The Final Draft, Inc quarterly newsletter is now up: http://...com/n7ocy7.

The May/June issue of Script is on newsstands and online now! Visit www.scriptmag.com for the most recent issue updates, or go directly to the digital edition here.

In its May/June 2009 issue, Script magazine, the premier magazine for screenwriters, announced its Ultimate Writer’s Workspace Giveaway. The contest is designed to outfit one up-and-coming screenwriter with everything required to create a box-office hit-making haven. Entrants, who are at least 18 years of age and live in the continental U.S., must write a short scene -- three pages max, in any genre, with at least two and not more than eight characters -- that explains why they deserve the Ultimate Writer’s Workspace. Submissions will be accepted until midnight EST of May 31, 2009 and judged on overall creativity, along with adherence to technical requirements such as proper formatting.
 
Script surveyed pro and aspiring writers to amass over $8,500 in essential items. Prizes include the recently released Final Draft version 8, a robotic massage chair from Human Touch, a gorgeous leather messenger bag from Saddleback Leather company, Keurig’s Platinum Single-Cup coffee brewing system, a Writers Store gift pack, workshops with Robert McKee and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner, a collection of more than 20 books, 15 years of Script magazine back issues, and much, much more. One talented writer will be awarded the entire package in one of the most complete and functional giveaways available to aspiring screenwriters.
 
For more information regarding rules, regulations, and entry forms please visit www.scriptmag.com/giveaway.

Enter for your chance to win the Notorious DVD from Fox Home Entertainment. Simply complete the Script Reader Needs Survey for your chance to win. Five (5) winners will be chosen at random from all entries. Entries will close at midnight EST, Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Find and complete the Script Reader Needs Survey here. One entry per household. 

There's an interesting interview with John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn) on CNN.com today that may be of interest to Script readers. Click here.

Congratulations to Oscar®-winners and Script contributors
Dustin Lance Black and Simon Beaufoy! Both distinguished screenwriters
were a part of our "Writers on Writing" series for their honored films,
Milk and Slumdog Millionaire.


For an excerpt of Milk, click here.

For the full-text version of Slumdog Millionaire, click here.

Join Final Draft, Inc. and Script magazine for an exclusive screening of Slumdog Millionaire and Q&A with Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, hosted by Script magazine's senior writer Bob Verini.

WHEN:
Friday, January 9, 2009, at 7:30 pm

WHERE:
Harmony Gold Screening Room
7655 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
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RSVP: www.finaldraft.com/slumdog
(The event is FREE - first come, first served)

Slumdog Millionaire
(www.foxsearchlight.com/slumdogmillionaire)
The story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika (Freida Pinto), the girl he loved and lost.

Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its exuberant storytelling lies the intriguing question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.