As I’ve mentioned and speculated again, writer-director Frank Darabont’s rejected Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods draft has reached near-mythic heights of speculation around the bloguverse over the last year or so by fanboys such as myself who wondered why Lucas rejected it and what would come of the final product.
Of course, now [...]

I’m about to lead off with a spoiler, so if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t read this article.
There’s a scene right after the extended opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that, I thought, was the best, most perfect jumping-off point for what was to come and I was [...]

Disclaimer: If you’re a friend, coworker or landscaper of mine, you’ve likely already heard this story. Knowing me, probably more than once. I’d suggest that you visit another website for the next 10 minutes. Perhaps you’d enjoy a story about ancient animal dung?
Carlo Conda is a blogger and aspiring screenwriter who visits and comments here [...]

What are today’s screenwriters looking for? In Hollywood, the answer is simple: a quickly-pitched, overly familiar story idea that feels different, but of course isn’t. Die Hard in a blimp. Bad Boys II meets Schindler’s List. Rudy, but set in the ultra-competitive world of meat-judging.
Wait, what?
According to The Wall Street Journal, college meat-judging teams practice [...]

Last time when I wrote about character actor John Getz and the critical role he played in one of David Cronenberg’s classic gross-out scenes, I approached it from the standpoint that Getz had an everyday kind of face in an industry filled with extraordinary-looking people. My thought at the time was that, while the faces [...]

I’m of conflicting opinions when I look at this nearly terrific Iron Man one-sheet. It truly is a great poster and all the bloggers who were on top of this last week (such as Screen Rant, where I grabbed this one) who pointed out that this has been designed as an old-school Star Wars-looking thing [...]

While it’s true that I usually use Logline Freebies to suggest a high-concept movie idea, free for the stealing by any screenwriters of loose moral character who stumble across my little site here, today we’ll try something a little bit different.
Because I’m convinced that if no one has snapped up the rights to the story [...]