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…
WGA Negotiators celebrate. Photo credit: The Hollywood Reporter At the 11th hour, the WGA avoided a costly writer’s strike with a new deal — and pulled off some decent gains on the TV side. Alas, they weren’t so successful when it came to features, and basically walked away with bupkis. But we can’t really complain…
As many of you know, we here at Coverage Ink will review your query letter for free. That means simply, you send us the query which you are planning to blast to the industry. We then give you our feedback. This generally means letting you know if you could say things more compellingly, if the…
Well, hello, AWESOME! Many thanks to Storyboard That for this super useful graphic. And what is this thing? Why, it is your feature screenplay structure at a glance. We here at Coverage Ink are big fans of the Hero’s Journey, aka mythological structure for movies. Most contemporary movies are based on it, as are bestselling…
Coverage Ink’s Jim Cirile moderates the Agent/Manager panel at 2016 Scriptfest Scriptfest returns June 23-25 at the Burbank Marriott, and we couldn’t be more excited. As many of you know, we here at Coverage Ink have enjoyed a wonderful relationship with Scriptfest (formerly Great American Pitchfest) for over a decade. We’ve moderated a series of…
Hi folks, we’ve postponed Get Repped Now for the time being. We were going to bring it back Spring 2017, but we are going to have to put that on hold until further notice — likely summer or fall.We are currently in the final phase of production on our new animated feature film MALEVOLENT and…
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,…