“I believe throughout history, through all of history, way back to the most early days of the human race, when people gathered around the fireplace at night, they wanted to remember what had happened and reflect upon the big events of that day and reassess values and maybe get new dedication to the next day. [...]
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As one of the screenwriters for X-Men Origins; Wolverine, David Benioff is having a good run. Wolverine had an opening box office weekend of $87 million. You wouldn’t think a novelist (The 25th Hour) who wrote the script for The Kite Runner would feel at place (or even be considered) writing a blockbuster film. (But no one [...]
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One of the best places to hear interviews with top screenwriters is Jeff Goldsmith’s iTunes podcasts that are a part of the Creative Screenwriters Film Screen Series. Currently there are 99 interviews with various writers and directors and they are free.
Goldsmith is the senior editor of Creative Screenwriting and if you go to their website at www.creativescreenwriting.com [...]
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Pixar has made some classic films including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Monsters, Inc. That made me wonder what the process was for writing a Pixar screenplay and I found this quote:
“The writing process at Pixar is very messy, very collaborative and very labor-intensive. Our films are discovered in the “rewriting.” All of our films are [...]
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With all this talk about the Internet, blogging, Twitter, webisodes, etc., I thought I’d mention something a little more…well, more human. I bought a new photography camera today that I need a job Monday and while I could a saved a few dollars by buying it online I bought it at a photography store that [...]
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I’m so behind the times. Just last month Southwest Airlines asked Twitter followers to help them write the first Southwest Airlines Script. Here are the results. (It’s not art, but remember that one of the first images caught on film in the 1890s was Fred Ott’s Sneeze.)
But now I’m catching up at http://twitter.com/scottwsmith_com
For a list [...]
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