The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan May 13, 2013 May 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard As our tifosi know, there’s nothing we like better than digging around in the data to find hidden patterns. We found a good one for you this week — glance at the Overall Pitch Numbers grid, below. 2013’s lagging a [...]
When I speak at screenwriting conferences, I often remind people to look to their left and then to their right. The people sitting next to you are the ones you should be networking with, not just the speakers. Now I have proof. Meet Rebecca Norris and Kevin Resnick, filmmakers on their way to Cannes Film Festival [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan May 6, 2013 April 2013 Spec Market Roundup We don’t want to jinx anything, but we sure picked an auspicious time to move the Scoggins Report into its new home on SpecScout.com. April 2013’s 14 spec sales is the highest monthly total in nearly a year, [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 29, 2013 April 2013 Pitch Market Roundup We’re back to quasi-normal: After a four-month volley, the past week has seen total spec sales pull significantly ahead of total pitch sales for the first time this year. And the good news is that it’s not [...]
Technically, I don’t start my new ScriptMag column, “Notes From The Margins” until next week (very exciting!). But I wanted to bring you something special first. An interview with Hollywood writer/director Clare Kilner, whom I met when she became attached to a project I helped develop while at Clifford Werber Productions. Sadly, the project never [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 22, 2013 April 2013 Spec Market Scorecard Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but it sure makes it easier to analyze the spec market. We took a week off from the Scoggins Report in mid-April in both 2012 and 2103, and year-over-year numbers [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 15, 2013 April 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard Unlike the situation in the spec market, the number of pitch purchases by the studios is basically on par with 2012 and 2011, thanks in large part to strong numbers in February. What’s different this year is thedistribution: Fox is way [...]
Originally, my column for today was going to be a nice, 101 social media lesson for promoting your film through Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Google Plus and LinkedIn groups – as well as Indie Backer, exclusive to the film community (Check them out, and tell me if you’re digging that song as much as [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 2, 2013 March 2013 Spec Market Roundup We stayed up late last night messing around with the numbers for the first quarter of 2013, and we’re now even more convinced than we were last month: Something totally bizarre is going on in the spec script market. [...]
