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| True Blood: season 3 starts 13 June Dan's Media Digest  HBO have announced that True Blood's returning for its third season on Sunday 13 June. Alan Ball will be putting his own spin on the third novel "Club Dead", with plenty of new faces joining the ensemble: Joe Manganiello (One Tree Hill) as werewolf Alcide Herveaux; Brit Morgan (The Middleman) as Debbie Pelt; Cooper Huckabee as Sam's father; Alfre Woodard (Desperate Housewives) as Lafayette's mother; Kevin Alejandro (Southland) as Jesus, a love-interest for Lafayette; Denis O'Hare as Russel Edgington, the Vampire King of Mississippi; and Grant Bowler as the leader of a werewolf biker gang. Excited?... [ Read more ] Tips and stories from around the Web, Part 3 A TV Calling There are lots of good posting being written in the blogging world (and Internet) at the moment. Here are six that caught my eye over the last few days. - Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan opens up to Tim Goodman about his show in an hour-long podcast, with talk about, but not limited to, writing, characters, and surprisingly an actual discussion about the series’ atypical use of sound, color and aspect-ratio. Really refreshing considering people rarely take into account a TV show’s visuals . - Nancy Franklin from The New Yorker writes an interesting piece about HBO’s The Pacific, and how there’s no “big picture” unlike Band of Brothers. - Ken Levine posted a great video of the late Jackie Gleason apologizing live to his audience for having hosted the week prior an awful game-show. This will most likely never be done again on television. - Margaux Froley writes on her fresh new blog about the importance of “listening” to your characters. What goes on in their lives... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Amazon.co.uk launches author pages The WGGB blog - news and information for writers From The Bookseller: Amazon.co.uk has launched hundreds of dedicated author pages, offering customers a full bibliography, recommended titles and videos. The pages went live this week and include the likes of Hilary Mantel, Stephenie Meyer, and Dan Brown.Amy Worth, head of book buying at Amazon.co.uk, said: "It's like having a bookshelf of the author's titles on the website. It launched on Amazon.com a few months ago and proved a popular feature." Link via Helen Smith on Twitter (in fact this whole blog seems to be via Helen Smith this week...)... [ Read more ] Selling your ebook for Kindle The WGGB blog - news and information for writers On her blog, Guild member Helen Smith explains how she made her (very small) fortune selling her ebook for the Kindle reader via Amazon.There's a video, too:Elsewhere on her blog, Helen explains the joys of blogging and Twitter for writers. Checking the constant 'news' stream on Twitter makes me feel like ace reporter Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday though if you've never tried it, perhaps the experience is better explained as being wheeled in your armchair into a very large room where lots and lots of friends and plenty of strangers are shouting, reading funny bits out from the newspapers, telling jokes, complaining about their day, celebrating recent successes. You can join in, you can just listen or you can get up and walk away. No-one minds or particularly notices if you leave, though they always seem pleased to see you when you return.... [ Read more ] The Guy With The Movie In His Head The Legion of Decency I don’t usually do reviews, but I’m breaking that rule today because I want to talk about CTV’s new cop drama “The Bridge”. Prior to its debut, the series was hyped as “polarizing” and “controversial”. But I sensed something else in the pilot, something I can only describe as disturbing and ultimately destructive. There’s a lot I don’t pretend to speak on with much authority. But one topic I understand fairly well is cops. I’ve written police pilots for all of the major American networks and a couple up here. Almost all were shot, a couple turned into successful television series, one wildly so. During four seasons of “Top Cops” on CBS, we did 96 episodes comprising 3 stories per week, each a faithfully recreated true crime. The process of making sure those stories retained their authenticity was intense. I logged hundreds of hours on ridealongs in high crime neighborhoods in several American cities. Days were spent shadowing detectives or federal a... [ Read more ] Right Stuff, The (1981.12 Draft) mypdfscripts December, 1981 Revised Draft by Philip Kaufman. Based on the book by Tom Wolfe. Synopsis: The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. Source: Scanned – Pages: 122 – Size: 4.8 MB – IMDb... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Right Stuff, The (1982.02.25 Draft) mypdfscripts February 25, 1982 Revised Draft by Philip Kaufman. Based on the book by Tom Wolfe. Synopsis: The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. Source: Scanned – Pages: 135 – Size: 5.2 MB – IMDb... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Soloist, The (2007.04.27 Draft) mypdfscripts April, 27, 2007 Draft by Susannah Grant. Based on the book “Imagining Beethoven” by Steve Lopez. Synopsis: A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Julliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. Source: Scanned – Pages: 124 – Size: 3.6 MB – IMDb... