…Cuz that’s what good writers do.
by John Ostrander
Everyone has secrets. The thing is, secrets want to be told. The level of intimacy we have with another person is reflected by the number of secrets we share with them.
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Peer Production: DEATH STAR PR is a helluva series
And now for something completely different…okay, so “completely” isn’t quite the word. Look at it this way:
It is a period of civil war. The benevolent GALACTIC EMPIRE have just unveiled their secret weapon. No, not the DEATH STAR, its PR TEAM. Hounded by calls from evil REBEL ALLIANCE supporters, WILSON, Head of PR, and his scruffy-looking off-sider, SHARPE, set out to prove that the Death Star will restore peace to the galaxy…
What’s Happening in Indie Financing?
Alex Epstein knows:
CROWDFUNDING FOR FILMMAKERS
by Alex Epstein
I keep hearing that traditional funding for indie films is getting harder and harder.
I’m not sure it was ever that easy, unless you count the moment right after video stores came in and you could put together almost any cheesy erotic thriller or teenagers-in-a-cabin-in-the-woods horror movie and make a direct-to-video movie. If you read Joe Camp’s book about how he funded BENJI, the sleeper dog movie hit of 1974, he had a lot of trouble getting his movie made, and then more trouble getting it into theaters.
Fox Selects 10 Finalists for 2013 Writers Intensive
…And among them is an LB/ TVWriter™ fave, Sal Calleros, who has contributed quite a bit to this site in all its incarnations over the years. Congrats, Sal. Congrats, everyone!
by Michael O’Connell
Fox Audience Strategy has named the sophomore class of its Writers Intensive (FWI), the company’s talent-nurturing program that launched in late 2011 and named its first fellow last year. One individual from the company’s talent-cultivating program, which recently expanded to include film and book components, will see their script developed.
The Two Stages of a Hollywood Soul-Crushing
io9 strikes again!
by Daniel Wilson
I remember it clearly. I’m twenty-six years old, pacing around on the phone outside an Ethiopian restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’m trying to figure out who the guy is on the other end of the line in a polite way, and also to determine exactly how he is trying to scam me. He says that he is my film agent and that Paramount has offered to buy the rights to my book How to Survive a Robot Uprising. A mid five-figure check is coming my way as soon as I say yes. That’s more money than I’ve ever laid hands on in my life. Also, I didn’t know I had a film agent.