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In my seemingly never-ending search for a Mac replacement for the Final Draft screenwriting program (you can see a previous post on this subject here), I stumbled across a free program called, strangely, Celtx (which sounds like some kind of UNIX command line interpreter rather than something creative). I’d looked at this briefly, some time ago, but my thinking then was, “if it’s free, just how good…

What the hell am I doing with my life? I think I’ve strayed off target. Digital this, HD that, CG something-else. None of this is what I used to be all about.

If the events of the notorious Sid Terror — “London After Midnight” kerfuffle (there, he wanted his name connected with the famous, lost Chaney film, now he’s got it) had an upside, it’s…

This year alone, I have already mentioned, on the pages of this blog, the passing of at least five creative greats who are no longer with us. I’ve touched briefly on the impact each has had on my life, but one genius I miss practically every month that passes is the incomparable Stanley Kubrick, who would have been eighty today. I can safely say that no other filmmaker has…

(via AICN) This is an interesting story and one that I hope is true. It broke, more or less, on the Horror Drunx website today, in a post by “Sid Terror” and tells the hugely-detailed and highly entertaining tale of his stumbling upon a print of this long-lost Tod Browning-Lon Chaney classic in a Hollywood vault back in the late 80’s, fully intact and in good condition.

What…

(via AICN) The “Watchmen” trailer that accompanies this weekend’s premiere of “Dark Knight” is now online … sort of. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of official page, but here’s a link to the 720p HD version.

And it’s a pretty cool trailer, seemingly in keeping with the spirit and feel of the original paper version, but it did lose me at “From the visionary director of…

It’s still aggravating. There’s so much about Apple products that work, it’s just those few things that don’t work that ruin everything.

Take for example last week’s MobileMe debacle paired with the worldwide rollout of iPhone 2.0. Who in their right mind would plan so many things to all happen on one day? I’m not surprised that there were problems - in fact, it seems that nothing went right.

I took…

Writing is hard. Especially for me, not only because my brain doesn’t always work as planned, but also because the writing process (when done properly) means very long periods of nothing happening, then having two great ideas in the course of two minutes.

This is what happened to me yesterday. I have been working, for the last couple of weeks on character, notes and script structure (ideas for the…

Already predisposed to despise this remake — the most pointless remake in the pointless history of remakes — I imagine (judging from the trailer) this is how the high-level conversation went, browsing through a glossy, hardcover picture-book of classic films:

“Here’s one. Ooooh look.”

“That guy has black hair, I’m seeing Keanu Reeves.”

“What’s it called?”
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“‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’.”

“Wha? ‘The Day After Tomorrow’?”

“No, ‘The Day the Earth…

Development Hell is the worst place to be. It seems, sometimes, you can only inch backward, rather than forward, and every day truly tests your love for what you are doing as the money needed to survive becomes more and more scarce. For myself, especially, having hitched my wagon, so long ago, to the never-ending zombie western project that eventually became “GallowWalker”, which the new producers seem to have…

Sometimes, during the development of a film, excellent creative opportunities arise which turn the project into something exciting and unexpected … and sometimes, circumstances intrude that take those opportunities away. So, what you’re left with are some loose ends that won’t amount to much more than an interesting sidebar during a DVD commentary.

Some of these little excursions are more interesting than others. A case in point is the character of…