This Wednesday will be the last ScreenTalk of 2009. My co-host wanted to do a special devoted to horror and my book.
Our guests on ScreenTalk this week will be Marilyn Horowitz and Will Akers. Our topic is “The First Act”, and Marilyn will be going overthe first act with a Screenwriter’s Utopia member’s script live on the air and what can be done to make it better.
Looks like ScreenTalk will be back on the air live starting next week. I haven’t been given a lineup yet, but as soon as I do I’ll be sure to let you know.
This week on ScreenTalk our special guest will be John August, writer of such hits as Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as both Charlie’s Angels movies and Titan A.E.
Due to the recent merger of William Morris and Endeavor Agency, our Pitch Special has been postponed this week. Our guest, Chris Lockhart, who works for Ed Limato, is really busy right now with the merger and couldn’t make it. So, we’re going to take advantage of the situation and give ourselves a little break.
Tonight’s ScreenTalk ran a little long, but I didn’t mind. It was a great, information-packed show that was also a lot of fun. We had Harold Jackson III, Chris Soth, and Marilyn Horowitz on. When we have three guests we end up sometimes cramming for time, but the Internet radio gods smiled on us and let us run our course.
A lot of different things seem to be happening all at once regarding the book today. It seems a bit overwhelming, but I’ll try to get through it all.
Our special guest this Wednesday on ScreenTalk is the lovely and talented Max Adams. She is a past recipient of the Nicholl Fellowship and has gone on to write Excess Baggage, an uncredited adaptation of The Ladykillers, and is currently in pre-production on Saving Rose Gillespie.
Last night’s ScreenTalk show was, in my opinion, the best one we’ve done so far. Bill Martell is always a great go-to guy and Martin Lopez was a joy to have on.
Those of you who tuned in got quite a bit of information from Greg Beal, head of the Nicholl Fellowship. The interviews with both Amy Kaufman and Aubrey Kelly provided both sides of this controversy surrounding Fade In’s own screenplay contest.
