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0 Steven Freeling is a successful husband, father and provider. His innate practicality and above average intelligence have made him a successful real estate salesman for a large agency in a nearby community. He is well liked, and respected by his boss and co-...
rom a bowl held in a scaly hand. The light shows us a mural. We start to move along the wall. First we see stars and planets, painted in a primitive, stylized fashion on bare rock. A voice on the track speaks softly to us. VOICE: We did not always live in hiding...
ere holidays come from. If you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun. This Is Halloween SHADOW Boys and girls of every age Wouldn't you like to see something strange? SIAMESE SHADOW Come with us and you will see This, our town of Halloween PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS This is Halloween, this is Halloween P...
s as we FADE UP on a SERIES OF SHOTS, all CLOSE and teasing. -- A man's FEET, in shabby work shoes, stalking through a junk bin in a dark, fire-lit, ash- dusted place. A huge BOILER ROOM is what it is, although we only glimpse it piecemeal. ...
its huddle under a blanket in his window seat. The lights are dim -- the shade on the window closed -- a bead of sweat dribbles down his forehead. The HUMMING of the jet's engines vibrates through the cabin. The boy's eyes snap open. Jacob glances around nervously. He l...
thing that will be obvious to viewers, but not to readers, is that the nine principal parts in this film are played by only three actors: 1) Gary, Gavin, Gabriel 2) Sarah, Susan, Sierra 3) Margaret, Melissa, Mary It'll make more sense in context. Promise. 100 ...
ndelier is a noose. A chair stands beneath it. Telfer looks up for a moment. Blankly, he eyes a framed photoportrait on his desk: a beautiful, thirty-something blonde returns his gaze with an enigmatic smile. He stops writing and folds the sheet, scrawls something on the back, and leaves it on the desk. Then he walks t...
Copyright 1965 Astra Productions "ORGY OF THE DEAD" FADE IN: EXT. CEMETERY - NIGHT. CLOSEUP of HEAVY RIVETED IRON DOORS with round handles covered by spider webs. Two "GIANTS", wearing leopard-skin shorts, iron bicep-bands and headba...
a simple beauty and very pregnant, propped up in a bed, wearing a hospital gown. A heart rate monitor BEEPS. She touches her swollen belly, flush with excitement, her eyes full of wonder. MAN'S VOICE (O.S.) Okayp, just relax.now. This'll be over Caitti before you...
oles of light show a sea of distant stars across the void of outer space. Our own motion is only realized as an enormous object slowly moves towards us, taking shape. A SPACE SHIP of unimaginable size, a tubular freighter easily ten times larger then any aircraft carrier. At ...
Copyright, 1959 1988 & 1998 Leo Marks The screen remains dark for a moment. In the darkness WE HEAR the film's THEME MUSIC - a gentle whirring purring noise. Nothing to be alarmed about. It might be a small contented motor. ...
begins. LILLY For three hundred years the great plagues have swept the earth. Diseases created from the experiments of the Alchemists. We see death tolls appear through this graphically. The plague - 5 million soul...
's a plywood cross leaning aslant. Written on the crossarm in black paint which has faded: SMUCKY HE WAS OBEDIENT. The letters are faded. They are also straggling and ill-formed--the work of a child. MAIN TITLES BEGIN. EXT. ANOTHER GRAVE MARKER A child's printing again, this time on a chunk of warped c...
