Archive for Hollywood news and thoughts
The top sought after young actors in Hollywood
I came across an interesting article on IMDB today. It is tMF Special Report: The New Invasion of Hollywood & today’s most sought-after young actors at The Movie Fanatic.
The article profiles the 15 most sought after young actors in Hollywood. I would think it might not be a bad idea to target scripts to […]
GAFFERS Announces 2008 Screenplay Contest Winners
The Global Art Film Festival, or GAFFERS, has recently announced the winners of the 2008 Screenplay Writing Competition.
The winners are as follows:
1st Place (Drama), “Finding Heart”, David Kane
A young man with a bright future as a wrestler gets drafted into the Vietnam War and winds up coming home alive, but unable to wrestle. To find […]
Sad news for indie film lovers
Last week Warner Bros. announced the closing down of their subsidiaries’ Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse, both major distributors of independent, foreign, and documentary films.
This week Paramount announced that they were closing down Paramount Vantage.
Warner Bros. and Paramount used “necessary cost cutting” as an excuse and both promised they will not abandon the kind of […]
Free movie screening info
Looking for some info on free movie screenings in your area? I just came across a site called Film Metro that lists upcoming free movie screenings. You can search by state or click on one of the movies on the front page. From the looks of things the new Adam Sandler movie and Get Smart […]
American Screenwriters Association announcee the Semifinalists in 11th Annual International Screenplay Competition
The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) has announced the Semifinalists in their 11th Annual International Screenplay Competition, co- sponsored by Gotham Writers’ Workshop.
The semifinalists are:
John Aldriedge, Love, Zoe
Husam Asi, The General’s Son
Gary Barrett, Straightening Simon
Philip Benz and Mitchell Schneider, Edge Of God
Bob Bowersox, An Impossibly Fine Line
Curt Burdick and Scott Burdick, The Magic Carpet Adventures
Craig Cambria, […]
