This is very cool, it’s a new review of Excess Baggage by Anthony Moretta on Out of the Gutter. Anthony even made me like the film better and I have a few reasons to have grievances with it, though, you know, it’s my baby even if it’s not quite as pretty a baby as a I wanted so I love it no matter what: CLASSIC FILM REVIEW: EXCESS BAGGAGE (1997): Read More ...
Join us for Indiechat 3/19 at 9pm EST! Topic: Screenplays March 19th, 2013 by Kate Tilton As many of you may know we took over the twitter chat #indiechat. #Indiechat is held every Tuesday at 9pm EST. You can check out our previous chat logs on BiblioCrunch Storify. This week on #indiechat Kate Tilton (@Froze8) will be will be hosting from the BiblioCrunch twitter account (@BiblioCrunch) with guest Max Adams (@CelluloidBlonde). Max Read More ...
Julie is one of my students. I would love to take credit for everything she has accomplished, but I can’t. I am her teacher, I guide. I’m a good teacher and a good guide. Hell, I’m a good writer, if it comes down to that. But. A guide can only guide someone willing to be guided who has drive to push through. I could be walking someone up Kilimanjaro, but Read More ...
This is a guest post from Richard Dane Scott. Richard recently wrote a piece for the AFF blog titled AFF IS MY BFF. It’s a good piece. You should read it. What stood out to me was Richard’s blatant honesty about his early days being THAT Guy: “When Austin Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary, I will be celebrating my tenth consecutive year of attending. When I look back Read More ...
This is a guest post from John Robert Marlow, author of Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood: 1 PITCH, 3 ELEMENTS, 10 SECONDS Everyone wants to sell a story. Almost no one can. Part of the reason is just that: people try to sell stories. But few (okay, no) working professionals have time to listen to or read every story that comes through the Read More ...
This is from The Bitter Script Reader. It’s not just entertaining — and it is definitely entertaining — it’s also smart and accurate. Who knew puppets could be so smart? Well, besides Craig Ferguson? :::SEE MORE BITTER SCRIPT READER:::
If you have not been watching the Banksy action on the book’s Going Banksy page you are missing out. It is hilarious and fun. Here are some shots from the Banksy action in Park City and Salt Lake City.
I was over on the Done Deal forums today. I don’t go there often, but I stopped in, hit some posts, answered some, recoiled at others, put in my time. It’s the giving back phase and I had too much coffee so there I am. And I keep seeing this message spewed out over and over again over there: “If it’s ‘great,’ they will want it.” That’s not actually true. Read More ...
Three Reasons Someone Might Not Read Your Script ~ by Max Adams ~ originally published on Bang2Write Many thanks to Max Adams aka CelluloidBlonde for today’s shot in the arm – I recognize everything she describes here, having probably done them myself years ago AND having been on the receiving end now! Go Max … Number One: You Have No Idea In Hell Whom You Are Talking To – Read More ...
Want to know how to get a $375 class for a hundred bucks? Then this deal is for you. Read on – IF YOU BUY 3 DIGITAL COPIES OF MY BOOK FOR THE HIGHLY REASONABLE PRICE OF $9.99 each, I WILL GIVE YOU A FREE SIGNED HARD COPY when the book hits print in 2013 — all postage paid in the US. [Non-US peeps, sorry, I cannot predict roving Read More ...
Guerrilla Tactics: Interview With Author & Screenwriter Max Adams ~ by Nancy Bilyeau In the middle of attempting to write my first screenplay, I bought a paperback called The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide: Or, Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War, by Max Adams. It was a fast, smart read, very funny, with an insider’s wisdom about how to get off the ground as a screenwriter. Max, I learned, had Read More ...
Yeah yeah yeah, I know, all book all the time. But if you just spent months of your life on a book pulling all nighters, you would kind of be all about the book too. And since this book helps you more than it helps me, get behind it. Jeesh. The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide is now available at Amazon on Kindle, at Barnes & Noble on Nook, at Kobo, Read More ...