Rasslin’ with Opportunity

Not our metaphor, honest.

And, frankly, there’s not much new in this article by Keith Fenimore on TheWrap.Com. But its message is still valid, and the newer you are to showbiz (or any biz, really), the more likely that you may have missed it. So:

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Dan sees THE HOBBIT trailer…

by Dan D

…And is giddy — GIDDY!! I tell you — with excitement.

A few things:

I saw this at The Grove theater in L.A., and the quality of the full theater image is simply breathtaking. Word is it was filmed at 60fps and scaled down to 48fps — it seems normal humans can’t even process 60fps. read article

Dan D. Sees NEWSROOM

Time now for the pithy sayings of Dan D., TVWriter™’s very own millionaire playboy software superhero, now living in L.A. because – you guessed it – he’s a hell of a writer as well.

This is Aaron Sorkin’s third attempt at a TV show about a TV show.

First, there was SPORTS NIGHT. read article

Lookin’ For Love in All the Wrong Places

by Larry Brody

When I was a student at Northwestern University I took an independent study with my favorite professor, Edward B. Hungerford, AKA Ted (although I could never even think of calling him that until we both were much older).

At our first meeting I told him I was going to write a novel, about a college student who… read article

Is Kickstarter the New Cavalry?

Upset because you can’t get funding for your film? Think how Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader must have felt.

THE CANYONS

The Canyons is a contemporary thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho, etc.) to be directed by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Affliction, Auto-Focus, etc.)  The Canyons documents five twenty-something’s quest for power, love, sex and success in 2012 Hollywood…. read article