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Book details
  • Genre:SELF-HELP
  • SubGenre:Creativity
  • Language:English
  • Pages:206
  • eBook ISBN:9780989715218

Conquering Hollywood

The Screenwriter's Blueprint for Career Success

by Gary W. Goldstein

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Overview
There are over 1,094 books on Amazon that show you “how to write a screenplay”… but next-to-nothing on how to break into Hollywood, sell your script, and build a successful writing career. Until now. As a producer, Gary W. Goldstein’s movies have generated well over $1B in global box office receipts. His portfolio includes Pretty Woman, Under Siege, and The Mothman Prophecies. But more importantly — over the last two decades — Gary has nurtured, mentored and launched some of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters. In his book, Conquering Hollywood, he reveals proven career-making strategies, planning and advice for aspiring (and established) screenplay writers.
Description
There are over 1,094 books on Amazon that show you “how to write a screenplay”… but next-to-nothing on how to break into Hollywood, sell your script, and build a successful writing career. Until now. As a producer, Gary W. Goldstein’s movies have generated well over $1B in global box office receipts. His portfolio includes Pretty Woman, Under Siege, and The Mothman Prophecies. But more importantly — over the last two decades — Gary has nurtured, mentored and launched some of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters. In his book, Conquering Hollywood, he reveals proven career-making strategies, planning and advice for aspiring (and established) screenplay writers. The strategies in this book will help you whether you’re looking to sell a spec script, option your screenplay, land a writing assignment and get hired, attract an agent or manager of your dreams…or get a producer to take a meeting with you. If you select the ebook, we hope you enjoy this enhanced version containing 49 HD videos that expand upon and compliment the book's content and your experience as a reader.
About the author
Pretty Woman + Under Siege + The Mothman Prophecies... Gary W. Goldstein has produced some of Hollywood's biggest box-office hits, generating well over One Billion Dollars in worldwide revenue, receiving multiple Academy Award nominations, People's Choice Awards, a Golden Globe and other honors. Before moving to Los Angeles, Gary practiced as an attorney in San Francisco. He later served as president of two divisions of IAM.com, an internet entertainment company successfully funded at $50MM. Gary's passion as a storyteller goes beyond producing the work of gifted screenwriters. He's committed to sharing with everyone who desires real success and enduring careers as a creative professional his smart, simple strategies that magically transform talent into business success more rapidly and with greater ease. Gary's spoken at TEDx La Jolla, been published by the Huffington Post, and was a contributing author for the Napoleon Hill Foundation's newest publication "Stickability", as well as Harper Collin's "The Writer Got Screwed (but didn't have to)". Gary also regularly speaks to creative audiences and has given talks at American Film Institute, UCLA, Emerson College, De Anza College, the Dallas Screenwriters Association, the Great American Pitchfest and beyond. Gary makes this world a better place one person at a time by helping us to realize and achieve our life's meaning. You can spend years searching for pearls of wisdom... or hit the jackpot by spending a few moments with Gary. ~ Rachel Romano, Entrepreneur A champion of all who aspire to live their creative dreams, Gary inspires people to take charge of their lives, careers and well-being by adopting simple inside-out strategies that elevate confidence, effectively express your true passion and talent, give you an unfair advantage over your competition, and deliver the sort of results that are the stuff of happiness and reward. In keeping with the wisdom of a sage mentor, Gary's doing what he loves, in the service of others who love what he does.