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| Breaking into the Box Shouting into the Wind  I'll be spending my day at the WGA for this event titled "Breaking into the Box."Here are the panels for this sold out event:PANEL – TELEVISION IN THE POST-STRIKE WORLD The landscape has changed and we all need to learn how to navigate this new terrain. What is the future of scripted programming? Will ‘pilot season’ ever be the same again? How does this affect our world big picture? And how does it affect each of us individually?Panelists: Shawn Ryan, Brannon Braga, Chris Brancato, Sue Naegle, Josh Barry (ABC). etc. Moderator: Nell ScovellPANEL – GETTING IT DONE – HOW A SHOW IS MADEThe nuts and bolts of the process from script to screen – greenlight to final cut. Showrunners, executive producers and writers discuss how a show is set up from start to finish and how a production schedule works.Panelists: Marc Korman (Endeavor) Damon Lindelof, Allan Heinberg, Kevin Falls, Robin SchiffModerator: John Sacret YoungPANEL – GETTING THE JOB – BREAKING INWriting the spec s... [ Read more ] Kindness, Electrical Currents, Olympic Flame Helen Smith I have discovered the identity of the mysterious benefactor who sent the hammock to my house last Friday.It was not, of course, any of the waifs and strays who I have helped over the years - the homeless, the heart-broken, the temporarily impecunious; people who I have fed and cheered up and housed and taken to parties and listened to for hours and hours on end. I bet you have some of those people in your life, too, and the sad fact is that they are permanently open mouths - they just keep on taking. It would never occur to any of them to do a single kind thing for another person because they are too busy bemoaning the difficulties in their own lives and trying to make the rest of the world make reparation for it.No, the mystery hammock-giver was one of my generous friends, who is always doing kind things for me. The truth is that kind and generous people are just... kind and generous.Even before I discovered the identity of my mystery benefactor, this act of kindness passed through... [ Read more ] Cannes. Linha de passe. GreenCine Daily "Twelve years after co-directing Foreign Land, filmmakers Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas have returned to update their portrait of urban Brazil, which they left in the economic throes of president Fernando Collor," writes Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter. "Linha de passe is a far more successful film, both as a drama and in depicting the reality of growing up poor without no future in sight.... Comparisons to Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers are inevitable, but without name actors in the cast, this is not going to be as easy a commercial ride as Salles' cultish The Motorcycle Diaries." Continued reading Cannes. Linha de passe.... Comments (0) Comments on this Entry:... [ Read more ] Cannes. Boogie. GreenCine Daily "Drinking, smoking and whoring ain't what they used to be in Boogie [site], Radu Muntean's attenuated reflection on friends whose paths since high school have taken starkly different routes," writes Jay Weissberg for Variety. "Playing on themes similar to Old Joy, Muntean uses his cool yet sympathetically observational eye to chart the distance between a responsible family man and his long-lost buddies who have yet to grow up - problem is, auds are aware that the guys are losers long before the protag. Though more universal in theme than the helmer's superior The Paper Will Be Blue travel is unlikely to be widespread outside fest berths." Continued reading Cannes. Boogie.... Comments (0) Comments on this Entry:... [ Read more ] Cannes. Soi Cowboy. GreenCine Daily "Brit helmer Thomas Clay's sophomore feature, Soi Cowboy, demonstrates a growing maturity," writes Leslie Felperin in Variety. "This slowburning, enigmatic drama, mostly about a Danish man and a Thai woman awkwardly living together in Bangkok, is deeper and more likeable than Clay's controversial debut, The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael. Gone are the latter film's shock tactics, allowing Clay's cinematic sophistication to sparkle all the better." Continued reading Cannes. Soi Cowboy.... Comments (0) Comments on this Entry:... [ Read more ] TRAILER PARK: The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor & The X Files: I Want To Believe Dan's Media Digest I really liked The Mummy, an effective FX-packed thrill-ride that riffed on Indiana Jones as it updated the classic Universal horror movie starring Boris Karloff. Sadly, the ill-advised sequel was a bloated and repetitive chore that slapped you around the head with CGI for a few hours – making it nigh unwatchable.The second sequel arrives without writer/director Stephen Sommers (replaced by xXx's Rob Cohen) and co-star Rachel Weisz (replaced by Maria Bello), but Brendan Fraser and John Hannah are back for more mummy-baiting action. This time the plot is transplanted to China and the titular mummy is played by martial arts superstar Jet Li. Bandages not included.The teaser looks entertaining, as these popcorn films often do when condensed