I didn't know this was a pitch meeting until it happened."

She does well at the pitch meeting and suddenly suffers from altogether too much self-esteem.

The competitors try their hands at a pitch meeting, then shoot and edit a short film in 24 hours.

The resulting novel reads like a fine tale spoiled by a pitch meeting.

Kouno had attempted to present the idea at pitch meetings twice in the early part of 2005 but was turned away.

Harmon was set on casting Stamp and even carried around his picture to pitch meetings.

I went to pitch meetings that he had at studios, marketing meetings.

"Can you imagine being in the pitch meeting," he added, "when someone came in and said they wanted to do a show about ballroom dancing?"

Had the pitch meeting occurred a few years earlier, "Hidden Palms" probably would have been on the air before the morning's coffee went cold.

They had paid $995 each to learn how to hone and sell their ideas with the artful savvy of a Hollywood pitch meeting.

NASA was not represented at the pitch meetings with the networks.

Here's a life with a story line high-concept enough for a Hollywood pitch meeting: what happens when the hippest guy on the planet gets old?

He also mentions a tiff with host Sally Field during a pitch meeting.

In addition to monetary awards, winners have access to a television industry mentor and in-person pitch meeting.

"You can no longer go into a pitch meeting and talk about a story revolving around $1 million," said Mr. France.

He was going to pitch meetings where entertainment executives said no before he began his pitch.

And in a ludicrous plot twist that might have sounded good at the pitch meeting, Sam salvages the situation.

Jacobson told me: "The chitchat that precedes every pitch meeting has changed.

Nowadays, older writers sometimes bring in their sons or daughters, and pretend they're partners, to pitch meetings with network executives.

This is one of those high-concept pictures in which you can almost hear the pitch meeting echoing in the soundtrack.

Dreamtime's chief executive, Bill Foster, who attended the pitch meetings, would not discuss the nature of the talks.

After presenting the fake newspaper during the pitch meeting, a very lively conversation ensued, until someone realized the paper was dated the following day.

Ward: We have a buddy who mentioned "Touch of Evil" in a pitch meeting.

Her whiff of sensuality is enough to make Stan try to break their love/hate partnership before she wows them in the pitch meeting.

Russ ends up in Hollywood but also in prison, where network executives are happy to visit for pitch meetings and table readings.