65) A storm is raging outside. We hear the clap and roll of THUNDER. TOMB STAIRWAY - RATS scurry away down the scum-covered steps as the GLOW OF A LANTERN and FOOTSTEPS herald someone's arrival... GENVIEVE LEMARCHE emerges around the bend. Mid-30s. Cultured beauty. Her dress and face are smeared with...
t Revised First Draft 3/3/98 NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS AND SOME "OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. NOTE ALSO: THE HA...
April 28, 1986 With Revision #3 (Yellow) May 6, 1986 With Revision #4 (Green) May 20, 1986 With Revision #5 (Goldenrod) January 27, 1987 April 7, 1986 With Revision #6 (Goldenrod) January 30, 1987 --...
-- John Charles Earle Oxford Book Of Mystical Verse FADE IN: THE MOON. So fat and full in the night sky you can reach out and touch it. HICKS W. 0. This is what's known: There has...
FADE IN: EXT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - DAY SUPER: April 27, 1973 All is quiet outside this suburban school on a sunny Friday afternoon. Cars idle in the driveway awaiting the three o'clock onslaught of liberated children. Two faded yellow buses stand read...
d gritting against glass: FADE UP ON: A howling dust storm battering the doors and walls of a tiny woodplank church. Inside, huddled together against the rage outside, are a small group of people. All in black, mostly elderly, they ...
FADE IN: EXT. PHOENIX, ARIZONA - (DAY) - HELICOPTER SHOT Above Midtown section of the city. It is early afternoon, a hot mid-summer day. The city is sun-sunblanched white and its drifted-up noises are muted in blanched their own echoes. We fly low, heading in a downtown direction, passing over traff...
he sound of FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING, then nineteenth- century boots ENTER FRAME. We FOLLOW them strolling past the headstones and mausoleums. The sound of a HORSE and CARRIAGE ECHOES in the distance. VOICE (V.O.) There comes a time for every vampire ...
FADE IN: EXT. DARK FOREST - NIGHT FLAMES fill the SCREEN. Then: the gentle voice of an OLD WOMAN, barely more than a whisper... OLD WOMAN (V.O.) I am a common woman. I was born in a common cottage in a common village. My life would likel...
March 16, 1995 TITLE CARD... BELEM BRAZIL - JULY... EXT. BELEM STREETS - NIGHT A taxi careens down narrow roadways at breakneck speeds. INT. TAXI - NIGHT In the back seat is WHITTLESLEY. Early 40's, the wreck of a once handsome man. Unshaven. Sweat stained. Rai...
ILM ROMERO-GRUNWALD PRODUCTIONS FIRST DRAFT OCTOBER 7, 1998 --- This text orginiated from www.New-Blood.com, please check them out for Resident Evil coverage. --- Pg-1 RESIDENT EVIL PRESENTATION CREDITS appear... then FADE... Out of BLACK....
e film (c) 1998 Ring/Rasen Committee Distributed by PONY CANYON Adapted/ Translated by J Lopez http://www.somrux.com/ringworld/ --- Caption-- September 5th. Sunday. INT. OUISHI HOUSEHOLD TOMOKOS ROOM - NIGHT CLOSEUP on a TELEVISION SET. Theres a baseball game on, but the sou...
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 ...
INT. COLLEGE DORM ROOM - DAY Sunlight pours through the window of an empty, silent dorm room. The room seems alive, somehow. As if it's waiting patiently for this year's kids. A long beat. The room darkens for an instant. Just the sun, right, dipping behind a clo...
a wall of glass and stucco. Beach chairs are arrayed around the pool's edge; sunbathers lie sprawled across them. A short boardwalk leads toward the Gulf of Mexico: the white sand, the blue water. Four young Americans are encamped near the pool's edge; they're all ...
ight moves its way downwards across the screen. As it passes, we see just under the water part of a young mans face. His eyes are closed. The light disappears, and across the darkness appears the title S A W. The title fades away. T...

