HT to @Vulture for the link.

Sony picks up spec script “Invertigo” from Transformers scribe Ehren Kruger and co-writer Bradley Camp. Logline kept under wraps. Kruger is repped by attorney Jason Sloane. By my count, this is the 15th spec script to sell in 2012. Last … Continue reading →

As I continually seek new information to contribute to our various electronic and print publications, I come across a ton of info that I want to pass along to the field, but they end up sitting on my desk waiting as other topics or projects rise to the top over that information. In light of [...]

uh ho!…another miserable bitter looking old man…so I guess he probably will be The Star man. You can see by comparing him to the sketch yesterday that I’ve used the original idea and developed it…Tomorrow I hope to unite him with his body and tra…

Another in the ongoing series Movies You Made. This from filmmaker Marc Fienberg: Hi Scott, I’m a writer/director/producer, a longtime lurker on your site, and a big fan of what you do. I wanted to tell you about the movie … Continue reading →

Scrat from Ice Age does the honors:

Last night at the 2012 BRIT Awards, Coldplay earned the award for Best British Band, despite being under fire lately for their Grammy performance earlier this month.  What can musicians learn from that?  Being a performer takes guts. Music, like all art, can be very subjective – and these days, everyone is a critic. Negative [...]

From FilmmakerIQ: Zyzzyx Road is a independent film made in 2006 with a budget of $1.2 million. Even though it stared Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl, it is notoriously on record as the lowest grossing film of all time with … Continue reading →

Last week, I posted this question: What are the best opening scenes in movie history? I was having this discussion with a writer the other day. So many fantastic opening scenes of all sorts. Some of them bombastic, some subtle, … Continue reading →