“… (S)omething became sorta clear to me over the weekend. There’s a split in geekdom. It’s not totally obvious yet but it’s the first time I’ve really seen it. I imagine the 2009 panel in 20 years (unless we’ve all uploaded our consciousnesses to the server by then). The panel will be discussing Transformers 2. […]

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“… This is my last post at Variety.com. I loved my stint here, but I’m moving on, taking Thompson on Hollywood to its new home.
“I’m going independent in more ways than one. Sunday night I’m launching a new Thompson on Hollywood, housed at IndieWIRE, the web-savvy, thriving online indie trade founded by Eugene Hernandez 13 […]

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Denis Faye interviews undercover FBI agent Joaquin Jack Garcia (memoir “Making Jack Falcone” rights sold to Paramount) at the WGA West site.
“… The good movies are pretty much 90 percent accurate. They get it right as far as their propensity for violence. They get it right as far as it is this secret society or […]

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“… I hate writing synopses of a completed script. Just hate it. But I’ve found two ways to make the process work for me….”
Go to Alex Epstein’s place …

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“… (T)here’s a big difference between the world of a movie (the setting, the rules, the background color) and the movie itself. And that bridging that gap is what screenwriters do….”
Go to John August’s place …

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“… In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. I discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged. They didn(’)t deny the experience occurred but for nine months the various people […]

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“… (C)ompiling The Hollywood Reporter’s third annual list of the 100 most influential entertainment lawyers in America was no easy task. From high-stakes litigation like the battle between Warner Bros. and Fox over ‘Watchmen’ to the yearlong maneuvering that paired DreamWorks with India’s Reliance Big Entertainment and Disney, the industry’s most compelling dramas increasingly cast […]

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Variety’s Anne Thompson sat with writer-director James Cameron outside the San Diego Convention Center for a brief conversation about his upcoming film, Avatar.
Go to video interview …

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“… For the first time, the giant annual convention for fans of comics, movies, superheroes, science fiction and video games that has become a major event on Hollywood’s calendar — now in its 40th year — devoted almost an entire day to presenting films in 3-D, culminating with a 25-minute glimpse of ‘Avatar,’ the eagerly […]

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Mike K of Hacking Netflix.com gets inside the Hartford shipping center to see where all the movies come from. Photo essay reveals which parts of the process still require human intervention, takes a look at high-speed addressing and envelope stuffing machinery, and points out exactly how they get those little round stickers folded onto the […]

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“… In screenwriting, because so much of the job is pitching, you have to stand out for simple job survival. Film executives will take six or seven or ten pitch meetings in a day. OF COURSE you have to have a great story to tell, but you equally have to make sure they’re actually awake […]

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Finalists were announced in the 2nd Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest, which encourages marketable genre feature writing.
Paul Littell’s “Toy Soldiers” is a finalist in the Action/Adventure/Thriller category, Deborah Stenard’s “A Snowball’s Chance” is a finalist in Comedy, and Felice Bassuk’s “The Koi Keeper” (with Richard F. Russell) is a finalist in Drama. Congratulations everyone!
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Comic-Con 2009 kicks off Thursday, July 23, at the San Diego Convention Center (preview session Wednesday evening, July 22). Sold out in advance, again.
“Comic-Con International is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the […]

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Lee Tidball’s screenplay, “Midnight Princess,” is a quarterfinalist in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition. Congratulations Lee!
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John Rogers posted about getting the Leverage gang back together for this summer’s run on TNT.
“… We’d literally written ourselves out of a show premise. You see, we’(d) sworn to ourselves we’d tell a complete story in Season 1, in case we never made an other episode of Leverage again. No cliffhanger endings for our […]

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