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Screenwriting

Selling a Treatment

I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not a script, a treatment) for four million.
One wonders how much the script sold for. How common is treatment selling? It must not be unusual since there's a book out by Mike Halperin called Writing the Killer Treatment: Selling Your Story without a Script. Haven't read it yet, but I intend to.

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com: [nq:1]I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not a script, a treatment) for four million. One wonders how ... Halperin called Writing the Killer Treatment: Selling Your Story without a Script .

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  • com: [nq:1]I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not a script, a treatment) for four million.
  • One wonders how ...
  • Halperin called Writing the Killer Treatment: Selling Your Story without a Script .
  • [/nq] I think you pretty much have to know someone or have succeeded already to sell a treatment.
  • " Maybe both titles are true, but I'm skeptical.
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not a script, a treatment) for four million. One wonders how ... Halperin called Writing the Killer Treatment: Selling Your Story without a Script. Haven't read it yet, but I intend to.[/nq]
I think you pretty much have to know someone or have succeeded already to sell a treatment. I don't know who Mike
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[nq:1]I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not a script, a treatment) for four million. One wonders how ... the Killer Treatment: Selling Your Story without a Script*. Haven't read it yet, but I intend to. W : )[/nq]
It's rare. For someone who doesn't have a track record, it's close to impossible.
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[nq:1]I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not a script, a treatment) for four million. One wonders how ... Halperin called Writing the Killer Treatment: Selling Your Story without a Script. Haven't read it yet, but I intend to.[/nq]
Well, it's important to remember that no matter what the contract said, Joe wasn't really selling "not a script, a treatment" - he was sel
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[nq:2]I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not ... a Script*. Haven't read it yet, but I intend to.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, it's important to remember that no matter what the contract said, Joe wasn't really selling "not a script, a ... quality screenplay in a reasonable amount of time. If you can't do that, you won't be selling any treatments. -Ron[/nq]
I may be mistaken, but I
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[nq:1]Books are usually 5-10 YEARS behind the current swing of the pendulum in terms of pitch vs. spec. There's always a market for both, but they change favor (at least in L.A., don't know NY market very well).[/nq]
Well, sure. But now it's not really pitch vs. spec - it's pitch vs. spec vs. package.
According to my team, these days it's all about the package.

-Ron
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[nq:1]I once read somewhere Joe Eszterhas sold a treatment (not a script, a treatment) for four million. One wonders how much the script sold for.[/nq]
You don't understand how it works.
The $4 million is not* for the treatment, it is for Eszterhas to *write a scrteenplay and some rewrites based on the treatment.

Same thing with a pitch. You don't sell the pitch, you sell y
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[nq:2]Books are usually 5-10 YEARS behind the current swing of ... (at least in L.A., don't know NY market very well).[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, sure. But now it's not really pitch vs. spec - it's pitch vs. spec vs. package. According to my team, these days it's all about the package. -Ron[/nq]
ah yes, the package, where the manager representing the writer has a built-in conflict of interest? (well
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