Drive & Talk – The 3 F’s for Success in Entertainment

In this edition of Drive & Talk, Content Engine’s Seth Jaret enumerates the “3 F’s” for success in the entertainment business. Simple rules to live by. Anyone can use them. Everyone needs to.    

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After Hours – A Pulitzer Prize-Winner On Writing

“I learn by the mistakes I make where I need to go.” – Junot Díaz (Pulitzer Prize-wining novelist) ContentEngine.tv brings you Part 3 of its After Hours interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Christopher Goffard. Here, Christopher discuss his writing process (“thousands of pages are scrapped”); the disparity between writing works of fiction and non-fiction; his cinematic and visual writing style that makes his non-fiction work, “You Will See Fire,” read like a novel. Chris is a reporter for the Los [...]

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Hilary Graham on “Time Management”

Writer/Director/Author, Hilary Weisman Graham, gives her quirky, fun and personal take on “time management” for the multi-platform content creator — something she knows a LOT about. Her new YA Novel, REUNITED, will be available in book stores on June 12th. To read more about how Hilary has been marketing her new book and building her own content creator brand, click here.  

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Hollywood Q&A: How to Break into the Business [PODCAST]

In this podcast, Seth Jaret speaks to aspiring screenwriters about best practices for breaking into the entertainment business and sustaining success once you do. Seth covers his “origin story” and personal journey, starting with his initial successes with Rounders and 10 Things I Hate About You, culminating in the launch of Content Engine. He addresses the transformation of the film business, what it means to be a content creator, and how writers and directors need to eschew the culture of permission in favor [...]

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Interview with Astrologer, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas [PODCAST]

As part of his series on TEACHERS & SEEKERS, Seth Jaret interviews Content Engine’s resident astrologer, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas. Listen in on a conversation about astrology, spirituality, the zeitgeist and the cosmic influence of the stars and planets on all of us — whether we are attuned to it or not.    

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Star Power! Astrology Unleashed <h3>Week of May 14-20</h3>

Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

Week of May 14-20

Think of all the cliffhangers being currently shown on TV: which singer or dancer will be crowned champion by the audience and judges, which series will be renewed or cancelled, what old lover suddenly reappears and screws up a tidy family nest, what unlikely means the hero uses to triumph in the end. Put all these scenarios together and you have the astrological keynote for this week: namely, IT’S COMPLICATED. Two major celestial events occur in the space of five [...]

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    Drive & Talk – The 3 F’s for Success in Entertainment

    In this edition of Drive & Talk, Content Engine’s Seth Jaret enumerates the “3 F’s” for success in the entertainment business. Simple rules to live by. Anyone can use them. Everyone needs to.    

    Continue reading »

  • After Hours – A Pulitzer Prize-Winner On Writing

    After Hours – A Pulitzer Prize-Winner On Writing

    “I learn by the mistakes I make where I need to go.” – Junot Díaz (Pulitzer Prize-wining novelist) ContentEngine.tv brings you Part 3 of its After Hours interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Christopher Goffard. Here, Christopher discuss his writing process (“thousands of pages are scrapped”); the disparity between writing works of fiction and non-fiction; his cinematic and visual writing style that makes his non-fiction work, “You Will See Fire,” read like a novel. Chris is a reporter for the Los [...]

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  • Hilary Graham on “Time Management”

    Hilary Graham on “Time Management”

    Writer/Director/Author, Hilary Weisman Graham, gives her quirky, fun and personal take on “time management” for the multi-platform content creator — something she knows a LOT about. Her new YA Novel, REUNITED, will be available in book stores on June 12th. To read more about how Hilary has been marketing her new book and building her own content creator brand, click here.  

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  • Hollywood Q&A: How to Break into the Business [PODCAST]

    Hollywood Q&A: How to Break into the Business [PODCAST]

    In this podcast, Seth Jaret speaks to aspiring screenwriters about best practices for breaking into the entertainment business and sustaining success once you do. Seth covers his “origin story” and personal journey, starting with his initial successes with Rounders and 10 Things I Hate About You, culminating in the launch of Content Engine. He addresses the transformation of the film business, what it means to be a content creator, and how writers and directors need to eschew the culture of permission in favor [...]

