David Fincher swoops down to explore his next potential directing assignment. So I decided to check out the book. Genre: Thriller Premise: Told from two different points of view, a man’s wife goes missing and he becomes the prime suspect. About: 41 year old Gillian Flynn is a former Entertainment Weekly TV critic. She’s written […]
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Ben Stiller may be pulling in 15 million a movie these days. But there was a time when he was struggling to make a name for himself. In fact, Stiller had been in a string of commercially unsuccessful movies and TV shows, only recently making a name for himself in 1998 with “There’s Something About […]
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Former superstar screenwriter Shane Black takes over one of Hollywood’s bigger franchises. How does he do? Okay, just so everyone knows, I did not send out the newsletter last week. So you haven’t been kicked off. I was up in Portland for my brother’s wedding. I’ll tell ya. Portland is an interesting place. But I’ll […]
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Well, I thought I could do it all– get through a bazillion consults, write up a review, put together a newsletter– but shockingly, I’m just a mere mortal. Instead of a newsletter this week, and in place of a regular post, I’m posting five new amateur scripts for an extended Amateur Offerings Weekend slate. Hopefully […]
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So the other day I was reading this transcribed speech from Steven Soderbergh, which he recently gave at an event. The speech was significant because Soderbergh hinted that he would be dropping some bombs on Hollywood. Soderbergh has become an interesting topic of discussion over the last year or so because he’s a successful filmmaker […]
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