“You’ve seen every moment of it before”
Movie Marketing Madness —
... Alan has put together a fantastic video that brings into stark relief just how many of this summer’s theatrical releases are franchise installments, adaptations, sequels, redos, remakes, reinventions, updates, relaunches and otherwise duplicative of what we’ve seen before. It’s kind of awesome, especially the bits where he directly contrasts the old version against the new. ...
Screenwriting News & Links! 3/25/08
Mystery Man on Film —
... somehow worried that without some Maxim-style adjectives ladled in, some misguided Network Exec is going to forget and cast ugly people..?” Joshua James on why Empire Strikes Back works “Screenwriter John Turman once mentioned something that really resonated with me, and I posted it in another related article, that it’s not always what our characters do, but what they ENDURE that makes them special.” Alan’s exclusive trailer Emily Blake needs an ...


