How That Movie Got Made
How movies get made, screenwriting / film / TV musings, and the occasional cinematic short story
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Independent Film Financing: Knowing How The Sausage Is Made Will Give You A Better Chance Of Making Sausages
It’s not glamorous. But understanding how independent film financing works is vital. And if you’re a filmmaker or a writer, it can help you create projects with higher commercial viability (meaning easier to get financed).
It’s a good scre...
Spite: An Underrated Key To Success In The Entertainment Industry
Achieving success in film or TV is not, from a pure statistical perspective, that much easier than making it to the NFL. It’s really, ridiculously, almost impossibly difficult. And it’s not just about your creative talent. It’s also about t...
Why Is It So Hard To Make A Good Movie?
I began screenwriting after seeing the film Two For The Money, a now-forgotten Al Pacino / Matthew McConaughey film, that holds a 22% on RottenTomatoes and grossed 30 million dollars in theaters. I walked out of the theater, adamant, that I...
In Life And In Screenwriting, Taking Your Time Is Underrated
So you wanna be a screenwriter? Well, you need scripts. A lot of scripts. Rejection is so high in this field, it stands to reason, the more scripts you’ve got, the better your chances are, right?
No.
But surely, having a wide variety of s...
The 5 Times I Almost Quit Screenwriting (And Why I Didn't)
Pursuing a career in screenwriting is sort of like pursuing a spiked club as a backscratcher. What I’ve come to notice is that, whenever I’m just about to say screw it and go into selling life insurance or something, a completely unexpected...
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Former film exec. Produced writer of film, TV, & scripted podcasts. Set up numerous cinematic short stories for film/TV adaptation. I'll be posting generally about how movies got made (and the weirder short stories) + various film/TV musings.
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