Variety’s David S. Cohen, who reports on visual effects and post-production stories, wrote an article last year about new pressures faced by f/x shops struggling to make planned release dates.
He quoted sources who said that “Visual effects houses are worried about the increasing demand for more product, at higher quality, in less time. Some effects […]

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“… replacing writers is business as usual in Hollywood. One of the amusing things about this business is that sometimes - after a parade of writers has ruined your screenplay - sometimes they hire you back to rewrite whatever mess they ended up with. Of course, you aren’t rewriting your *original* script, you’re rewriting the […]

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“BRANDING…. outside the advertising industry, it’s not a concept that’s very well understood in the media in Canada….
“Part of the problem with branding successfully is that you really have to know your audience – you have to have solid research, broken down and parsed exactly, and then you have to follow-through with programs – either […]

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There’s a transcript (Acrobat .pdf) of an interview with screenwriter Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men, Dharma & Greg, The Big Bang Theory, Cybill, Roseanne, Grace Under Fire) over at the American Screenwriters Association, with links to a couple of nice items on Chuck’s site.
First, an archive of those too-long-to-read-without-the-pause-button “vanity cards” he splashes […]

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The “… Hollywood screenwriter and former journalist who blogged anonymously as “Julie Goes To Hollywood” about the ten-year journey between chasing a dream and finding it….” announced the imminence, recently, of the book version.
Doesn’t look to be a lot of craft tips or shop talk, by design — more of a days in the life. […]

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Pointing out that Australia is a different marketplace than the Los Angeles he started out in, Jeff Bollow outlines five ways that writers can get produced down under.
Go To Jeff Bollow’s Place …

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The Hollywood Reporter’s Jay A. Fernandez posted an article in yesterday’s online version about the ways in which scribes are evolving in parallel with the emergence of new media. (h/t — John Arends).
“A new generation of scribes is ditching the starry-eyed concept of a glamorous career writing only for the movies and embracing a more […]

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Mark’s “Where the Dead Go” made it to the semi-finals in the (strike-delayed) 2007 Fade In Awards. Although but a small milestone along the trail he’s blazing, it was noticed, nevertheless. Congratulations.
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“I once wrote a line for an episode of Buffy … I thought it was clear…. No one commented on the joke and I assumed it was golden. And then we were on stage, shooting the scene, and it suddenly became clear to me that no one had the slightest clue what I was going […]

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Kim reports that she and her writing partner are semi-finalists in the (strike-delayed) 2007 Fade In Awards for their screenplay, “The Collection Agent.”
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“One can only get away in theory. I took a two-week hiatus from my story department job at Universal so that girlfriend Tater and I could lose ourselves in France, and the first Parisian bus I saw was nearly totally covered with a big green Uni ad for Hulk.
“But our trip on the whole was […]

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Michael joins several other members who have reported screenplays making it to the 2008 Bluecat Screenplay Competition Quarterfinals. Congratulations.
Go To Members Forum …

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This year’s Presidential tilt comes into sharper focus with

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Mike McPhaden, reporting on Jill Golick’s weblog from the Just Comedy conference in Montreal, thumbnailed a talk by Mitch Joel on how to reach the online audience.
“Google. Facebook. YouTube. That’s where an embarrassing amount of my time goes, and I’m not alone. Which is why there are a lot of awfully brainy people out there, […]

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“… I gotta confess, I think I have some bizarre form of PTSD triggered by flashbulbs. Or a psychological allergy to red carpet fibers. Like, I was really freaked out by the whole thing. And then I was like, ‘Oh Jesus, what if someone runs my picture tomorrow? They’re going to make fun of me.’ […]

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