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It's no April Fool's joke. Mike's recently completed Honor Bound script has received the coveted "Recommended" designation by Script P.I.M.P!
Honor Bound is a drama-suspense story centered around so-called Honor Killings.
While the crimes are prevalent (and often un-prosecuted) in many middle-eastern countries, our story takes place primarily in America, where a young Muslim woman's uncle and brother have come to hunt her down and carry out their grisly act.
Her crime? She was raped by another man.
Mike just recently finished his Honor Bound script!
Mike's Honor Bound script is nearing completion and should be done by end of February!
Mike is ringing in the New Year with a new feature-length script! The script should be completed in early 2008. Stay tuned!
More awards and kudos for Living in Limbo, Mike's horror-comedy script. We have made the Semifinalist round for Scriptapalooza and the Quarterfinalist round of the ASA International Screenplay Competition (both are still in progress)!
At long last, the story we've been waiting to announce for months! Mike Amato's After Midnight script has been optioned by Producer Eric Kopeloff (Stranger Than Fiction, Monster's Ball) and Underground Films! No word on a Production start date yet, but we will keep you posted!
And to top it all off, our Living in Limbo script just took the Grand Prize at Script Pimp's Screenwriting Contest!
We just received some great news from THREE different screenplay competitions. Living in Limbo is a finalist in Script Pimp's 2007 Screenwriting contest - one of 20 out of 1200 submitted scripts!
The script is also a finalist in the American Screenwriting Competition (top 5%), and a quarterfinalist in the Bluecat Screenplay Competition.
Mike Amato has just completed work on a new comedy/horror script entitled Living in Limbo. The story is about the aftermath of a massive zombie attack in the United States. The "survivors", called Zombies-In-Transition, are given medication that prevents them from fully mutating into flesh-eating zombies. But their real struggle will be trying to fit back into mainstream society, which has little use for slow-moving, decomposing former humans who smell of death and have no sense of feeling. And while some of the Z.I.T's try desperately to fit in, others - embittered by the growing prejudice against them - begin to question whether they should keep taking their medication at all.
Within two days' time, Mike got two bits of great news about his latest script, a horror-comedy story entitled Living in Limbo. The script just received a designation of "Recommended" from ScriptPimp Magazine (their highest rating!). And an early draft of the script is now a Quarterfinalist at the American Screenwriting Association's Contest, which is still in progress!
Mike Amato has just completed work on a new comedy/horror script entitled Living in Limbo. The story is about the aftermath of a massive zombie attack in the United States. The "survivors", called Zombies-In-Transition, are given medication that prevents them from fully mutating into flesh-eating zombies.
But their real struggle will be trying to fit back into mainstream society, which has little use for slow-moving, decomposing former humans who smell of death and have no sense of feeling. And while some of the Z.I.T's try desperately to fit in, others - embittered by the growing prejudice against them - begin to question whether they should keep taking their medication at all.
Mike has begun work on a new script, his first foray into the horror genre. The untitled script will be a comedy-horror piece.
Meanwhile, Going To Great Lengths just received two more awards nods, as a semi-finalist in the Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards (which has not yet ended) and a finalist in the Boston International Film Festival.
Also, stay tuned to these pages for news on the status of Amato's After Midnight script.
Gray Matter and Wireless finished 5th & 6th, respectively, in the "Your Ticket to Hollywood" Screen-writing contest. According to the people who run the contest, no writer has ever placed two scripts in the top ten before!
Gray Matter continued on a roll, garnering a semi-finalist award in the Your Ticket To Hollywood Script Contest. Amato's newest script Wireless was also selected as a semi-finalist.
Mike is nearing completion on a final draft of the script for Jodom's next feature, Going to Great Lengths.
As reported earlier, Mike Amato's Gray Matter was selected as one of five finalists in the American Screenwriter's Association's screenplay contest, out of over 1200 scripts.
We are pleased to report that the script finished second overall! It also took Third Place in the Open Door Contest run by ScriptMag Magazine! Boo-yah!
Mike just completed the treatment for Going to Great Lengths and will write the script for the film as soon as he finishes the second draft of his high-tech conspiracy thriller Plug 'N Play.
We're also pleased to report that Jodom's award-winning After Midnight is once again available on DVD.
Steve Sherrick and Mike Amato have joined forces to form a new partnership. Under the new agreement, Jodom Pictures will retain its name, and we will broaden our reach to extend from films to corporate and commercial video. Mazeltov!
Mike's script, Gray Matter, has been selected as one of five finalists in the American Screenwriting Association Script contest, out of over 1200 entries!
In addition, Gray Matter and another Amato script, Murderer's Row, were both selected as finalists in the Open Door Contest run by ScriptMag Magazine!
Mike recently completed his treatment for the high-tech conspiracy thriller Plug 'N Play, and has already started on the script
Murderer's Row will go out today to 20-30 production companies in and around Tinsel Town, courtesy of Underground Management.
Also, Mike's previous script, Gray Matter, recently made the quarterfinalists list for three different screenplay contests - The American Screenwriters Association, Fade In Magazine and The American Screenwriting Awards (all three contests are still in progress).
Several months ago, Mike was invited to pitch a story idea for an affair thriller to Brent Ratner's production company (Red Dragon, Rush Hour). The opportunity was considered an extreme long shot and they wound up going with a more established writer.
But New Line shot the idea down, and it seems that Ratner's company can't get Mike's pitch out of its head. They've now asked to see some of Mike's previous scripts!
Meanwhile, Mike will soon begin work on his next screenplay, a high-tech conspiracy thriller tentatively entitled Plug 'N Play.
Mike has just completed the screenplay for Murderer's Row, a big-budget, feature-length actioner. The story revolves around a group of military death row prisoners who escape into Colorado's San Juan Mountains. Haunted by amnesia and hunted by their murderous captors and savage, surreal beasts, they begin to wonder if their escape may have been staged as part of a cruel and bizarre training exercise.
Mike also made a recent return trip to Hollywood, based on the strong word of mouth from his Gray Matter script. Mike met with representatives from Bruckheimer Films, New Line Cinema, Jason Hoffs Productions (at Dreamworks), and Warner Brothers, to name a few.
Mike's revamped After Midnight script now has a Director and Producer attached, and is in the funding stages. Steve Ayromlooi will direct, and Underground Films, Marc Porterfield and Eric Kopeloff will produce.
Amato also completed a second draft of the futuristic spy actioner, Gray Matter, which will go out to Hollywood producers in September. He's currently working on a script for a drama/suspense film about honor killings, tentatively entitled Honor Bound.
Mike goes to Tinsel Town! Well, for a week, anyway... Amato met as a screenwriter-for-hire with several film studios in Hollywood, including Disney, Lion's Gate, Spyglass Entertainment and the Mark Gordon Company (Saving Private Ryan, The Day After Tomorrow).
The screenplay for A House Divided has been honored for the third time, this time by Script Magazine's Open Door Screenwriting Competition, as a finalist.
Mike Amato and Jodom Pictures achieved a historic milestone when Amato signed with management company Underground Films of Culver City, CA. The company - voted one of the top 5 managers for new writers by Script Magazine, will represent Amato as writer, director and producer.
Amato completed the screenplay for the suspense thriller Mother's Day. The story involves a woman who starts seeing her daughter's "ghost" shortly after she dies in an auto accident. She begins to suspect her child may still be alive, just as the police begin to suspect she may be guilty of murder.
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