Ed Riches

Top Scribes Reap Pic Rewrite Riches

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

Once upon a time, the ultimate Hollywood ambition was to direct. Nowadays, clients are more likely to tell their reps: “What I really want to do is polish scripts." For Hollywood's dozen or so top-tier script doctors, that means commanding $250,000- $300,000 a week, being booked months in advance and keeping their efforts largely cloaked in anonymity. Script rewrites have been part of the filmmaking process since the days when Irving Thalberg kept a stable of scribes competing for his ...
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