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How to Sell Your Script to a Studio

You've completed your script and you want to see it produced. More importantly, you want to sell it so it can be made by a movie studio. Approach individual producers and production companies -- many of whom have deals with a certain studio -- to accomplish this task, as the gates to studio personnel are basically locked shut to newcomers. These producers and production companies often make certain genres or kinds of movies, allowing you to better target your script with a specific company, who then packages your script with name actors and sells it to the studio.

Things You'll Need

  • Query letter
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Instructions

    • 1

      Write a compelling logline for your script. A logline is a one- or two-sentence description of your script's story, intriguing enough to hook a reader into wanting to read your full script.

    • 2

      Write a query letter, which is a one-page letter that includes the script's logline, as well as pertinent professional or personal information about yourself and a solicitation to send the complete script to the company or individual.

    • 3

      Research and locate production companies that have done movies similar to your script. Also target the production companies of actors you feel fit the starring roles available in your script. Use online resources that charge a fee for access to the business information of companies and individuals.

    • 4

      Choose companies with deals at specific studios, if you want to target specific studios. Identify the company's director of development or story editor, and that person's email address, or the company's mailing address.

    • 5

      Use online resources. Contact producers online that have made movies similar to your script, and who have social media pages, concerning your script. Also, create your own online blog, heralding your script and yourself.

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      Tailor your query letter to the specific companies you target. Address the letter to the specific individual, and not just to the company, or the actor or producer over the company.

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      Email or snail mail your query letter to the business address of the company's director of development or story editor.

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      Send the script to the company, according to the company's preferences for receiving it, after you receive confirmation they wish to read it.

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      Follow up with a phone call or email, approximately two weeks later, and inquire about if someone has read your script yet, as well as its status. Do this if you have not heard back from the company, and they did not inform you of a timetable about when you would hear from them.

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