During my early days of knocking out spec scripts and such for fun and no profit, my friend Mysti pointed out an element of screenplays, and therefore movies, that I did not learn in any screenwriting class: The Unbelievable Coincidence.
Apparently, there is a general rule in Western Cinema that allows for one Unbelievable Coincidence (I’ll [...]

SCENE: The rec room in a basement of a suburban home.
At a table strewn with lead figurines and hex-graph paper sit FOUR PLAYERS and a DUNGEON MASTER, behind his dragon-emblazed standing folder.
DUNGEON MASTER: Did you hear about Gygax?
JAPHETH BLIGH (8th-level warrior): What’s that? A troll? I’m taking out my +5 Longsword–
HELVETICA the MEDIUM (6th-level Cleric) [...]

Box Office Weekly #108 (MP3 - 16 MB - 24 min)
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In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: One media conglomerate shall rule them all… CBS shows how daring a network can be… and in this week’s commentary Skot squints at palm sized movies. All this and Will Ferrell goes [...]

In Today’s (3 March) IMDb Studio Briefing this little article hung out near the bottom:
Consumers Hanging Up on Cell-Phone Video
Few people are watching clips of television shows and other videos on cell phones, according to a report by research firm Diffusion Group reported in today’s (Monday) New York Times. “All our research keeps pointing at [...]

I received this message from Faye, the producer of “Arrangements:”
Hi Folks:
“Arrangements” has been invited as an Official Selection of the 2008 International Cine Santa Cruz Film Festival. Festival dates are May 9 - 17 this year - more details to come when the schedule is confirmed.
We are also planning a special private pre-Festival screening [...]