Archive for June, 2008
Films I’ve Seen Recently
I got behind on my movie watching, so I just crammed a whole bevy of films down my throat. The Brood: Cronenberg. Very dated, but cool. It has one of the most disturbing scenes of any movie in it--at the climax. Very f-ed up. Teeth: Vagina Dentata. Yep, that's pretty much it. Hulk: Pretty cool. Live Tyler was wispy as usual. Graphics were [...]
Long Live Rufus
One of my favorite comics of all time just passed away. When Laura and I merged our households, we had a few duplicate DVDs: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Reservoir Dogs. Another thing we both shared was a love of stand-up comedy--Foxx, Pryor, Cosby, Murphy, Rock, Seinfeld, Rickles, Smothers [...]
Untraceable
Tonight, I watched Untraceable with Diane Lane. No, she wasn't there with me (I wish), but she happens to be the star of the film. This was an interesting movie because it combined some of the graphic aspects of Saw with a cyber-thriller tone. This was directed by Gregory Hoblit (Fracture, Hart's War, Frequency, Fallen, Primal Fear), and [...]
Catching Up on Blogging
p>Just got back from Spokane for the Democratic State Convention. What did I learn? I learned that politicians' stump speeches are actually pitches to the voters. It's all very similar to our story/screenplay pitches where we need a solid hook with a concrete beginning, middle, and end, a repeated theme, a focused delivery, and emotional [...]
Katerhine Heigl Lashes Out
So Katherine Heigl in today's news pulled her name from the running in this year's EMMY awards. She told Tom O'Neil, "I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention. In addition, I did not want [...]
Prepare for Awesomeness!
Laura is back in town, so we were able to go see (or hear) Jack Black and company in Kung Fu Panda. It had a couple different styles of animation (dream sequences vs. the rest of the thing), great sound, and followed the Vogler/Campbell/Snyder methods very closely. The beats just hit right on time. This movie is just plain fun. I [...]
So You Wanna Sell A Spec?
As many of you know, I try to keep up on what's being sold down in the old H-W. So after analyzing the recent sales posted on Done Deal Pro, I was slightly disheartened. Out of the 21 sales: 9 - Adaptations (comic books, graphic novels, novels, video games) 5 - Original Specs (2 of which are under Hilary Swank's prod co) 3 - Remakes of films [...]
When Will The Sun Gods Visit Us? / Bill True and Dean Hyers / Barack Obama
Anyone else tired of this weather? So gray, so rainy, so awful. Even Brando didn't want to go out for a walk. I'm sitting in my favorite coffee shop, surrounded by everyone else trying to get a pick-me-up. About to add some more pages to my script, hoping to finish by next week. Since I haven't blogged about it yet, let's talk about the [...]
