Paraphrasing leads to errors, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the Hollywood producer who said—and I’m paraphrasing an idea here—it is better to have a killer concept executed poorly than a mediocre concept executed well. At the Studio level, a bad script can be rewritten 10 times over to […]
Good Reader, back at you this week with more from the Overheard Dialogue Files. There is a wealth of crazies out there, not just in Chicago, but in your hometown too! I suggest you ride the public transit rails at 2am, hang in a bunch of lines at Target, frequent film school shindigs in search […]
2:51pm, Friday, March 1. It’s freakin’ 8 degrees outside. That’s straight up Chi-town temperature. Wind chills will approach -20 tonight. Snowy dust blows into thin air.Why did I have to say something pithy about global warming a week ago? About how it’s so warm Chicago may never go back to the bad old days of […]
I like to keep tabs on former students. Does my heart good to hear when they do well. One of these is Kaj Kjellesvig. You can check out his award-winning Demo Reel, and some of his other work, here. I knew he’d be something special before he even left school, with a movie he wrote […]
NOVEMBER, 2012 Micro-budget pre-production! Christ help you if you don’t clear that Google inbox 5X a day. 10 or more threads continuously in play between the team…no time to slack off if we’re to make this March shooting date. What’s keeping us busy? KICKSTARTER Launched. 30 days, to expire on November 21, day before Thanksgiving. […]
