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Sometimes we get asked how to break into the film industry without any connections. It can be a long, frustrating, but mostly fun road. Everyone has their own path. This was ours.
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We're still pinching ourselves with this news... Adam Driver will be the star of the next film we're directing for Sony. He's one of our favorite artists on the planet. Can't wait to share this special movie with all of you.
Adam Driver To Star In Sony’s Sci-Fi Thriller ’65’ From Sam Raimi And ‘A Quiet Place’ Writers
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It's never too late to start a film career. We created this spreadsheet as young filmmakers when our careers were stalling out, to help us sleep at night and realize this is a marathon, not a sprint.
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Three years ago, before Paramount bought the spec script for
#AQuietPlace
and months before John & Emily came aboard, we created a visual look book to help sell the studio. A few fun discrepancies here from the final film. Also note our push for practical creature fx, ala ALIEN.
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This script we wrote 8 yrs ago is a good case study of what usually happens when you try to sell a spec. Everyone passes. Some pass right away. Some pass before reading. Some think about it and still pass. Write what you love to write. Enjoy the process. That's the fun part.
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Adam Driver. Sam Raimi. A Mysterious Planet. Watch the trailer for our new film 65, exclusively in theaters March 2023.
#65movie
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Indiana Jones exists b/c Spielberg wasn't allowed to direct a James Bond movie. Star Wars exists b/c Lucas couldn't do Flash Gordon. They had to dig deep. Create something new. In an age when everything is a remake/sequel/adaption - filmmakers must fight for original ideas too.
'A Quiet Place' Writers Met with Lucasfilm About 'Star Wars' & 'Indiana Jones' [Exclusive]
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We wrote over 30 screenplays before selling one professionally. Every early script was challenging & painful. Each one ended in disappointment. But we didn’t stop writing because it’s a joy to create. No matter the outcome. The work is always the reward.
#NationalScreenwritersDay
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Dear Struggling Writer,
Today you hate your writing. It may even be as bad as page 8 from our 2001 script YEARBOOK. But if you keep your head down, do the work, page after page, 21 years later - you'll realize people don't say each other's name after every sentence.
#keepwriting
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Five years ago today, we were kicking around loglines in order to submit A QUIET PLACE to producers. Writing loglines requires a talent we clearly don’t possess. But we're so grateful for the life this film has had and hope everyone enjoys
#AQuietPlace
Part II this weekend.
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Wow, can’t believe HAUNT was released 3 years ago today! Thanks for keeping our little film alive during the Halloween season. We’ve got some exciting Haunt surprises coming this fall. Which do you want first - TRICK or TREAT?
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Wow. Over 6.5 million trailer views in one day. We are blown away by the response. Thanks for keeping the spec script dream alive.
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Movie theaters are essential for bringing cinema and community together - which is why we are excited to announce we are building our own theater THE LAST PICTURE HOUSE in our Iowa hometown to enlighten, entertain, and engage new audiences in 2023!
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Dear Struggling Writer,
Today you hate your writing. It might even be as bad as page 29 from our 2002 script LOST/FOUND. But if you keep your head down, do the work, page after page, 19 years later - you might still hate your work. But we will LOVE it.
#keepwriting
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Our first film took 4 years to make. It opened on 10 screens to bad reviews. On the last day of its release, we drove to CityWalk to watch & commiserate. When we got to the ticket booth, AMC told us they pulled it to accommodate overflow of FURIOUS 7. We laughed. Then went home.
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That’s a wrap on
@65Movie
. Getting to make a movie is incredible, but forming a film family is even better. We are feeling grateful, exhilarated, and sixty-five years older.
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Our next film
@65Movie
starring Adam Driver is coming to theaters everywhere on May 13, 2022. As movie lovers, there’s nothing more sacred to us than the theatrical experience. Who’s seeing
#AQuietPlace
Part II on the big screen next week?
Scott Beck & Bryan Woods’ mysterious sci-fi thriller film ‘65’, starring Adam Driver, will release on May 13, 2022.
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Three years ago today, a studio film we were supposed to direct fell apart after working on it for ages. It was going to be our big break. We were devastated. Meanwhile, we were 25 pages deep on a spec called A QUIET PLACE which no one was asking for... except for our loved ones.
