Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category
May
04
2020
 
Postcard #191 (Don Shula’s Autograph)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“You know it’s only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.” —Don Shula (on the area where Shula was raised in north east Ohio to being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame) If you’re fortunate in life, you get a few chances to […]
May
02
2020
A Quiet Place, Too in Theaters Now (Not to Be Confused with ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ in Theaters Later)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“For more than a century, movie theaters have been a refuge, a communal escape, a place for popcorn-chomping-dreaming-with-your-eyes-open transportation away from everything else.” —Jake Coyle In coronavirus shutdown, a glimpse of life without movie theaters Major League baseball stadiums are unusually quiet for this time of year. Theme parks are quiet. And movie theaters, night […]
May
02
2020
A Quiet Place, Too in Theaters Now (As in the COVID-19 Shutdown, Not to Be Confused with ‘A Quiet Place Part II’)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“For more than a century, movie theaters have been a refuge, a communal escape, a place for popcorn-chomping-dreaming-with-your-eyes-open transportation away from everything else.” —Jake Coyle In coronavirus shutdown, a glimpse of life without movie theaters Major League baseball stadiums are unusually quiet for this time of year. Theme parks are quiet. And movie theaters, night […]
May
02
2020
A Quiet Place, Too in Theaters Now. (As in the COVID-19 Shutdown, Not to Be Confused with ‘A Quiet Place Part II’)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaMovie theaters are indeed a quiet place right now. Today is May 1, 2020. One thing that means is I did not see a single movie in theaters for the entire month of April because of COVID-19. I can’t think of a single month in my adult life where I didn’t go to at least […]
May
02
2020
A Quiet Place, Too in Theaters Now. (As in the COVID-19 Shutdown, Not to Be Confused with ‘A Quiet Place, Part II’)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaToday is May 1, 2020. One thing that means is I did not see a single movie in theaters for the entire month of April because of COVID-19. I can’t think of a single month in my adult life where I didn’t go to at least one movie in theaters in any given month. And […]
May
01
2020
A Quiet Place, Too in Theaters Now. (As in the COVID-19 Shutdown, Not to Be Confused with ‘A Quiet Place, Part 2’)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaToday is May 1, 2020. One thing that means is I did not see a single movie in theaters for the entire month of April because of COVID-19 . I can’t think of a single month in my adult life where I didn’t go to at least one movie in theaters in any given month. […]
Apr
29
2020
The Film School Gamble via Sam Esmail: Hit It Big or Die In DebtPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The greatest obstacles to making films was getting access to equipment. And so my generation went to film school.” Spike Lee on going to film school in the late ’70s & early ’80s American Black Film Festival Mr. Robot creator/writer/director Sam Esmail did his undergraduate film school work at NYU (with a couple of semesters […]
Apr
27
2020
Postcard #190 (Social Distancing Bird)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaI took this photo Saturday in the Orlando area and the lone snowy egret bird seems symbolic of what a lot of people are going through these socially distancing days.
Apr
23
2020
‘Should I Go to Film School?’ A Successful Writer/Producer Gives a Solid Answer for Students TodayPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“How did I learn screenwriting? Endless hours at the typewriter, then the computer, which came along later. It was really a lot of applied time and effort and self-study. Which is the way most people learn.” Writer/director Frank Darabont Long before Shonda Rhimes signed a contract with Netflix for $100 million, she graduated from a series […]
Apr
23
2020
‘Should I Go To Film School?’ A Successful Writer/Producer Gives a Solid Answer for Students TodayPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“How did I learn screenwriting? Endless hours at the typewriter, then the computer, which came along later. It was really a lot of applied time and effort and self-study. Which is the way most people learn.” Writer/director Frank Darabont Long before Shonda Rhimes signed a contract with Netflix for $100 million, she graduated from a series […] |
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