{"id":352687,"date":"2017-09-25T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=352687"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T09:53:10","slug":"write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/write\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Screenplays That Sell \u2013 the Ackerman Way Celebrates a Legacy of Screenwriter Successes with the 15th Anniversary Edition of Hal Ackerman\u2019s Popular Book >>> www.tallfellow.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Write Screenplays That Sell \u2013 the Ackerman Way Celebrates a Legacy of Screenwriter Successes with the 15th Anniversary Edition of Hal Ackerman\u2019s Popular Book >>\u00a0www.tallfellow.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hal Ackerman TWITTER<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a> | FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

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Over the last three decades, popular UCLA screenwriting professor, co-head of the
\nuniversity\u2019s acclaimed screenwriting program and author, Hal Ackerman has nurtured,
\nmentored and collaborated with hundreds of aspiring screenwriting students, many of whom
\nhave gone on to successful, award-winning careers in the industry. Having recently retired from
\nhis regular classroom assignments, Ackerman has turned his focus to impacting a wider, global
\naudience of both aspiring and already-working writers with the revised and updated 15th
\nAnniversary Edition of his heralded book Write Screenplays That Sell \u2013 the Ackerman Way (ISBN
\n978-1-931290-65-4). Tallfellow Press will release the new edition in both hard copy and e
\nversions on September 10, 2017.
\nThis updated edition includes historical and reference information on Academy Award
\nwinning writers from 1927 through the most recent awardees, as well as some of the most
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\npopular recent film and television hits, including La La Land, Moonlight, Arrival, Better Call Saul, Big
\nLittle Lies and The Mindy Kaling Project.
\nAckerman\u2019s long list of student screenwriter successes include Sacha Gervasi (The
\nTerminal, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks), Scott Rosenberg (the features High
\nFidelity, Con Air, Gone in Sixty Seconds and the television series Zoo, Happy Town, Life on Mars and
\nOctober Road), Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging, starring Brooke Adams and James Brolin and Grace
\nof My Heart, executive produced by Martin Scorsese), Eric Wald (View From the Top, starring
\nGwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate and Mark Ruffalo), John Sweet (The Affair of the Necklace,
\nstarring Hilary Swank and Christopher Walken), Phillip Railsback (The Stars Fell on Henrietta,
\nstarring Robert Duval, Aidan Quinn and Frances Fisher), Pamela Grey (A Walk on the Moon,
\nstarring Diane Lane, Anna Paquin and Liev Shreiber), Nicholas Griffin (Matchstick Men, directed
\nby Ridley Scott, starring Nicolas Cage), Scott Kosar (The Machinist, starring Christian Bale and
\nJennifer Jason Leigh) and Felicia D. Henderson (executive producer and writer of the television
\nseries Soul Food).
\nAckerman himself is also an accomplished screenwriter, playwright, long-form television
\nwriter and novelist. His credits include the theatrical feature screenplays Second Wind (starring
\nJames Naughton and Lindsay Wagner) and Holmeyer\u2019s Bridge, as well as the feature adaptions of
\nI\u2019ll Get There, It Better Be Worth the Trip, Slave Stealer, Star Witness and Homer\u2019s Odyssey (directed by
\nJohn Lithgow).
\nHe is author of the produced plays It Ain\u2019t Nuthin Nice and the award winning Testosterone:
\nHow Prostate Cancer Made a Man of Me. Ackerman\u2019s novels include the award-winning Stein, Stoned
\nand The Boy Who Had a Peach Tree Growing Out of His Head.
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\nAckerman\u2019s Write Screenplays That Sell \u2026 has become required reading in numerous
\ncollege and university screenwriting programs across the country.<\/p>\n

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Write Screenplays That Sell \u2013 the Ackerman Way Celebrates a Legacy of Screenwriter Successes with the 15th Anniversary Edition of Hal Ackerman\u2019s Popular Book >>\u00a0www.tallfellow.com Hal Ackerman TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK Tallfellow Press FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER   Over the last three decades, popular UCLA screenwriting professor, co-head of the university\u2019s acclaimed screenwriting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":352688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23020,23138,11923,7043,6386,23137],"class_list":["post-352687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","tag-ackerman","tag-screenplays","tag-sell","tag-that","tag-way","tag-write"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352691,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352687\/revisions\/352691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}