Over the past year and a half I've been searching for long-term funding for my production company. The good news is I've found what looks to be a plausible situation but I need at least $10k to cover getting packaged and obtaining the collateral! This is a HUGE deal for us and we're moving closer to our 5 year plan being funded and putting Highway 101 into production.
Know anybody who wants to donate (we'll give a tax-deduction) or invest in a dynamic company?
I'll listen to all scenarios.
15 June 2006
07 June 2006
Congress is selling out the Internet
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week that gives giant corporations more control over what we do and see on the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality--the Internet's First Amendment and the key to Internet freedom. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. BarnesandNoble.com doesn't have to outbid Amazon for the right to work properly on your computer.
If Net Neutrality is gutted, many sites--including Google, eBay, and iTunes--must either pay protection money to companies like AT&T or risk having their websites process slowly. That why these high-tech pioneers, plus diverse groups ranging from MoveOn to Gun Owners of America, are opposing Congress' effort to gut Internet freedom.
You can do your part today--can you sign this petition telling your member of Congress to preserve Internet freedom?
Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C3240860-GHro6L6Z7sqxuzgs_DfzAQ
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C3240860-GHro6L6Z7sqxuzgs_DfzAQ
I signed this petition, along with 250,000 others so far. This petition will be delivered to Congress before the House of Representatives votes next week. When you sign, you'll be kept informed of the next steps we can take to keep the heat on Congress.
Snopes.com, which monitors various causes that circulate on the Internet, explained:
Simply put, network neutrality means that no web site's traffic has precedence over any other's...Whether a user searches for recipes using Google, reads an article on snopes.com, or looks at a friend's MySpace profile, all of that data is treated equally and delivered from the originating web site to the user's web browser with the same priority. In recent months, however, some of the telephone and cable companies that control the telecommunications networks over which Internet data flows have floated the idea of creating the electronic equivalent of a paid carpool lane.
If companies like AT&T have their way, Web sites ranging from Google to eBay to iTunes either pay protection money to get into the "fast lane" or risk opening slowly on your computer. We can't let the Internet--this incredible medium which has been such a revolutionary force for democratic participation, economic innovation, and free speech--become captive to large corporations.
Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Together, we do care about preserving the free and open Internet.
Please sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Internet freedom. Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C3240860-GHro6L6Z7sqxuzgs_DfzAQ
Thanks.
05 June 2006
Crazy writers!
Sometimes I get my entertainment from Craigslist...the list that follows was something somebody wrote in response to all of the the freak-out posts writers post...
ENJOY!
10 tips for better posts in the CL writer's section!
Here are some tips to ensure a great and effective post here in the writers section, based on previous posts written here:
1. If you’ve written a script, you deserve an agent. Even if you’ve written as many as three, you should demand an agent. Since lit agents are constantly perusing this forum in search of new clients since they hate getting them by the normal process, you can pretty much be guaranteed of getting representation. After all, you’ve written a script. Simply write that you’ve written a script and now you need an agent. It’s just that easy. The stupid suckers sending out query letters and submitting to contests and festivals are suckahs.
2. Need an idea for script but aren’t talented enough to come up with ideas? Simply write that you’re a production company and steal! No one needs to see a company url or cares that you post from a yahoo address. Simply write a post claiming you’re a production company and you’re going to produce the next big movie and for people to send you scripts. Then read the scripts you like and steal them! Normally actual production companies will have a website to refer people to and will email from their company’s email address and will even have people sign a release form. Screw that.
3. Your life story NEEDS to be told! Your parents divorced when you were 12 and your grades suffered because of it. You had an abusive boyfriend. Your car broke down on 5 on the way to Sacramento once. You had to borrow money to pay your rent and you couldn’t pay for your root canal. This is a unique and amazing story that the world needs to know about. Writers will be jumping over themselves to write this astonishing story. Get it out there!
