Tag: businessofhollywood
Hooray For Hollywood! No, Hollywood Did Not "Steal" Your Script
I just returned home from a film festival where I was asked one of the most amazing questions, I think, ever. After sitting on a panel discussing the growing nexus between short-films and Hollywood, this young man -- early to...
Hooray For Hollywood! New Red Carpets and Old White People
The SWAT snipers are climbing down from the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum roof, traffic is resuming its normal sluggish flow at Hollywood and Highland (the 25-foot anti-blast wall now deconstructed) and soft sobbing and the repeated mantra...
Hooray For Hollywood! For Those About To Strike, We Salute You
Well, boys and girls, get ready for another writers' strike. The WGA and the AMPTP (The Alliance of Mot... uh, the studios and the networks, basically) just wrapped up two weeks of negotiations on the replacement of their existing agreement,...
Hooray For Hollywood! A Contract Is Better Than A Handshake (But Only Just)
For this, our second installment in this exercise of my disabusing you all of the notions of cinematic high art in favor of the realities of the movie business of it all, I thought I would answer one of the...
Hooray For Hollywood! The Answer To Your Question Is: Money
Hello! My name is Todd and I will be your humble(ish) guide through the sausage factory that is Hollywood. Or, to be more precise, I will be endeavoring to provide a window into aspects of the business of filmmaking that...
