From Comics2Film: Writer-producer Andrew Cosby says the success of Lord of the Rings means fantasy filmmakers can spend less time explaining the material and more time just telling a good story.

 

From The Scotsman: Can a play about the Lockerbie bombing also work as an entertainment? Author Des Dillon would like to think so.

 

From The San Francisco Examiner: In a superb take-down, Mark Miller eviscerates "screenwriter conferences" that sell hope to the gullible for a fee.

 

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Playwright Rebecca (Boy Gets Girl) Gilman reveals that her socially-conscious brand of playwriting began with -- you guessed it -- Krispy Kreme donuts.

Wednesday, February 12, 2003

 

From The Los Angeles Times: Gangs of New York and My Big Fat Greek Wedding are both nominated for Oscar's Best Original Screenplay. But wait a minute -- didn't one start as a book and the other start as a play?

 

From The Austin Business Journal: Playwright John Walch, formerly of Austin, lately of Manhattan, is the winner of the 2003 American Critics' Award for The Dinosaur Within.

Sunday, February 09, 2003

 

From The New York Times: Has reality television put TV writers on the endangered species list? (Note: requires free registration.)

 

Plug: The Web's best source of contemporary plays, screenplays, and teleplays is The E-script Film and Theatre Bookstore.

 

From Fade In Magazine: Actor Dan Bucatinsky goes the screenwriting route with All Over the Guy and finds himself thinking like, well, a screenwriter: "I was on set every day to answer questions or clarify my intentions. (Translation: I wanted to make sure they were saying my lines instead of theirs.)"

 

From NewYorkTheatre.com: This interview from Martin Denton's admirable site offers a cheering example of a healthy playwright-director relationship at work. And did you know classmates.com can come in handy when you're picking names for characters?