie ideas to Hollywood, according to a successful producer
- Find a void in the marketplace.
- Find ways to make your idea appeal to the biggest demographic.
- Keep your pitch simple.
- Know your buyer.
- Partner with someone with experience, but not just anyone.
- Great!
How do I sell my story to a publisher?
Use These Secrets To Sell Your Book Idea To Publishers
- Consider self-publishing first. Ian Balina is a self-published author with sights on the top six publishers for his next book.
- Develop thought leadership.
- Step up your social media game.
- Put them together.
How do you get a book turned into a movie?
Getting a book turned into a movie is not easy. In fact, it’s nearly impossible. If you don’t want to read all of this, try our Book To Movie Services to get started. What a good screenwriter will do is take your story and make it work as a movie screenplay.
What do you need to start making a movie?
For a start, you need nothing but a script. Many services offer other stuff like a synopsis, but basically, if your script doesn’t grab anyone on the first page, forget it. A proper screenplay is usually around 100 pages long, with one minute of screen time per page.
How to choose a story to be dramatized?
As you will always see, it is never just about an event. It’s always about the person. Identify the protagonist (Hero, or main character) from whose point of view the story is told. This is perhaps the most important choice when adapting a story to be dramatized.
How much does it cost to sell a movie idea?
Best case scenario here is you sell your movie idea and make maybe $50K. That really isn’t that much money and no one has a career in Hollywood as an “idea” person just making their living coming up with great ideas.