Your Stage : Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie Script by Randy Gross

Good luck.

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Nice. A Christmas-angel story?

Go for it!

All the best Randy - I have a Christmas movie airing on Hallmark that I was fortunate to score! If you need a composer let's connect!

Hey Randy: You and I are ornaments hangin on the same tree. I just finished writing a Hallmark Christmas movie as well. Good luck to both of us.

Best of luck!

Way to go, Randy! Good luck with it!

I'm bringing this back to life because I also just finished a Hallmark-like screenplay; did you have any luck? If yes, how? And if not, what did you learn about the process?

No luck (yet), Donna. Have a couple of producers still considering my script, and I was able to get a 'Letter of Intent' from a prominent Canadian singer to play my lead role, but other than that I'm still in "wait-and-see" mode. Tried something a little different with this script - the focus of the story is on the leading man more than the central female character - so that may have worked against me somewhat, but I'm still trying (and learning).

Was the letter of intent something recommended? I have a lot of connections to soap opera actors, who seems to be pretty popular in those movies. I could probably get an attachment, but not sure how much it would help.

No, I don't think anyone really recommends Letters of Intent anymore - unless if it's from an A-list mega-star. Even then, they still don't seem to carry as much weight as they used to. I've gotten a couple of LOI's over the past couple of years, and they really haven't made much difference.

I had someone shopping a pilot of mine and he kept getting all these LOIs and I did wonder if they mattered at all. FWIW, though, I do think having a male focus will hurt--everything I hear and read, and all the calls want female-forward scripts.

Yeah, my next Hallmark script is definitely going to be more female-forward!