(Newswire.net — February 28, 2014) — Award-winning Hollywood director and producer Gary Goldstein has released Conquering Hollywood: The Screenwriter’s Blueprint For Career Success, a practical roadmap of Hollywood insider strategies on how to become a successful screenwriter.
Goldstein’s previous works have been awarded and nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes and People’s Choice Awards. Best known for producing the hugely successful Pretty Woman, Under Siege and The Mothman Prophecies, Goldstein teamed up with industry professionals to write Conquering Hollywood including Jeffrey Gordon (founder of Los Angeles’ Writer’s Boot Camp), Suzanne Lyons (Producer of The Calling) and Margo Romero (CEO of Blank Page Entertainment).
With over 25 years of filmmaking experience in Hollywood, Goldstein’s book will inspire upcoming screenwriters to the business of Hollywood and open up new opportunities for the creative community. The reasoning by Goldstein to write the book stems from the enthusiasm he still holds for the film industry: “Even after all these years producing films I am still excited every day to innovate and help creative people break through and find the path to their own success.”
Hollywood screenwriter Allison Burnett (Autumn in New York, Underworld: Awakening, Untraceable) claims that she is ‘living proof that Gary knows his stuff. When I met Gary, I had nothing but talent and a drive to succeed. Nine months and seventy-five meetings later, I had my first script option, my first studio writing assignment and a Writers Guild card’.
Conquering Hollywood was crowd-funded using the website Kickstarter where users pledged up to $1,500 towards the book, with some being given personal meetings and mentoring by Goldstein in return for their pledges. Over $25,000 was generated for Conquering Hollywood on Kickstarter, confirming the clamour by readers for Goldstein’s inside information.
For more information on Conquering Hollywood: The Screenwriter’s Blueprint For Career Success, please visit the book’s website: www.conqueringhollywood.com.
You can buy the book at these stores:
Barnes & Noble
iBooks
BAM!
Indiebound
About the author
Pretty Woman + Under Siege + The Mothman Prophecies…
Gary W. Goldstein has produced some of Hollywood’s biggest box-office hits, generating well over One Billion Dollars in worldwide revenue, receiving multiple Academy Award nominations, People’s Choice Awards, a Golden Globe and other honors.
Before moving to Los Angeles, Gary practiced as an attorney in San Francisco. He later served as president of two divisions of IAM.com, an internet entertainment company successfully funded at $50MM.
Gary’s passion as a storyteller goes beyond producing the work of gifted screenwriters. He’s committed to sharing with everyone who desires real success and enduring careers as a creative professional his smart, simple strategies that magically transform talent into business success more rapidly and with greater ease.
Gary regularly speaks to creative audiences and has given talks at American Film Institute, UCLA, Emerson College, De Anza College, the Dallas Screenwriters Association, the Screenwriting Conference at Santa Fe and beyond.