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As DGA members we are considering voting NO for the first time ever. The “historic gains” barely keep up with inflation. And theres more to gain on important issues like AI which is not only a threat to all workers, but to human purpose. Curious to explore how others are feeling.
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You might be the next Spielberg but don’t have representation. Don’t approach Spielberg’s agent. Approach the assistant to the assistant of Spielberg’s agent. Don’t approach his producer. Approach an intern. Someone who needs you as much as you need them. Rise together over time.
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Never thought in a million years
#AQuietPlace
would be the start of a franchise. Makes us feel two things 1) grateful audiences are hungry for more 2) never forget the power of original ideas. Support films like
#TheFarewell
#Crawl
#Yesterday
#Midsommar
We're lucky to have them!
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Sometimes we get asked how to break into the film industry without any connections. Here’s how we did it...
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Dear Struggling Writer,
Today you hate your writing. It might even be as bad as page 25 from our 2002 script LOST/FOUND. But if you keep your head down, do the work, page after page, 18 years later - you might still hate your work. But we will LOVE it.
#keepwriting
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Seeing
#Unbreakable
two decades ago was life changing.
@MNightShyamalan
has built a career taking big swings on original ideas inside a system that only plays it safe. We need him now more than ever. As lifelong fans (with the ticket stubs to prove it) we are so hyped for
#Glass
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Just think. There's a filmmaker out there whose first films got eviscerated by critics but they're about to follow them up with something iconic.
#dontstop
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Lucas pitched STAR WARS in the wake of five Oscar noms for GRAFFITI and every studio passed. Years later when he showed a rough cut to Scorsese, De Palma, etc, they thought the movie sucked. Nobody knows what‘s going to be a phenomenon. Not even when it’s their job to know.
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A year ago, we penned an article for
@indiewire
on paving our own path by writing a silly idea called A QUIET PLACE on spec. The film industry leads you down a thousand blind alleys. But the single best road to take is your own.
#AQuietPlace
: How Two Indie Filmmakers Accidentally Wrote a Studio Film for Emily Blunt and John Krasinski
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Had dinner with Paul Schrader. He pitched us his next film and we nodded in awe. We then declined to pitch ours out of embarrassment. He disapproved & said screenwriting comes from an oral tradition rather than literary. “If you can’t tell it, you don’t have it.” 😳
#masterclass
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There’s nothing more important than the opening page of your
#screenplay
. It’s the first and sometimes last opportunity to catch the reader’s attention. Here’s a few page
#1
’s from our collection. What are some of yours?
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The work you don’t get paid for paves the road to becoming a professional. Each
#screenplay
on this list was a crucial part of our journey. We wrote dozens of bad scripts (with these embarrassing titles to prove it) before making a living in film.
#DontStop
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Dear Struggling Writer,
Today you hate your writing. It might even be as bad as page 6 from our 1998 script THE SLEEPOVER. But if you keep your head down, do the work, page after page, 20 years later - you might still hate your work. But we will LOVE it.
#keepwriting
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Early in our career when times were tight we got jobs at AMC in addition to our day jobs. We didnt know we were months away from a big script sale. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you cant be an artist & have a day job. The work we did & people we met made the
#writing
better.
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Our new film HERETIC will be released by
@A24
in theaters everywhere November 15, 2024. As movie lovers and cinema owners, there's nothing more sacred to us than the theatrical experience. Very excited to see you at the movies this fall!
It's been an emotional year. Lost a father. Lost some friends. Some hardship, some disappointment. Did something we've been threatening to do for years. Put all of our pain and fear into something deeply personal. Just typed "The End" on our next script.
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#DearMeTenYearsAgo
Yesterday CAA, ICM, & Gersh passed on representing you. Today you got rejected from Nicholl Fellowship & Sundance Lab. And you're staring at the below email from a producer you admired who couldn't get past 20 pages of your script. DON'T STOP WRITING!
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Just dug up the MAGNOLIA script, which is one of the first we ever bought. This script told us anything is possible. Want a dazzling 12 page intro? Done. Want a 6 page monologue? Done. Want to break into a musical medley? Done. Remember: there are no limits to the written word.
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A24. Hugh Grant. And Blueberry Pie. We hope HERETIC will make you question everything.
Test your faith. Watch the new trailer for HERETIC, a spine-chilling psychological horror from Scott Beck & Bryan Woods starring Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. In theaters this fall.