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  • Interview with Astrologer, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas [PODCAST]

    Interview with Astrologer, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas [PODCAST]

    As part of his series on TEACHERS & SEEKERS, Seth Jaret interviews Content Engine’s resident astrologer, Ra Rishikavi Raghudas. Listen in on a conversation about astrology, spirituality, the zeitgeist and the cosmic influence of the stars and planets on all of us — whether we are attuned to it or not.    

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  • Star Power! Astrology Unleashed <h3>Week of May 14-20</h3>

    Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

    Week of May 14-20

    Think of all the cliffhangers being currently shown on TV: which singer or dancer will be crowned champion by the audience and judges, which series will be renewed or cancelled, what old lover suddenly reappears and screws up a tidy family nest, what unlikely means the hero uses to triumph in the end. Put all these scenarios together and you have the astrological keynote for this week: namely, IT’S COMPLICATED. Two major celestial events occur in the space of five [...]

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    Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

    Week of May 7 – 13

    In ancient times, on the isle of Crete, King Minos constructed a legendary labyrinth, in the center of which was a great bull, fierce and potent, the embodiment of raw strength and fertility, which was worshipped by the populace. Appropriately, this was during the Taurean Age (circa 1500 BC), when the Bull was at the center of many cultures’ religious rituals. It was said that those who entered the labyrinth and found their way out through the confusing maze, without [...]

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  • Star Power! Astrology Unleashed <h3>Week of April 30 – May 6, 2012</h3>

    Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

    Week of April 30 – May 6, 2012

    This week’s energies remind us of the legend of King Arthur and his utopian kingdom, Camelot. It’s a time for construction of long term projects that have the potential to succeed in a big way. So if you wonder what the King is doing tonight, I suggest you look within yourself to find the idealist who can initiate this change. This week’s keynote: TRUST IN YOUR DREAMS. There’s a scene in the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” that [...]

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  • Making it Count

    Making it Count

    I saw TITANIC in 3D this weekend with my daughter and there’s a great scene in the middle where Leo’s penniless Jack Dawson tells the first class company he’s dining with that he’s got everything he needs right there with him: air in his lungs, a blank sheet of paper and a sense of making every day count. Everyone toasts to “making it count.” On the Titanic, the passengers’ days–their hours––were numbered. But so our ours. The only certainty is that our [...]

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  • Star Power! Astrology Unleashed <h3>Week of April 23 – April 29, 2012</h3>

    Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

    Week of April 23 – April 29, 2012

    Like a field beginning to sprout new growth after a gale-force wind has passed over it, this week may seem boring when compared to the last few. But—repeat after me: BORING IS GOOD! WE LIKE BORING! BORING MAKES ME EXCITED! Relatively peaceful and harmonious energies interpenetrate the week. It doesn’t mean that nothing tumultuous happens in the world or our individual lives, only that it’s not as unstable an energy pattern as we’ve seen in the last few weeks, so [...]

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  • 3 Lessons to Learn from Rich Ross’ Disney Departure

    3 Lessons to Learn from Rich Ross’ Disney Departure

    1)    It’s good to be humble. Rich Ross, the short-lived and now departing Walt Disney Chairman, was rumored to have a “touch of arrogance” and a flippancy about the ease of running a studio. Arrogance is a tough proposition when you’re great at your job, which he clearly was at Disney Channel, but when you’re in a new gig outside your area of expertise and facing a learning curve as steep as the climb at K2, a little humble pie can help [...]

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  • Star Power! Astrology Unleashed <h3>Week of April 16 – April 22, 2012</h3>

    Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

    Week of April 16 – April 22, 2012

    There’s a scene in an early episode of M*A*S*H that handily sums up the energy of this week. Cross-dressing Corporal Klinger shows up in line one morning with a flowery bonnet on his head. COLONEL BLAKE: “Why the hat, Klinger?” KLINGER: “It’s Spring, sir!” In other words, this week we don’t need much of an excuse to feel good. The Sun is in its last week in the fire sign Aries, which gives the world natural oomph and vitality. In case [...]

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