In a perfect world, it would be nice if a sympathetic producer or studio made produced scripts available for viewing on their website for a nominal fee, or none at all — they could simply allow access to users who provided certain personal information and agreed to an electronic statement of terms and conditions of use.

I’d like to extend a personal thanks to Sheridan for the service he provided to all of us fans of the screenplay form, as a labor of love. Your passion and work is appreciated.

This site has been a good friend to me for the last couple of years.  Thanks, Sheridan.

Thanks also to Lee Thomson for the ‘Breaking Bad’ scripts (and many others).

If I post again I hope to be less angry and so make more sense.

http://www.wga.org/subpage_writersresources.aspx?id=119

http://horrorscreenplays.blogspot.com/

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

You’re exactly right, and in my opinion allowing screenplays like Die Hard, etc. to remain on the internet in various forms unchallenged for 15+ years means they have already forfeited their copyright. A mad legal scramble at the one-yard line doesn’t change that.

As per your request, I’ll contact some of my buddies to see if they have rights to their works and are willing to have you post them.

Hang in there… 

Kudos to you for staying astride that mother-effer for as long as you have.  Respect. 

Even if the site just went dark today, you’ve already done a great service to screenwriters and other interested parties by making sure that most of these scripts have been distributed.  Although it’s not nearly as convenient as having everything under one roof, anybody with enough determination and ingenuity should be able to find a copy of any script that was on here somewhere out there. 

As it stands, I certainly understand and respect your new policies moving forward.  It may seem like tilting at windmills to shake your fist and say “They’re not getting any more of my money!”, but hey, it has to start somewhere.  Voting with our wallets is about the only recourse we have left.

And you know what? I totally support your choice to restrict the scripts available to those you’ve been given permission to post, rather than continuing to allow yourself to be – let’s face it – bullied. Who the hell can be bothered with that s**t?

I hope that with this new approach, you can start to once again actually enjoy running this site, which has always been an enormously valuable resource.

Not only that but I have been able to work with several independent studios on other scripts of mine, all thanks to learning the craft from the scripts you so generously posted – for this very reason!

I look forward to seeing your new direction, and wish you all the best.

First and most importantly, studios don’t understand how the internet works and don’t believe in Fair Use. To them, every person on the internet is automatically guilty of piracy. 
Secondly, they believe that because they are in the business of sell intellectual properties, they should charge the consumer money for any and all of them. Even properties that are forty years old, out of print and nearly forgotten, and that have no commercial value to them whatsoever. Lawsuits are one of the ways they do this.And finally studios justify their actions by saying that the law requires them to challenge every instance of copyright violation. If they don’t, then they argue that technically they have forfeited that copyright.

Idiots…

I got a very important question on an project for school that I have been searching on the web for a long time. So the question is that how do Special effect artists work with the public? Please write back as soon as possible.

Michael Vang

I agree: “it never equaled anything that had already come
before it.”  I think Steve Carell is hilarious,
some of the time.  He brought a lot to
this character but it was too “over-the-top” and the script was flat and “too
quirky.”  I did enjoy it for the ending though,
which my HD from DISH made those mice look amazing, and it was quite
touching.  I was impressed as an employee
of DISH when the made it to two-hundred HD channels, and now I only watch in
HD.  HBO is showing this movie, and I
watched it twice.  The second time was
better than the first.

Does the husband even appear in the movie? I don’t remember seeing him in the first 20 minutes. In the first 20 minutes instead we have countless reminders she needs money, the shark kills her mentor (? I think … no one died in the opening scene of the script) she talks in two different languages I guess to show she is bilingual even though it has nothing to do with the story. The first 20 minutes were all about how loved Berry’s character is and how beautiful and kind she is. There is ZERO drama. This movie was TERRIBLE going off first 20 minutes. Example of a good script gone wrong on its trip to the (deservedly) small screen.

Jaime Marques: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0549954/

Nicolas Casariego: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143006/

Of course, that doesn´t mean, automatically, this screenplay is good or bad… But…