Category: screenwriting
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Nazi Zombie Death Tales – Now Available to Rent/Buy on Prime Video
The second of our disreputable anthologies, Nazi Zombie Death Tales, has recently found its way back to streaming after several years in the second-hand-copies-on-physical-media-only wilderness. The flick was shot as Battlefield Death Tales (so please don’t go into it expecting hordes of nazi zombies; the title change was made at the request of a supermarket…
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Write When You Can
I was sat in the car on Saturday morning, waiting to pick a family member up. I had half an hour to kill. I opened the screenwriting app on my phone, opened my current work-in-progress and somehow tapped out a character moment that I absolutely love. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve written all…
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The Changing Face of Filmmaking
So, while I’m buried in the development for Chainsaw Fairytale (aka Fairytale Princesses vs the Horror Genre – I just CANNOT seem to decide between the two titles), the whole AI thing keeps rearing its head. Obviously. Let’s talk about the Virtual Filmmaking thing first. As Chainsaw Fairytale largely takes place in a fairytale/fantasy landscape…
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Chainsaw Fairytale Revisited
The script for Chainsaw Fairytale has a long and strange history. I’d been messing around with the vague concept (Fairytale Genre vs Horror Genre) for quite a while but never got all that far with it. A page or two of development work and script ideas here and there, not much else. Then I had…
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Powertool Cheerleaders is LIVE!
Two and a half years ago, I was giving up on the screenplay for Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead…
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Going Live
We’ve been looking at testing out live streaming for years, actually. One of our most treasured schemes way back in the day would have involved live streaming the entirety of principal photography for one of our movies, with four cameras set up in different areas that you could skip between. Always thought that would be…
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The Tale of Hellbride II
Our movie Hellbride has been seen by more people than any other Jinx movie, (with the possible exception of TrashHouse, which was torrented insanely upon DVD release in 2006, but figures for that are really hard to accurately find). It was released on DVD on both sides of the Atlantic, with the UK release getting…
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Screenwriting Masterclass and Consultancy
Here at Jinx Media, we’d like to thank everyone who attended our masterclass at the weekend. The event was a massive success, and we’ll be announcing additional dates shortly. We’d also like to formally announce Pat’s new script consultancy service. Over the last decade, Pat has been offering feedback and notes on scripts in both…
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Get the Screenwriting Masterclass to Visit Your Town!
I love running workshops and masterclass sessions on screenwriting. Over the years, I’ve built up a real arsenal of exercises and techniques which can help screenwriters tap into their full potential regardless of whether they’re just starting out or have been writing professionally for a while. I’ve been lucky enough to spend time lecturing in very…
Pat Higgins and Jinx Media 