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Bob Koster, Proprietor

It's Here! At long Last!

The On Production Budget Book

• Order Bob Koster's On Production Budget Book Today from Barnes and Noble.com. The lowest available price!
• The comprehensive production managing and budgeting textbook.
• Manual for computer budgeting integrated with budgeting info.
  
• CD-ROM, Demo Versions of Movie Magic Budgeting and Bob Koster's Superbudget included, both Windows and Mac versions.
  
• Also for sale at the following stores:
  • Barnes and Noble
  • Borders Books
  • Samuel French Booksellers
  • Enterprise Printers and Stationers
  • UCLA and USC Student Bookstores (require student body cards)
  • Amazon Books on the Internet

Go to the Assistant Directors Training Program

Click for Bob Koster's Lecture Schedule

Bob Koster no longer sells software directly. We have made an arrangement to sell through

Writer's Store

They have agreed to sell to my clients at the same prices I charge, and they are better equipped to handle sales since I am working as a consultant to Creative Planet in updating the software the industry uses.

Please tell them I told you to buy from them; they will handle your account with their accustomed dispatch and dignity.

Writer's Store:

1 800 272 8927, or 310 441 5151 (Voice)

1 800 486 4006, or 310 441 0944 (Fax)

2040 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025

To contact Bob Koster:

Call us at (805) 482-9117 or

1-888-407-0330 (Toll Free)

Fax us at (805) 482-9125, or

StarComp can also help you with long- and short-term Computer Rentals. Coming into town for just a few days or a couple of months? Don't want to bring your desktop? Call our rental facility, CompuRent, at 310 475 2121. Ask for "Al." Tell him you are Bob Koster's client. That will qualify you for our special discounts.

StarComp offers its clients a link to the Internet Film FAQ

Or if you still prefer to do all your paperwork by hand:
Here's the best forms generator for the production department

Go to

Movie Magic Production Suite

the modern way to handle all your forms; schedules, budgets, call sheets, production reports, script reports, SAG reports, everything for the efficient management of the well-tempered production.

Want the world's greatest cast party?

As a special service to our special customers, we are now offering for the first time on the Internet, the premiere ShowBiz Party Service:

ROSKO World Radio Syndications and Party Productions!

ROSKO also proudly offers his radio show for syndication in domestic and foreign markets. Email us for more info, or Fax 1 (805) 495-6799.

Bob Koster's Link List

• If you need any paperwork for the TV or Movie industry, call sheets, production reports, breakdowns, SAG reports, budget forms, you can get them easily at Enterprise Printers and Stationers. They print and sell all the standard forms, and do specialized printing besides. They also sell the Industry standard strip boards, strips, and other office supplies, not to mention all manner of showbiz reference books, directories, guides, and textbooks. And, they're a buncha nice folks, too.
• Of all the armed services, the U.S. Air Force is our first line of Defense. They have a very active Public Assistance Office here in Los Angeles which will help you to get good advice and help in making a movie with any Air Force themes or subjects, not to mention some of their more exotic airplanes. They want to help.
• Want the best ShowBiz Sites? Try David Augsburger's Cinema Sites. The oldest and best of all the entertainment industry reference guides, links to anywhere and everywhere in showbiz.
• Visiting script writers and playwrights! The best resource for all ye wordsmiths is: Charles Deemer's The Script Writers' and Playwrights' Page.
• Check this one out: Completely unbiased reviews of the major scriptwriting software. Rich Wilson takes no ads, tests all the programs himself, writes his own very comprehensive and very insightful comments. Go to Communicator!
• Here's the Step-Up Women's Network.They are running a Women's Screenwriting contest. Check it out!
  Then of course there is the ultimate Internet Movie Database. In a huge computer somewhere in Switzerland, it stores info on well over 100,000 movies historical and hysterical, memorable and forgettable, all linked to cast and crew credits. Some of these movies haven't even been released yet!
• Please visit my good friend Bob Schneider, at Budgets By Design.. His budgets are not mere budgets - they are works of art.
• Script feeling under the weather? Need a script doctor? Or just a second opinion? Call Lou Grantt. She has the insight to help smooth out the tiniest lumps in exquisite pudding of your script. Or she can stir up the whole pot if need be. This is one experienced professional who delivers. Lou also edits the magazine, Hollywood Scriptwriter, the most informative and most literate journal for screenwriters. You can subscribe very easily.
• Here's a nifty address which has links to all sorts of media items in all sorts of media! Based in San Francisco, it gives an altogether different view of Show Biz.

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