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Citroën DS3 Empire Awards 2010 Competition
Win two tickets to the 2010 Empire Awards and a night in a luxury London hotel with Citroën's DS3. Visit www.citroen.co.uk/empire-awards-2010/ to enter! Please note - other film magazines and cars are available. (But they're nowhere near as good as Empire and Citroën. Buy one of each...
"James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy"
James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," "Titanic" and...
Free ebook on building a creative career in the digital age
For a limited time, the Fans Friends and Followers e-book will be available for free download. It has already sold thousands of copies. "Fans, Friends & Followers is divided into three sections: an opening essay that lays out some of the “new rules” for using digital tools to build a...
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The Artful Writer
Carleton Eastlake, a current member of the WGAw board, has some thoughts on net neutrality, and he asked me to clarify mine. Here goes, with my responses in context… Craig – I’m not sure I follow how piracy issues and genuine net neutrality issues are linked. I don’t mean ...
The WGA and New Media – or – The iCarly Paradox
My daughter loves iCarly. For those of you without young children, iCarly is a sitcom on Nickelodeon about three middle-schoolers who create and webcast their own show on the internet. The webcast is extremely popular, and it gets them into all sorts of hijinks. How popular? In one recent episode,...
And The New York Times Seems To Agree…
A few days after my blog on the ageism settlement, the New York Times has weighed in. …a deeper look at the settlement and its terms indicates that the defendants might not be giving up all that much, and that anyone who is expecting the floodgates to open with opportunities for...
There was once a time in America when great lawyers argued great cases in front of great judges. A number of those cases were about things far more important than contracts and regulations and petty crime. They were about the soul of our nation. Those cases literally changed our culture, our understanding...
Throwing Some Light on the Scriptshadow
First, I apologize for my absence. Work calls, and well…I hate to say it, but…I kind of got bored with blogging for a while there. It’s not that I didn’t have anything to say. I did. I just didn’t feel like talking much. God knows there are plenty of people out...
WGA Screenwriters: Take The Survey!
If you’re a WGAw screenwriter, you should have just received an email from the guild inviting you to take an online survey. While I can’t print the link (the survey is for Guild members only…each of you gets your own link…), I can strongly urge you to take the five...