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Scriptwriting in the UK: Guarantees Me, a writer of movie scripts I just read this wonderful depressing, funny and inspiering blog entry by Danny Stack at Scriptwriting in the UK."In the world of screenwriting, THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES OF ANYTHING.It's a sad and painful truth. Just when you think you've done everything right and worked your way up the system, and commissions are due or the exciting gig is about to happen, that's when you can end up with nothing."Check it out.... [ Read more ] 24 – Season 8: Episode 11 (SPOILER WARNING) The Columbo Effect ... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Applying to IPF's Web Drama Series Pilot Program Story2.OH - Blog Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely. I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that would help it stand out from yours. Which raises the question of why I’m now going to tell you everything I found out. …Or am I? Do you trust me? Well you should because one of the things Andra -- the Executive Director of the Independent Production Fund -- and I discussed was collaboration and cooperation among the successful applicants. But I’ll get to that in a sec. First, let’s just go over the basics of the application. The IPF, as you know, is running a web drama pilot program: The intent of the Fund is to assist independent producers/creators to finance the production of original drama series created initially for the web. The Independent Production Fund intends to explore the po... [ Read more ] Movie of the Day #19 – Alice in Wonderland (2010) Shouting into the Wind I know the name of this series is pretty laughable at this point (since we are, what, 75 days into the year and I’ve seen a whopping 19 films?) but I intend to press on, hoping against hope that at some point I might get caught up. Yeah, harder now that I have a job, but still possible! So Jules and I headed out to the Sherman Oaks Arclight to see ALICE IN WONDERLAND on Sunday. In 3-D. … So…with the very strong exception of TRON:LEGACY, I’ve decided I don’t need to see any film in 3-D at this point. Not only is it incredibly hard on my eyes, I feel like those damn glasses get in the way of appreciating the art on screen — “is that smudge on my lens? Why is that blurry? Taking the glasses off doesn’t help – it’s a blurry image fer crissakes. Well don’t touch the lens – even if it is a smudge, you’ll probably just make it worse…yup, it’s worse. See? Told you not to touch it.” Yeah, I... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 First Look: Rashida Jones in Monogamy Reel Artsy Here's a glimmer of what the upcoming Rashida Jones film, Monogamy, will look like. When I wrote about the film last year it was described as a "romantic comedy" but the concept poster suggests an edgier tone.Don't they look cute together...More details on the film:Theo (Chris Messina) is a 30-something wedding photographer living in Brooklyn. He hates his job. Three months from tying the knot with his seemingly perfect live-in girlfriend (Rashida Jones), Theo is contacted by a provocative woman who calls herself Subgirl (Meital Dohan). But what starts as a simple gig soon takes an unlikely, transgressive turn. Featuring music by Can, Elbow, Califone and Stars of the Lid. Monogamy will have its premiere at the Tribeca Film Fest this April. You can visit the official Facebook page to stay updated. [H/T RJB]... [ Read more ] Soloist, The (2007.07.19 Draft) mypdfscripts July 19, 2007 Draft by Susannah Grant. Based on the book “Imagining Beethoven” by Steve Lopez. Synopsis: A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Julliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. Source: Scanned – Pages: 126 – Size: 2.5 MB – IMDb... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Spec Script Sales 2009 Analysis: Genres Go Into The Story By my count, Hwood studios and prod cos acquired 68 spec scripts in 2009. Note: I acquired information from the Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter, DoneDealPro.com, online tracking boards, various other movie blogs, and LA contacts. That said, these should not be considered 'official' stats, but best estimates given information sources. Here is a breakdown of the sales by genre. Action (11) Babe in the Woods (comedy) Cancun Further Adventures of Doc Holliday, The Gunslinger, The (drama) Hellified (supernatural) Highest Bid, The Last Stand Medieval Odysseus (drama) Supermax (horror) Trans Am Comedy (26) Adventurer's Handbook, The (adventure) Black Phantom, The Book Smart Boss Central Intelligence Change Up Danny Graves Man Cave Desperados Dirty Old Men Doc & Howie Whack a Granny Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery Forever 21 F***ing Engaged Get a Job Good Looking... [ Read more ] Writer Ear Candy: Oh, Zooey. Dead Things ON Sticks DOESN'T HELP YOU if you're one of those "must work in silence" people.*But if you're like me, and spending another day staring at the same chunks of guide-prose willing them to make more elegant sense, there's probably not a better soundtrack than the delightful new album by She & Him. Volume Two is now being streamed as a preview here on NPR.org. And unlike many goodies available to the U.S. domestic market where they don't have universal health care and coloured money, this link works from Canada. Enjoy.*Freak.