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  WME Signs ‘Legally Blonde’ Tandem Kirsten Smith & Karen McCullah

  June 11, 2013 / Articles, News

  By Mike Fleming Jr | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 10:44am PDT EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed the screenwriting team of Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Karen McCullah, whose breakout came off the spec 10 Things I Hate About You and whose other credits include Legally Blonde, The Ugly Truth, The House Bunny and She’s The Man. They’ve established themselves as the go-to chicks for chick fare, and they are currently scripting The Expendabelles, the female spinoff of Millennium Films’ The Expendables [...]

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  Essential Tips for Monetizing Content in the Digital Arena

  June 10, 2013 / Articles, News

  13 May 2013   By Diane Panosian The recent acquisition of YouTube channel AwesomenessTV by Dreamworks and new paid YouTube channels by Sesame Workshop, UFC, and Magnolia Pictures prove the industry sees money on the digital front. The paid subscription model applied (so far) across 30 YouTube channels is just one way content providers can monetize content. SSN spoke with a group of online experts, comprised of filmmakers, producers and network execs, who’ve risen to the challenge of adapting content to [...]

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  The Algorithm of Hollywood

  June 10, 2013 / Articles, State of the Biz

  Why would writers want to kill this man? There was recent article in The New York Times about using data “to solve the equation of the hit film script.” While I’m in favor of any great idea that might improve the quality of a screenplay – or movies as a whole – I am conflicted about what this means for the future of Hollywood… and humankind. Stats might reflect what formulas will work, but they have NOTHING to do with creativity, [...]

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  Trailer: Crazy Kind of Love

  June 9, 2013 / News, Trailers, Videos

  From script to screen. Only took a decade. Here’s the trailer for Crazy Kind of Love (retitled from Long Time Gone), which Seth Jaret executive produced. Now available to stream on Netflix and other services. Adapted by Karen McCullah (Legally Blonde; The House Bunny). It’s a family dramedy featuring some fine acting talent: Graham Rogers (Revolution), Amanda Crew, Eva Longoria, Sam Trammel (True Blood), Anthony LaPaglia, Ali Milchalka, Virginia Madsen and more. Here is the film’s description: Depressed after getting [...]

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  ASTRO OSCARS: Astrology Predicts Best Picture

  February 24, 2013 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!, Star Presence, The Ra Truth

  It’s the Astro Oscars: where we let the stars pick the stars who win! Part Five: Best Picture Also read: Part One – The Oscar Ceremony & Seth MacFarlane Also read: Part Two – Best Supporting Actor & Actress Also read: Part Three – Best Actor & Actress Also read: Part Four – Best Song & Director  BEST PICTURE Ladies and gentlemen, members of the Academy, and ordinary pundits, fans and filmgoers out there who would just like to know—we are about to unveil [...]

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  ASTRO OSCARS: Astrology Predicts Best Song & Director

  February 18, 2013 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!, Star Presence, The Ra Truth

  It’s the Astro Oscars: where we let the stars pick the stars who win! Part Four: Best Song & Best Director Also read: Part One – The Oscar Ceremony & Seth MacFarlane Also read: Part Two – Best Supporting Actor & Actress Also read: Part Three – Best Actor & Actress BEST ORIGINAL SONG The only real question this year about the category of Best Song is whether or not Adele will win the Oscar for the James Bond theme “Skyfall” and thus [...]

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  ASTRO OSCARS: Astrology Predicts Best Actor & Actress

  February 13, 2013 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!, Star Presence, The Ra Truth

  It’s the Astro Oscars: where we let the stars pick the stars who win! Part Three: Best Actress & Best Actor   Also read: Part One – The Oscar Ceremony & Seth MacFarlane Also read: Part Two – Best Supporting Actor & Actress BEST ACTRESS  One of the most fascinating races this year pits the youngest-ever nominated actress against the oldest ever nominated, along with a battle royale between a snarky 20-something and an obsessive CIA agent, with a heartsick mother thrown [...]

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  ASTRO OSCARS: Astrology Predicts Best Supporting Actor & Actress

  February 6, 2013 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!, Star Presence, The Ra Truth

  It’s the Astro Oscars: where we let the stars pick the stars who win! Part Two: Best Supporting Actress & Actor Every nominee has to be hot, astrologically speaking, to get to the point of an Oscar nomination. But as for actually winning, the question becomes: Who’s the HOTTEST come Oscar night? Also read: Part One: The Oscar Ceremony & Seth MacFarlane Sometimes it’s like choosing between an inside straight, a flush, or a full house: which nominee’s chart––and its energetic [...]

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  ASTRO OSCARS: Astrology Predicts the Academy Awards

  January 30, 2013 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!, Star Presence

  Welcome to the 2013 edition of Astro Oscars, where we let the stars pick the stars who win! That’s right, we don’t have to endlessly peruse statistics, corner Academy members, make our own guesses or even trust Harvey Weinstein’s considerable clout: no, the very patterns of the heavens will tell us the winners. As proof, last year we were 7 for 7 in our predictions, including Meryl Streep’s surprise upset of Viola Davis for Best Actress, which occurred precisely as stated [...]

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  Modern Samurai Using His Sixth Sense

  January 12, 2013 / Stuff We Love, Videos, Virals/Shorts/Music Videos

  No limits. Here’s an amazing example of intuition, training and lighting-fast speed all channeled through a martial art thousands of years old. There is no limit to what human beings can accomplish when will, focus and determination intersect.

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  Adventures of a Film Scholar Web Series Episode #1

  December 8, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Adventures of a Film Scholar, Creator Corner, Videos

  Welcome to “Adventures of a Film Scholar” video interview series. AFS is a discourse on independent filmmaking and film education. In each episode, Seth Jaret will have an international Skype chat with writer/director/film scholar, Darren Paul Fisher. Darren is an independent filmmaker (OXV: THe Manual, Popcorn, The Inbetweeners) and senior teaching fellow at Bond University, one of the premiere film programs in the world. Darren is also in post-production on his third feature. Join them as they discuss writing, directing, [...]

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  The Gift

  December 7, 2012 / Stuff We Love, Videos, Virals/Shorts/Music Videos

  In this extremely intriguing and visually arresting sci-fi tale, the filmmakers seem to be scratching the surface of a larger mythology that must lay beneath what’s revealed in this short. A futuristic Moscow, anthropomorphized robots and a motorcycle chase through snow-laded Russian boulevards all add up to a viscerally delectable sci-fi apéritif. The accomplished work evinced in this short resulted in the director, Carl Rinsch, being hired by Universal to direct 47 Ronin, which has yet to be release and [...]

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