August 2012
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Amazon Studios Adds “Sisters” to its Movie...
Ryan has found the girl of his dreams, and wants to spend the rest of his life with her. But there’s just one problem — or three, actually. So goes the story of Her F’ing Sisters, the latest movie project added to the Amazon Studios Movie Development Slate.
J. Wilder Konschak said he wrote the script because “I really wanted to do something that had strong female characters in it. In comedy, you...
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Getting Your Series Optioned By Amazon Studios … A...
Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street is, in the words of its creator, David Anaxagoras: “a look at the lives of three quirky but lovable tweens. It’s whimsical and funny and dark and wondrous and sad all those things that childhood can be, especially when you are in the process of leaving it behind.”
It’s also one of the first children’s series optioned by Amazon Studios. And Anaxagoras is...
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Movie Poster Colors, Charted
Are movie posters getting darker, and more blue?
Some of us ask this question, throw out a hypothesis, and perhaps offer a few examples. Others create charts like this one, which shows the distribution of hues since 1914.
via I Love Charts
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Nerd's Eye View: Rules of the Reboot
The current round of reboots has inspired Hollywonk contributor Jeffrey Seasholtz, aka Uncle Shappy, aka the “nerd of spoken word”. Here’s the latest edition from his Longbox of Opinions:
Greetings, Geek Cinema Enthusiasts!
This week I’d like to opine on the reboot trend in Hollywood these days. When most nerds hear that one of their favorite old films are getting the “modern treatment”...
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Podcast Exclusive: Jane Espenson and Brad Bell...
The idea was born over a series of dinners: Jane Espenson, Hugo-award-winning writer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fell in love with her friend Brad Bell’s idea for a show about a fabulous actor (played by Bell), his gal pal (Alessandra Torresani, Caprica) and his boozily accidental wedding.
There’s a twist here, though, and it’s that the groom (aka Cheeks) didn’t marry the gal — he married...
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Amazon Studios Options Two Children’s Series
Amazon Studios has added two new children’s series to its development slate – each one a celebration of the creative and inspiring adventures that kids can have in their own back yard or while walking down “Normal Street.”
Both shows were created by newcomers discovered via Amazon Studios’ open-door development process. Learn more about how to submit your own ideas here.
These new series join Buck...
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“I’ll be honest with you — marketing made Merida the ‘main...”
– Brave writer and director Brenda Chapman on how she saw the story as more than just the story of a girl with a bow and a mom who just doesn’t understand
(Read the full interview about creating this script — characters, pacing, plot, the use of symbols — on Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog.)
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Amazon Studios "Facebook Friend" Open Assignment...
I Think My Facebook Friend is Dead.
When you hear the name of that movie script, there’s an immediate attraction, a sense that there’s a wild ride ahead. At least it was like that for Bradley Jackson, the screenwriter who will execute his vision of the Amazon Studios development slate project — the story of a shy nerd who finds himself on a quest to save the woman he loves. (Learn more about the...
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“Redford? Marry, maybe. Yeah, okay. And uh, Jack: shag. And Dustin…”
– Meryl Streep, playing “Marry Shag Kill” — using Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman — with Andy Cohen on Bravo last night. (via washingtonpoststyle)
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Comedian Chris Gethard On Comedy, Success and the...
So what’s it like to land the starring role in a sitcom (Big Lake, produced by Will Farrell and Adam McKay) only to have it flame out? Comedian Chris Gethard explains — and inspires — in a riveting new post on his blog.
It’s long, but well worth reading in its entirety. Here’s a taste:
Getting the show was an amazing experience. On the conference call where all of my agents...
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Guest Post: "Seed" Author Ania Ahlborn on Horror...
“Muses come in different shapes and sizes, mine just happens to look like a blood-drenched Sissy Spacek.”
— Ania Ahlborn, author of the chilling new horror novel, Seed
Classic horror: there’s something magical about it; something raw and unforgiving that taps into our deepest, most primal fears. As an author, people ask me what inspires me. I’m expected to throw out complicated answers:...
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“To be a critic, you have to have maybe 3% education, 5% intelligence, 2% style,...”
– The opinion of trailblazing film critic Judith Crist, who died today at 90
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"For Sale By Superhero": Meet the Artist
In For Sale By Superhero, Jim is an out-of-work dad, feeling lost in his life – until he discovers the secret headquarters of a dead superhero, the Grim Avenger. “That’s why when you look at how I’ve drawn Jim, you see a guy who’s kind of out of shape and looks a little weak and depressed,” says artist Brett Jubinville. “But when you look at the Grim Avenger you see someone who...
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The Greatest Movie of All Time: Vertigo?
Move over, Citizen Kane, and take your sled with you. Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has been declared the greatest film ever by BFI’s Sight & Sound, which polled 846 film experts (writers, academics, programmers and the like). Here’s the new top 10:
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) 2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) 3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) 5....
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