Does anyone have a copy of a Glee script? I promise it’s just for personal use… Please?
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Movie News; January is Entertainment on Crack
December is a relentlessly slow month in Los Angeles. It can be refreshing or really painful if you need to be working. January, however, makes an attempt at making up for all the hours not worked in December.
Today:
Sarah Palin will have her own show on Fox News. “It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news,” Palin said in a written release.
Spiderman 4 is NOT happening anymore. Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are off the project. They’re going to reboot the franchise, which seems insane considering it’s not even a decade old, but whatevs. This also means no more Kirsten Dunst!!!
All signs point to the Arrested Development movie happening this year.
SNL film MacGruber is looking good from early reviews, apparently as good as Wayne’s World. Which is good, since the SNL movies of late have included The Ladies Man, Superstar, and Night at the Roxbury.
I’m sure you’re all aware of George Lucas on The Daily Show and the horrifically funny youtube review of Phantom Menace.
The 2010 WGA nominations are out. Only 79 scripts were eligible to be nominated, versus last year’s 267. Shockingly, Avatar is nominated for Best Original Screenplay. But thank God! That screenplay has been released online! And it has a deleted sex scene…
NEYTIRI
I am with you now, Jake. We are mated for life.
JAKE
We are?
NEYTIRI
Yes. It is our way.
(innocently)
Oh. I forgot to tell?
He rouses up, making her look at him.
JAKE
Really, we are?
NEYTIRI
We are.
JAKE
It’s cool. I’m there.
Hello people from Writer Beware Blogs!
There is always a surge in traffic around here when another blogger has an encounter with Eddie Kritzer. His comments now go directly to spam here because they’ve become a bit graphic and horrifying. My favorite excerpts from the e-mail he sent to Victoria Strauss.
“Your to busy being a busy body “old decrepit lady with all wrinkly skin; IM sure your husband (if you still have one) which I doubt; because all you do is complain, you are the negative Nelly of the Internet, your so fucken boring, and bored.” And “all you do is bitch and moan and groan [except when you have sex; then you just lay there like a lump of coal, which is what your personality is.”
In other news, I didn’t finish the rewrite for today’s deadline due to a lot of stuff that’s happened in the last month, good and bad, but all time consuming. So, I’m planning on getting it rewritten and polished by the Nicholl. I’m going to set writing aside right now to try to get through this project I’m editing. I need to get it done by Feb 1 because I won’t have time for a side job at that point. Of course, I don’t feel great right now, but hopefully that’s going to do nothing but get better. Starting Wednesday I get to start working on scar reduction!
ScriptShadow: Top 25 First 10 pages
You may remember that I was in the top 100 loglines at a contest over at ScriptShadow.
I am now in the top 25!
Now to finish this rewrite by January 11th!
Weekend Recap: Nominate me for Awards!
I am still sick, I have been sick for so so long. I mean, I’m 87% better. Which is to say I’m not totally exhausted but I’m still coughing and my nose is still icky. I finished my course of antibiotics, so I’m guessing there’s nothing to do now but hope.
My posting is probably going to be erratic at best starting Tuesday — I’m going to be in South Carolina for a week. I’m hoping to start getting some feelers for raising money there.
I was on set all weekend, shooting two different things. I was script supervising the pilot for Alice and the Monster, which is from the same creative team as Gold: The Series, and then I “starred” in a makeover shoot from which I got a super cute dress that I wore to my company’s holiday party. So, huzzah.
Also, you can nominate Gold: The Series and/or my editing of Gold for the Streamys. They’re pushing for Gold to get Best Comedy and Best Ensemble. Under individuals, you can nominate me for Best Editing, and you can nominate the super awesome Frederick Snyder for Best Director. The site address is www.goldtheseries.com
That’s all for now!
The Black List
Today is the drop date of the list of Hollywood’s favorite “unproduced” screenplays of the year. Of course, almost everything on the list is in production or has been optioned. But there are a few scripts that might get that extra needed bump simply by being on this list!
Here is the list: http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/the-black-list-to-be-posted-here-in-entirety/
More on what the black list is: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-currid11-2009dec11,0,6702050.story
40% of the 2005 list and 30% of 2006 list have been made into films so far.
Some Black List Scripts: The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Hancock, Things we lost in the Fire, Rendition, A Mighty Heart, There Will Be Blood.
Bible Con: the rewrite
I’ve been sort of kind of rewriting Bible Con for the last two months, but I think I’ve had a breakthrough.
It’s a Mockumentary and has a lot of characters and a fair few balls in the air at any time, and the most consistent note I’ve gotten on it is that the conflict needs to be heightened and specified. It’s tough, in an ensemble piece, to make sure that every character has a goal, flaws, and something stopping them from being happy. It’s not that these things didn’t exist in the previous draft, but they are a bit murky.
So I’ve decided to completely rewrite one of the 6 main characters and make him, essentially, not a main character at all. There’s a lot that’s going to be coming out of this draft, I’m a little worried it’s going to drop too many pages, but hopefully it’ll all balance out.
Eddie Kritzer: I thought he was gone
Eddie Kritzer seems to be going to unrelated posts and commenting with ad hominem attacks. I’ve told him there, but I’m posting it again, I don’t want to block anyone, but I’m not patient with people who simply post trying to get some sort of emotional rise out of people. There are plenty of places on the internet to go be a dick, this is not the forum. I don’t want to censor anyone, but at some point it is spam, not a comment, and I will throw it away.
I know it’s tragic to not have as much opportunity for you all to make fun of his grammar, spelling, and acting like Sarah Palin with a Levi Johnston size bee in her bonnet, but I’m bored of it.
His recent comment.
InkTip: 3 months in, first Script download
My script has been up on InkTip since the beginning of September. Today, for the first time, it was downloaded. The logline has come up in someone’s search 94 times, 34 of those hits were from LA Feature Film Academy.
Today someone at LA Feature Film Academy actually downloaded it. Anyone know anything about them?
Other stats: My resume has been downloaded once, the synopsis three times, the script once. Interestingly, though one person looked at the synopsis twice, no one’s looked at any two of those, let alone all three.
PitchQ: Highest rated of November; A winner is me
So, I guess I won this contest of the highest rated pitch of November on Pitch Q. They didn’t alert me or anything, nor did I know I had comments, I just happened to go to the page and see my face all huge and pink on the front. So… yay for me!
http://www.pitchq.com/?pitch/&4490
I also got a note that I cannot decipher. I’ll assume it was useless.