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Never stop rewriting. We're speaking about the rewrite process this week at
#AFF28
and the ending of A QUIET PLACE is an example of a talented cast and crew challenging the material all the way through production and making it better.
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A QUIET PLACE gave us the confidence to reinvest in our love of original ideas by writing another crazy, wild film. This is that script. We're thrilled to bring it to life with our amazing producers (Sam Raimi, Debbie Liebling, Zainab Azizi) and the team at
@SonyPictures
'A Quiet Place' Writers Team With Sam Raimi and Sony on Sci-Fi Thriller (EXCLUSIVE)
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Dear Struggling Writer,
Today you hate your writing. It might even be as bad as page 3 from our 2000 script ILLUSIONS. But we promise, if you keep your head down, do the work, page after page, 20 years later - you might still hate your writing. But we will LOVE it.
#keepwriting
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Dear Struggling Writer,
Today you hate your writing. It might even be as bad as the exposition on page 19 from our 2001 script CB. But if you keep your head down, do the work, page after page, 20 years later - you might still hate your work. But we will LOVE it.
#keepwriting
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Developed a pitch we hated with a studio that promised to pay for a script. They kept giving bad notes on the pitch. This went on for months and months. Pitch got worse and they decided not to buy. We said fuck this and wrote A QUIET PLACE.
#ShareYourRejections
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The film business is 90% failure, so figured it’d be fun to do a series of some of our most formative rejections. This round all came in the span of a week from 3 agencies. We couldn’t get representation for another 4 years. What are some of your
#BestRejections
?
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Anyone relate to this? Going into our 20s we had insanely lofty ambitions for our careers (chasing the trajectories of PTA or Singleton or Soderbergh). But the reality of that decade was much different than the dream. No shame in struggling. The quickest road isn’t the only road.
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Pro athletes have a strict workout regime and practice habits to stay sharp. Here’s a window into our average day as pro filmmakers. What do you do to stay “fit”?
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Yes,
#Halloween
is scary, but so is pursuing a career in film and television. Here are a few scary stories from our career. Now share some of yours! 🎃🎃🎃
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Time lapse from our rewrite this afternoon. Sweatpants. Red Bull. Matching hotel rooms. Five hours of sleep. Just another day at the office.
#amwriting
#screenwriting
#sixtyfive
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First drafts are fun,
Rewrites are tough,
Pitching's the worst,
So go write more stuff.
Happy Valentine's Day, writers! We feel your pain!
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We broke ground on our movie theater in our Iowa hometown! The Last Picture House has two screens for new releases/classics/cult/family + 35mm prints, a social lounge, rooftop screen, and a film art gallery. Follow
@thelastpichouse
to watch the transformation. Coming this fall!
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Our incredible
@65Movie
team just landed for the home stretch. It’s always amazing how filmmaking turns strangers into family.
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14 years ago today, we thought we had finally "made it" when we won a deal w/MTV Films, caught live on reality TV. Truth is, the deal evaporated. We had to start from scratch. It took 7 more years to get a movie made, find reps, and start building a career. The hustle never ends.
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It's been an emotional year. Lost a father. Lost some friends. Some hardship, some disappointment. Did something we've been threatening to do for years. Put all of our pain and fear into something deeply personal. Just typed "The End" on our next script.
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See the brand new trailer for
#HauntMovie
, a terrifying treat for the Halloween season (brought to you by yours truly &
@eliroth
). Coming Friday the 13th this September!
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Passing out from joy as we announce
@dannyelfman
will be scoring
@65Movie
. Creator of our favorite scores of our childhood (Batman, Dick Tracy, Edward Scissorhands), our teenage years (Goodwill Hunting, Spider-Man, Big Fish) and adulthood (Milk, American Hustle, End of the Tour).
SCOOP: Danny Elfman will be scoring upcoming sci-fi film '65' starring Adam Driver
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Sometimes notes make you nervous. We were worried Paramount wanted us to reveal the entire mythology of the creatures in A QUIET PLACE, but really they just wanted more context. Found a simple fix that made the movie better. There are no bad notes, only bad solutions!
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Just stumbled upon the last page of a script we wrote in middle school. It was a stark reminder that seventh grade was a dark time.
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Its scary making an indie film. Distribution can be hopeless. Every distributor passed on HAUNT. Had to consider turning it into a HALLOWEEN spinoff for Blumhouse before they passed too.
