A screenplay, also called a script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film or television show. Learning how to write a solid screenplay takes a good amount of research, practice and repetition.  Watching movies and television shows and studying successful screenplays and writers are some things that you can do to help yourself learn.  Listed below are two of the best screenplays to come out in 2005 that are worth checking out.

In 2005, Brokeback Mountain won the Academy Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay. The film courted controversy for its depiction of a homosexual relationship, and among the film’s fans, for being “snubbed” in the Academy Awards category of Best Picture. The story follows Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who are hired by Joe Aguirre to herd his sheep through the summer. After a night of heavy drinking, Jack makes a pass at Ennis, who is initially apprehensive but eventually succumbs. He informs Jack that it was a one-time incident; however, they develop an intense romantic relationship. After learning their summer together is to be shortened, they get into a fight, with each ending up bloodied. Ennis marries his longtime fiancée and Jack eventually meets and marries a rodeo rider named Lureen Newsome. After four years, Jack visits Ennis, and Ennis’s wife witnesses the two kissing passionately. The marriages of both men deteriorate as they meet for infrequent fishing trips. Ennis divorces his wife, and after refusing Jack’s offer to live together, Jack gets involved in increasingly dangerous trysts. At the end of a fishing trip, Ennis tries to push back their next meeting, and the two fight again. Sometime later, a postcard Ennis sends to Jack is returned “Deceased.” Ennis offers to scatter Jack’s ashes on Brokeback Mountain, but Jack’s family declines. Jack’s mother allows Ennis to keep two shirts which Jack had taken, the shirts both men were wearing when they fought.

In addition to the Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain earned the BAFTA awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was also honored in the Golden Globes awards for Best Screenplay and Best Motion Picture. The film earned over $178 million at box offices and received widespread critical acclaim.

That same year, Crash won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. This film won the Best Picture award at the Academy Awards, attracting controversy from those who preferred Brokeback Mountain to win. The script interweaves the stories of several characters over a course of two days in Los Angeles, showing the unwitting way their lives impact each other: a black detective who is estranged from his mother and his younger brother, who is a criminal and a gang associate; the white District Attorney and his pampered wife, a racist white police officer and his younger partner, an African American Hollywood director and his wife, a Persian immigrant and his daughter, and a Hispanic locksmith. The film is noteworthy in that its portrayal shows the fact that many of these victims of racism are capable of being racist themselves in different context. The complicated plot ends with the Persian man being saved from his attempt to kill the Hispanic locksmith by the fact that his daughter, with whom he had been fighting before, chose blank bullets for his gun; a gang member sets a group of illegal Asian immigrants who were victims of human trafficking free, and the detective discovering his brother has been killed over a misunderstanding. The complex plot and ensemble cast, mixing well-known actors with veritably unknown talent, was released in 2004 in some countries, though not until 2005 in the United States.

Crash earned the BAFTA award for Best Original Screenplay, and earned over $98 million at the box office, several times over its $7 million budget. The film received generally positive views, although many critics took exception to its portrayal of racial issues.

Do you have a screenplay idea that you think would make a great movie or TV show? New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue your screenplay idea. It is a company based in Pittsburgh that’s designed specifically for everyday people with ideas for screens big and small.  New Show Studios has all the resources under one roof to develop your screenplay idea into a concept package and present it to an entertainment company through its exclusive licensing agent, SFM Entertainment.  SFM Entertainment has over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry. 

Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.

There is a wide variety of different types of reality television shows out there.  There are dating shows, makeover shows, home remodeling shows, ones that follow the lives of celebrities and more.  But one thing that every popular reality TV show has in common is that they all began as just an idea. 

Dirty Jobs stars Mike Rowe as the host, performing difficult, strange, disgusting or otherwise messy occupations alongside the typical employees. In the course of the show, a worker or team takes on Rowe as a fully involved assistant for a typical work day, attempting to complete every task as well as he can in spite of discomfort, hazards, or personal revulsion. The crew, which includes a field producer, cameramen, and an audio technician, typically also get dirty due to the proximity, and are sometimes pulled in to help as well. Rowe makes jokes, usually of a self-deprecating variety, though he also takes occasional jabs at the producer Dave Barsky; rarely does he make more than the occasional playful jab at the workers he is assisting. The opening of the show features the Rowe commenting—usually in the midst of a dirty task—“My name’s Mike Rowe, and this is my job. I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty — hard-working men and women who earn an honest living doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us. Now, get ready to get dirty.” The show’s setting was changed to Australia for the eighth season, and was advertised as Dirty Jobs Down Under; however, the other seasons have all featured American locations. The show was canceled after 8 seasons in November 2012; the first non-pilot episode aired on July 26, 2005.

