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Do novelists get more for successful adaptations?

July 15, 2010 Big Fish, Film Industry, QandA, Rights and Copyright

When a novel is adapted into a film or television series, how does compensation to the writer of the original novel work?

Monsterpocalypse, and why some projects get announced (and others don’t)

June 10, 2010 Big Fish, Charlie's Angels, Monsterpocalypse, Projects

I’m going to be writing a big movie version of Monsterpocalpyse for DreamWorks, based on Matt Wilson’s kaiju-themed giant-monsters-smashing things extravaganza.

Don’t make the feature version of your short

April 28, 2010 Genres, Go, Sundance

Having worked with many emerging filmmakers through the Sundance Institute and other programs, I’m convinced it’s usually the wrong choice.

Screenwriting and the problem of evil

April 8, 2010 Projects, Story and Plot, Writing Process

One of the joys of screenwriting is putting childhood terrors into words. But nihilism is not a crowd-pleaser.

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