into a bite-sized few minutes. It's unfortunate it's being released at a time when Indiana Jones makes his big return, but it deals more with visceral spectacle than Indy. Hopefully it won't be another tiresome assault on the senses like The Mummy Re... [ Read more ] Quote of the Day kevinlehane.com A... [ Read more ] Written by on May 17th 2008 Cannes. Tyson. GreenCine Daily "France loves James Toback, and James Toback loves France right back," writes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog. "The New York auteur, whose work is more often than not unfairly maligned stateside, has already seen Fingers, his first (and best) film, remade by French director Jacques Audiard. The original is one of two Toback films screening at Cannes this year; the other, his documentary on long-time friend Mike Tyson, premiered to more than one standing ovation last night." Continued reading Cannes. Tyson.... Comments (0) Comments on this Entry:... [ Read more ] Postcard from the producer... Chris Jones Blog Just about to leave for the airport and I got an email from producer Ivan Clements…Greetings from rainy Cannes. I would have photos for you but the camera was stolen along with my wife's bag! All is going well here now. We have a screening set for 11.30am on Tuesday and I've been on the prowl and inviting loads of people, buyers, film fest scouts etc. Whilst doing this, I bumped into a guy that is showcasing British shorts at THE MINT (a very prestigious venue!) so we'll also have another screening there on Monday 4-6pm for all those interested in attending. There are free taxis from the back of the Grand hotel that take you up into the hills for the event. Today I will be networking like crazy for promotion of the main screening on Tuesday....I CAN’T WAIT… GET ME TO THE AIRPORT… Onward and upward! Chris Jones, Film Maker and Authorwww.livingspirit.commail@livingspirit.com... [ Read more ] My Own Little Writer’s Universes PlotDog Press I have been thinking a lot about being a writer and what “type” of writer I am lately. What with the blog post on “It’s All Write to Blog” and working on my methods for writing and my bits of well intentioned suggestions on how to go about the craft, well, one’s mind does tend to focus on self definition. My biggest reason for viewing myself as a writer is an age old one that I am certain I am misquoting in some form, “I write because I must.” Somewhere in the countless pages I have devoured on writing and the craft, I know I have seen so many definitions for why one writes that they have blended together. I suppose the reasons I write are as blended as the “type of writer” I am. Right now, I consider myself a simple bifurcation of writer. (Until recently, I was tri-furcated because I did screenplays as well but now I am only two personalities as a writer.) I write thrillers and I blog; ver... [ Read more ] Written by on May 17th 2008 Greetings from the dark side… Hard but unfair... I joined the dark side … not that dark side. As some of you know I took a job as a substitute teacher last summer. I quite liked (or actually still like) some aspects of the job, correcting exams not being one of them and when the school asked me if I’d like to return next year I accepted the offer. That basically means at least one more year as a member of the dark side of the classroom. Thing is, one thing I learned in the past year, even though some teachers appear to be evil, they are generally not Sith lords. Most of them like their job (at least some aspects of it) and their students (…) and generally like to teach. Teaching is a really great job, of course there are times when the students unleash hell but even then there’s at least a few students who give you the feeling that they want to learn something. But enough, I don’t want to talk too much about teaching after all it’s only a small part of my life (a time consuming one, but it also... [ Read more ] Written by on May 17th 2008 Augusto Boal, playwright, interview Writing for Performance Socialist Worker:"So I believe that political theatre and culture is much more alive than it was before. Before it was acceptable to go to the proletariat and say "do this", or to the peasants and say "do that". Now we try and stimulate people to do what they are able to do and what they want to do."... [ Read more ] "TV scribe to lend help to would-be writers at library " Writing for Performance Toronto Town Crier:"Although there is not one right way to write a successful script, Varughese believes scripts that have a personal voice and involve life and death situations are more likely to succeed than scripts that are copies of already popular films.“We love to worry when we go to the movies,” he says."