4. Have a great idea for a script but can’t write it yourself? Have someone here write it for you and split the profits! No one in this forum has their own ideas. You’d think a group full of writers would have writers with hard drives of scripts and concepts, but no! Not here. Pitch your unique idea of a “cop whose partner is killed and he must avenge his death” and watch the offers to write it pour in. Then sit back and count your money when it’s sold! Even better, offer to pay them on the back end. After it's made and is a box office hit, they will get paid! This way you can reap the benefits and not give that guy anything since the idea is so great, it's going to get made for sure and he won't see any money until long after you've made millions!
5. Claim your script will make a certain actor or agent millions of dollars. Generally, agents and actors don’t know how the business works, so if you tell them you’ve got a script that will surely make them millions, they will jump on such an offer. If you also note that the script will surely win Oscars, you can pretty much start looking for a new home in Malibu; you’ve assured yourself of a huge sale. In fact, guarantee a certain actor will win an Oscar or that your script will place high in the Nicholl Fellowships or you will up your agent’s pay 33%! This is how the professionals do it.
6. Get a date under the pretense of needing a “writing partner” or “assistant.” Simply claim you need a writing partner, but ask for a photo. This way you can weed out the uglies and respond to the hot ones. Of course in reality if you were looking for a writing partner, there would be no need for a picture, but a writing partner is the last thing you need, right? Try to squeeze in a question about boobies if you can do it slyly.
7. When looking for an actual writing partner, be as demanding and hostile as possible. Ask to see a resume (despite the fact most people in this group don’t have “writing resumes”). Ask to see numerous writing examples and demand they be great. Write that you won’t take shit from anyone and demand perfection and be as hostile in your request as possible. You will have so many responses, you won’t know where to start!
8. Can’t get noticed in this town? Ask for a writing partner who is already connected, then ride his coattails! Write that you’re looking for a partner and prefer someone who already has representation and connections. Despite the fact you bring nothing to the table and there is literally nothing in it for that guy (who already has all his own scripts, ideas and has been paying his dues to get where he is), this forum is all about what you can get, not the other person! He will partner up with you and you now have all his connections! It’s like winning American Idol, except for writers! It’s as simple as that!
9. Who needs spelling and grammar? Produsers and directors will be even more impresssed if you have a complete lack of understanding of writing and grammer in your post!! In fact they will be impressed that your so bold as to not care how to speel things write and use grammer or anything that they will probabbly by your scripp right up! This is a writers groop. We all know grammer allready so actually using it isnt’ nessissary.
10. Brag about your meetings and sales. People in this group will be very impressed if you constantly write how you had meetings with big name producers and have all kinds of sales. They will feel privileged that such a successful writer is actually still perusing the writers section of craigslist. Having a poor writing style on top and lack of spelling skills will impress people even more! It shows that an uneducated person can still make it big!
ENJOY!
10 tips for better posts in the CL writer's section!
Here are some tips to ensure a great and effective post here in the writers section, based on previous posts written here:
1. If you’ve written a script, you deserve an agent. Even if you’ve written as many as three, you should demand an agent. Since lit agents are constantly perusing this forum in search of new clients since they hate getting them by the normal process, you can pretty much be guaranteed of getting representation. After all, you’ve written a script. Simply write that you’ve written a script and now you need an agent. It’s just that easy. The stupid suckers sending out query letters and submitting to contests and festivals are suckahs.
2. Need an idea for script but aren’t talented enough to come up with ideas? Simply write that you’re a production company and steal! No one needs to see a company url or cares that you post from a yahoo address. Simply write a post claiming you’re a production company and you’re going to produce the next big movie and for people to send you scripts. Then read the scripts you like and steal them! Normally actual production companies will have a website to refer people to and will email from their company’s email address and will even have people sign a release form. Screw that.
3. Your life story NEEDS to be told! Your parents divorced when you were 12 and your grades suffered because of it. You had an abusive boyfriend. Your car broke down on 5 on the way to Sacramento once. You had to borrow money to pay your rent and you couldn’t pay for your root canal. This is a unique and amazing story that the world needs to know about. Writers will be jumping over themselves to write this astonishing story. Get it out there!
