Tag: screenwriting

munchman: Ain’t Pushback Wunnerful?

by munchman

That’s Mr. Lieber on the left and looks like Disney/Marvel on the right?

Whoa! The big news yesterday – you know, Sunday, a day when they never show us any news, which explains why you never heard about it before as well as why yer friendly neighborhood muncher-in-chief isn’t reporting it til today…wait. Where wuz I?

Oh. Right. The big news is that – and this is a headline at dailycartoonist.com:

LARRY LIEBER, STAN LEE’S BROTHER, SUES MARVEL

And yessirree, what LL is suing about is “a bigger portion of the pie” Marvel and its master, Disney, are making from film characters like Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man, Loki et al, all of which, it turns out first appeared in comic book stories credited as written by, yeppers, you guessed it, Larry L his oh-so-very self. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #168 – “Rewriting Magic”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned. read article

Russell T. Davies is Returning to ‘Doctor Who’

As far as TVWriter™ is concerned, the biggest news in the TV industry last week and therefore the perfect thing to kick off this one is that Russell T. Davies, the genius writer-producer who was the cornerstone of the 2005 re-launching of BBC’s mucho revered series Doctor Who, is returning  as showrunner in 2022.

Here’s the scoop from the Doctor’s biggest and most reliable fan.

picture from Getty Images found at BBC.Com

The Future’s Bright. The Future’s Rusty
by Keith Telly Topping

Screenwriter, producer and all-round top-bloke yer actual Russell Davies is to take charge again of Doctor Who, the BBC’s popular, long-running family SF drama which he helped to revive so successfully in 2005. Big Rusty, who was the drama’s showrunner until 2009, will take over when Chris Chibnall departs next year. ‘I’m beyond excited to be back on my favourite show,’ said Davies…who resumes his role as the Doctor Who prepares to mark its sixtieth anniversary in 2023. read article

LB: Today’s Cool Port Townsend Area News

by Larry Brody

This is cool because the “prolific screenwriter” below is the writing partner of Karen McCullah, who was one of the first writing students I had back in Santa Fe in the early ’90s, and all the films cited in the article were co-written by the two of them.  Small world, yeah?

Prolific screenwriter returns to Chimacum
‘Kiwi’ Smith tells of influence of mother, teacher
by Diane Urbani de la Paz

When prolific Hollywood screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith tells her own story, she does it with a cast of characters straight from real life.

Two women have starring roles: Sue Phillips, her English and creative writing teacher at Chimacum High School, and her mother, Katie Smith of Port Ludlow. read article

How to Get Your TV Show Idea on the Air #8

by Larry Brody

The eighth (or maybe not because I could have miscounted) in a series of videos about what is for all practical purposes the most important thing to know in showbiz: How to sell your idea, your script, and yourself.

This is serious business indeed, but the process also is filled with fun and, yes, love.  So please sit back and click to learn, enjoy, and maybe even find your TV show Destiny by knowing more about WHAT EXECUTIVES WANT TO SEE IN A TV SERIES PITCH.

MORE TO COME