Screenwriters bend over backwards to contrive events rather than embrace the path of greatest resistance. SNEAKY PETE kicks heaping mounds of gluteus. In case you haven’t seen it yet (and what are you waiting for?) Giovanni Ribisi is TV’s newest con man. Wearing his con lifer status as a badge of honor, Ribisi’s…
Producer/story analyst extraordinaire David Whitney puts on his roving reporter hat to bring us the skinny from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. By David Whitney This year’s festival was less closed-off from the outside world than previous years. If 2016 was all about the race to find a winner, then 2017 was the answer to…
Screenwriters Brooks Elms and Glenn Sanders recently made the trades when they set up their sci-fi thriller Near Earth Object with Chinese studio Le Vision, who plans to make it with an international cast. Not long ago, they were just two guys entering contests — one of which was our own Writers on the Storm,…
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We’re just about done reading all the Fall 2016 Get Repped Now submissions, and we are super excited about the material. While only four scripts that made the cut so far (down from ten last go-round,) the quality of them all is through the roof. We can’t wait to drop them on our manager…
by Jim Cirile CoverageInk.com MasterClass.com caught screenwriters’ eyes in a big way last year when they launched their Aaron Sorkin video tutorial series. For $90, far cheaper than the cost of most screenwriting classes, we could spend 35 video lessons with the esteemed writer of A Few Good Men, West Wing, and The…
(And Good Riddance, 2016) By Jim Cirile From the American Screenwriters Association blog Ahoy, fellow scribes! We’re finally done with 2016, that blizzard of putrescence – and not a minute too soon. Some of the lowlights: Trump, DNC chicanery, and Wikileaks revealing that Citicorp had selected Obama’s entire cabinet. And we lost so many…