ches for it, bringing the receiver up to the face of CASEY BECKER, a young girl, no more than sixteen. A friendly face with innocent eyes. CASEY Hello. MAN'S VOICE (from phone) Hello. Silence. CASEY Yes. ...
ds: "SNEAK PREVIEW TONIGHT 'STAB' Rated R" A line has formed around the block, GUYS and GIRLS - mostly college age. CLOSE on a girl, MAUREEN, no more than 18. A friendly face with innocent eyes. She stands in line with her boyfriend PHIL, same age. A handsome counterpart. ...
ar horns rise up on the soundtrack as we slowly DISSOLVE INTO: INT. FORD EXPLORER - NIGHT A new 99' Explorer sits in the midst of the gridlock. Behind the wheel is hot teen heartthrob and Hollywood everybody BEN DAMON. Ben is handsome, studly, in his early 20s. However, aside from being just another pretty...
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...

July, 1980 "THE SHINING." EXT. COLORADO MOUNTAIN (U.S.A.) - DAY - L.S. Lake and Mountains. CAMERA TRACKS FORWARD past island in lake. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. ROAD - DAY - L.S. High Angle V.W. Car moving along road - CAMERA TILTS UP w...
OMPLEX -- MORNING Starliner Towers is seen in LS through the windshield of a moving car. The car approaches the complex and stops near the main doors of the West Tower. Out of the car climb Kresimir and Benda Sviben, a gawky newly we...
w of a house. The backyard is large and green with a wooden jungle gym, worn from use. A single tree throws shade onto a barbecue and a picnic table. The backyard is lined by crops. Corn. Golden and brown. Six feet high. Everything is perfect. Like a postcard. And then we HEAR A CHILD SCREAM. IT'S FA...
arris FADE IN: INT. GRUBBY HOTEL CORRIDOR - DAY (DIMLY LIT) A woman's face BACKS INTO SHOT, her head resting against grimy wallpaper. She is tense, sweaty, wide-eyed with concentration. This is CLARICE STARLING, ...
NTRY NIGHT - AND MOONLIGHT CREDITS BEGIN. A rail-rider comes chugging along the tracks. Aboard is ARNIE WESTRUM, a big man in a strappy T-shirt and chino pants. He is drinking beer. ARNIE (sings) My beer is Rheingold the dry beer... Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer... He drains the rest of ...
CK FOOTSTEPS AS ANNA CROWE moves down the stairs. Anna is the rare combination of beauty and innocence. She stands in the chilly basement in an elegant summer dress that outlines her slender body. Her gentle eyes move across the empty room and come to rest on a rack of wine bottles covering one entire wall....
Based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker Third Draft 4/10/95 A pleasing land of ...
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...
March 26, 1998 Sometimes within the brain's old ghostly house, I hear, far off, at some forgotten door, A music and an eerie faint carouse And stir of echoes down the creaking floor. "Chambers o...
November 30, 2001 FADE IN: ...on a BLACK WAVE - vast, oceanic, and coming right at us. BEGIN TITLES. The wave is relentless, huge, menacing. We can't tell if this is daytime or night because it simply obscures everything - noisily. It sucks, it yawns, it roars. Then we rea...
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Based on a version of "Sweeney Todd" by Christopher Bond 18th DECEMBER...
EARLY DRAFT February 28, 2003 FADE IN: INT. BUS STATION - DAY SUPERIMPOSE: 17 YEARS AGO Small, Canadian, rural. Just the Native American CASHIER jotting down sports stats from the paper. MARTIN, 16, enters. Slight, pale and frail, new clothes, a tag still hangs fr...
HIGHSMITH 1st November 1999 NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. 1958 PROLOGUE: INT. RIPLEY'S CABIN. EVENING. ...
"I wish that I could write you a melody so plain That would save you dear lady from going insane" Bob Dylan, Tombstone Blues BLACK MUSIC UP: Slow, sad, ethereal. ...
swinging back and forth behind the glass housing. The room is barren except for a pair of open suitcases and a bed that's been stripped. Sitting on the mattress is ... JULIA LEVIN ... Smart and clever. Dressed in a graduation gown and staring out the window. She seems to be lost in thought, immobile, until...
John W. Campbell. Jr. SECOND DRAFT March 4, 1981 CAST MACREADY 35. Helicopter pilot. Likes chess. Hates the cold. The pay is good. ...
ROOM #1 1 CLOSE ON - A YOUNG WOMAN'S EYE. Bloodshot blue. Her eyelashes tremble. A tear rolls out. She blinks. CLOSE ON - A filthy, coarse rope secures a dirty rag inside her mouth. CLOSE ON - The same type rope binds her ankles together. CLO...
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 ...
A FULL MOON FILLS THE FRAME -- Luminous, tinged with gold. Slowly, a penumbral shadow begins to spread across the moon's surface, darkening it from left to right... BELLA (V.O.) "These violent delights have violent ends..."...
David Lynch and Bob Engels Typed By: Deep Thought Lynch/Frost Productions Shooting Draft FADE IN: 1. EXT. WIND RIVER, WASHINGTON - DAY On screen it reads: ...
Gliding closer, a group of tiny fish dart before the camera. We're UNDERWATER. Arriving at the form, it finally sharpens into focus. It's a WOMAN'S BODY submerged in dark water, arms floating lazily at her side. The face is obscured by flowing hair. All that is visible is a pair of COLD, STARING GREEN EYES, wh...
EET - NIGHT A quiet upper-middle class neighborhood. The CAMERA is at the curb, looking down the street. There are no sidewalks. Trees arch overhead. CICADAS drone on the soundtrack. The OPENING TITLES briefly FADE IN and OUT, framed by the ...
r in CLOSE UP, noticing details: hair worn stylishly messy, no makeup, double-pierced ears (though no earrings today), the corner of her bottom lip a little frayed where she's been chewing it ruminatively. She's the kind of beauty who can withstand such bad lighting: institutional lighting, f...

