Archive for Archive for October, 2007

WGA Strikes are Still Cool!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the SAG board passed a statement of support for the WGA on Saturday.
“The guild supports the WGA and any other guild or union that seeks (to) fight for fair compensation and protections for creative talent in the motion picture, television, and new media industries,” the SAG board said.
Sweet. Apparently […]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Monday, October 29th, 2007

Underworld 3 won’t have Kate Beckinsale! Balls to that!

I heart Kate Beckinsale. So, what I saw on the Hollywood Reporter website that Underworld 3: The Rise of the Lycans is set to being filming in January 2008 - I got totally stoked. Mmm, Kate Beckinsale in that lovely little form fitting black number all vamped out. That was what I was thinking.
Then I […]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Friday, October 26th, 2007

Strikes are cool

I’ve been somewhat keeping up with the possible WGA strike. It looks like the WGA strike might happen too!
According to the Hollywood Reporter in an article posted today,
The writers are under contract through Wednesday, but WGA membership recently gave the green light for leaders to call a strike any time after that. In […]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Friday, October 26th, 2007

Film School: Good Investment or Waste of Money?

The Hollywood Reporter seems to think that if you seek success in Hollywood that the only path leads to film school. I think it’s like that “just visiting” square on the Monopoly board. You aren’t going to jail but you can see it cause you’re visiting. In the same sense, you are not a part […]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Hollywood Hotties I Heart and So Should You #1 - Sarah Shahi

There should be some sort of special compensation, similar to disability payments or unemployment benefit payments, for people like me that will sit through an hour or more of complete and utter shit on film just to see a babe. If there was, I would be one rich bastard.
Why am I thinking about this? […]

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007