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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: IS Hollywood Finally Ready to Embrace Original Ideas for Movies Again? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Strig from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. You might not be
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the term spec script if you aren't obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with movies, but it's a simple concept. It's an original screenplay,
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  Speaker 1: a fresh new idea whipped up by a writer independently.
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  Speaker 1: Then it's sold to a studio and occasionally turned into
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  Speaker 1: a movie. It's how some of the most popular films
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  Speaker 1: of all time got started. Rocky, Thelma Luiz, Lethal Weapon,
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  Speaker 1: one movie called Star Wars all did this. And while
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  Speaker 1: you might not be familiar with the term, any movie
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  Speaker 1: guard will notice spec script films are not nearly as
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  Speaker 1: common as they used to be. Theaters are now dominated
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  Speaker 1: by remakes, reboots, and sequels, but that might finally be changing.
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  Speaker 1: The dailies reports it. In August alone, eight spec scripts
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  Speaker 1: have sold. That's the highest total since March of twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and that might not be a fluke. Weapons and Sinners
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  Speaker 1: are both originally ideas that blew up at the box office,
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  Speaker 1: while some other movies with way bigger budgets from a
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  Speaker 1: familiar universe tanked are studios genuinely leaning into original ideas. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's too early to tell, but it could be welcome
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  Speaker 1: news For movie lovers who cherish a new experience, we'll
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