0 Steven Freeling is a successful husband, father and provider. His innate practicality and above average intelligence have made him a successful real estate salesman for a large agency in a nearby community. He is well liked, and respected by his boss and co-...

rom a bowl held in a scaly hand. The light shows us a mural. We start to move along the wall. First we see stars and planets, painted in a primitive, stylized fashion on bare rock. A voice on the track speaks softly to us. VOICE: We did not always live in hiding...

ere holidays come from. If you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun. This Is Halloween SHADOW Boys and girls of every age Wouldn't you like to see something strange? SIAMESE SHADOW Come with us and you will see This, our town of Halloween PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS This is Halloween, this is Halloween P...

s as we FADE UP on a SERIES OF SHOTS, all CLOSE and teasing. -- A man's FEET, in shabby work shoes, stalking through a junk bin in a dark, fire-lit, ash- dusted place. A huge BOILER ROOM is what it is, although we only glimpse it piecemeal. ...

its huddle under a blanket in his window seat. The lights are dim -- the shade on the window closed -- a bead of sweat dribbles down his forehead. The HUMMING of the jet's engines vibrates through the cabin. The boy's eyes snap open. Jacob glances around nervously. He l...

thing that will be obvious to viewers, but not to readers, is that the nine principal parts in this film are played by only three actors: 1) Gary, Gavin, Gabriel 2) Sarah, Susan, Sierra 3) Margaret, Melissa, Mary It'll make more sense in context. Promise. 100 ...

ndelier is a noose. A chair stands beneath it. Telfer looks up for a moment. Blankly, he eyes a framed photoportrait on his desk: a beautiful, thirty-something blonde returns his gaze with an enigmatic smile. He stops writing and folds the sheet, scrawls something on the back, and leaves it on the desk. Then he walks t...

Copyright 1965 Astra Productions "ORGY OF THE DEAD" FADE IN: EXT. CEMETERY - NIGHT. CLOSEUP of HEAVY RIVETED IRON DOORS with round handles covered by spider webs. Two "GIANTS", wearing leopard-skin shorts, iron bicep-bands and headba...

a simple beauty and very pregnant, propped up in a bed, wearing a hospital gown. A heart rate monitor BEEPS. She touches her swollen belly, flush with excitement, her eyes full of wonder. MAN'S VOICE (O.S.) Okayp, just relax.now. This'll be over Caitti before you...

oles of light show a sea of distant stars across the void of outer space. Our own motion is only realized as an enormous object slowly moves towards us, taking shape. A SPACE SHIP of unimaginable size, a tubular freighter easily ten times larger then any aircraft carrier. At ...

Copyright, 1959 1988 & 1998 Leo Marks The screen remains dark for a moment. In the darkness WE HEAR the film's THEME MUSIC - a gentle whirring purring noise. Nothing to be alarmed about. It might be a small contented motor. ...

begins. LILLY For three hundred years the great plagues have swept the earth. Diseases created from the experiments of the Alchemists. We see death tolls appear through this graphically. The plague - 5 million soul...

's a plywood cross leaning aslant. Written on the crossarm in black paint which has faded: SMUCKY HE WAS OBEDIENT. The letters are faded. They are also straggling and ill-formed--the work of a child. MAIN TITLES BEGIN. EXT. ANOTHER GRAVE MARKER A child's printing again, this time on a chunk of warped c...

65) A storm is raging outside. We hear the clap and roll of THUNDER. TOMB STAIRWAY - RATS scurry away down the scum-covered steps as the GLOW OF A LANTERN and FOOTSTEPS herald someone's arrival... GENVIEVE LEMARCHE emerges around the bend. Mid-30s. Cultured beauty. Her dress and face are smeared with...

t Revised First Draft 3/3/98 NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS AND SOME "OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. NOTE ALSO: THE HA...

April 28, 1986 With Revision #3 (Yellow) May 6, 1986 With Revision #4 (Green) May 20, 1986 With Revision #5 (Goldenrod) January 27, 1987 April 7, 1986 With Revision #6 (Goldenrod) January 30, 1987 --...

-- John Charles Earle Oxford Book Of Mystical Verse FADE IN: THE MOON. So fat and full in the night sky you can reach out and touch it. HICKS W. 0. This is what's known: There has...

