Archive for the ‘Screenwriting’ Category
The Minimalist Guide To Understanding The Commerce Of A Script
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
I recently did an interview/blog for GLOCUL MAG - Tackling The Business Side of Creativity: The Minimalist Guide To Understanding The Commerce Of A Script
Tags: Art, balance, commerce, commercial viability, film, Screenplay, script, television, tips, union matrix, writing low-budget films
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Producer’s POV: New Column Just Launched for Script Magazine!
Friday, March 8th, 2013
How (and Where) Should I Pitch My TV Show? It Depends… Like any other sales activity, you have to consider: What it is you’re trying to sell? What is your actual product? How can you best show it off? Who are you selling it to? Do they even want what you’re trying to sell them? [...]
Tags: ABC Family, bible, cable, IFTA, NBC, networks, pitching, Producer's POV, proposal, Script Magazine, The Writer's Store, TV Land, USA, Writing for TV
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Getting Things Right
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
I’ve just finished reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I am struck by how useful a simple checklist can be to professionals as divergent as surgeons in the emergency room to commercial airline pilots in eliminating potentially fatal mistakes in incredibly stressful situations. While not usually life threatening, our decisions [...]
Tags: 1998, artist, Atul Gawande, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, commercial airline pilot, Director, ditched, emergency room, entertainment industry, entrepreneur, ER, Geoffrey H. Smart, greenlight, Heather Hale, independent filmmaker, Internal Rate of Return, IRR, LitCentral, Miracle on the Hudson, networks, Producer, production funds, screenwriter, surgeons, The Airline Captain, The Art and Science of Human Capital Valuation, The Art Critic, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, The Infiltrator, the Prosecutor, The Sponge, The Suitor, The Terminator, US Airways Flight 1549, VC, venture capitalists
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For Your Consideration: Screenplays
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
As part of their marketing for Oscars and guild awards, studios share .pdfs of their award-contending screenplays: “Anonymous” by John Orloff (Sony) “The Artist” by Michel Hazanavicius (The Weinstein Company) “Beginners” by Mike Mills (Focus Features) “Bridesmaids” by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig (Universal) “Cars 2″ by Ben Queen; Story by John Lasseter, Brad Lewis [...]
Tags: Academy Awards, awards, Disney, downloads, education, Focus, free screenplays, free scripts, Lionsgate, Oscars, Overture, screenplays, screenwriter, scripts, Sony, Sony Classics, Storyboard, Universal, Weinstein Company
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GATE 2 – What an Amazing Event! ;-)
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
GATE (the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) is a nonprofit 501c(6) membership trade association that strives to inspire and empower professionals in the media, entertainment and arts to consciously create and distribute transformational content. Founded by visionary Chairman and CEO, John Raatz, last night’s “coming out” event brought “the tribe” together to activate and catalyze [...]
Tags: 12/22/12, 196 countries of the world in alphabetical order, Amish Grace, Annie Lennox, Ash Ruiz, Baba Oyadare Ranson III, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Damien Rose, Dara Marks, Didgeridoo, Don Miguel Ruiz, Drew Dellinger, Eckhart Tolle, Edward James Olmos, Faith Rivera, Frances Fisher, Fred Alan Wolf, Funkamentalz, Gary Zukav, GATE, Gate Community, Gate2, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, Hieroglyphic Stairway, Inside Story, It's 3:23 in the morning, Jahan Raymond, Jean Houston, Jim Carrey, John Raatz, Kate McCallum, Kyle Cease, Lili Hadyn, Louie Anderson, Marianne Williamson, Marta Mobley, my great great grandchildren, NOW, only a new seed can yield a new crop, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Quantum Physics, Rafael Bejarano, SuperBowl XLVI, The Four Agreements, Tibetan Bowl, violin, Wade Colwell-Sandoval, what did you do, Worldside
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