http://www.blakesnyder.com The Last Website on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:06:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's Beat Sheet was contributed by Master Cat! Jose Silerio: There’s no other studio that consistently releases movies that are both critical and box office successes like Pixar Animation. From Toy Story to Finding Nemo to The Incredibles, and their latest release, Up, their stories are the finest examples of four-quadrant ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/02/19/stc-beats-out-up/ The "District 9" breakdown breakdown was written by Save the Cat!® contributing editor and Austin screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez. A thought-provoking science fiction allegory with enough clever ideas for 10 films, writers Neil Blomkamp and Terri Tachell's "District 9" impresses with its fully realized dystopian near-future, amazing visual effects, and beat-aligned structural ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/02/16/stc-beats-out-district-9/ Read her wonderful tribute HERE! http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/02/12/catherine-clinch-on-book-3/ Screenwriter Ben Frahm offers his take on the indie hit "(500) Days of Summer." You might recognize Ben's name from Blake's congratulatory blog. Ben developed and sold (for six figures) his comedy, "Dr. Sensitive," using the tried and true STC! principles. Way to go, and thank you, Ben! What I liked about ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/02/09/stc-beats-out-500-days-of-summer/ This week's beat sheet was created by Los Angeles Cat Naomi Beaty. Naomi's been a long time Cat! offering her wisdom and insights during the development of books 2 & 3, as well as her past experiences in development at Maverick Films. Thanks, Naomi! Spoiler Alert! "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/02/04/stc-beats-out-precious/ Best Picture: Avatar - James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers The Blind Side - Nominees TBD District Nine - Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers An Education - Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers The Hurt Locker - Nominees TBD Inglourious Basterds - Lawrence Bender, Producer Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Lee Daniels, ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/02/02/and-the-nominees-are/ Today, Cat! Jose Silerio offers his take on “Avatar." Game on! Once again, we’ll post a Cat! Central response in regard to the film’s genre prior to our next Oscar® hopeful Beat Sheet upload. Extra points! Click here to download the screenplay, and feel free to discuss the differences between the ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/01/28/stc-beats-out-avatar/ Austin Cat! and screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez tackles Tarantino's re-imagining of WWII: "Inglourious Basterds" Spoiler Alert! Inglourious Basterds, writer/director Quentin Tarantino's pulp fantasy, works as both entertainment and damned smart moviemaking. What might seem a sprawling epic at first blush, told in novelistic chapters that veer from extended dialogue scenes to sharp ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/01/25/stc-beats-inglourious-basterds/ Each week, we'll upload a Save the Cat!® Beat Sheet Breakdown of a current Oscar hopeful, continuing until this year's broadcast of the 2010 Academy Awards®. "The Hurt Locker" breakdown was written by Save the Cat!® contributing editor Jennifer Chang: Finding a copy of The Hurt Locker to rent at ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/01/18/stc-beats-out-the-hurt-locker/ It may be a new year; and yet, we still face the same challenge: The economic forecast is dismal. The script market is sluggish. Does that mean our attitude has to be as well? That's not what Cats do. Cats view this as an opportunity to raise the bar higher. At ... http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/01/07/whats-your-writers-resolution/