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#scripts written each year?

Apologies if this has been asked before, but what would you all guestimate is the number of feature screenplays written and registered each year (i.e. what is the competition)? WGA registration numbers likely include quite a few shorts besides features, so that figure could be misleading. Is there any way to really know with some certainty, to at least be inside the ballpark, or is it all just voodoo guessing?
  

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[nq:1]Apologies if this has been asked before, but what would you all guestimate is the number of feature screenplays written ... [/nq] The only thing resembling a benchmark is WGA registration. It's not an absolute measure, but it is indicative.

  • [nq:1]Apologies if this has been asked before, but what would you all guestimate is the number of feature screenplays written ...
  • [/nq] The only thing resembling a benchmark is WGA registration.
  • It's not an absolute measure, but it is indicative.
  • I see the figure 35,000 - 50,000 bandied about.
  • But that number isn't a real measure of the competition.
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[nq:1]Apologies if this has been asked before, but what would you all guestimate is the number of feature screenplays written ... to really know with some certainty, to at least be inside the ballpark, or is it all just voodoo guessing?[/nq]
The only thing resembling a benchmark is WGA registration. It's not an absolute measure, but it is indicative. I see the figure 35,000 - 50,000 bandied ab
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[nq:1]Apologies if this has been asked before, but what would you all guestimate is the number of feature screenplays written ... to really know with some certainty, to at least be inside the ballpark, or is it all just voodoo guessing?[/nq]
What you probably want to know is how many scripts are registered with the WGA each year. That would give you an idea of how many are written either to a
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[nq:1]Apologies if this has been asked before, but what would you all guestimate is the number of feature screenplays written and registered each year (i.e. what is the competition)?  WGA registration numbers likely include quite a few shorts besides features, so that figure could be misleading. Is there any way to really know with some certainty, to at least be inside the ballpark, or is it all j
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[nq:1]I poked around the WGA site (www.wga.org) but couldn't find a FAQ with that info on it (although the site has really improved, overall, in recent years).  The number that used to be bandied about was 50,000 per year.  No idea what it is anymore.[/nq]
But I think that figure would include short scripts too wouldn't it? I am wondering about the number of feature length screenplays.
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[nq:1]Oodles and gobs and shitloads. The question is: How many are great and how many don't get read past page five? The great ones are a "whole lot less".[/nq]
Oh I completely agree. Just curious on the number. Even if 50,000 feature scripts are circulating that really would not bother me; I have heard 95% are junk, not even formatted properly, and another 5% do not even have a structu
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[nq:2]I poked around the WGA site (www.wga.org) but couldn't find ... the site has really improved, overall, in recent years). [/nq]
[nq:1]But I think that figure would include short scripts too wouldn't it? I am wondering about the number of feature ... far down the list. But I should think a large number of those 50,000 scripts are shorts rather than features.[/nq]
So w
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[nq:2]Oodles and gobs and shitloads. The question is: How many ... page five? The great ones are a "whole lot less".[/nq]
[nq:1]Oh I completely agree. Just curious on the number. Even if 50,000 feature scripts are circulating that really would not ... through the gauntlet and get picked up. But I am a noob, speaking out of ignorance, just playing with numbers.[/nq]
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