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Category: Opinion
10 Screenwriting Lessons You Can Learn From FORREST GUMP!
We admit it. We slept through most of FORREST GUMP. It was the opening bars of the opening theme that done us in. For years, tho, we wouldn’t tell anybody cuz GUMP is sacred, you know? Especially to film school types.
But now ScriptShadow.Net has liberated us! Thank you, Jesus Carson!
Jared Reise: Saying goodbye to my favorite show
by Jared Reise
An earnest Twitter campaign couldn’t bring back one of the best current television shows for a third season. The economics of HBO’s “Enlightened” had more cons than pros, but quality doesn’t always equal quantity.
“Me so sad. Me going to cry. Or stick it to the man.”
John Ostrander: Ch-ch-choices
by John Ostrander
“To be or not to be, that is the question.” So goes one of the most quoted lines in Shakespeare, probably in all of literature. It’s so well known that it’s become a cliché; people who know almost nothing of Shakespeare know that phrase. Most of the times when I’ve seen it acted, the actor playing the character who speaks it, Hamlet, makes it an intellectual question, maybe something for philosophy.
Except that it isn’t.
HBO Admits It: Game of Thrones Downloading “Doesn’t Hurt Sales”
The season premiere of HBO’s GAME OF THRONES set all kinds of records this week with well over a million, um, “unauthorized downloads” in less than 24 hours. That fact, coupled with TVWriter™’s longtime concern about the “battle” between creators’ rights and the rights of the audience, makes the following a very important bit of knowledge indeed:
by Andy
Last month the director of Game of Thrones admitted something that his paymasters had HBO might have avoided. Huge online piracy doesn’t hurt the show, he said, and in fact might create benefits by generating cultural buzz. Well check the date if you like folks but the following is absolutely genuine. HBO programming president Michael Lombardo has just announced that not only is the huge piracy a compliment, but the phenomenon hasn’t hurt DVD sales at all.