Update: Amazon Studios
I’ve done due diligence re Amazon Studios. You can read posts about it here, here, here, and here.
I even went beyond the screeds against the initiative from professional screenwriters to allow its head Roy Price to answer your questions which he did here.
Last week… well, allow me to turn this over to The Bitter Script Reader who posted on it today:
Several times last year, I tackled the subject of Amazon Studios, a new venture that sold itself as being a gateway for aspiring writers to break into Hollywood. For a more in-depth recap of what Amazon Studios announced itself to be, and my reaction to the same, go here. Long story short, it smelled hinky to me. It reeked of scam and I felt that their terms were going to end up taking advantage of a lot of desperate aspiring writers.
The Auditorz of the Amazon took it as a calling to dissect every facet of the contest. They not only took a look at the rules, they theorized what Amazon’s motives where, uncovered what appeared to be suspicious and unethical game play on the part of entrants, and audited all of the finalist scripts each month. The long and the short of it was: the quality of submissions was pretty poor, and the quantity of submissions was rapidly dropping. It was fairly fascinating stuff, and I admired their dedication.
The Auditorz abruptly went underground last summer, and in an interesting twist, it seemed to kill all conversation about Amazon Studios. Without their arch foe keeping conversation about the contest alive, AS just plain fell off the map. Even the winning scripts were announced without much fanfare.
Last week, Amazon Studios announced some major changes to its program. And I found myself wishing that the Auditorz were still around to do one of their incisive posts on what these changes mean. I lamented that there was no way to see their reaction to this drastic shift in direction.
Guess what? The Auditorz contacted me this weekend — and provided me with a guest post that covered precisely that. What follows is their submission, unaltered, and may not necessarily reflect my own opinions.
With that tease, I suggest you go here to TBSR’s site to see what the down-low is on the ‘new’ Amazon Studios.
I look forward to reading your comments and reactions to the changes, and in general what your thoughts are or perhaps experience has been with Amazon Studios.
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