LA Weekly’s Nikki Finke details the falling out between SAG and AFTRA in her Deadline Hollywood Daily online column. It’s not too early to start keeping an eye on contract talks between actors and the AMPTP.
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John August posted on Friday about the Script Frenzy event that starts on April Fools’ — lots of comments there — folks who did it last year sounded positive about it — sounds ripe for side bets, too.

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Recent Community Blogs post — latest installment of Rebecca’s notes from Day Three of the Sherwood Oaks event now available. More good stuff.
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Hal just introduced a new class that’s all about amping up the voltage in
your current script and making your writing show up as special. The
price is right, too.
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Felice posted two important items — one about due diligence regarding potential investors, and another about good results from following up on queries.

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One of our ProSeries grads posted a confidential script request from a producer in the Members Forum yesterday morning. Very specific requirements for budget and protagonist. See post for details.
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“When it comes to sci-fi … (f)rom Asimov to “The Twilight Zone” to Philip K. Dick, many of the great concepts were actually born a half-century ago …”
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“In an unusually aggressive step, Fox Broadcasting yesterday refused to pay a $91,000 indecency fine levied by the Federal Communications Commission for an episode of a long-canceled reality television show, even as the network fights two other indecency fines in the Supreme Court.
“The FCC proposed fining all 169 Fox-owned and affiliate stations a total of […]

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Congratulations to the team at DadLabs.com on their recent Yahoo! Video Award. Members will recall Hal mentioning them in the Script For Sale Newsletter of March 20th, 2008, Issue #137, in connection with a current project.
The Yahoo! Video Awards - The Results
Best Indie Music Video: Terrene: Unwelcome
Best Animated Video: Weird Al’s Childhood
Best Non-Fiction Video: Good: […]

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Kymber posted an announcement in the Alumni Locations Forum that the first meet-up brunch in Los Angeles, originally planned for this Sunday, is being rescheduled.
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Recent Community Blogs post — don’t miss the first installment of Rebecca’s notes from Day Three of the Sherwood Oaks event.
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ProSeriesAlumni.com has experienced technical difficulties for the past week.
Now that we’re back, we wanted to make sure everyone was aware of an important message Hal sent to members recently. It’s been posted to the Members Forum at the link below.
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“The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule for the first time in 30 years on what constitutes indecency on broadcast television and radio.
“The justices will weigh whether federal regulators may levy large fines on broadcasters who let expletives on the airwaves during daytime and early evening hours.
“The court could rule that the Federal Communications Commission […]

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“LAS VEGAS — Eager to get American cinema complexes ready for a surge in 3-D movies next year, four major Hollywood studios announced on Tuesday a deal to subsidize the conversion of 10,000 theaters to digital projection systems.
“The announcement, at ShoWest, the annual trade show that gathers theater owners and movie distributors here, overlooked one […]

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Hulu, a joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp., will deliver television shows and film over the Internet. Links to various articles below.
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