The show was actually created by host Mike Rowe, who has also worked as a narrator for multiple programs, including How the Universe Works, American Chopper, and Ghost Hunters. Starting in September of 2012, Rowe began hosting How Booze Built America on the Discovery Channel. He was originally tapped to be the on-screen hose of Deadliest Catch; however, when Dirty Jobs was picked up, he was told to choose which show he wanted to appear in on-screen. Rowe was apparently informed by Discovery at the time that the two shows would air back-to-back on the same night, and the change of tone and style would be unsuitable. Rowe has also worked as a spokesperson for multiple companies, including Ford Motor Company, Lee Premium Select Jeans, and Caterpillar. Rowe was born in Baltimore, Maryland in March of 1962, and became an Eagle Scout in 1979; his service project included reading aloud to students at the Maryland School for the Blind, which is what initially interested him in narrating. He would go on to sing professionally at the Baltimore Opera before working for QVC in the early 1990s.

While hosting Evening Magazine, a program on a local San Francisco channel, Rowe appeared on a segment called “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” which profiled a number of unpleasant professions; the concept would be the genesis of the show Dirty Jobs. After completing a graphic piece on artificial insemination of cows, Rowe received countless letters expressing shock, horror, and disbelief, and sent the tape to the Discovery Channel, who commissioned the series.

If you have a reality show idea of your own, New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue it.  The company has a unique method of creating show concept packages that give network and movie studio executives a professional quality view of your idea.  They can take your reality show idea, develop and package it into a demonstration video and send it off to producers and executives in the entertainment industry. 

Anyone can make a reality TV show concept presentation package with New Show Studios.  You do not need special credentials, background or a college degree to pursue an idea.  As long as you have a clear idea of what your basic idea is and you are able to verbalize this, New Show Studios is happy to help.

Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.

A screenplay, also called a script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film or television show. Learning how to write a solid screenplay takes a good amount of research, practice and repetition.  Watching movies and television shows and studying successful screenplays and writers are some things that you can do to help yourself learn.  Listed below are two of the best screenplays to come out in 2002 that are worth checking out.

In 2002, The Pianist won the Academy Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was directed by Roman Polanski based on a screenplay adapted by Ronald Harwood from a memoir written by Wladyslaw Szpilman. The film begins with Szpilman being disturbed in a radio station as Germany bombs Poland, starting World War II. The Szpilman family is hopeful for a quick victory when they learn that Britain and France have declared war on Germany, however Warsaw is captured and the living conditions for Jews deteriorate and gradually they are forced into humiliating conditions in the Warsaw ghetto. The family is soon rounded up for deportation to Treblinka extermination camp, but Szpilman is saved by a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police. He becomes a slave laborer and survives a random mass execution. He helps to smuggle weapons into the ghetto to help the Jewish revolt and then manages to escape and go into hiding. He watches the rise and fall of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and after a year is forced to flee when a neighbor discovers him. In 1944, the Polish resistance mounts the Warsaw Uprising, and over the next months the city is destroyed and emptied. Szpilman searches desperately for supplies and shelter, and is eventually discovered by a German officer, who spares him after asking him to play on a nearby grand piano. Officer Hosenfeld brings him food until the Germans are forced to retreat due to the advance of the Red Army, and in their last meeting he gives Szpilman his coat, which almost gets him killed as Polish troops briefly mistake him before realizing he is Polish. Elsewhere, Hosenfeld is a prisoner and encounters a former inmate of a concentration camp, who states that he used to be a violinist, who later brings Szpilman to the site, though at that point it is only a grassy field.

The film received positive critical reviews and acclaim, and earned over $120 million at the box office in total.

That same year, Talk To Her (Hable con ella) won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film was written by Pedro Almodovar and unfolds in flashbacks, giving details of two separate relationships that, over the course of the story, become intertwined. Marco Zuluaga crosses paths with Benigno Martin at a dance recital, the two strangers to each other, though Benigno notices that Marco is crying. Marco goes on to interview Lydia Gonzalez, a famous matador who has recently broken up with her boyfriend. Marco and Lydia become friends and later lovers, until Lydia is gored and goes into a coma. Marco does not leave her side and eventually befriends Benigno, who recognized him from the recital. Benigno cares for Alicia Roncero a beautiful dance student that he has long been infatuated with, and he tells Marco to talk to Lydia, because in spite of the fact that they are in a coma, women understand and react to men’s problems. Marco is taken aback when Benigno tells him of his plan to marry Alicia and tells his friend that she cannot express her will in any manner. It eventually comes out that Alicia is pregnant, while Marco leaves Spain to write a book about traveling through Jordan. He learns that Lydia has finally died, having never awakened from her coma and looks for Benigno, who is not working at the hospital anymore, and learns that Benigno has been imprisoned for rape. Alicia has awakened during or sometime after giving birth, but the baby was stillborn. Marco does not tell Benigno about the unexpected recovery. Benigno dies of an overdose, trying to “reunite” with Alicia, who has begun rehabilitation. The film ends with Marco and Alicia meeting by chance in the same theatre where it began.

The film earned a total of over $51 million dollars at the box office, and received the BAFTA award for Best Original Screenplay, along with the Golden Globe Award for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Do you have a screenplay idea that you think would make a great movie or TV show? New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue your screenplay idea. It is a company based in Pittsburgh that’s designed specifically for everyday people with ideas for screens big and small.  New Show Studios has all the resources under one roof to develop your screenplay idea into a concept package and present it to an entertainment company through its exclusive licensing agent, SFM Entertainment.  SFM Entertainment has over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry. 

Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.