A bit of a backlog of a collection, attributions for which I can’t remember, sorry – though a pretty good bet would be the sidebar, but. Billy Mernit makes a good case for bad screenwriting. There are such things as happy endings for screenwriters in Hollywood – just ask Robert Mark Kamen. Salman Rushdie writes [...]
Mm. Hmm. It’d be just like John August to kick-start 2009 with a short and sweet pep talk. A new blog of note: TV writer Earl Pomerantz (Major Dad, Becker) is Just Thinking. (Fedora-tip: Alex Epstein.) Kiwi scribe (and fellow guild board member) Mike Riddell joins the scribosphere with The Interminable Moon, about the journey [...]
I’ve done my shopping. I can do whatever I like now. Danny Stack has ten essential ingredients to becoming a professional screenwriter (the first step? read.) John August has some solid advice on what to do with your ill-gotten gains hard-earned ch-ching: money 101 for screenwriters. Lynden Barber has a posted an excellent article on [...]
These haven’t been as regular as they should used to be. Let’s not get overexcited and think it’s been because I’ve had more to say of late. Warning: some old news in here (I’ve been hoarding). Why aren’t I all a-jingle with news of Bad Lieutenant being remade with Werner Herzog helming and Nicolas Cage [...]
‘S been a while since I’ve done one of these. I wish I could break down my projects like this: … The Mentalist is no different from any of its mediocre-to-lousy brethren. You’ve got Simon Baker as the TROUBLED HERO WITH A TRAGIC PAST, who is BRILLIANT IN A DISTINCTIVE AND UNUSUAL WAY. He has [...]
Chicago Sun Times film critic – and a cinephile’s cinephile – Roger Ebert has joined the blogosphere with an online journal. For those who’ve only read his reviews – and if you haven’t, try these two on for size – this recent post is a great intro to Mr Ebert’s blog.
Ah, winter. That time of year when staying inside with as many DVDs as your video library memberships will allow would be So Right… Ah well. There’s a new Kiwi screenwriting blog: at The Truth is Out There, the Daily Screenwriter uses the web’s silent peer pressure to track their progress. Any writer who’s not [...]
I wish the past fortnight’s radio silence has been because of something exciting like negotiating a development deal or meeting multiple deadlines but alas, no: on top of a raft of Real World commitments, I’ve been sick. I’ve got some bloggy goodness lined up for you (that I have to, like, finish writing first) so [...]
Okay, the short didn’t make it into the local festival but – half a kilo of Whittakers‘ finest later – life. Goes. On. Mm. This week, for your infotainment: Wellington film and television writer Sean Molloy has joined the Kiwi scribosphere with Why I Write. Malo, man! What if Fawlty Towers were to be submitted [...]
I’ve got three, no, four, posts that I’m having trouble getting over the finish line, so it’s lookee what i found! time: My awareness of the New Zild screenwriting blogosphere has just increased by 33%: Shortland Street scribe Edwin McRae blogs about his process at Fiction Engine. (Fedora-tip: Mr Reid.) Mr Barron – whose feature [...]