VERY grateful the new Blu-ray debuts as a bestseller on Amazon today
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Everything starts with an idea. Going through old
#AQuietPlace
notebooks and found this excited sketch of a concept we’d been noodling on for years. Didn’t know if it was cool or ridiculous. Sometimes you just have to write the thing to find out.
#AmWriting
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The life of a filmmaker means juggling student loans, debt, odd jobs, & other hurdles to do what you love. Here's our journey from the first professional milestone of signing with a manager, which often is only the beginning.
#itsamarathonnotasprint
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Any filmmakers interested in uniting to create an AWKWARD FIRST FILM FESTIVAL? Our submission would be this phone scene (starring us) from our first film THE SLEEPOVER. Would love to see an entire festival of "so bad it's good" first films from our heroes. Any other submissions?
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The film business is 90% failure, so here's another round of formative rejections. This ‘08 email was our 4th Sundance Lab rejection & 5th Nicholl shutout. Rejection is great because it motivates you to get better. Reminds you there's more to learn. What are your
#BestRejections
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Happy Halloween! Thanks to everyone supporting
#Haunt
this spooky season. Here’s a look at the 1st page of our pitch from 4 years ago. We hate writing treatments and it definitely shows in the painfully stilted prose below. If we were a slasher, we’d kill pitching.
#screenwriting
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We often tweet candidly about some of the more disappointing aspects of the movie business, but we just typed “The End” on our newest project, and it was a reminder that no matter how hard the business is, nothing can take away the pure joy of writing something you love.
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Tonight, we celebrate that spec's
#WritersGuildAwards
nomination with those same people. Your career will take you through unexpected highs and lows, but remember - friends and family are the most important ingredient in life.
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Oh whatttt? Can’t wait to have this Funko creature from
#AQuietPlace
on our desk. Will have to tap the keyboard extra softly. Thank you for this honor
@OriginalFunko
!
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We are mostly shy, sometimes awkward, introverts. There is a social component to filmmaking that seemed impossible to overcome when we were kids. To any aspiring filmmakers out there w/ social anxiety, we're here to say you're not alone & the film business needs your perspective!
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The opening scene of this script taught us so much about
#screenwriting
. Tone. Character. Suspense. Pure visual storytelling. Happy 21st birthday,
#TheSixthSense
(and happy 50th,
@MNightShyamalan
)!
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The weird thing about being a "produced screenwriter" is that you need to produce screenwriting while people on the internet tell you you're bad at
#screenwriting
.
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It’s disturbing how Rotten Tomatoes % is being used to judge whether a director can get work. Anyone else hearing this come up more often? “So and so’s last movie only has a 40%, so we can’t get financing” or “won’t be able to attract cast since their last movie has a 20%”.
Just think. There's a filmmaker out there whose first films got eviscerated by critics but they're about to follow them up with something iconic.
#dontstop
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Bong Joon Ho’s THE HOST has been a huge influence on many of our scripts, including A QUIET PLACE. So floored by his overdue Oscar wins last night and excited for more people to discover his monster movie classic.
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HOLY HALLOWEEN. We are beyond honored!!!
#TheLastDriveIn
#MutantFam
#HalloweenHideaway
@therealjoebob
@kinky_horror
@Shudder
We’re starting the night’s spooky festivities with
@beckandwoods
’ killer HAUNT! What better way to deal with extreme haunted houses than from the comfort of your living room? 🤡
#TheLastDriveIn
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WRITERS: Write the film you want to see, not the one you think will sell.
But also............
STUDIOS: Make the movies you want to see, not the ones you think will sell.
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When you spend years writing a film that gets bad reviews & loses $$$ - it’s devastating.
But when you spend years writing a film that people love & makes lots of $$$ - it can still be devastating.
Enjoy the process of writing. That’s the fun part.
#NationalScreenwritersDay
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The film business is 90% failure, so let's share some more
#bestrejections
. This quick three word dismissal came from a top lit manager in 2009. We appreciated he took the time to honestly respond. And he was right - it wasn’t for ANYBODY! Our next script was our first sale.
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Two years ago to the day, we were lucky enough to intro our film
#AQuietPlace
at the very same movie theater we used to work. It’s something we dreamed about while ripping tickets & making popcorn. Sometimes your breakthrough is *literally* right around the corner.
