And the winner is… Minnesota.
If someone wanted to make a point about talent coming from outside Hollywood the 80th Academy Awards would be a great place to start. (The above photo is not from the Oscars but gave me an excuse to highlight the Minneapolis Convention Center from a production I worked on a couple [...]
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The Oscars Minnesota-Style
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged 80th Academy Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay, best screenplay, Bob Dylan, Coen brothers, Diablo Cody, entertainment, Frank Baum, Garrison Keillor, Hollywood, IFP, Iowa, Jessica Lange, Joel & Ethan Coen, Juno, Mary Tyler Moore, Midwest writers, Minneaplois Minnesota, Minneapolis Star Tribune, movies, No Country for Old Men, Oscars, Paisley Park, Praire Home Companion, Prince, Scott W. Smith, screenwriting, screenwriting from minnesota, Spam, Spam Museum, St. Paul, Starbucks, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gillam, The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, University of Iowa, Wizard of Oz on February 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Screenwriting & the Little Fat Girl in Ohio
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged Britney Spears, David Nutter, entertainment, filmmaking, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Darabont, George Clooney, Iowa, John Sayles, Katire Couric, Matchbox Twenty, NBC Today, Orlando films, Quinton Tarantino, Ralph Clemente, Rod Serling, Ron Howard, screenwriting, Screenwriting Ohio, Shaq, Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, The Blair Witch Project, The Twlight Zone, Tom Cruise, Valencia Community College, Wesley Snipes, Willie Nelson, Yellow Springs on February 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
”One day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart.” [...]
Can Screenwriting Be Taught?
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, screenwriting, tagged A Raisin in the Sun, Bernard Malamud, Daddy Day Care, entertainment, film, Geoff Rodkey, Goethe, Iowa Writers' Workshop, John Steinbeck, Lake Howell High School, Lawrence Kasden, Lew Hunter, Lorraine Hansberry, Natalie Goldberg, Neil Simon, Quentin Tarantino, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Scott Smith, screenwriting, Screenwriting Iowa, Sean Combs, Sidney Poitier, teaching, The Natural, UCLA, University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
“I wrote screenplays as a way to get into production. I wrote six or seven before I sold one.”
Lawrence Kasden
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Everything I Learned in Film School (tip #1)
Posted in Most Viewed Posts, screenwriting, screenwriting tips, tagged AFI, Alfred Uhry, Conflict, CS Lewis, Deana Carter, Driving Miss Daisy, Edward Albee, Film School, Flannery O'Connor, Georgia, Jaws, Jimmy Buffett, Lew Hunter, Martin Luther King, Mike Tyson, movies, Orson Welles, Richard Walter, Rocky, Sam Shepard on February 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Here’s everything I learned in film school (and in screenwriting workshops and books)…boiled down to one word. But before I get to that one word let me say that I went to film school so long ago that Orson Welles was in my class. Okay, not that long ago, but back when films schools only [...]
Screenwriting & the Super Bowl
Posted in screenwriting, tagged 1972 Miami Dolphins, Bill Belichick, Blake Snyder, David Tyree, Eli Manning, Florida, Iowa, Kawika Mitchell, Lake Howell High School, New York Giants, NFL, Paul Warfield, Plaxico Burress, Remember the Titans, screenwriting, sports cliches, sports movies, Super Bowl, The Final Season, The Shawshank Redemtion, Tom Brady, Wes Welker, Winter Park on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If yesterday’s Super Bowl football game were a movie, the critics would have walked out because of all the sports clichés. An underdog team that started the season with two losses goes up against the undefeated powerhouse team in the championship game and in the last minute scores the winning touchdown. They become the first [...]
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