... [ Read more ] Last ITV Viewer Located Hauling Like a Brooligan Read the story here.... [ Read more ] mr. miller does not drink milk celluloid blonde ... [ Read more ] Written by on May 17th 2008 Nothing to Astrology at all... Kid Sis in Hollywood Suck on this, scientists:June 22 to July 22 Traditional Cancer TraitsEmotional and lovingIntuitive and imaginativeShrewd and cautiousProtective and sympatheticOn the dark side....Changeable and moodyOveremotional and touchyClinging and unable to let goI'm sorry, is that not me demonstrated over and over on this blog?Zip it, Big Bro.... [ Read more ] Holy wow! Bootstrap Productions ... [ Read more ] Durham County interview Unified Theory of Nothing Much Now here's the Blogcritics write-up I did based on the TV, eh? Blogtalkradio interview with Durham County co-creators Laurie Finstad Knizhnik and Adrienne Mitchell:Killer Durham County Creeps Onto Global’s Lineup“The eerie, atmospheric Durham County she co-created with director Adrienne Mitchell is a six-part series that will air on Global television beginning Monday, May 19 at 10 p.m., and a product of her ‘adolescent resentment’ of suburbia. It’s a world where power lines dominate the grey landscape, and carefully manicured houses and lawns contrast with the turmoil of the families who live there.” Read more.... [ Read more ] FRASIER: Room Service By Ken Levine David Isaacs and I wrote seven episodes of FRASIER. This is my favorite -- "Room Service". And this is my favorite scene. Directed by David Lee and featuring Bebe Neuwirth, David Hyde Pierce, Kelsey Grammer, and a superb cameo by John Ducey as the waiter.... [ Read more ] FOX THINKS OUTSIDE THE BOX The Legion of Decency WELL -- things just got way more interesting for all those Canadian TV execs who've traveled to LA to purchase their Fall simulcasts. Not only are they having to make their picks from scripts and outlines instead of finished pilots with already approved marketing plans; but in a couple of cases, they'll need to figure out how to fit them into the alloted timeslots -- as well as how to pay for them. The FOX network has announced it will air two of its new drama series, J.J. Abrams’ “Fringe” and Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse,” with reduced commercial breaks. Both series will only make room for five minutes of commercials per hour, about half the normal dosage. “It’s a simple concept and potentially revolutionary,” Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori said. “We’re going to have less commercials, less promotional time, and less reason for viewers to use the remote. We’re going to redefine the viewing experience.”I'll say. And it's going to be particularly interesti... [ Read more ] Protagonist’s Ordinary World The Unknown Screenwriter [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOibtqWo6z4 300 288]... [ Read more ] Written by on May 17th 2008 How to write a spec pilot in 10 (really hard) steps if this is LA, i must be a screenwriter I recently finished writing my first pilot. Yay me!How do you decide when a script is finished? For working TV writers, that's easy. Once there are no more scenes to shoot, there are no more changes to the script (except in the editing room, where they can do some dazzling story adjustments). For us speccers and wannabes, there's no finished. You might think every word in your script is perfect, but one really good note from someone you trust is enough to send that tumbling. You also might get the urge to change things around after you see new episodes of the show you specced, or after you learn more about the craft.As tempting as it is to spend eternity making minute adjustments to your scripts, it's good to let them go, kinda like kids. That's why I enter competitions. It's not for the prize money or the glory (God knows there's little of that to go around). It's for that 'this script is done' feeling. It's a pretty arbitrary cut-off, but I like to think that that's my best work I'... [ Read more ] MOONLIGHT Tonight, 9p.m. on CBS! Fresh Hell A shameless plug for MOONLIGHT (alas, probably my last) -- the episode I co-wrote is on tonight at 9p.m. on CBS. That means right now, Eastern and Central time, so please do tune in!The episode was written as a finale for the season, not the series, and you'll see where and how the difference matters. But I think the episode ends in a good enough place for those seeking closure. More tidbits about the episode to follow!... [ Read more ] Hellboy 2 Screamwriter Really looking foward to this one.... [ Read more ] Yeah, I know... I don't do serious... B Movie Writers So, once again, its been eons since we posted (and I'm the worse offender between the two of us, I know).Sadly, there's just not much to say. I have a minor update, though, and an appeal.Last night I was blind copied by Producer Dude on an exchange between him and... well... I have no idea. The exchange went something like this:-----------Producer Dude,Congrats on the thing with the thing! That's great... I hear it went well and people are excited. You must be pumped about this thing and how it'll impact that stuff. Way to go!!Fred-----------Dear Fred,THX, man. Yeah, the time is now, the place is here, the iron is hot, we're on the 1 yard line and the ball is in motion, its the 11th inning and bases' are loaded and we've got Dimaggio at the plate, we're the spaceshuttle about to blast off and the countdown has reached zero.Peace,Producer Dude------------------Honestly, I have ZERO idea what they're talking about, or how it impacts Dave and I. None. Maybe the other movie that P... [ Read more ] | |
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