Quotes
Here are some recent artcles in which Chris Huntley is quoted:
Screenwriters concerned about security
Use of Web-based software, cloud storage stirs fears
By ROBYN WEISMAN
Variety.com
1/3/2011
Screenwriters who use Web-based software and cloud storage face a new fear in their trade: security.
Write Brothers veep Chris Huntley, for one, is skeptical that studios will adopt widespread online exchanges of information until military-grade protections are put in place.
"The WikiLeaks material was not something its originators wished to share with the world, so just imagine a studio freaking out about having its budgets, scripts and deal memos floating around," Huntley said.
While Huntley understands the utility of the virtual collaborative aspects that most of the Web-based apps offer, he thinks putting scripts and story ideas online is problematic. "The younger writers aren't concerned about the privacy issue until it bites them in the behind," he said. "Once they have their stuff stolen, they'll understand why people are private about their work."
Competition arrives for screenwriting software
Showbiz eyes Scripts Pro, ScriptWrite, Scripped.com
By ROBYN WEISMAN
Variety.com
1/3/2011
Once upon a time, screenwriting was a labor-intensive vocation. And that labor was hardly confined to the age-old challenges of storytelling...
Screenwriting programs like Final Draft and Write Brothers' Movie Magic helped change all that. Write Brothers veep Chris Huntley, who co-developed and sold the first scripting software nearly 30 years ago, said laughingly of the woes of script formatting, "We're in business because of page breaks."
...Over the past few decades, Write Brothers' Movie Magic Screenwriter has been the Pepsi to Final Draft's Coke in the screenwriting software aisle. With the exception of the niche occupied by Celtx, an open-source, all-in-one screenwriting and production package, the two companies have all but dominated the field...
Should Final Draft and Movie Magic be getting ready for battle? Huntley didn't sound too concerned, saying he's seen similar scenarios two or three times before. "You've got a couple of products that are dominant, there's a lull, and then a whole spate of new products show up that are pretty much in the same space, last five, six years and then die out because they're not in it for the long run," he said.