It’s commonly agreed upon that the first 10 pages of your script are the most important. Script readers are savvy enough to judge in those first ten pages if the story, the characters, the set-up, and the writing keep their interest. But Wesley Rowe makes the case that your spec script will probably be sold [...]
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Will Anyone Read Your Script?
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged Script magazine, Wesley Rowe on October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Farrah, Michael & Logan
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged Farrah Fawsett, Michael Jackson, She's Out of My Life, Timothy Sexton on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Farrah. Michael. They are part of the small, but elite club in pop culture that are known by one name. Before their deaths yesterday, both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson had their share of time in the spot light as well as time getting lost in their own versions of never never land. Seems to [...]
The Tonight Show Tonight
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged A Day at the Races, Beautiful Downtown Burbank, Burbank, California, Cecil B. DeMille, Clark Gable, Conan O'Brien, Corning, David Lynch, Disney Studios, Gone With the Wind, Iowa, Jay Leno, John Wayne, Johnny Carson, Marlon Brando, NBC, Red River, Richard Farnsworth, The Burbank Studios, The Grey Fox, the Marx Brothers, The Natural, The Straight Story, The Ten Commandments, The Tonight Show, The Wild One, Universal Studios, Vivien Leigh on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien premieres tonight it marks the end of one era and the beginning of another one.
The show will no longer be taped at the NBC studios in Burbank, but across the way at Universal Studios. Though The Tonight Show began in New York in 1954, since 1972 the show [...]
The Bump in Factor
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged Conversations with Screenwriters, Dirck Halstead, E.T., E.T.:The Extra-Terrestrial, Emily Dickinson, fall of Saigon, Harrison Ford, Hemingway, Jimmy Buffett, LAFCPUG Super Meet, Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group, Melissa Mathison, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Robert Capa Gold Medal, Steven Spielberg, Susan Bullington Katz, The Last Mango in Paris, The University of Missouri, Time, University of Texas, Vietnam War on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Emily Dickinson
So last week I was sitting down at the Rio Hotel in [...]
The Wizard of Hollywood
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged AFI, Des Moines, Dorothy, illegal download, Jason Weinberger, Judy Garland, Katie Couric, NBC Today Show, Pink Floyd, Steven Spielberg, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wizard of Oz, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, X-Men Origins: Wolverine on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
Dorothy
“Digital downloads! Internet video-on-demand! This is the future!”
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Is Hollywood the New Detroit? (part 1)
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged Alexandyr Kent, DGA, Dodge Durango, Hollywood, John Nolte, LA film czar, Runaway production, screenwriter living outside L.A., screenwriting from iowa, USA Today on March 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hollywood has a problem and it’s not my fault. Really it isn’t. But if you’re a screenwriter living outside L.A., L.A.’s problem is your opportunity.
Don’t blame me if Hollywood is the new Detroit. I just started “Screenwriting from Iowa” last year. L.A.’s runaway problem has been going on for the last decade. Runaway production is [...]
Where Oscars are Really Born
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged Owen Sigel, Q & A, R.S. Owens & Company, Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire, Vikas Swarup, Where Oscars are made on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It only takes about 13 seconds to make an Oscar. Make, not win.
And the 13 1/2 inch tall and 8 1/2 pound statuettes are made in Chicago. And just in case you wondered, they’re made of a gold-plated high-grade pewter alloy known as britannia. It only takes about 2 days to make the 50 or so Oscars [...]
Juno Has Another Baby (Emmy)
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, screenwriting, tagged Colin Covert, Crystal, Diablo Cody, Emmy Award, Juno, Mary Tyler Moore, Minneapolis, Oprah Winfrey, Quarantine, Scott W. Smith, screenwriters outside L.A., screenwriting, screenwriting from iowa, Star Tribune, Starbucks, Target, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, TV Guide on October 26, 2008 | 8 Comments »
“Here’s my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.”
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Investing in Screenwriting
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged (Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Baton Fink, Comedian, entertainment, Excess Baggage, Frank Darabont, Frank Gehry, Hollywood Animal, IRS, Jeffrey Boam, Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Eszterhas’s Survival Guide, Max Adams, movie business, Orson Welles, Robert Rodrigue, Sarah McLachlan, Scott W. Smith, screenwriting, Sketches of Frank Gehry, taxes, The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood., The Screenwriter, UCLA on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Remember this rule: For every quarter you spend in Hollywood, you need to earn a dollar.” [...]
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