Following on from my last post, I thought I’d point out some links to what are generally regarded as some of the best blogs about screenwriting there are, for those people who are, a) interested in screenwriting or, b) what to know how to get started and what to look …
Kottke pointed me in the direction of a great screenwriting blog by Josh Friedman (called I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, hence my title, it was too cool to pass up) who has worked on Chain Reaction, War of the Worlds and the upcoming The Black Dahlia. The …
Funny how we’ve been hammered about how bad the box office takings have been over the summer and how it looks like the end of cinema is near when this weekend hit a high note. Takings in the US, driven by films like Jodie Foster’s new film, Flightplan, and …
Good Night, and Good Luck is George Clooney’s second film as director. It focuses on the story of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow as he tries to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy during a period where McCarthy led some wide ranging and intense investigations into suspected communist sympathisers …
Apparently, in a recent issue of the Hollwood Reporter, Paul Haggis, the screenwriter who is redrafting the script for Casino Royale, the next film in the Bond franchise, stated that he is reinventing Bond as a younger man, in his late twenties (28) and that there will be no Q …
The latest film from Guy Ritchie, director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, is yet another gangster film (I seem to remember him saying he was trying to get away from the genre, hence turning down directorial duties on Layer Cake). It again features Jason Statham …
For any fans of Terry Pratchett, no, this is not a film adaptation of one of his books, but it is a book adaptation though. Night Watch is an adaptation of the first in a trilogy from the works of Sergei Lukyanenko (the other two parts being Day Watch …
Edward Jay Epstein has written a couple of interesting articles over at Slate Magazine. The first concerns the clever way Indie filmmakers exploit star power to make their movies and the other is about the recent announcement by Robert Iger, the soon to be new head of Disney, talking …
I’ve written about screenplay formatting and some of the bits of free software available to take the hassle out of writing screenplays before, but recently I stumbled across a new package that is worth a look. As I think I mentioned, I’ve shied away from paying for some …
For anyone who has read any of William Goldman’s books on Hollywood, you’ll be aware that it seems executives will go to any lengths to try and guarantee a hit. That’s one of the reasons stars have become so powerful and can now induce a green light for a …
I saw the trailers of Chronicles of Riddick, the follow-up to the sleeper hit Pitch Black, and I thought it was going to be a surefire hit. The idea had so much room, such epic vision, great potential. I heard long before it got released that it stank. …
The highest grossing British film at the box office in 2003 was S Club Seeing Double, that’s what an article in The Guardian states quoting the UK Film Council and British Film Institute statistics. According to the RSU Statistical Yearbook 2004/5, Brits went to the cinema more frequently in …
