SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Filmmaker Sam Macaroni Discusses New Comedy “Guest House”

Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Sam Macaroni about his new comedy “Guest House” (2020), featuring Pauly Shore, Aimee Teegarden and Billy Zane. Sam Macaroni Directed “Guest House” and wrote it with Sean Bishop and Troy Duffy (“The Boondock Saints” – 1999).

Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Sam Macaroni. They talk about his new Comedy Guest House (2020), featuring Pauly Shore, Aimee Teegarden and Billy Zane. Sam Macaroni Directed Guest House and wrote it with Sean Bishop and Troy Duffy (The Boondock Saints - 1999).

They also talk about how he worked with Robert De Niro on the movie Heat (1995) and pitching the script for Guest House and where this idea came from.

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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.