Ted Hope Shares 99 Steps for Making Good Movies;

Ted Hope Shares 99 Steps for Making Good Movies;

Posted by on Oct 1, 2011 in industry, screenWriting | No Comments

Check out producer (and iW blogger) Ted Hope’s 99 Recommended Steps for Making Good Movies… and a bonus 200 screenwriting tips…

listen to stephen king read a chapter from the sequel to the shining

listen to stephen king read a chapter from the sequel to the shining

Posted by on Sep 26, 2011 in films, screenWriting, story | No Comments

At an awards ceremony at George Mason University last Friday, Stephen King regaled audiences with a chapter from Doctor Sleep, his upcoming novel about a grown-up Danny Torrance from The Shining…

so many screenwriters, so few produced movies: amc’s ‘malkovich’s mail’

Posted by on Sep 1, 2011 in screenWriting | No Comments

In 2003 AMC aired, as part of a series of docs about movie production, an hourlong episode entitled “Malkovich’s Mail.” Screenwriters all across the country were submitting unsolicited material to Mr. Mudd, a production company John Malkovich was associated with, and the doc is a look behind the curtain at what happens to the vast majority of these submissions…