FINAL DRAFT™ INTERNATIONAL EDITION RELEASED
Scriptwriting Software Now Includes Non-English Spell-Checkers
Getting Started Manual is now Multi-Lingual

CANNES, FRANCE – May 11, 2005 – Final Draft, Inc., (www.finaldraft.com) today announced the availability of the International Edition of Final Draft™, its top-selling scriptwriting software, which is used to write scripts for movies, television and theater. Final Draft International Edition allows the user to choose from a number of foreign language spell-checkers and thesauri to be used with its easy-to-use dedicated word processor for scriptwriting. In addition, the Getting Started manual is now printed in English, French, German and Spanish. Availability is immediate at a retail price of US$289 from Final Draft, Inc. and resellers worldwide. Final Draft comes with both Windows and Macintosh versions included. To order, or for more information, visit www.finaldraft.com. It can be seen and purchased at the Final Draft booth in Cannes at the American Pavilion.

“The Hollywood format for writing scripts has been adopted throughout the world. Final Draft International Edition makes it effortless for non-English speaking writers to create industry-standard professionally-formatted scripts,” said Scott McMenamin, Director of International Sales for Final Draft, Inc.

About Final Draft, Inc.
Final Draft, Inc. was founded in 1991 to develop a scriptwriting program that allows the writer to concentrate on the creative process and not on Hollywood's stringent formatting rules. Since then, Final Draft has become the Hollywood professional's choice and the world's #1-selling scriptwriting program.

Final Draft is the software of choice of such industry giants as Alan Ball, Tom Hanks, Oliver Stone, J.J. Abrams and Michael Bay. Television shows such as "The Sopranos,” "Lost,” “Entourage” and "Desperate Housewives,” feature films such as "Cold Mountain,” “Lost in Translation,” "The Incredibles,” “Sideways" and any of the "Lord of the Rings,” "Harry Potter" and recent James Bond movies are all the results of scripts written with Final Draft.

Final Draft, Inc. also publishes Final Draft AV, the only dedicated multi-column script processor specifically designed for writing commercials, corporate videos, documentaries, presentations, DV shorts, etc.

The company's headquarters is in Calabasas, California. More information about the company and its products is available at www.finaldraft.com.

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Contact: Frank Colin, Vice President, Product Development
Phone: 818.995.8995 x113 E-mail: colin@finaldraft.com