Enter stage right - "Inside the Script" - where classic movie screenplays can be read on your e-reader.
From a story in the Wall Street Journal...
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution said Sunday it would start making the screenplays to four of the studio’s more iconic movies available for sale as e-books. As part of the studio’s “Inside the Script” digital publishing initiative, fans can now buy e-book versions of “Casablanca,” “Ben-Hur,” “An American in Paris” and “North by Northwest” for their iPads, Kindles and Nooks.
The studio hopes to establish a market for digital screenplays, which it can bundle with archival materials otherwise languishing in studio vaults.
Each e-book title will retail for $10 and includes the film’s actual shooting script and rare historical documents from the Warner Bros. archives. The “Casablanca” e-book, for instance, not only includes the original script, but it also features producer Hall Wallis’ production notes and studio chief Jack Warner’s telegrams and memos. The “Ben-Hur” e-book contains excerpts from star Charlton Heston’s acting and shooting journals during filming, as well as a forward and photograph captions written by Mr. Heston’s son, Fraser.
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