Word: scripting
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...studio executive, we oversee and shepherd the process from start to finish. In general, the movie-making process starts with finding and developing ideas. We meet with writers and producers to hear pitches, read scripts that have been written on spec, or come up with ideas of our own and hire writers to work on them. During the development process, we meet frequently with the writers to brainstorm ideas and give notes on drafts. Sometimes we might need to find and bring additional writers onto a project. Once the script gets green light, we’ll find a director...
...Producers can catch the fever too. Stephanie Allain was a Columbia Pictures executive in 1990 when she signed Singleton, then just 22, to make Boyz n the Hood, which established the urban drama as a viable genre. When Allain could find no studio to say yes to Brewer's script, she sold her house and invested in the project. Then she alerted Singleton. "He loved it," says Brewer, "He said, 'All you need is me to go into the room with you.'" Still no takers. So Singleton put his house up for collateral and financed the movie (for $3.5 million...
...witches are just too retro. Maybe the lack of chemistry between Kidman and Ferrell has something to do with it. Ferrell, in particular, doesn't seem to want to be as edgy--all right, insanely self-involved--as he might be. And, it seems, Ephron (who co-wrote the script with her sister Delia) also wants everyone to make nice. Whatever air the picture has goes whooshing out of it when the stars do a romantic dance. It's reminiscent of Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in a similar setting in Singin' in the Rain. Except these stars...
...star turn as leading man. His performance has been a polished one: the crisp, affable, silver-haired Nevada Senator has headed Reagan's presidential campaigns and become an essential backstage adviser to the man he used to go camping with when both were Western Governors. But now the script has the leading man retiring. As Laxalt, 63, surveys the potential replacements, he has begun publicly pondering that most common question of both politicians and second leads...
...schedule in our fund raising . . ." The note looked as if it had been handwritten, yet if Hawkins had personally scribbled all 40,000 letters that went out, terminal writer's cramp would have set in. In fact, the note was run through a high-tech copier that duplicates the script...