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The Well-Respected Software You Need To Finish Your Screenplay

The Well-Respected Software You Need To Finish Your Screenplay

Even A-list Hollywood screenwriters need some help getting their complex ideas into cohesive script form. That means more than just proper formatting of stage directions — and Final Draft 10, the industry-standard screenwriting program, gets that.

The list of Final Draft devotees includes exalted film luminaries like Aaron Sorkin, James Cameron, JJ Abrams, Sofia Coppola, and many more. That alone is proof positive that the latest program version, Final Draft 10 (now on sale for $149.99, a $100 discount from The National Memo Store), is the pro tool system to help get your script idea camera-ready.

As it’s done for 25 years, Final Draft 10 helps you shape your script to all the entertainment industry protocols and odd nuances that other pros recognize, including pagination, stage directions, and more. You get over 100 different templates for screenplays, teleplays, and stage plays. You can store multiple script variations and line changes with ease, collaborate with any number of other screenwriters in real time, and even dictate your script for hands-free writing.

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Georgia Grand Jury Indicts Allman Film Producers In Sarah Jones’ Death

Georgia Grand Jury Indicts Allman Film Producers In Sarah Jones’ Death

By Meg James, Los Angeles Times

The producers of a Gregg Allman biopic has been indicted in the train crash that killed a film crew member.

A Georgia grand jury has indicted film producers Randall Miller, Jody Savin, and Jay Sedrish on charges of involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass in connection with the February death of camera assistant Sarah Jones.

Jackie L. Johnson, district attorney for Georgia’s Brunswick Judicial Circuit, which includes Wayne County where the accident occurred, announced the indictments on Thursday.

Involuntary manslaughter carries a potential prison sentence of 10 years, according to Georgia law. Criminal trespass is a misdemeanor and carries a year’s jail sentence.

The death of Jones, 27, galvanized film crew members throughout the entertainment industry, highlighting longstanding concerns about worker safety. Last year, in a separate accident, three people died during a shoot for a Discovery Channel show when a helicopter crashed in Acton, Calif.

On Feb. 20, crew members were working on the film Midnight Rider, about the life of rock singer Gregg Allman. They were instructed to walk out on an old railroad trestle high above Georgia’s Altamaha River, where they placed a metal-frame bed on the tracks for an action scene.

William Hurt was scheduled to play Allman in the film.

As the crew prepared for a dream-sequence scene, a train came barreling toward them.

Crew members tried to pull the bed off the train tracks but were unable to. The train hit the bed frame and Jones, killing her.

In Thursday’s announcement the district attorney’s office said that Miller and Savin were the owners of Unclaimed Freight Productions Inc., which was filming Midnight Rider. Miller was also director of the film.

Sedrish was an executive producer.

Several other crew members were injured in the accident on the railroad tracks and trestle, located in Doctortown Landing.

The film’s production was suspended after the accident. Hurt withdrew from the production after Jones’ death.

The film’s producers did not have permission to film on the railway trestle itself, which is owned by the railroad company CSX.

The Wayne County sheriff’s office investigated the case. The district attorney presented the case to the grand jury on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office said there would be no further comment because the case is pending.

Los Angeles Times staff writer Richard Verrier contributed to this report.

Photo: Michael Hicks via Flickr

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