4. Have a great idea for a script but can’t write it yourself? Have someone here write it for you and split the profits! No one in this forum has their own ideas. You’d think a group full of writers would have writers with hard drives of scripts and concepts, but no! Not here. Pitch your unique idea of a “cop whose partner is killed and he must avenge his death” and watch the offers to write it pour in. Then sit back and count your money when it’s sold! Even better, offer to pay them on the back end. After it's made and is a box office hit, they will get paid! This way you can reap the benefits and not give that guy anything since the idea is so great, it's going to get made for sure and he won't see any money until long after you've made millions!
5. Claim your script will make a certain actor or agent millions of dollars. Generally, agents and actors don’t know how the business works, so if you tell them you’ve got a script that will surely make them millions, they will jump on such an offer. If you also note that the script will surely win Oscars, you can pretty much start looking for a new home in Malibu; you’ve assured yourself of a huge sale. In fact, guarantee a certain actor will win an Oscar or that your script will place high in the Nicholl Fellowships or you will up your agent’s pay 33%! This is how the professionals do it.
6. Get a date under the pretense of needing a “writing partner” or “assistant.” Simply claim you need a writing partner, but ask for a photo. This way you can weed out the uglies and respond to the hot ones. Of course in reality if you were looking for a writing partner, there would be no need for a picture, but a writing partner is the last thing you need, right? Try to squeeze in a question about boobies if you can do it slyly.
7. When looking for an actual writing partner, be as demanding and hostile as possible. Ask to see a resume (despite the fact most people in this group don’t have “writing resumes”). Ask to see numerous writing examples and demand they be great. Write that you won’t take shit from anyone and demand perfection and be as hostile in your request as possible. You will have so many responses, you won’t know where to start!
8. Can’t get noticed in this town? Ask for a writing partner who is already connected, then ride his coattails! Write that you’re looking for a partner and prefer someone who already has representation and connections. Despite the fact you bring nothing to the table and there is literally nothing in it for that guy (who already has all his own scripts, ideas and has been paying his dues to get where he is), this forum is all about what you can get, not the other person! He will partner up with you and you now have all his connections! It’s like winning American Idol, except for writers! It’s as simple as that!
9. Who needs spelling and grammar? Produsers and directors will be even more impresssed if you have a complete lack of understanding of writing and grammer in your post!! In fact they will be impressed that your so bold as to not care how to speel things write and use grammer or anything that they will probabbly by your scripp right up! This is a writers groop. We all know grammer allready so actually using it isnt’ nessissary.
10. Brag about your meetings and sales. People in this group will be very impressed if you constantly write how you had meetings with big name producers and have all kinds of sales. They will feel privileged that such a successful writer is actually still perusing the writers section of craigslist. Having a poor writing style on top and lack of spelling skills will impress people even more! It shows that an uneducated person can still make it big!
04 June 2006
Hollywood is Melting!
At long last Hollywood has begun to melt. Well actually it's me that is melting and since I am here in the land of bitter, broken dreams I too am melting. The sweltering heat wave came out of the blue for me. I thought somebody was playing a prank on me when they announced that it would be at least 100 degrees on Saturday. When that happened I decided to take cover at my local AMC theatre. I managed to watch two films and stayed away from home for about 6 hours. Upon returning home it was the same hot hell I had left hours before. Several hours after darkness fell it barely started to cool.
The bad news is that today's temperature is supposed to reach 104. I'm currently creating an escape plan for the day that doesn't involve movies (I've already seen them all) or eating!
I am off to experience the beauty that is air conditioning in the car. The a/c here at home is not that good.
The bad news is that today's temperature is supposed to reach 104. I'm currently creating an escape plan for the day that doesn't involve movies (I've already seen them all) or eating!
I am off to experience the beauty that is air conditioning in the car. The a/c here at home is not that good.
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