Archive for February, 2018

“It’s an odd business in that it is either one of two extremes, it’s either feast or famine…Rejection is [a part of] the business and you gotta figure out how to roll with it.” Eric Heisserer on the film busienss Screenwriter Eric Heisserer grew up in Norman, Oklahoma where his father was a professor. He bypassed […]

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“[As a screenwriter you] kind of have to accept you’re Charlie Brown trying to hit the football.

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“Two years ago [Nick] Foles was ready to retire from football at age 26, frustrated with his situation, lacking in his motivation, uncertain either would ever improve.” Dan Wetzel Yahoo Sports  Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles may have started the year sitting on the bench, but he finished it Sunday night as the Super Bowl […]

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“I was a big math and computer geek, that’s true.” Brian Acton (Lake Howell High School grad and now billionaire) I know there’s a big football game today in Minneapolis, but just to mix it up a little here are some photos and memories surrounding an alumni baseball game I played in yesterday at my […]

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Two things happened fairly recently to The Florida Project:  It ended the year on several top ten films lists including The New York Times and AFI, and Willim Defoe received an Oscar nomination. This week it was announced that 5% of digital download sales (through February 5) would go to Community Hope Center —a central Florida charity […]

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Producer/screenwriter Brian Koppelman on his podcast asked indie producer Christine Vachon about what advice she had for young people today making their way into the entertainment world. Christine Vachon: Stop calling yourself a filmmaker. Call yourself a storyteller. Call yourself a content maker. Start looking at everything as all the different ways, all the different platforms, […]

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