Opening the Doors to Hollywood: How to Sell Your Idea, Story, Screenplay, Manuscript

by Carlos de Abreu, Howard J. Smith

Finally! A step-by-step guide to the keys that unlock the doors to Hollywood.

Opening the Doors to Hollywood has all the information you'll ever need in order to tap into the $500 million spent yearly in Hollywood on acquiring and developing projects.

Discover how
Find a story
Rewrite it
Option it
Package it
Pitch it
Write it
Sell it
to film and television companies

Complete with a reference section that includes guilds/unions, libraries, sample contracts, seminars and workshops, trade publications, and writers' organizations, Opening the Doors to Hollywood is invaluable to any writer.

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Carlos de Abreu is a "New York Times" bestselling author, producer, screenwriter, brand marketing expert and Internet pioneer.

Carlos de Abreu is of Portuguese descent and was born in Mozambique. He was a jet pilot in the Portuguese Air Force and studied economics at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and film at UCLA.