Richard Senne has been hired to adapt “On The Edge of  Unthinkable,” Paula A. Kyle’s novel about her experiences in foster care.
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“… The athlete and the warrior, the actor and the dancer all spend hours preparing for their moment under the lights. So do you and I. We’re courting the flow. We’re summoning it; we’re seducing it.
“We know we can’t order it up like a pizza. We can’t produce it on an assembly line. But we […]

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“… I do not care if there’s a monkey stealing the scene.  If the Two are using the monkey as a carrier pigeon, then that’s ok.  Otherwise, I don’t care about the monkey….”
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Si Dunn’s screenplay Criminal Conversations has been optioned with director and talent attached, as well as distribution.
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Dylan Callaghan interviewed playwright and screenwriter Bob Glaudini (Jack Goes Boating) at the WGA West site.
“… I knew Phil was going to direct it, so it was an organic evolution there, too. Phil and I would talk. As he was coming to know his ideas for filming it, I was writing the draft, so we […]

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“… (C)oupled with the bitterness is the sadness from missing my friends in Texas.  But I know with absolute certainty I made the right choice. The networking choices out here are in the thousands, and I’m not exaggerating. There are a million ways to make yourself known out here.  Just a day or so ago […]

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“… For decades most people had a sketchy idea of The Hollywood Studio Film. Boy meets girl, glamorous close-ups, spectacular dance numbers or battle scenes, happy endings, fade-out on the clinch. But even if such clichés were accurate, they didn’t cut very deep or capture a lot of other things about the movies. Could we […]

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“… In every show that works, there is a flame. There’s something about it that lights the way toward the most effective execution of the idea.   A nice little flame leads to a show that works. And if you don’t have the flame clear in your mind, and you don’t nurse it…no matter how good […]

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“When producers read a comedy screenplay, they are looking for one thing — DO THEY LAUGH? And then, how often do they laugh?
“You could also make them smile, chuckle, smirk, etc. But the one thing that you absolutely have to do is cause them to laugh out loud. And if you really want to be […]

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“… The networks are confusing a global phenomenon for a show about a global phenomenon. Lost was about a group of people. It wasn’t about saving the world from some vast conspiracy. And although a lot of people only watched it to get answers, it didn’t begin like that. It was a character drama….”
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“The shoot yesterday of a short dramatic scene for a project I’m producing & directing at River Run Productions went very well. Thanks in large part due to the cast in the above photo. It dawned on me today that it was my first project to be cast via Facebook and I realized just how […]

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“… One-sheets present the movie that studios hope audiences want to see.
“But there is an entirely different class of movie poster that I want to champion. These are posters made after the movie by talented fans — in many cases, decades later. They’re not trying to make a movie look appealing. They’re celebrating movies that […]

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“When screenplay dialogue is flat or bland, the whole script suffers. On the other hand, great dialogue can elevate a mediocre script and cause people to see the writer as “someone with serious potential,” even if there are other glaring errors in the screenplay….”
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Don Macnab-Stark has been hired to co-write “Rabid,” a film to be directed and produced by Brian Lawrence of Planet Four Films.
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Clark Ransom has optioned an animated comedy entitled “Losing Rudolph” to Tirthadeep Roy of Red Orphanage Films, India. Red Orphanage is considering one of Clark’s live action shorts as well. Worth noting, in the context of global marketing, is that the connection was made through a Craig’s List ad seeking animated shorts.
Clark has also just […]

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