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ins playing. Map is shown in background (green text on black background), zoomed in on Los Alamos, New Mexico. While remaining credits are shown, the map travels to Sante Fe, then Albuquerque, then begins following US66 west through Arizona to Californ...
1 WE MEET: MUMBLES(late 30s) and ONE TWO (late 30s). They are listening to a sales pitch from two REAL ESTATE AGENTS. We SEE all the relevant pictures of their pitch explaining a changing city, LONDON. SLICK ESTATE AGENT (V.O.) Two years ago this pro...
l. 2 THEY SPLIT OPTICALLY TO REVEAL THE DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LOGO. Fanfare. 3 A SMALL WHITE SCREEN - ACADEMY SIZE - APPEARS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WIDE-SCREEN FORMAT On the sides of the image are stationary sprocket holes of celluloid. SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE * Musical Introduction. Film head ...
adow of soybeans, and magically sways a copse of trees. It's a Fall after-noon. A SUDDEN POUNDING OF GALLOPING HOOVES breaks the peace and... A HORSE and RIDER burst between the rows of corn into the meadow. They are running for their lives. CLOSE ON: The rider is a bride -- a beautiful woman d...
loop outside the terminals is gridlocked -- mostly with stretch limousines. INT. LAX - (INCLUDE NEWS REPORT MONTAGE) - DAY Inside, the airport is done up with festive posters, streamers and banners: Welcome - Pacific Partners Summit A planeload of cheerful CHINESE DELEGATES come into the crowded terminal. ...
where East meets West for five and a half million people a day. EXT. AMERICAN CONSULATE - HONG KONG - DAY THE AMERICAN EMBASSY - U.S. and Chinese flags side by side. HU LI, dark glasses, EXITS and slowly moves toward a STREET VENDOR across the street. She pays for an order of pork bao; as she takes...
June 10 th, 1992 A FADED KODACHROME PHOTO Of the 9 best (11-year-old) buddies that ever lived. On a makeshift baseball diamond - a sandlot... circa 1962: SCOTTY SMALLS, studious-looking; ALAN "...
ar song opening and then a voice - male. TRAVERS (V.O.) (SINGING) Winds in the East Mist coming in-- FADE IN: A whoosh of wind spins us around in a blue sky, spinning, spinning until we slow t...
May 13, 2010 1 EXT. TORONTO RESIDENTIAL STREET - DAY 1 Snowy suburbs of Toronto. From a nondescript house we hear: KIM PINE (O.S.) Scott Pilgrim is dating a high sc...
3/16/11 "Too much happens... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything." - William Faulkner INT. WALTER'S APARTMENT, BROOKLYN - M...
faint sounds of a crowd cheering on Kobe Bryant. The real Bob Costas does narration. BOB COSTAS (V.0.) Before the NBA was the NBA, there was another basketball league in America... DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE: This is real ABA footage. A series of g...
- NIGHT - TITLE SEQUENCE A series of traveling shots. A well-dressed, pompous-looking individual (JOHN DASHWOOD, 35) is making an urgent journey on horseback. He looks anxious. EXT. NORLAND PARK - ENGLAND - MARCH 1800 - NIGHT Silenc...
ogue title: "This is a true story. The screenplay is based on court testimony, sworn declarations, and hundreds of interviews conducted by the film-makers". Fade out. Fade in to second prologue title: "Some of the innocent characters' names have been changed in the in...
g boutique. In the window -- a MANNEQUIN is wearing -- the best of everything. A PRETTY TWENTY-SOMETHING girl looks in at the display: dreaming of the day. CARRIE (V.O.) Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York City in ...
E - DAY From an AERIAL VIEW we see the outline of a city. Any city will do. Mirrored high rises. Sprawling apartment complexes. A lot of people live here...whoever they are. As we move closer we discover that this is not a real city at ...
riters and audiences. North of the city was the Curtain Theatre, home to England's most famous actor, Richard Burbage. Across the river was the competition, built by Philip Henslowe, a business with a cash flow problem... ...The Rose... Gradually a building is rev...
ntal strip of face, eyes motionless and unblinking. DAVID (VOICE-OVER) Take trust, for instance, or friendship: these are the important things in life, the things that matter, that help you on your way. If you can't trust your friends, w...
o shadowy people are seated in the darkened room. A slide projector dimly lights MR. FULLER, a crew-cutted Robert Stack type in a suit, as he addresses the group. The current slide is a still from a security video of a blurry figure - it could be any of about a billion people...
upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to ...
