I have been reading John August's blog for several months now, fellow ZIO'er Annie turned me on to his site shortly after I started blogging here. I found a VERY interesting blog post on his site.

With the exception of porn shoots (maybe), there is no faster way to earn the disrespect of the filmmaking community than to get involved with a gaming movie.

A development executive or creative producer’s job is to find compelling material, and create saleable projects from that raw material.  Mel Ferrer, former Creative Executive at Paul Schiff Productions, describing her company’s process, says, &ld

By way of introduction, I thought I'd start with a brief (by 'brief' I mean crazy-long) post about me—who I am and why I'm a new contributor to the Zoom In Online blog.

• Have a clear premise & know
  why you want to tell this story.
• Be willing to rewrite, not just
  rework.
• Listen to criticism.  Don’t
  be so locked into your ideas that you miss your
  breakthrough.
Submitted by   December 7, 2006 - 9:37pm

Orly
Adelson Productions often works with true

If you want to be a writer, a director, or that impressive hyphenate, the writer-director, you’ve got one of two choices: make a film, or write a screenplay.  There’s no job training program for writers and directors; there’s no such thing as “paying your dues” in the traditional sense.  You’ve got to prove that you have the creative chops, and they only way to do that is, quite simply, to write.

Producers and studios receive countless pitches each year.  If a producer likes a pitch, he or she will then try to get a network or studio executive involved, who will then try to get the studio to buy the idea.  Producers are constantly pitching ideas in the hopes that one of them will stick, and this means they have to consider a lot of material.

While
a tried and true formula for success in Hollywood
proves as elusive as gross backend points for a
screenwriter, there is such a thing as a quick
road to failure.  Before that development
exec reads your script, you have to get past the