“… (B)e charming and funny and smart.
“But also be businesslike. You want her to know that you’re working your career, not just stumbling through it….”
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Jim Cirile lists five things that will kill the relationship with your representative.
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“… I surveyed a number of very successful actors and actresses to learn how they memorize scripts. Their answers were all fascinating and wildly different…. Memorization is just one of the many skills I don’t have to be an actor.”
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“… One of the best classes I ever took on screenwriting was SOLELY on premise. Every week we had to come up with three loglines for movie ideas and stand up and read them aloud to the class. We each put a dollar into a pot and the class voted on the best premise of […]

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Check out two of ProSeries writer Charles Card’s shorts, “Plague Guard” (mockumercial), and “Natural Selection” (horror), at Metacafe.

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“… (D)on’t co-write a spec script unless you’re open to being partners with someone. No one will hire you based on a co-write, unless they can hire you both to co-write….”
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AJ Ferrara’s “The Lutetia Paradox” has made the quarterfinal round in the 2008 American Screenwriting Competition sponsored by Flat Shoe Entertainment, Hollywood Scriptwriter Magazine, and HollywoodLitSales.com. Congratulations, AJ!
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Elisabeth Loesch’s “Change of Heart” is a finalist in the 2008 Movie Deal screenplay contest, together with AJ Ferrara’s “The Book of Toth,” Mahree Munding’s “Old Girls Gone Wild,” and Lois Wickstrom’s “Coal for Christmas,” reported here previously. Congratulations, Elisabeth! (h/t — Marla Hayes)
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ProSeries writer Marjorie Glantz struggles with groping actors in a comic short. Bonus outtakes as credits roll.
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Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards were announced earlier today.
Presentation of the awards is scheduled for Sunday, February 22, 2009, beginnning at 5 p.m. PT at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries […]

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Notes on last night’s episode, “The Mile High Job” (Amy Berg), thoughts on what some of the episodes have been “about,” and some penetrating Q&A.
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“You will hear many writers tell you — and rightly so — that Act Three is the toughest. Finishing up what you started, finding the final solution for your characters, and also ‘letting them go’ is a challenge for sure.
“But to me, the trouble spots I see working with writers most are found in Act […]

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“PUSH,” a short film by ProSeries Writer Marla Hayes, has been named the Grand Prize winner of the North Bay Symphony Orchestra’s “From the Heart Short Film Competition.” The film will be featured during the Symphony’s performance of Holst’s “Mars: The Bringer of War,” at its “From The Heart: Music Inspired By Films, Films Inspired […]

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009.
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“They broke the rules. They touched each other. They swallowed each others’ souls.”
Check out ProSeries writer Jon Bonnell’s trailer for “The Evil Dead Breakfast Club,” now showing at YouTube.
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