T. MEDIEVAL TIMES THEATER - NIGHT A familiar beam of light shines down. The beam of light descends onto a stage. Lightning flashes to reveal Prince Charming riding his valiant steed Chauncey across the open plains. The wind blows back his golden man...
UNDER THE STUDIO LOGO: KNOCKING at a door and distant dog BARKING. NOW UNDER BLACK, a CARD -- SATURDAY The rapping, at first tentative and polite, grows insistent. Then we hear someone get out of bed. ...
Shooting draft INT. KAREL PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY - DAY OVER BLACK PAT What, are you kidding me? Sundays? I love Sundays. I live for Sundays. The whole family'...
T, OUT-OF-FOCUS, OVAL-SHAPED COLORS. The colored shapes dart around the screen -- the impression of looking through a kaleidoscope. As the image comes into sharp focus, we discover that we are inside a CANDY BOWL. A MAN'S FINGERS are frantically removing all the cherry-flavored pieces of candy. EX...
are in a parochial school classroom, in the late Sixties. The children all wear uniforms and sit at little desks. SISTER IMMACULATA stands at the front of the room; she is a middle-aged nun, very severe. The children are all terrified of her. SISTER IMMAC...
ITTREDGE'S APARTMENT LIVING ROOM DAWN JOHN FLANDERS KITTREDGE and LOUISA KITTREDGE ("FLAN" and "OUISA") , an attractive couple in their 40s, in their night clothes are in an uncharacteristic state of shock. Some sort of horrible disaster has happened to them. THEY ...
o a crisp dress shirt and tie. His expression is vacant, faraway. A breeze blows but he doesn't react to it. In the distance the architecture of the Chicago skyline. SAM Mommy got sick and it happened just like that and there was nothing anybody would do. (...
INT. HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM - DAY CLOSEUP: A slender woman's hand writes on a chalkboard, in teacherly cursive. We PULL BACK to REVEAL STARLA GRANT, a stunningly beautiful Southern woman in her twenties, as she finishes writing out, "SURVIVAL...
ther assorted BAR SOUNDS. KARAOKE ANNOUNCER (V.O.) Let's give a hand to Rodney! Scattered APPLAUSE and LAUGHTER. KARAOKE ANNOUNCER (V.O.) Next up, we've got a little lady named...KATE! Joyful APPLAUSE. ...
A narration accompanies this passage: "The events depicted herein were believed have taken place in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. All manner of record as they might pertain to these events have been seized by the Department of Justice" INT. VAN -- NIGHT ...
and a military- jacket. Behind him is a list of instructions (in Russian). He 'sucks in a cigarette as though he's a drowning man lookin for oxygen. A CAR comes to a stop by the sentry post, the, guard looks, asks a couple of questions and is given an -envelope which he quickly examine...
ARIOUS SHOTS OF SAN FRANCISCO - DUSK Over this we hear a recording of Jack Kerouac's poem, San Francisco which is accompanied by a BE-BOP trio. Kerouac's poetry coincides with the various shots of San Francisco. We come to a sign for Jack Kerouac Stre...
HOT AUGUST NIGHT - MUSIC OVER MIDTOWN. A Brunette Beauty crosses in front of a stack of cabs, her sheer dress clinging to her remarkable body. A Club in THE MEATPACKING DISTRICT. A long line waits to get in. A couple of Gorgeous Girls show up at the velvet rope and are promptly" let inside. SOHO. A Crowd spills...
tt Stone & Pam Brady Eighth Draft January 21, 1999 FADE IN: Very happy, Disneyesque MUSIC swirls in. ...
0b BLUE - 11/12/11 1. OMITTED 1 1 INT. ANTARCTICA LAB (OPENING MONTAGE) 1A 1A A glowing blue box like a large toaster (the Time Cube) sits in a steri...
