Michael Haig's The Hollywood Standard: How to Write a Movie and TV Screenplay that People Buy has been the definitive guide for film and television screenwriters for more than 20 years. This completely updated edition reflects the latest trends in the art and business of cinema. The cinema guru describes in detail every step from the idea to the sale of the script. Based on the fact that the main thing is the impeccability of the script itself, Haig teaches to achieve the perfection of the text, not for a second losing sight of all the components of commercial success. Knowing everything about cinema, the author gives psychologically accurate advice on how to approach the right people and achieve their interest, provides the reader with comprehensive recommendations about organizational structures and sources of information, analyzes individual scenes from many successful films, and gives a complete analysis of the script for the film Avatar. And Haig writes all this so convincingly that even a person who has not thought about a career in cinema before wants to take up writing a script.