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  • #31
    Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

    Originally posted by CthulhuRises View Post
    Did they actually respond to you? I've heard they usually don't even notify of a pass.
    Georgia has requested three of my scripts over the years (ZG must be gluttons for punishment) and I've had to chase them up for the rejection each time.

    I wrote to them after about four weeks.
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    • #32
      Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

      Originally posted by CthulhuRises View Post
      Did they actually respond to you? I've heard they usually don't even notify of a pass.
      Yeah, good call. I'd forgotten that they actually tell you up front that if you bore them, you won't hear back.

      I paraphrase.

      Any case, the report is they "enjoyed" my writing and want me to throw some more logs at them. Which I guess is code for "if you can write, why does this story suck so bad?"

      What are ya gonna do?

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      • #33
        Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

        Originally posted by Mopap View Post
        Yeah, good call. I'd forgotten that they actually tell you up front that if you bore them, you won't hear back.

        I paraphrase.

        Any case, the report is they "enjoyed" my writing and want me to throw some more logs at them. Which I guess is code for "if you can write, why does this story suck so bad?"

        What are ya gonna do?

        Throw the kitchen sink at them!

        Surely Georgia will like something. She must have read some 75875587756 thousand scripts by now.

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        • #34
          Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

          Originally posted by CthulhuRises View Post
          Did they actually respond to you? I've heard they usually don't even notify of a pass.
          Seems as though they typically don't, which is what some people were stating. Would be nice, but I imagine they're busy, does seem like they request a lot of scripts.

          People I know that are repped by them are happy, I got a read there a few weeks ago, been wondering the same thing. Pretty sure 2+ weeks is typically a pass, but then again, you never know what their reading department is like, at certain Paramount companies they have entire walk-in closets with just scripts they own, I can't imagine what their read list looks like (especially on a computer screen).

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          • #35
            Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

            I just got a positive response after a couple of months, so don't despair!
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            • #36
              Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

              Its more my experience to give a minimum of 6 weeks for anyone to read through a screenplay.

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              • #37
                Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                Originally posted by LauriD View Post
                I just got a positive response after a couple of months, so don't despair!
                Is that more than a read request?

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                • #38
                  Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                  Has anyone signed with Zero Gravity Management and had them actually go out with the spec script got their interest in the first place? Or do all of ZGM's clients end up writing scripts from scratch based on ZGM's ideas?

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                  • #39
                    Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                    Sounds like they keep their writers going on their own ideas...but that's second hand info.

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                    • #40
                      Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                      I can't speak to how they are overall, but I'll say I was disappointed with my experience and it sounds like it's in keeping with what some others have said.

                      I was recommended to a rep there (not Georgia) by a producer with whom they had worked and respected. The rep read the script and asked to see another. I was asked where the scripts had been shown, etc.

                      I was then told they were looking to develop a certain idea (not that specific but more an idea in a certain genre) for a director. Some ideas were tossed around, but then the communication just stopped. I followed up a few times and got no response.

                      Not impressed with their act. It could be just that one rep, but overall I've always been uncertain how they've worked and what exactly they are looking for.

                      I think they've got decent clients and work hard to promote them, but they are a bit mysterious in terms of how to really get their attention.
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                      • #41
                        Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                        I've been pretty quiet on these boards lately, y'know taking in the posts and scanning them over because I've given up on the writing gig, but my experience is the same as yours and Montana Hans.

                        ZG want's you to develop their ideas and once you crap out enough log lines and synopsis's to keep them going till the year 2012..it's good bye sucker and radio silence, or as one manager wrote me after he was giddy with excitement over my well crafted screenplay then pushed it up the proverbial ladder, then passed. He wrote "Good luck"..that's it..not hey do you still want to work on that idea...nada. That e-mail translated to me as "Thanks moran for giving us your work and ideas, but we no longer require your services sucker!"

                        Now..I know people on these boards don't want to hear this type of thing because deep in their hearts their hoping for that door to break down for them some day, but when you're on the outside looking in...you're always going to be on the outside.

                        So I'm just telling you my experiences with ZG, but these last two posts have confirmed my theories, and DD'er's can beat up on me all you want and defend their honor if you like..saying their the best..blah..blah..blah.

                        For gods sakes one of our own is being persecuted right now so if you think the industry gives two shakes about the writer..then I'm sorry to spoil your Holiday delusions.

                        I've been so wronged in so many ways that I just don't care anymore and you guys can take my posts for what's it worth.

                        Sorry.

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                        • #42
                          Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                          So, bram20, when you sell this well-crafted script through another rep, will ZG come knocking on your door saying the script is based on their idea and they developed it with you and they're still attached?

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                          • #43
                            Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                            No, this script was entirely mine. After he said he enjoyed reading it and wanted it to move up the ladder that's when he wanted more log lines and ideas and so forth, but this particular manager had no hand in my original screenplay whatsoever..that was all me, but I gave him so many loglines and ideas and I'm very sorry I did because he couldn't think of one interesting concept on his own. Now we know why ZG asks for so many scripts...and it's not for the writers benefit.

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                            • #44
                              Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                              Originally posted by bram20 View Post
                              that's when he wanted more log lines and ideas and so forth, but this particular manager had no hand in my original screenplay whatsoever..that was all me, but I gave him so many loglines and ideas and I'm very sorry I did because he couldn't think of one interesting concept on his own. Now we know why ZG asks for so many scripts...and it's not for the writers benefit.
                              Are you suggesting they will rip off ideas and give them to writers they already rep?

                              That would be unscrupulous.

                              But you can register a 'synopsis' with the WGA - would that not give you some protection?
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                              • #45
                                Re: Georgia Vestakis/Zero Gravity Management

                                Guys, in case you haven't noticed..the industry is unscrupulous and this is happening whether you writers want to acknowledge this or not. I know it's a tough pill to swallow but gulp it down and welcome to reality "Take the red pill".

                                I can't believe that this has not entered any writers mind..but we know full well that it has, we just refuse to accept it.

                                If they deny 99.9% of work and I know for a fact that their are DD'ers on here who write pretty exceptional then you put the pieces of the puzzle together. It's not that hard..just start at the corners.

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