It is a man's back..... a perfect back... good dark color, slim, muscular. LATIN MUSIC PLAYS... a song.... if you understood the words you would hear love confronted and considered in a very specific way...We are in a Mexico City suburb. The day is hot; small beads of sweat are seen on the man'...
ATE AND MAIN - INTERSECTION - DAY Morris and Spud, two codgers, are about to cross the street when they hear a beeping and stop. As they cross, we see the tail end of a van, and the group nods in that direction. MORRIS You hear that? ...
e of RACHEL KELLY rolls into frame. Then out of it. Alarm keeps BLASTING. Back she comes, pulling the sheets OVER her head. Motionless now, as we hear... ... the DEAFENING SILENCE of the alarm shutting off. A beat. Rachel SITS BOLTS UPRIGHT. LEAPS out of the room. From the back we see that she's dress...
the screen: AUGUST, 1936 FADE OUT. FADE IN: EXT. A SLUM AREA OF JOLIET - DAY It's a bleak, windy morning, the kind that clears the streets of all but the winos (who carry their own heaters), and the point-men for juvenile gangs. We pick up a solitary figure, Joe Mottola, coming down th...
ARCUS Hey, you want to hear my short story now? VI Huh? MARCUS (lifts a MS from a shelf by his bed) I can read it to you. VI You mean, again? MARCUS Well, I changed the ending a little. VI Oh. What happens now? MARCUS Well, a...
From the novel by Paul Brodeur FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT -1- THE STUNTMAN ...
DAY PAN ACROSS the frightened faces of NINE WITNESSES, eyes fixed straight ahead. A POLICE OFFICER walks slowly past each - FOOTSTEPS ECHOING in their fear. OFFICER Take your time. Take a good look. He passes a nervous SAFEWAY CASHIER in uniform. ...
1 ROSE LORKOWSKI, 30, drives through Albuquerque. She passes small adobe houses, the Air force base, parched earth playgrounds, University cafes and other distinctive sights. On the highway she passes under the freeway interchange, a tangle of rust and turquoise ramps. The Sandia mounta...
lling us with the expectation of a thrilling, action-packed opening sequence. Instead we get: INT. SETH'S CAR - MORNING Seth, seventeen, a bit heavyset, in the midst of a sad attempt at growing a goatee and clearly a terrible driver, cruises along while fiddling with the CD player. H...
EXT. EARLY MORNING. - CUSTOMER SERVICE KIOSK 1 JAFFA, a Jamaican looking fellow in his early 20's, arrives at Water World, carrying a dusty cardboard box. There are a few workers milling about, setting up the park for opening. ...
Dec. 13, 1994 Third draft 1 EXT. HOLLYWOOD - NIGHT 1 The soundtrack opens with Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon". A HELICOPTER SHOT OF THE L.A. basin. ...
sound of a radio and pots and pans clanging fades in. Caden, 40, opens his eyes in bed, and groggily looks at himself in the bureau mirror. The bedside clock reads 7:45. 1 INT. CADEN AND ADELE'S KITCHEN - FALL 2005 - SAME1 Adele, 40, in t-shirt and sweats, mixe...
Posy Simmonds 20th October 2009 1 SUMMER. POSY DRAWING 1 2 EXT. DAY. STONEFIELD - THE GROUNDS. 2 Andy Cobb, early thirties, is digging an English garden in ...
n the East Coast of the United States. The camera glides down through the atmosphere, through the clouds, closer and closer, until we begin to see large patches of snow covering the upper coastline. It's winter. We continue to push in, until we arrive at one small ...
FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT OCTOBER 21, 1997 FADE IN: EXT. CUMBERLAND, RHODE ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL - MORNING It's the early 1980's and everyone is arriving at school. We push through the parking lot crowd to a nervous, lanky kid, TED PELOQUIN. ...
LIVING ROOM - NIGHT. ALBERT, a middle-aged man, feeds MELVIN, a two-year-old. ADULT MELVIN (V.O.) I loved my father and he taught me many useful things. But he didn't teach me anything at all about women. There was a time when I ...
3 THE MARVEL LOGO. SMOLDERING, BEGINNING TO TURN ORANGE IN THE A3 HEAT AS WE TILT UP TO SEE- -FIRE. NOTHING BUT FIRE. 2 INT. TIGHT SPACE - INDETERMINATE TIME 2 Dark and cramped. The soft red light of fire seeps through iron slats. Inside this cage is a...
