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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I will be off
eating turkey (the bird, not the country) and watching...
some film (most likely BLIND SIDE because it's a feel good kind of thing that fits the holiday). I would like to take this time to thank *you* for reading the blog and the daily script tips and for ...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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In Brazil, one of my films is a brand new double bill on DVD. You can now get BLACK THUNDER in Portugese *plus* get some movie I did not write! Thanks to my friend Osvaldo for sending this to me. Does this mean hot models from Rio will dump Leo and come after me? I sure hope so! Classes On ...
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Donald Spoto is a film critic and Hitchcock biographer who also wrote one of the best books on Hitchcock's films. Here he looks at my favorite Hitchcock film, NOTORIOUS, and talks about a couple of things I use in my class... 1) The use of "Echo Scenes" (from Michael Hauge's screenwriting book) ...
Drama
Alfred Hitchcock
Notorious
Lancelot Link Thursday! For those of you buy Playboy for the articles, here are some articles about screenwriting and the biz that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent... Overpaid Hollywood Stars - who is *most* overpaid? Hollywood ...
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And here is part last of the screenwriters round table, where they discuss whether the films resembled their scripts... - Bill IMPORTANT UPDATE: TODAY'S SCRIPT TIP: All about your villain - using past Oscar nominees SNAKES ON A PLANE, PHONE BOOTH and LAKEVIEW TERRACE as (bad) ...
Drama
Lakeview Terrace
Today I'm posting the other two parts of the Hollywood Reporter's writers round table discussion (last one is at 2pm). The problem yesterday seemed to be that every single writer's website linked or embedded the interviews, and you could not get through to see it. Same problem may happen today. ...
Drama
Lakeview Terrace
Hollywood Reporter does a series of round table conversations with people in the biz around award season - each segment is about 2 minutes - and here's part one of the series about screenwriters... Congratulations to the 100 folks who made the semi-finals in Script Shadow's logline ...
Other
And Soylent Green tastes a little weird... A week ago I did a Doom & Gloom blog entry about the state of the biz after from a dead American Film Market and realizing that indie films and indie genre films are in big trouble these days... and studio movies? Well, it seems like movies today are ...
Drama
Ever wonder what Bill Murray whispered at the end of LOST IN TRANSLATION? Well, NASA scientists using high tech sonic enchancing software have the answer! See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor .
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Bill Murray
Sorry there's no Friday's With Hitchcock this week, still shoveling out from under all of the stuff that piled up while I was in London, at Expo, almost in Hong Kong, and at AFM (which ended Wednesday). So here's something to tide you over... Hitchcock's daughter, Pat, was *in* STRANGERS ON A ...
Horror
Alfred Hitchcock
The Strangers
Wednesday
Jason London
About a week ago David Bordwell had a great blog entry on bedposts in movies - and other things phallic. Bedposts On Film - Bill
Other
Ray Harryhausen. When I was a kid, that name meant magic. Probably the first Harryhausen film I saw was MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, and it was one of those films that made me want to make movies. It's still one of my favorite movies. The creatures in that film were so real! How did they do that? And ...
Action
Coming Friday to Los Angeles and New York, this nice little documentary shot at the same location as one of the low budget horror movies I worked on... but much more frightening. It's all about the end of the world. Not some Roland Emmerich natural disaster, but burning through all of our ...
Drama
2012
Roland Emmerich
After the doom and gloom of yesterday's post, something to cheer you up. Sesame Street is 40 years old... and still going strong. Though The Muppets were aimed at adults and kids, Sesame Street was aimed at kids... and still managed to appeal to adults. The characters where wild and fun and ...
Other
Brad Pitt
The American Film Market is going on right now in Santa Monica... or maybe it’s *not* going on. If you have a film market and nobody comes, is it still a film market? Is this the canary in the coal mine for cinema? NO... WHAT *IS* A FILM MARKET> In case you don’t know what a Film Market is, ...
Drama
The new issue of Script Magazine is out now! Sherlock Holmes on the cover. My article is reporting from the Ameriacn Film Market on Worldwide Cool - making sure your script plays globally. Script to Screen: Precious When director Lee Daniels first read Sapphire’s novel Push, he immediately ...
Action
The original plan for Monday was to see NORTH BY NORTHWEST on the big screen again as part of the AFI Fest - in celebration of the film's 50th Anniversary. Think about that for a moment - that film is 50 years old! Hey, 1:30 minutes into the film, the protagonist is kidnaped at gun point and ...
Other
Alfred Hitchcock
So, yesterday I reviewed my friend Harry's first (published) novel CHILD OF FIRE... and today it was selected by Publisher's Weekly as one of the 5 Best Mass Market Novels of 2009. It's his first novel, and it beat out all of those books at the airport and supermarket and front displays at ...
Other
The List
Harry Dean Stanton
Okay, my friend Harry wrote a book... which was bought by Random House... and is Del Rey's big fall paperback release. It's the first book he ever sold. I was going to buy it for my London trip, but the book came out the day of my flight and no one at a book store would slip me a copy before the ...
Comedy
Jason London
So the alarm goes off at 5:30 AM, I shower and shave and zip up my suitcases and do a final room check (still not spotting that USB drive) and carry my luggage down the stairs (no lift) to the lobby and check out, and go stand in front of the hotel... at about 6:15. Damn - a prompt man is a ...
