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Neil Russell is the founder and CEO of Hollywood Artists Pictures Corporation (HAPCORP), which creates, acquires and licenses intellectual properties for exploitation across all entertainment media. HAPCORP also produces motion pictures, television and music and has begun publishing books through its Rothington House imprint. Neil acquired his first intellectual property when he was in college, and over the course of his career has acquired the rights to hundreds of books, movies, plays, screenplays, short stories, formats, titles, magazine articles, life stories, songs, pitches and trademarks.

A former executive with Paramount, Columbia, MGM and United Artists, he formed his first company, Horizon Entertainment, in 1983, which was later acq
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Unlike writers who outline before writing or who begin with Page 1 and write to the end of their story, once I decide on the general p…more
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Unlike writers who outline before writing or who begin with Page 1 and write to the end of their story, once I decide on the general plot of my books, I write scenes as they come to me. These scenes are not in sequence, and I rarely know how they are going to fit together. However, as they accumulate, I eventually see a pattern, and the rest of the story emerges. I then write bridges to connect the scenes, and hopefully, everything makes sense. A 500-page novel takes about a year.

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Neil Russell I'm aiming to have the fourth Rail Black novel out before the end of the year, 2015. - NR…moreI'm aiming to have the fourth Rail Black novel out before the end of the year, 2015. - NR(less)
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"After a day of twists and turns, Hollywood has dodged a bullet. A threatened writers strike was averted early this morning when the WGA and management’s AMPTP reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year film and TV contract after the old contract had expired at midnight PT...."

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