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"First rate analysis at a cut-rate price." — Creative Screenwriting
"First rate analysis at a cut-rate price." — Creative Screenwriting
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As a production executive, script analyst, writer, and director, Michael Ray Brown has developed many successful screenplays for both television and the movies. While a student at the University of Nebraska, he directed six short films. One of them, The Orchard Heritage, was awarded an Independent Filmmaker Grant from the American Film Institute. An Academy Award student film finalist, The Orchard Heritage was voted best animated film at the Athens International Film Festival. Upon moving to Southern California, Michael began to focus on where it all begins: the screenplay. As a free-lance story analyst he synopsized and critiqued scripts, novels, and treatments for producers and literary agents. His clients included Casablanca Filmworks, American Cinema, The Begelman/Fields Co., John Kemeny, Hanna-Barbera Prods., Capella Films, and NBC Entertainment. During the next five years, Michael shepherded movies, television series, and miniseries at Metromedia Producers Corporation. As story editor he cultivated relationships with agents, writers, and publishers to get a first look at new material. He supervised adapting the period novel Sara Dane into a popular Australian miniseries. He also developed the comedy series Small Wonder, for two years the highest-rated original program for syndication. Michael subsequently became a staff story analyst for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, MGM/UA, and Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures. Besides reviewing submissions, he wrote development notes, and evaluated independent films for acquisition. Michael's reputation is unparalleled. He has recommended and/or developed the screenplays for numerous successful films, including the box-office smash Lethal Weapon, Doc Hollywood, The Last Emperor, City Slickers, Regarding Henry, Under Siege, Free Willy, While You Were Sleeping, Apollo 13, Braveheart, My Best Friend's Wedding, Red Corner, Contact, Hart's War, and many others. (View a list of Michael Ray Brown's credits.) Michael has lectured at the Screenwriting Expo, Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, the Dallas Screenwriters Association, San Diego Filmmakers and the Hollywood Scriptwriting Institute. His talks included tips on how to write a screenplay that Hollywood will love, and how to get it past the gatekeepers. Recruited as a contributing editor to the Independent Feature Project/west newsletter, he wrote a series of articles on film financing and distribution. He is a member of Story Analysts, Local 700S, I.A.T.S.E.; Filmmakers Alliance; Film Independent (FIND); Scriptwriters Network; and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Over the past eight years, Michael has written more than 50 hours of prime-time television. A staff writer on eight series, he also scripted the made-for-TV movies Escape from Death Row, Cruel Deception, and Angel of Death for New Dominion Pictures. He served as script consultant on the features East of Sunset and 3 Girls & the Golden Cocoon, adapted the play Dark Streets, Special Jury Award winner at CineVegas, and rewrote Zeus for Pomegranate Pictures and Wind Jammers for producer Ric von Maur.
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