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Richard Michaels Stefanik

Richard Michaels Stefanik has studied movies that have achieved the zenith of success at the box-office. He calls them The Megahit Movies. In this book, he explores the commonalities of these screenplays. He examines the dramatic elements that move an audience, seducing them to return again and again to see the film - which is how a movie gains its megahit status...The art of screenwriting is in the ability to move the audience. Since Hollywood movies are huge investments, stories need to move the biggest audience possible... When a movie has the ability to attract crowds over and over - to the tune of a billion dollars worldwide - the story works.
Christopher Lockhart, Executive Story Editor
International Creative Management (ICM)
Beverly Hills, California, July 15, 2003

"The Megahit Movies book is a revised and expanded edition of Structures of Fantasy",
which analyses the dramatic and comic elements found in popular movies. This book has been selected by the
Writers Guild of America(WGA) for inclusion in its list of Recommended Screenwriting Books.
Script Magazine, Nov-Dec 2001

Structures of Fantasy is "One of the Best Books on Story Structure"
Writers Guild of America(WGA) Mentors Program, 1992

"The Megahit Movies perfectly exemplifies the commercially focused "how-to" screenplay book.
This book is specifically for screenwriters who want to learn how to write
the most commercial money-making "megahit" that they can."
Creative Screenwriting Magazine, Nov-Dec 2005