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ChrisBodily
Posted: September 7th, 2023, 1:45am Report to Moderator
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Hello Chris,

Congratulations on your exceptional script, The Morgue Museum! Your unique storytelling abilities truly make your work stand out, and we believe your talent deserves to be celebrated on a platform like no other. That's why we invite you to join Mea Via Studios, an online screenplay marketplace that allows writers to sell their scripts directly to potential buyers.

As we are in the beta phase of our platform, we highly value the input of screenwriters like yourself to ensure we're building the best platform possible. To show our appreciation, we are offering our services free for a limited time only and providing a custom mock-up poster for your scripts to help bring your vision to life! This personalized poster will highlight your script's potential and add an extra touch of professionalism to your work, increasing its appeal to potential buyers.

Join us at http://www.meaviastudios.com to share your outstanding script, The Morgue Museum. Join us in our mission to put undiscovered creative talent in the game and provide you with the opportunity to sell your screenplay directly to potential buyers!

Congratulations once again, and we look forward to welcoming you to Mea Via Studios' beta version!

Best,


While I'm flattered, if bewildered, I'm not really sure what I'm looking at here. I see films with mock posters, synopses and asking prices (or negotiable).


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Not had the email Chris but essentially it looks like a scam.

Notice on their website, there is literally no info on who runs the site, or why they think people looking for future scripts would come here to find them. This is stark contrast to Script Revolution, Inktip etc.

They say they are offering this service free for a limited time, so I'm presuming they will charge you later down the line.

The poster aspect is an interesting wrinkle but I'm guessing they are uploading your script details into Midjourney or some other AI based image creator and using that to provide the poster.

I did do a quick Whois lookup on the webiste, and they seem to have bought the website via a company called Domains by Proxy who's tag line is "Your identity is nobody's business but ours." they literally hide who is the actual owner of a website... very suspect!


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AnthonyCawood
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Oh and the website itself is awful, forgot to mention that!


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There was another thread like this earlier. I guess they are still at it.

https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-Chat/m-1689205434/s-all/


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ChrisBodily
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Yeah, it didn't pass my sniff test. Plus, as a future guild member, I wouldn't want to scab anyway. A lot of these scripts appear to be from the same writers.

It seems this person is copypasting the same email message and just changing the writer's name and picking a random script they wrote once.


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AnthonyCawood
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There's nothing 'scabing' about listing your scripts on reputable sites like this, Script Revolution etc... you just cannot currently sell or negotiate with WGA signatory production companies - i.e. all the big ones.


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