Howdy, fellow scribes! It is with enormous delight that we present to you our biggest and best manager panel ever for the upcoming GET REPPED NOW. Eight amazing managers from the top management companies in town. Want in? Sure you do! Without further ado, here they are: Jake Wagner, Good Fear Lee Stobby, Stobby Ent….
(Well, okay, maybe not all…) Howdy, fellow Scribadelic Warriors, Recently I sent out an e-mail to our newsletter list offering five free half-hour phone consultations with me to discuss whatever you want — the state of your career, what to write next, and so forth. Well, I got 127 replies, so needless to say, there…
Hi friends! My second “The Rep Sheet” guest blog (the spiritual successor of my old “Agent’s Hot Sheet” column) is now up on The Wrap. This time out, I grill five leading managers and an agent about how writers shoot themselves in the foot. Once you finally get signed, the last thing you want to…
Why Getting Coverage on Your Script May Be Just the Ticket By Jim Cirile www.coverageink.com We’ve all been there. We write “Fade Out,” and voila! — our shiny, new awesometastic masterpiece is done. Then we hand it to our respective boyfriends, girlfriends, and “it’s complicated” others; they love it. Mom adores it. We’re ready for…
On June 23, I had the distinct pleasure of moderating our annual AGENTS AND MANAGERS HOT SHEET – LIVE! Industry panel event at ScriptFest. And what a great panel it was. Eleven agents and managers (and an entertainment attorney) spent 90 minutes talking about things that are of interest to emerging writers – everything…
Producer Steve Longi is used to scraping and scrapping to get quality projects made in Hollywood. Starting as a production assistant at Permut Presentations on the hit FACE/OFF, he went on to co-produce with David Permut movies like CHARLIE BARTLETT and YOUTH IN REVOLT as well as 2016 Oscar winner HACKSAW RIDGE, which took him…
Howdy, fellow scribes! As many of you know, I wrote the Agent’s Hot Sheet column for Creative Screenwriting magazine for ten years, until the magazine’s sad demise five years ago. Agent’s Hot Sheet was such an incredible opportunity I can barely put it into words. For a decade, I got to interview the top literary…
Peeps, this is it — the screenwriting event of the year! If you are in Southern California, head on over to the Burbank Marriott this weekend, because it’s time for Scriptfest (formerly Great American Pitchfest) — the world’s biggest pitchfest. The pitch event is all day Sunday, and there will be over 100 producers, managers…
It seems to be time for one of my once-every-few-months soap-box rants. In other words, I’ve come to the point – again – where just gritting my teeth at writers phoning it in isn’t enough and I have to vent. What brought it on this time? The holiday weekend. I took the radical step…
Writer/Producer Jamie Rhonheimer has been killing it in the situation comedy world for almost two decades. You may have heard of some of the shows he’s been staffed on, like “Will and Grace,” “How I Met Your Mother,” and most recently Netflix’s “The Ranch.” We caught up with Jamie to ask him how he keeps…