FADE IN: EXT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - DAY SUPER: April 27, 1973 All is quiet outside this suburban school on a sunny Friday afternoon. Cars idle in the driveway awaiting the three o'clock onslaught of liberated children. Two faded yellow buses stand read...

d gritting against glass: FADE UP ON: A howling dust storm battering the doors and walls of a tiny woodplank church. Inside, huddled together against the rage outside, are a small group of people. All in black, mostly elderly, they ...

FADE IN: EXT. PHOENIX, ARIZONA - (DAY) - HELICOPTER SHOT Above Midtown section of the city. It is early afternoon, a hot mid-summer day. The city is sun-sunblanched white and its drifted-up noises are muted in blanched their own echoes. We fly low, heading in a downtown direction, passing over traff...

he sound of FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING, then nineteenth- century boots ENTER FRAME. We FOLLOW them strolling past the headstones and mausoleums. The sound of a HORSE and CARRIAGE ECHOES in the distance. VOICE (V.O.) There comes a time for every vampire ...

FADE IN: EXT. DARK FOREST - NIGHT FLAMES fill the SCREEN. Then: the gentle voice of an OLD WOMAN, barely more than a whisper... OLD WOMAN (V.O.) I am a common woman. I was born in a common cottage in a common village. My life would likel...

March 16, 1995 TITLE CARD... BELEM BRAZIL - JULY... EXT. BELEM STREETS - NIGHT A taxi careens down narrow roadways at breakneck speeds. INT. TAXI - NIGHT In the back seat is WHITTLESLEY. Early 40's, the wreck of a once handsome man. Unshaven. Sweat stained. Rai...

ILM ROMERO-GRUNWALD PRODUCTIONS FIRST DRAFT OCTOBER 7, 1998 --- This text orginiated from www.New-Blood.com, please check them out for Resident Evil coverage. --- Pg-1 RESIDENT EVIL PRESENTATION CREDITS appear... then FADE... Out of BLACK....

e film (c) 1998 Ring/Rasen Committee Distributed by PONY CANYON Adapted/ Translated by J Lopez http://www.somrux.com/ringworld/ --- Caption-- September 5th. Sunday. INT. OUISHI HOUSEHOLD TOMOKOS ROOM - NIGHT CLOSEUP on a TELEVISION SET. Theres a baseball game on, but the sou...

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 ...

INT. COLLEGE DORM ROOM - DAY Sunlight pours through the window of an empty, silent dorm room. The room seems alive, somehow. As if it's waiting patiently for this year's kids. A long beat. The room darkens for an instant. Just the sun, right, dipping behind a clo...

a wall of glass and stucco. Beach chairs are arrayed around the pool's edge; sunbathers lie sprawled across them. A short boardwalk leads toward the Gulf of Mexico: the white sand, the blue water. Four young Americans are encamped near the pool's edge; they're all ...

ight moves its way downwards across the screen. As it passes, we see just under the water part of a young mans face. His eyes are closed. The light disappears, and across the darkness appears the title S A W. The title fades away. T...

ches for it, bringing the receiver up to the face of CASEY BECKER, a young girl, no more than sixteen. A friendly face with innocent eyes. CASEY Hello. MAN'S VOICE (from phone) Hello. Silence. CASEY Yes. ...

ds: "SNEAK PREVIEW TONIGHT 'STAB' Rated R" A line has formed around the block, GUYS and GIRLS - mostly college age. CLOSE on a girl, MAUREEN, no more than 18. A friendly face with innocent eyes. She stands in line with her boyfriend PHIL, same age. A handsome counterpart. ...

ar horns rise up on the soundtrack as we slowly DISSOLVE INTO: INT. FORD EXPLORER - NIGHT A new 99' Explorer sits in the midst of the gridlock. Behind the wheel is hot teen heartthrob and Hollywood everybody BEN DAMON. Ben is handsome, studly, in his early 20s. However, aside from being just another pretty...

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...

July, 1980 "THE SHINING." EXT. COLORADO MOUNTAIN (U.S.A.) - DAY - L.S. Lake and Mountains. CAMERA TRACKS FORWARD past island in lake. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. ROAD - DAY - L.S. High Angle V.W. Car moving along road - CAMERA TILTS UP w...