HREE MEN AND A BABY FADE IN: 1 INT. AIRPLANE - DAY 1 On a chartered plane flying from Miami to Newark Airport. JACK is the captain. His copilot PAUL is seated beside him. In the passenger cabin, a female gymnastics team is celebrating a hard-won, ...
employees and agents. Distribution, disclosure, reproduction or sale of this material to unauthorized personnel is strictly prohibited. January 5, 1993 THE THREE MUSKETEERS OPEN ON: 1 EXT. GASCONY - DAWN ...
Animated scenes of the Thunderbirds on various rescues begin to play as some of the cast and crew names show up. NARRATOR From a secret island in the South Pacific, the courageous Tracy family run an organization ...
ve songs, sporadic ZAPS from BUG LIGHTS, and an occasional random THWOCK as we -- FADE IN: 1 EXT. TEXAS - DRAMATIC ANGLE - SUNSET 1 Out west where the sun descends gloriously over desolate mountains. A sense of timeless and incorruptible beauty if you ignore ...
ILLAC DEALERSHIP - DAY 1 BILL BABOWSKY ("BB"), a wiry, dapper-looking man in his mid-thirties, is circling a baby blue Cadillac. A SALESMAN follows on his heels. SALESMAN She's a beauty. BB ...
irst Draft Polish August 5, 2005 FADE IN: EXT. STAR-FILLED SKY - NIGHT 1 Studio logo transitions into a CONSTELLATION in space. Cam ...
Screenplay by Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow FINAL DRAFT November 1995 ...
WD6 6/21/88 1 EXT. DESERT VALLEY - DAY 1 The high desert -- absolutely silent -- a vast, hard land- scape stretching away to distant mountains. The silence ...
, we see THE UNIVERSAL LOGO. The globe stops rotating, and STARTS TO BROWN AND CRACK. VOLCANOES ERUPT ON IT... ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER In a world where only one man made a difference... "n 1a% AND WE ZOOM ALL THE WAY IN TO,.. A POST APO...
he snow covered Alps stand out clearly in the light of a full moon. A fortress-like CHATEAU is situated in a flat saddle of forest partway up the mountain, next to a frozen lake. The property is surrounded by high stone walls, and the stately grounds are bathed in floodligh...
appears on a black screen. "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." Andre Gide The title fades off, replaced by a second title. ...
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all to his SON. The boy swings, connects, sends the ball flying. DAD smiles. BRANDON LANG'S VOICE That's me. Five years old. I remember that day. Believe it or not, I remember that hit. I remember it because of the smile ...
Current Revisions by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith February 14, 2008 1 INT. KPHX TV - LOBBY - DAY 1 ABBY RICHTER, 30's, pretty, driven and absolutely in control, walks thro...
LOGO DE « UFA COMACICO » Le logo de « UFA Comacico » représente un éléphant de cirque devant un rideau de scène. Il lève la patte et la trompe, et il barrit. TIGREVILLE - PLAGE - EXTÉRIEUR JOUR ...
NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER (V.O.) "Movietown News" presents... Spotlight on Adventure! The mysterious SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE. A massive waterfall cascades down a gigantic, flat-topped mountain. NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER (V....
NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER (V.O.) "Movietown News" presents... Spotlight on Adventure! The mysterious SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE. A massive waterfall cascades down a gigantic, flat-topped mountain. NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER (V....
Pitch black. Dead quiet. Dim faint light appears in the distance, approaching, growing larger. As the light nears, we recognize car headlights. Closer and closer until the car is bearing down upon us with great force... INT. CAR Two ...
Why does a dog wag its tail? BENEATH IT, THE NEXT LINE FADES IN: Because a dog is smarter than its tail. CROSS-FADE TO THE NEXT CARD, WHICH READS: If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog. DISSOLVE FADE IN: EXT THE WHITE HOUSE NIGHT A VAN FULL OF PEOPLE ST...
"Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers..." More stars. Distant galaxies, constellations, nebulas... A single planet. Drab and brown. Moving towards it. Pushing through its polluted atmosphere. "...Close your eye...
"Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers..." More stars. Distant galaxies, constellations, nebulas... A single planet. Drab and brown. Moving towards it. Pushing through its polluted atmosphere. "...Close your eye...
December 24, 1944, in the first safe area directly behind the battle line, in the Italian theatre. In the distance occasional artillery light flashes are seen and artillery rumbles are heard. The battered terrain shows the effects of battle. ...
December 24, 1944, in the first safe area directly behind the battle line, in the Italian theatre. In the distance occasional artillery light flashes are seen and artillery rumbles are heard. The battered terrain shows the effects of battle. ...
sky. A TEENAGED BOY'S VOICE greets us... TED NELSON (V.O.) On any given day, your life can change in the blink of an eye. It's a cliché, I know... Descending through the clouds, we are...
FADE IN: INT. KITCHEN - MORNING ANGLE ON: BILLY MATTHEWS, 8, ravenously eating a plate of hashbrowns, runny fried eggs and syrupy waffles. WOMAN'S VOICE (O.C.) Doug?... We see DOUG MATTHEWS, 40's, sitting across the table, staring at his...
Rev. 04/09/99 (Salmon) WILD WILD WEST Story by Jim Thomas & John Thomas Screenplay by S.S. Wilson & Brent Maddock and Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman B...
Third Revision November 14, 1986 (c) LFL 1986 Lucasfilm LTD. All Rights Reserved Act I FADE IN: EXT.. NOCKMAAR CASTLE - DAY Under gloomy sky a huge fortress looms on a volcanic mountainside. From within WE HEAR the agonizing scream of a woman giving bi...
esolate. In the far off distance a man is jogging. He banks around the end of a small pond and runs right at us. This is MIKE FLAHERTY, FORTY-TWO. He is running hard. Or at least as hard as he can. Suddenly TWO JOGGERS blow past him. ...
of bottles and dirty washing up. He lights the gas on the stove and puts on the kettle.] ['I' knocks on the door to Withnail's bedroom] I: I'm having a cup of tea, do you want one? [He waits for a response.] I: Do you want a cup of tea Withnail!? Withnail: No. ['I' leaves the flat, sl...
Script - September 7th, 2012 Blue Revised Pages - September 25th, 2012 Pink Revised Pages - October 9th, 2012 Yellow Revised Pages - October 15th, 2012 Green Revised Pages - October 16th, ...
DS appear, twisting and vaguely transparent, reflected on the window GRADY TRIPP stands before as he reads from a sheaf of NEATLY-TYPED PAGES. GRADY 'The young girl sat perfectly still in the confessional... 1 INT. CLASSROOM - UNIVERSITY - AFTERNOON Grady--45-year-old novelist, professor, an...
K an infinite void but at the center a SINGULARITY, a particle infinitely small and infinitely dense that contains all the potential matter and energy in the universe. THE BIG BANG A blinding flash of light as the singularity explodes, particles expanding in all ...
First Draft February 2, 2007 EXT. RUDY'S - NIGHT It's New Year's Eve at Rudy's, a hole-in-the-wall dive. People stream into the bar to celebrate. Outside, CARL ...
s we hurtle through a sky that's just beginning to get light. There are a few stars but they fade and the sky turns a milky blue and a big computer sun starts to rise. We continue hurtling through space and see that we're heading over a computer version of the New York City skyline. We move over Central...
deep HEAVING BREATHS. Moist FLESH FLAPPING accompaniment. Someone is beating off. A pause as the someone turns the page of a magazine. The beating off resumes at a quickened pace. The SQUEAKING of bed springs joins in. Another page is turned. Feverish THUMPING unti...
1. FADE IN: EXT. WILDERNESS - NIGHT Mist. Dark trees. Dripping vines. An ENGINE RUMBLES in the distance. The full moon shimmers on a puddle. A FROG SPLATS IN, ...
Jared Bush, Jim Reardon, Josie Trinidad, Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee IN BLACK -- We hear the feral, primeval sounds of a jungle at night. A timpani bangs an ominous beat. FADE IN ON: A JUNGLE - NIGHT A BUNNY nervously walks thro...