[QUOTE=bwind22;564726]So how does a rookie with no credits, get credits? I know it's extremely difficult to accomplish, but there MUST be some ways to get 'in the club' for someone with no credentials or else there'd never be a new writer. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get people to start looking at your scripts? [QUOTE]
As an actor you might be able to get into a cattle call, or hack into "breakdown services" the company that lists all the casting calls for each week. But even then you usually have to pretend to be your own agent on the phone to book the gig. I got an acting agent after auditioning for (and landing the role in) RENT
As a writer, you need to send query letter after query letter to low level agencies and managers. If someone actually reads you, they might take you on. After you have one, you can get the attention of a better one. But I got my manager through a screenplay competition.
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I always thought that was 1 company trying to rush out a sub-par movie that is similar to an upcoming blockbuster from another company in hopes of tricking moviegoers (or renters) in to mistakenly grabbing or seeing the wrong films.
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Tha marketing department will absolutely try to trick viewers, and some movie companies out there rush crappy version of mainstream movies (Snakes on a Train, anyone) but there is a tremendous amount of creative synchonicity. There can be a half-dozen scripts about the same subject floating around at any given time.
Coincidentally this is why most producers won't accept unsolicited scripts. Say some writer sends in a script about...oh I don't know... "A prison Island where inmates must battle to the death" to a production company that is already developing the same or similar concept. Even if they never read the other script, there is a writer out there who thinks he's been ripped off and will try to file a lawsuit.
It is this kind of action that keeps the circle closed. I just sent a Bigfoot script to my buddy at Disney, who told me they have a Yeti script in development. He even gave me a few set pieces (which were rather similar to mine) to let me know that he has no intention of ripping me off and that any similarities would be purely coincidental. It happens all the time.