WB Markets eBook Shooting Scripts
Warner Bros has launched a digital publishing initiative called Inside the Script that offers a series of illustrated eBooks that present actual shooting scripts for classic movies including Casablanca, Ben-Hur, An American In Paris and North By Northwest. The eBooks are available on iBookstore, Kindle and Nook. The books also feature production notes, storyboards, photos including costumes, posters, on-set stills and behind-the-scenes photos. Casablanca for example includes memos from Jack Warner, Production Code letters and a telegram from Hal Wallis. Ben-Hur includes Charlton Heston’s acting and shooting journals. The package for An American In Paris includes set design paintings and notes on the ballet sequence from Vincent Minnelli’s papers. North By Northwest comes with Alfred Hitchcock’s editing and title sequence notes, photos, storyboards and photos of the crop duster sequence. For more information visit www.facebook.com/insidethescript.
Just bought the CASABLANCA edition.
Ten bucks and it’s wicked awesome.
You will never find it in a used book shop though…
Neat! I just bought Casablanca and North By Northwest. I hope other studios follow suit with modern scripts and that the price goes down a bit. $5 instead of $8 would be awesome.
@ Lincon: an epackage that includes entire scripts, photos, private notations from those involved in the filming, etc, and you’re bitching about paying $8 instead of $5?! If this was a hard copy book you’d be paying $50 or more, but $8 is too much for you to swing?
This is a major problem with American consumers today – we all want to pay $5 or less for EVERYTHING, and complain when companies actually charge a fair price. There are many products out there that price gouge the customer (iphone, anyone?), but to complain about $8 for such a package, you’re not just spoiled, you’re living in a dream world that has no regard whatsoever for basic economics. Not to mention totally ungrateful for the products you have access to and have a grandiose sense of entitlement.
If I were an actor, I would not want my journals/notes published.
Cassablanca Is My Favorite Movie Of All Time. Gone With The Wind Is Next. Followed By The Wizard Of Oz.