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Screenwriter Clark Ransom (ProSeries 20) has signed to co-write a screenplay with producer David Marchetti of Orange Universe Films. Currently titled “Sugar Wars,” this new project is an animated comedy. The two recently completed a dark comedy project entitled “ReaperVille” that Orange Universe will be marketing it at the American Film Market (AFM) in November.

About the movie THE SOCIAL NETWORK "We started at 100 miles an hour in the middle of a conversation, and that makes the audience have to run to catch up. The worst crime you can commit with an audience is telling them something they already know. We were always running ahead." Aaron Sorkin – The Social

Los Angeles, CA, September 20, 2011 – ScreenwritingU, an award-winning, Los Angeles-based company that provides professional online screenwriting classes and assistance with selling a screenplay, is pleased to announce it has licensed Chris Soth’s Mini-Movie Method. With ScreenwritingU’s newsletter subscribers, clients, and social networking sites, the company keeps in regular contact with 100,000 screenwriters, making

Screenwriter/producer A.J. Ferrara (ProSeries 19) recently signed director Steven R. Monroe (I Spit On Your Grave) to direct the film A NOBLE LIE.   See press release. Monroe directed It Waits, released by Sony Worldwide, and among his other credits, he has directed five TV movies for the SyFy channel. In 2010 he completed the much-anticipated

Screenwriter Don Macnab-Stark (ProSeries 6) has been hired by Camanol Film Productions Limited to write the script “Dangerous Days.” The director is Kirsten Cavendish (Scooterman) and producers include Michael Deeley (Blade Runner; The Italian Job; The Deerhunter) and David Wicht (The Last House on the Left, Starship Troopers 3). Based on true events, “Dangerous Days”

Steven R. Monroe signed on to direct A Noble Lie, a film that Los Angeles-based production/management company Little Studio Films has put on the development fast track. The film is being co-produced with screenwriter/producer A J Ferrara’s Magic City Pictures. Monroe directed It Waits, released by Sony Worldwide, and among his other credits, he has

"I have been involved with Screenwriting U since early 2008. At the time I was a writer with a lot of concepts swimming around in my head but zero idea on what it took to be successful in the business. I started with Hal and Cheryl Croasmun's Pro series class – a six month crash

Here is a partial list of ScreenwritingU's accomplishments and accolades. Script Magazine Script Magazine listed us as #1 in their upcoming issue in an article titled “Top 9 Online Screenwriting Courses, Plus One.”   You can see it in the July/August 2010 issue that has already been sent out to their online subscribers and will soon

Screenwriter Frances Presley (ProSeries 32) has signed with Beverly Hills Manager Bettina Viviano. And this happened with her first script.   Frances achieved this success after two important milestones — optioning book rights, and writing the screenplay in the ScreenwritingU ProSeries. Representing some top Hollywood writers, Producer/Manager Bettina Viviano of Accelerate Entertainment has also spoken