OMPLEX -- MORNING Starliner Towers is seen in LS through the windshield of a moving car. The car approaches the complex and stops near the main doors of the West Tower. Out of the car climb Kresimir and Benda Sviben, a gawky newly we...

w of a house. The backyard is large and green with a wooden jungle gym, worn from use. A single tree throws shade onto a barbecue and a picnic table. The backyard is lined by crops. Corn. Golden and brown. Six feet high. Everything is perfect. Like a postcard. And then we HEAR A CHILD SCREAM. IT'S FA...

arris FADE IN: INT. GRUBBY HOTEL CORRIDOR - DAY (DIMLY LIT) A woman's face BACKS INTO SHOT, her head resting against grimy wallpaper. She is tense, sweaty, wide-eyed with concentration. This is CLARICE STARLING, ...

NTRY NIGHT - AND MOONLIGHT CREDITS BEGIN. A rail-rider comes chugging along the tracks. Aboard is ARNIE WESTRUM, a big man in a strappy T-shirt and chino pants. He is drinking beer. ARNIE (sings) My beer is Rheingold the dry beer... Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer... He drains the rest of ...

CK FOOTSTEPS AS ANNA CROWE moves down the stairs. Anna is the rare combination of beauty and innocence. She stands in the chilly basement in an elegant summer dress that outlines her slender body. Her gentle eyes move across the empty room and come to rest on a rack of wine bottles covering one entire wall....

Based on "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker Third Draft 4/10/95 A pleasing land of ...

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...

March 26, 1998 Sometimes within the brain's old ghostly house, I hear, far off, at some forgotten door, A music and an eerie faint carouse And stir of echoes down the creaking floor. "Chambers o...

November 30, 2001 FADE IN: ...on a BLACK WAVE - vast, oceanic, and coming right at us. BEGIN TITLES. The wave is relentless, huge, menacing. We can't tell if this is daytime or night because it simply obscures everything - noisily. It sucks, it yawns, it roars. Then we rea...

"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Based on a version of "Sweeney Todd" by Christopher Bond 18th DECEMBER...

EARLY DRAFT February 28, 2003 FADE IN: INT. BUS STATION - DAY SUPERIMPOSE: 17 YEARS AGO Small, Canadian, rural. Just the Native American CASHIER jotting down sports stats from the paper. MARTIN, 16, enters. Slight, pale and frail, new clothes, a tag still hangs fr...

HIGHSMITH 1st November 1999 NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. 1958 PROLOGUE: INT. RIPLEY'S CABIN. EVENING. ...

"I wish that I could write you a melody so plain That would save you dear lady from going insane" Bob Dylan, Tombstone Blues BLACK MUSIC UP: Slow, sad, ethereal. ...

swinging back and forth behind the glass housing. The room is barren except for a pair of open suitcases and a bed that's been stripped. Sitting on the mattress is ... JULIA LEVIN ... Smart and clever. Dressed in a graduation gown and staring out the window. She seems to be lost in thought, immobile, until...

John W. Campbell. Jr. SECOND DRAFT March 4, 1981 CAST MACREADY 35. Helicopter pilot. Likes chess. Hates the cold. The pay is good. ...

ROOM #1 1 CLOSE ON - A YOUNG WOMAN'S EYE. Bloodshot blue. Her eyelashes tremble. A tear rolls out. She blinks. CLOSE ON - A filthy, coarse rope secures a dirty rag inside her mouth. CLOSE ON - The same type rope binds her ankles together. CLO...

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 ...

A FULL MOON FILLS THE FRAME -- Luminous, tinged with gold. Slowly, a penumbral shadow begins to spread across the moon's surface, darkening it from left to right... BELLA (V.O.) "These violent delights have violent ends..."...

David Lynch and Bob Engels Typed By: Deep Thought Lynch/Frost Productions Shooting Draft FADE IN: 1. EXT. WIND RIVER, WASHINGTON - DAY On screen it reads: ...

Gliding closer, a group of tiny fish dart before the camera. We're UNDERWATER. Arriving at the form, it finally sharpens into focus. It's a WOMAN'S BODY submerged in dark water, arms floating lazily at her side. The face is obscured by flowing hair. All that is visible is a pair of COLD, STARING GREEN EYES, wh...

EET - NIGHT A quiet upper-middle class neighborhood. The CAMERA is at the curb, looking down the street. There are no sidewalks. Trees arch overhead. CICADAS drone on the soundtrack. The OPENING TITLES briefly FADE IN and OUT, framed by the ...

r in CLOSE UP, noticing details: hair worn stylishly messy, no makeup, double-pierced ears (though no earrings today), the corner of her bottom lip a little frayed where she's been chewing it ruminatively. She's the kind of beauty who can withstand such bad lighting: institutional lighting, f...