Next Stop Hollywood

Historically short stories were a rich source of successful movies and significant films. Classics such as Rear Window High Noon Psycho All About Eve and Blade Runner began as short stories. Unfortunately many of the major venues for discovering new talent—The Saturday Evening Post Colliers and Mademoiselle—are gone. Today short stories are again becoming an important basis for major motion pictures and television with films such as BrokebackMountain Good Will Hunting and Minority Report.One reason short stories are making a Hollywood comeback is Next Stop Hollywood an organization dedicated to finding both new talent and terrific material. This volume selected by more than sixty movie-buff readers and advised by an editorial board of Hollywood insiders picks up where those magazines left off. These very same stories may be at a theater near you in the near future. For anyone who has been disappointed by the movies of our day compared to those of the Golden Era of Hollywood refresh yourself with these exciting short stories and the possibilities they hold.