Your Movie Studio
For authors · screenwriters · story owners
Hollywood still prices many features like a $10 million bet. With today’s production stack, the same ambition—story, tone, and a finished cinematic path— can start near $20,000. Often less when special effects stay lean.
The math Hollywood doesn’t advertise
Big budgets buy speed, stars, and unlimited VFX. Most writers don’t need a war machine— they need a credible movie that honors the page. That is a different problem. We solve the second one.
~$10,000,000+
Crews of dozens, location weeks, union overhead, and effects pipelines built for studios—not for a single author with a finished manuscript.
Screenplay Alive path
From ~$20,000
Ambitious cinematic production using AI-assisted craft, tight scope, and honest effects limits. Less than $20,000 is common when your story thrives on character, mood, and limited VFX rather than city-level destruction.
Figures are orientation, not a guarantee of identical theatrical distribution spend. Final price depends on runtime goals, talent approach, locations, music rights, and especially special-effects complexity. We cap ambition to budget—on purpose.
Who this is for
You finished the hard part—the book. Adapting to screen should not require a second career in studio fundraising. We translate structure into motion: trailer, treatment beats, and a production path.
Spec scripts die in inboxes. A cinematic proof—even a powerful short path or trailer— changes the room. Show the movie, don’t only pitch the PDF.
Life rights, series bibles, true stories, hybrid IP—if you control the narrative and want a film, we design a package that matches your risk tolerance and effects needs.
How Screenplay Alive works
Book, screenplay, or treatment. Tell us the emotional core, genre, and whether effects are essential or optional.
We map a path: marketing trailer, funding cut, mini-feature proof, or full feature collaboration—priced by effects load and length.
Finished motion you can put in front of audiences, investors, or partners. Iterate with clear revision rounds.
Don’t fund a $10M war because a PDF asked you to. Prove the movie first. Grow when the story earns it.
Special effects & cost
Character drama in rain-soaked streets? Intimate thriller? Period mood with smart staging? Those stories can live in the efficient band. Transforming cities, armies of creatures, or nonstop particle fireworks? Possible—but that is a different check.
Our promise is not “unlimited Hollywood VFX for pocket change.” Our promise is cinematic truth for your story at a price that matches its real needs. Limited special effects keep founding and early feature paths accessible—sometimes under $20,000 for tightly scoped deliverables.
Choose your first move
Start where the market can feel you. Many authors win the next conversation with a theatrical-style trailer or a short cinematic proof—then step into a feature path.
From $1,499
Market the story, raise money, or test the room. Audience cut or funding cut.
Trailer package →From $2,499
A short that carries your tone—proof the world works on screen.
Mini-movie →~From $20,000 · often less
Book or screenplay → structured film collaboration with effects-aware scope.
Talk feature path →Founding special
Limited founding slots for book→feature with constrained VFX. Ask if open.
Founding details →Why Your Movie Studio
Our flagship world—Artificial Intimacy—includes a published novel, multi-season series craft, trailers built for audience tests and funding rooms, and production packages for clients. Screenplay Alive is the same philosophy applied to your pages.
FAQ
Multi-million budgets still exist for star-driven, location-heavy, effects-max productions. What changed is the floor for cinematic quality storytelling. Lean pipelines and AI-assisted craft mean many books and scripts can reach a professional screen presence for roughly $20,000—and less when special effects are limited. We scope honestly so “$10M look” means tone and finish, not fake promises of unlimited spectacle.
No. Bring the book. We’ll help define adaptation beats, visual tone, and the first motion deliverable (often a trailer or proof) so you don’t freeze at format.
Shorter proofs, contained locations/worlds, dialogue-forward drama, and limited VFX. Fixed packages like trailers and mini-movies start much lower and often unlock the next investor conversation.
You come in with your IP. Deliverables and commercial rights are defined in writing for each package. We don’t bury “we own your story” in fine print games—ask for the terms that match your path.
Use the contact form below or talk to our qualification specialist on this page. Include title, format (book/script), length, genre, and whether effects are central.
Next step
Tell us about your book or screenplay. We’ll reply with a realistic path—trailer, proof, or feature— and a price band that respects your effects needs. No $10M theater required to begin.
