![]() ![]() ![]() have the solution to the screenwriter’s maddening travails: Streamline for Movie Magic Screenwriter, a software program that analyzes a screenplay, finds small changes that can be made to trim its excess material and, in the process, lower its page count. Luckily, the people at Write Brothers Inc. With some studios now retyping the script to check pagination and the methods of cheating all the more apparent with the world’s growing familiarity with word processing, “cheating the script” has become a fruitless labor and a waste of time. So with margin change after margin change, fonts reduced, line heights diminished until words are nearly sitting atop each other, page numbers duplicated and the screenplay’s format looking strangely stretched on the special lightweight paper purchased to fool those who pick the script up, the script has been successfully “cheated,” right? Screenwriters know the panic all too well: Their 125-page masterpiece is just five pages over the typical screenplay length for a feature film, leaving their work somewhere between the realm of never-to-be-seen or, at best, a producer’s trash can. ![]()
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