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Virtual Sundance

January 20, 2006 Film Industry

Can’t make it to Sundance? Here’s what you’re missing (or not).

Drive-by tagging

January 19, 2006 QandA

I got tagged to write up my answers to Fun Joel’s scribosphere meme thing. So here goes. ONE (1) earliest film-related memory: I went to see The Muppet Movie with my Mom. It was just the two of us, so my Dad and brother were gone somewhere. It might have been an Indian Guides camp-out, […]

What’s with all the remakes?

January 6, 2006 QandA

My question has to do with the recent trend in adapting books and old movies. Is it that screenwriters have run out of good scripts, or that producers are too scared to produce anything that hasn’t already been in the public eye? What is left for the writers who have original stories to tell? — […]

Turn to page 17 for a sex joke

January 5, 2006 QandA

I’ve heard a rumor that in the “industry” it’s an inside joke to have some sort of nudity or sex on page 17. Specifically 17. First, is that actually funny? And second, is it a shoe-in in terms of a scriptreader reading further? — Zeb via imdb I’ve never heard this, but I love it. […]

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