A selection of the best Internet resources for script development - from writing to research to industry news and contacts:
- Film Industry Info
- General Internet Searching
- Image and Other Non-Text Search Resources
- Movie Data
- News - General
- Screenwriting
- On-Line Scripts and Treatments
- Training and other Support
- Writers General Resources
- TV Links - extensive links for cinema and TV
- Netribution - everything you wanted to know about the film industry, from statistics and services to festivals and even films.
- SA Film Independent - links to film and TV databases
- Screen International - film industry trade mag
- Ask An Expert - search help from real people
- Google - currently the best search engine around
- Internet Search FAQ - everything you ever need to know about finding anything on the Internet (by the creators of ScreenLab)
- Profusion - search multiple search engines at the same time
- FindSounds.com - search engine for finding sound effects and sample sounds on the Web
- Webshots - impressive image search engine
- Cinema Crawler - search engine devoted to cinema
- CineMedia - links to over 5,000 sites devoted to actors, 700 magazines and journals, 800 film and video festivals, and 400 TV networks and channels
- Enzian (searchable)
- Greatest Films - synopses of the greatest (mostly US) films ever made
- H-Film - Guide to Film and TV Resources
- The Internet Movie Database - the best
- RML Movie Page - Australian, but with links around the world
- Abyz News Links - over 15,400 newspapers and other news sources around the world, fast and comprehensive
- Arts & Letters Daily - Excellent doorway to the best articles on the Net, updated daily from dozens of top sites and publications
- Documents in the News - documents and web sources on key issues since 1995
- Internet Public Library - online books, magazines and newspapers from all over the world
- Journalism UK - every possible link for UK news media
- The Paperboy - links to over 2,500 on-line newspapers world-wide
- Poynter Institute - links and bibliographies for topical issues and other subjects
- Project Censored's Underreported Stories - the stories they didn't dare tell you
- Yahoo News - Associated Press, Reuters, world and local
- Charles Deemer - resources for screenwriters and playwrights
- John Hewitt's Writing Resource Center: screenwriting and general writing links and info
- HFI Cyberspace Film School
- Hollywood Network
- Movie Cliches
- Richard Toscan's "The Playwriting Seminars"- some info on screenwriting, too
- ScriptWriter - UK's only dedicated magazine on script
- WordPlay - excellent articles on screenwriting by the writers of Shrek
- Writing the Tight Synopsis - very useful guide to writing a tight ("barebones") synopsis and treatment - for literature or screenplays
- Aliens - Treatment & Script - downloadable masterscene treatment and screenplay by James Cameron
- Colin's Movie Monologue Page - As it says: movie monologues, and loads of them.
- Drew's Script-O-Rama - index of movie scripts and treatments available on the Internet, giving details of draft, comparing transcripts with shooting scripts, etc.
- Hollywood Script Readers' Digest - synopses of unproduced scripts and TV series proposals.
- INFlow's Screenplay Repository
- iScript Movie Screenplay Database - links you to many hundreds of scripts.
- Internet Script Database - screenplays from early drafts to shooting scripts
- Joescreenwriter - buy film scripts on CD-ROM
- MNemonic Turf: The Movie Turf - offers film and TV screenplays.
- Movie-Page.com - gives reviews, scripts, along with news, etc.
- screenplay
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scripts downloadable (zipped) - ScreenplayLand.com - offers links to screenplays in different genres
- ScriptCrawler.net- movie and television transcripts.
- Scripts on the Net - just what it says.
- Simply Scripts - scripts, transcripts, and script sections of old, current and unreleased films
- Screenwriters Store - books and screenwriting software and free downloadable scripts and treatments
Training and other support
- Directors Guild of Great Britain - membership organisation and union for British directors in all media
- New Producers Alliance - training and networking for up and coming film-makers
- ALCS - writers' information directory
- Shooting People - mailing lists for screenwriting and low-budget film production
- Writers Guild of America
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Internet resource links courtesy of The Internet Search FAQ