Amazon Builds Film Studio and Needs Screenwriters

If you are a budding screenwriter, Amazon.com might make your dreams come true. The online merchant is expanding and will launch Amazon Studios. This is a movie production which contents are submitted by users and developers. The company will give rewards to the chosen filmmakers and screenwriters.

The process goes like this: the website invite users to submit material every month, organize a poll and at the end of the month, the writer with winning material will be awarded with cash. In case Amazon Studios pursue the making of the entry to a movie, the writer can get as much as $400,000.

To help Amazon decide which material is the best, the online merchant selected a board of judges which includes veteran screenwriters, former president of Miramax Studios and university professors.

Submission of entries begins on January 2011.

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