“… Forget about your logline. This is like talking with your best friend. It’s totally fine to start with something like DIE HARD in the Jungle. And then you explain. They don’t really need a lot to get the story, just how you’d explain it to a friend. You need the hook, the main characters, […]

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“… The globalization of America is impacting the film business as well — the days of the 7-15 million dollar movie are dying.  Take a stroll into any movie theater complex, anywhere — all you find are huge, 50-500 million dollar studio projects and small, 1-5 million dollar indies — homogeneous mega-movies and quirky boutique […]

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Dylan Callaghan interviewed Breaking Bad creator-showrunner Vince Gilligan at the WGA West site.
“… Pickings were slim. Both of us had tried to pitch various movie ideas around town without much success. Both of us had been unemployed for a while, and we were wondering what to do next. Either he or I joked about putting […]

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Denis Faye interviewed Dr. Cynthia Kuhn, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University, at the WGA West site.
“… My absolute favorite example of bad pharmacology– I like it so much that I play it in my class– is Pulp Fiction [Written by Quentin Tarantino]. When he […]

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“… DeVito hopes to pick up the pieces of Crazy Eddie, a drama that was to be written by 21 scribe Peter Steinfeld, with both producing. Right now the project is in shambles, all because they included the subject in a rights deal so he’d tell his story. DeVito grew up in New Jersey, and […]

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“… I’ve been getting a few enquiries lately about how to be a script reader, so I’ve rounded up the relevant posts towards the bottom of this piece. All the good jelly is there, and you can download a couple of sample reports from my website….”
Go to Danny Stack’s place …

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Over at Scriptshadow, Carson Reeves interviewed Jim Mercurio.
“… One of the biggest mistakes is to not have high enough expectations. Writers shouldn’t just nail a genre. They should innovate and transcend it, too. For example, The Hangover is an okay mystery but the genre-crossing makes it a great comedy. When you come up with a […]

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“… Sensitive to technique in the work of classic filmmakers, Martin Scorsese has always tried to give each picture a vivid visual and auditory profile. Although he’s often praised for his realism (usually prefaced by the adjective ‘gritty’), Scorsese is often a subjectively oriented director. This quality goes beyond the justly celebrated performances of his […]

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Jon Bonnell’s film “Star Quest: The Odyssey” is featured in the April edition of InkTip Magazine, Vol. 10, Issue 2.
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Mahora Peters’ script “Soil Of My Soul” has been optioned by New Zealand producer-director Popo Lilo.
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“… (W)hile I felt kicked out by Los Angeles in 2003, I am giving it the finger and coming back.  That city is the hub of my chosen career, and like it or not, LA has to take me back….”
Go to S. Lane Porter’s place …

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“… When I use crossplatform and multiplatform I’m talking about projects and content that make use of several different platforms or media. The world of Harry Potter appears in books, movies, video games, clothing lines and much much more. It’s a multiplatform — maybe even omniplatform. Any TV show or movie with a web site […]

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“… I send stuff out. I forget about it. If I get interest, my agent negotiates. If the interest fizzles out, I move on. If a producer with whom I don’t already have a relationship with promised me something six weeks ago, and didn’t deliver it, you will have to remind me what it was, […]

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Jennifer Quintenz is one of the honorees named by the Diversity Department of the Writers Guild of America, West for the 2010 WGAW Writer Access Project, a program designed to identify excellent, diverse writers with television staffing experience.
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Deb Stenard’s comedy “A Snowball’s Chance” has been named a finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay screenplay contest. Congratulations, Deb!
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