Good In a Room
2006-Jun-7 by Laughcalvin
Stephanie Palmer, former Exec with the big Studios and Prodcos, offers free and fee advice:
COVERING ALL THE BASES. “How much weight does a story analyst’s script coverage have? Does it affect a studio’s decision as to whether they will buy a script or not?”
A: Coverage carries a lot of weight when an executive is deciding what to script to choose from a large stack of scripts, but it has very little influence (if any) once the executive has read the script themselves. Glowing coverage can encourage an executive to read a script more quickly and if it’s completely slammed, the script will likely remain at the very bottom of the “to read” pile. When I worked at Jerry Bruckheimer Films and MGM, we purchased many scripts that had received “pass” coverage and passed on many scripts where the reader gave the script a “consider.”
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