Stories from Complications Ensue

  1. Two For the Price of One

    Complications Ensue &bull Feb 6, 2012

    The IPA minimums describe two team writers sharing one script fee. Why is that? When a tea writer goes to a gas station or store, does he or she fill half a tank of gas? [Snip.] What about teams with multiple writers? Producers are getting the benefits of two writers for… Full Story »

  2. Special Tech for the Tech Challenged Exec

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 29, 2012

    Aaron Klein proposes special tech to help Hollywood Execs understand why SOPA was bad: Before you can do a Google search, you have to sit through five minutes of ads for Google Chrome, Chromebooks by Samsung, Android Phones by Motorola,… Full Story »

  3. The General Election: A Preview

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 27, 2012

    [POLITICAL THEATRE] This video has been circulating a lot on Facebook: I think this is exactly where I'd want the President's rhetoric. The President can't run on cutting taxes; everyone knows the Republicans will do more tax cutting than anyone… Full Story »

  4. Letters to Young Filmmakers

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 24, 2012

    Howard Suber was one of my professors when I was at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; for years he team-taught alongs studio head Peter Guber in the Producers Program. His 2006 book, THE POWER OF FILM, talked… Full Story »

  5. A synopsis is not a synopsis

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 16, 2012

    From time to time, funding programs (Canada) and producers (the US) will ask you for a synopsis. A synopsis is "An outline of the plot of a play, film, or book," right? It recounts what happens. Technically, yeah. A secret that took me years to find out… Full Story »

  6. Accomplishments vs. Relationships

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 15, 2012

    Lindsay Doran featured in a Times article about what makes movies successful: "Audiences don't care about an accomplishment unless it's shared with someone else. What makes an audience happy is not the moment of victory but the moment afterwards when… Full Story »

  7. Friends Don't Let Friends Ghost

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 12, 2012

    Q. So when you say, "First of all, ghostwriting is forbidden under the rules of the Writer's Guild of America. If the WGA finds out that someone put their name on someone else's writing, they're in trouble." Are you referring to someone who steals a script and puts their name on it? The term "ghostwriting" by its very… Full Story »

  8. Jeunes Createurs

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 9, 2012

    Montreal, le 9 janvier 2012 - La Societe de developpement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) annonce la tenue d'une session d'information le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 a 16 h 30. Cette session est destinee a la clientele interessee a deposer en… Full Story »

  9. Love, Actually

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 7, 2012

    We watched Richard Curtis's 2003 directorial debut LOVE, ACTUALLY again. It is really a lovely movie. There are quite a bunch of things that are incredible about the movie. It feels like an indie ensemble piece, but it has a cast of stars not just in the… Full Story »

  10. Second Guessing the Iowa Caucuses

    Complications Ensue &bull Jan 3, 2012

    [POLITICS] The following has nothing to do with story telling or screenwriting, and I'm hardly a political expert. But it's my blog, and this is America. (Or Canada. Or both.) I'm struggling with how defective the Republican "invisible primary" has… Full Story »

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