Amazon Will Buy Your Movie Script For $200,000 If They Adore it [Amazon]

This can be pretty bizarre, but once you consider the support they provide writers on their Kindle program , it makes more sense. Would-be screenwriters can submit scripts to Amazon, to be able to buy the rights for $200,000 if they love it.

They get the exclusive rights for 18 months, and if they don’t do anything with the script in that time, then writers can go elsewhere. If, however, they decide to develop and distribute the movie, then they’ll cough up one other $100,000 to the budding writer, and give them a bet to win one other $1 million for their annual ” best movie” award. All their prize-winners will even get the opportunity to expose their work to Warner Bros., who will take it from there and turn it into a huge blockbuster of a movie, more often than not starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Julia Roberts (presumably she plays his Mom), where they all live happily ever after. No matter if that’s not exactly what you wrote to your script. [ Amazon Studios via SlashFilm via TechRadar ]

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