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  • The Day I Met The Unknown Screenwriter

    FADE IN: INT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY Unk strolls into his favorite coffee shop — backpack slung around his left shoulder. He ambles up to the counter. BECK, the coffee house manager yells out: BECK [...]
    Posted to The Unknown Screenwriter (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-09-2007

  • Negotiations Ongoing: Carson Daly Crosses Picket Line

    The second day of negotiations between the WGA and the AMPTP continues today. Reportedly Monday's session went quite well with "reasonableness ruling the day." According to my sources, both sides spent the session recapping where they'd left off negotiations back on November 4th, which...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-27-2007

  • Philip Pullman Goes Back to His Teaching Roots

    Philip Pullman, the bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy has been made an honorary professor at Bangor University. Philip Pullman, who was educated at Ysgol Ardudwy in Harlech, is already an honorary fellow of the university. The writer will take seminars for Bangor students and host...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-23-2007

  • Damon Lindelof: Television is Dying

    Co-creator and head writers of Lost Damon Lindelof wrote a powerful editorial in The New York Times entitled "Mourning TV." But I am willing to hold firm for considerably longer than three months because this is a fight for the livelihoods of a future generation of writers, whose work will...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-12-2007

  • WGA Meets Tonight; May Call Strike

    The deadline has passed, but a writers' strike hasn't been called yet. But chances are good that one will be called tonight at the WGA meeting which is at 7:00 p.m. Pacific time tonight. When the producers said that flatly wouldn't agree to any changes in residuals for DVDs, the talks really...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-01-2007

  • A Screenwriter Ponders the Ethics of Torture

    With torture being in the news, screenwriters are debating how to deal with the subject. The New Yorker revealed that the show 24 had 67 torture scenes during the first five seasons, which is more than one torture scene in every episode aired. That's a lot of televised torture, thought Josh Singer...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-25-2007

  • Producers Withdraw Residuals Proposal

    Could it be? Some actual progress in the talks between the producers and the WGA? The L.A. Times reports that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has withdrawn its unpopular proposal on residuals. That one key issue was threatening to destroy any chance of a truce before the October...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2007

  • Francis Ford Coppola Appeals For Return of Stolen Computers

    Francis Ford Coppola is devastated over a robbery in which he lost fifteen years of his work. Speaking with Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias, Coppola appealed to the bandits to return the small computer backup device, which was taken along with computers in the raid Wednesday night. "They stole...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2007

  • Online Content Boom Fuels Threat of Writers' Strike

    The growing number of online shows and Web-only content is increasingly becoming a source of contention with the Writers Guild. The studios don't pay the writers standard wages and the writers are either non-union or are union scribes working with a non-union contract. Tensions are running so high...
    Posted to Writerswrite (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2007
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