#dontstop
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From our A QUIET PLACE vault: early location scout video from 2014 when we were writing the script and getting inspired by the Iowa farmland where we grew up. Crazy to look back on the journey since, and feel fortunate the film made it to screens exactly three years ago today.
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Test screenings are like Twitter. Divisive. Supportive. Destructive. And hilarious. You must approach both with good humor and a sense of when to engage and when to disengage. Here’s some of our favorite comment cards from our career...
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The only reboot we’ve pursued is RESIDENT EVIL. Wanted to do the story of the original game shot entirely in oners (ala 1917), almost no dialogue w/the eerie Kubrickian aesthetic of Van Sant’s Death Trilogy. Would still love to see that movie. What's your dream reboot?
#dreamboot
James Cameron's guilty pleasure lockdown movie is Resident Evil, he tells Empire:
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New trailer for A Quiet Place
#PartII
. Still can’t believe our little film kicked off a franchise. Thrilled to see what
@johnkrasinski
and the team came up with!! Who else is excited?
#AQuietPlace
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In 2023 we...
Made a movie.
Made a movie theater.
Released two movies in movie theaters.
Fought for the future of movies and movie theaters.
Thank you and goodbye 2023.
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Ages ago, we wrote a script we pitched as SIDEWAYS meets TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. We sent it in for coverage, hoping the reader would fall in love with the sophisticated plot & great characters. They hated it. But we learned so much from getting brutally honest feedback.
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After typing “The End” it took 3 months to set up the script with a studio. Another 3 months on R&D with a VFX team, art team, and storyboards. 2 weeks to bring the project to Adam with a unified vision. The journey continues...
We often tweet candidly about some of the more disappointing aspects of the movie business, but we just typed “The End” on our newest project, and it was a reminder that no matter how hard the business is, nothing can take away the pure joy of writing something you love.
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Hollywood is a bubble. Many of us are immersed in film & tv 24/7. Watching it, creating it. Forgetting what real life is like. When you finish a script, try to get reads from people outside the industry. Teachers. Grocery clerks. Sales people. It keeps the work honest.
#AmWriting
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Excited to share an exclusive look at the poster for our new film
#HauntMovie
! Coming Friday the 13th this September!
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Lots of talk about the brilliant directing of
#1917Movie
but not enough about the writing. This story isn’t just filmed in “oners” but written in them. Keeping a story afloat in real time that is relentless & emotional on the page is mind blowing. Hats off Sam &
@WeWriteAtDawn
!
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Twenty years ago today,
@MNightShyamalan
redefined our love of cinema with
#TheSixthSense
. Enjoy this forum post from the year 2000, written by an adorable 16-year-old Bryan Woods....
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Your 19-year belated reply is much appreciated
@MNightShyamalan
, as we understand you've been busy the last two decades redefining the landscape of original filmmaking. While AOL has come and gone, your contributions to cinema will stand the test of time.
I just tried your AOL account. It’s not going through. So I’ll send my reply to you here. Thank you for your incredible generosity. To know you were inspired by something I made is touching. Know you inspired me right back. Continued success and happiness.
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Sometimes good ideas you write into bad scripts can bail you out years later. The idea of a high pitched noise defeating the monster in
#AQuietPlace
started in our objectively horrible YETI script in 2005. Ideas either die bad or live long enough to see themselves become the hero
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Appreciate these observations. It’s a throwback to a time when the dinosaur picture was a legitimate sub-genre. A throwback to silent film as well, like the original The Lost World. May post our inspirations later this week.
A 1970's dinosaur B movie with 2023 technology.
@beckandwoods
's 65 is a lean 93-minute sci-fi action flick that feels like a modern day equivalent to films like Planet of Dinosaurs and The Land That Time Forgot. A fun throwback to a sadly extinct genre of cinema.
@65movie
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10 yrs ago every major agency politely passed on representing us. In the same week we were rejected by Nicholl Fellowship & Sundance lab. We were sad for 24hrs, then decided to make this short, which led to us getting signed.
#dontgiveup
IMPULSE script:
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Every day of writing:
🥱😑😐☕️🤔🤨⌨️😏😌⌨️😄🤔⌨️😕⌨️😟⌨️😩⌨️🙄🙏⌨️🤯⌨️🤑⌨️😅⌨️🥱🤭🤢🤮⌨️😳⌨️🤫
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