…Or, more precisely, how he doesn’t:
Tag: Larry Brody
Everything Creative People Should Know About Contracts
We admit to feeling totally out of our element when it comes time to negotiate/sign a contract for our writing work. We further admit that we feel so totally out of our element that when the dust has cleared we often discover that we’ve just helped ourselves get screwed.
This article on 99u.Com could be our salvation. And – if you’re as like us as we think – yours as well:
Taking Control of Contracts: What Every Creative Should Know
by Vinay Jain
If you’re like most creatives, dealing with contracts is one of your least favorite tasks, a dreadful but necessary part of business life. It doesn’t help that many contracts seem to have been written in language from the 1800s that was designed to confuse more than clarify. The good news is, you can overcome your apprehension about contracts with the right mindset and a few handy tips.
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 7/15/13
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Theresa Rebeck (SMASH) is writing the pilot for Bravo’s drama series FORTUNE, an adaptation of Charles Dickens‘ Bleak House. (Fortunately for the budget – and just possibly for viewer interest as well – it’s going to be set here and now so we can better appreciate it as some spoiled rich people fight over an inheritance. Yeppers, spoiled rich people as protagonists. We don’t think we’d be out of line in saying that somebody is not paying attention to the temper of the times.)
- Bruce Lee (yeppers, that Bruce Lee) has written something that’s being interpreted as the basis for a new TV series and CAA, which represents the production company, PERFECT STORM ENTERTAINMENT, is looking for a showrunner. (The time to get your people on this with CAA’s people is now. Cuz you’ve always wanted to work, um, with the world’s coolest martial artist, right? “WATAAAAW!”)
- Looks like another showrunner gig is up for grabs. Rene Echevarria has stepped down as showrunner of the upcoming CBS series INTELLIGENCE, leaving a gap for some enterprising TVWriter™ reader to exploit. (Of course, this being Hollywood, the major qualification for the gig is that the writer neither want nor need it, which really makes the executives salivate. So if you don’t really care about running INTELLIGENCE – insert joke here – then have your agent call CBS and tell them they can’t have you and you’ll get it for sure. Um, WTF did we just say?)
Leesa Dean: The Secret of Success
Adventures of a Web Series Newbie – Chapter 21
by Leesa Dean
So, I took a long weekend, chilled out and came back swinging. Did a shoot on Monday for the TOP SECRET PROJECT. And Dante Nero was in the scene we shot. I’ve worked with Dante a number of times. He did a pilot for a project I wrote/produced and stars as Marv on Chilltown. He’s REALLY funny and a great guy. He worked on Chappelle’s Show and co-hosted The Black Phillip Show with the late, great comedian Patrice O’Neal that was featured on the Opie and Anthony Show. He’s got a really successful podcast out now called The Beige Phillip Show that’s hilarious. I wrote the part with him in mind and, as usual, he did not disappoint. Afterwards, we all kicked back and Dante regaled us with insider tales of Patrice. It was incredible. I’ve been buzzed all week because everything went so well.
Then on Tuesday, went to a Big Screen Little Screen Meetup. BSLS is the premier screening meetup for web content. Chilltown screened there. Most of the big series (and even smaller ones) are seen there. It’s held every month in NYC and LA. I can’t stress enough: if you’re planning on doing a web series or just a fan, BSLS is the place to be.
PERSON OF INTEREST Exec Prods Talk About The Machine
We just discovered a new and wonderful website. New to us anyway. It’s called buddy TV, and what got us going was this awesome interview with Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman:
PERSON OF INTEREST Interview: When Fiction Becomes Reality
by Carla Day
When Edward Snowden leaked classified information about the extent of NSA data gathering, it was easy to draw connections to the television show, Person of Interest. On the series, “The Machine” collects data about everything from phone calls, video feeds, internet traffic, and on and on. It was designed to analyze the data and protect the nation from the worst threats.
While the information that has come out so far about the NSA snooping isn’t nearly as invasive as that on the fictional series, it opens the possibility that such a machine really exists.