--for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--... [ Read more ] A Tale of Two Showrunners Shouting into the Wind As I do every year, I attended a couple of Paleyfest panels. I am almost never interested in what the castmembers of these shows have to say. Thankfully, the creators or showrunners tend to do most of the talking, which is why I keep going back. In past years I’ve discovered that not only did I like a particular showrunner’s writing, but I liked them as a person — their general demeanor. I can say that is true again this year for one showrunner. And for another… let’s just say, I determined that this is a person I never want to work for. It’s fascinating, really, because when you read someone’s script you may or may not form an image of that writer in your head (depends on how good or interesting the writing is). Usually you have to read an interview or listen to an audio commentary to really get a sense of who a TV writer really is, or what he/she’s about. On the one hand, I discovered mad respect and love for Vince Gilligan this... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Green Zone, Netflix sucks, and saving money. Wish I Could Speak Whale I was able to catch Green Zone this weekend. Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it, but I’m pretty sure most of the appeal of it for me came from it featuring Matt Damon. ____________________________ I officially put the Netflix account on hold. First, they’re irritating the “beJesus” out of me lately with never having any new release [...]... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Links for 2010-03-15 warrenellis.com Gasmask Duo Postcard Set of 2 by lexmachine on EtsyVery pretty, these.(tags:shopping )... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 People Will Talk II – Barry Levinson and His Muse The Last Reveal For the unfamiliar, a "reveal" in screenwriting parlance is the placement of key, revelatory information in a story. Most times, the last reveal is the most important revelation of all. FADE IN:In Levinson on Levinson, Edited by David Thompson, Faber and Faber, 1992, p. 42, writer-director Barry Levinson said: I don’t know how to write with an outline structure. I have to work from the characters, not a structure into which I then try and put the characters. I get the ideas in my head, and then at a certain point I begin and just go until I get to the end... I’ll play music constantly... trying to go as fast as possible, because all these voices are talking and these events happening and I’m just trying to keep up with it. In a sense I’m just taking dictation, but I have to race through because one scene starts suggesting other scenes. Sometimes I’ve had an idea, but I don’t necessarily know how to put it in, and then all of a sudden I go, wow, that will tie right int... [ Read more ] "Ten rules for writing fiction": Hilary Mantel Go Into The Story Several GITS readers emailed me about a great series The Guardian ran recently: Ten Rules For Writing Fiction. Today we feature Hilary Mantel:1 Are you serious about this? Then get an accountant.2 Read Becoming a Writer, by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly hate the advice to write first thing in the morning, but if you can manage it, it might well be the best thing you ever do for yourself. This book is about becoming a writer from the inside out. Many later advice manuals derive from it. You don't really need any others, though if you want to boost your confidence, "how to" books seldom do any harm. You can kick-start a whole book with some little writing exercise.3 Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.4 If you have a good story i... [ Read more ] Go Into The Story: Q&A with manager-producer Dan Halsted Daily Dojo of Joshua James Great interview over at Go Into The Story with manager-producer Dan Halsted, very insightful and informative, I highly recommend you all go check it out. And leave a comment, comments are cool.... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Video Village warrenellis.com Video Village is the place on a film set where they set up monitors hooked to the cameras and herd all the producers, visitors and other persons extraneous to the actual making of a film. Therefore, Video Village is where I end up. They hand you an audio rig so you can hear what the mics are picking up, and basically experience the shooting of a film from enough distance that you cannot possibly fuck anything up for the people who are working there for a living. This is Video Village on the RED shoot in Toronto, first unit. Technically, I had permission to wander anywhere I wanted. (In fact, the DVD crew begged me to, so they could get b-roll of me strolling around the set.) But I’m always horribly conscious of being the only person not working, so I tend to stay around the village, or sneak off for a cigarette.... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 Success in America Helen Smith We all have different ways of measuring success but I'm delighted with the modest sales I have achieved since I started selling my first book, Alison Wonderland, in the Kindle Store on Amazon. And (look away now, Dawkins lovers) the evidence seems to show that if you do something kind for others, the universe will repay you... in book sales. Check out my video for further details:... [ Read more ] It’s Monday, Which Means- Daily Dojo of Joshua James Another new story up at Popcorn Fiction.... [ Read more ] Written by on Mar 15th 2010 | |
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