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227 - REWRITING IS WRITING Oct 22, 2018

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Hilliard, Chris and Jesani Drew chop it up in a fun conversation about Rewriting and so much more! Direct Link: www.bit.ly/SWRR-227 Show Notes Sexy Beast - Trailer The Rookie on ABC The Goop Cop on Netflix MR INBETWEEN on F/X Beverly Hills Cop (screenplay) Breaking Bad (pilot) Castle (pilot) David Mamet's The Art of Theater Paris Review interview. PODCAST SHOUTOUTS: The Micheaux Mission Podcast Nick and Alex's Paper Team Pilar Alessandra's On The Page Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon Jesani Drew - https://twitter.com/jesanidrew Chris Derrick - https://twitter.com/unauthorizedcbd Lisa Bolekaja - https://twitter.com/lisabolekaja Hilliard Guess - https://twitter.com/HilliardGuess The Screenwriters Rant Room on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/screenwritersrr/ The S

226 - ANSWERING THE YOUNG WRITER'S QUESTIONS Oct 15, 2018

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We sat down with CBS Program finalist Antonio "Sinsation The Writer" to answer his questions about navigating this crazy business. Direct Link: www.bit.ly/SWRR-226 David Mamet Memo To Writers of THE UNIT Javier Grillo-Marxuach 11 Laws of Showrunning Scripts You Better Have Read BIG (the script) KRAMER vs KRAMER (the script) TOY STORY (the script) Our Favorite Writing Coaches Carole Kirchner - Hollywood Game Plan Pilar Alessanro - On The Page Lee Jessup DMA - Planet DMA Alex Freedman and Nick Watson's Paper Team podcast (https://www.tv-calling.com/paperteam/) a go-to resource for young TV wri

225 - INCORPORATING AS A WRITER Oct 08, 2018

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Bianca Sams is back! To talk about incorporating (should you? If so, when?)

Direct Link: www.bit.ly/SWRR-225

Questions to Ask Yourself

S Corp

C Corp

LLC

Compare Business Structures

Differences Between S Corp and C Corp

California Secretary of State Corporate Name Look-Up

After Trump's Tax Reform to Funnel Money to the Wealthy there are other considerations .

Here are things to consider.

Money/Expense Tracking Apps

Shout out to the Micheux Mission Podcast (http://www.micheauxmission.com/) for keeping it on point with their discussion of Black films!

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

Bianca Sams - https://twitter.com/writesamswrite

Chris Derrick - https://twitter.com/unauthorizedcbd

Lisa Bolekaja -

224 - MID-SEASON STAFFING Oct 03, 2018

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Hilliard and Chris are joined by writer Bianca Sams to discuss mid-season staffing and staffing outside of the season!

Direct Link: www.bit.ly/SWRR-224

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

Twitter:

@ScreenwritersRR @HilliardGuess @LisaBolekaja @UnathorizedCBD @writesamswrite

Subscribe to: MICHEUX MISSION PODCAST (http://www.micheauxmission.com/) for keeping it on point with their discussion of Black Films!

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

The Screenwriters Rant Room on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/screenwritersrr/

223 - 8 TIPS FOR STORY - PART 2 Sep 24, 2018

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PART 2 of Hilliard, Chris and Jesani's conversation about Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Short Story Writing and how they apply to screenwriting.

Direct Link: www.bit.ly/SWRR-223

For the next two weeks we'll examine each tip in depth.

We mentioned some scripts during the episode and here's how you can read them:

Erin Brockovich Script and Trailer

Star Wars - A New Hope Script and Trailer

Godfather Script and Trailer

Amadeus (Director's Cut) Script and Trailer

Offline Jesani asked Chris to put together a list of films he should see, here's a snippet from that list:

Hollywood/English Language

All That Jazz

Saving Private Ryan

Eyes Wide Shut

The Road Warrior

The Wild Bunch

Apocalypto

Foreign Language

Princess Mononoke

8 1/2

La Dolce Vita

Ridicule

The Lives of Others

Shout out to the MICHEUX MISSION PODCAST (http://www.micheauxmission.com/) for keeping it on point with their discussion of Black Films!

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

Chris Derrick - https://twitter.com/unauthorizedcbd

Lisa Bolekaja - https://twitter.com/lisabolekaja

Hilliard Guess - https://twitter.com/HilliardGuess

@JesaniDrew

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222 - 8 TIPS FOR STORY - PART I Sep 17, 2018

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Hilliard, Chris and Jesani sit down in a Part 2 conversation on last weeks Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Short Story Writing and how they apply to screenwriting.

Direct Link: www.bit.ly/SWRR-222

For the next two weeks we'll examine each tip in depth.

We mentioned some scripts during the episode and here's how you can read them:

Erin Brockovich Script and Trailer

Star Wars - A New Hope Script and Trailer

Godfather Script and Trailer

Amadeus (Director's Cut) Script and Trailer

Offline Jesani asked Chris to put together a list of films he should see, here's a snippet from that list:

Hollywood/English Language

All That Jazz

Saving Private Ryan

Eyes Wide Shut

The Road Warrior

The Wild Bunch

Apocalypto

Foreign Language

Princess Mononoke

8 1/2

La Dolce Vita

Ridicule

The Lives of Others

Shout out to the MICHEUX MISSION PODCAST (http://www.micheauxmission.com/) for keeping it on point with their discussion of Black Films!

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

Chris Derrick - https://twitter.com/unauthorizedcbd

Lisa Bolekaja - https://twitter.com/lisabolekaja

Hilliard Guess - https://twitter.com/HilliardGuess

@JesaniDrew

221 - CRAFT! THE POWER OF THE FIRST PAGE Sep 10, 2018

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It's been a minute since we did a craft episode; so Hilliard and Chris, joined by Babywriter Jesani Drew, talk about the craft of writing and the techniques that screenwriters need to master... particularly... The Power of the First Page!

DIRECT LINK: www.bit.ly/SWRR-221

Scripts & shows that we discussed:

The Matrix - script and trailer

The Blacklist - script and trailer

8 1/2 - trailer

Billions - script

Bordwell & Thompson's seminal book FILM ART

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips On Writing a Short Story

ASK A MANAGER podcast

Shout out to the Micheux Mission Podcast (http://www.micheauxmission.com/) for keeping it on point with their discussion of Black films!

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

Chris Derrick - https://twitter.com/unauthorizedcbd

Lisa Bolekaja - https://twitter.com/lisabolekaja

Hilliard Guess - https://twitter.com/HilliardGuess

The Screenwriters Rant Room on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/screenwritersrr/

The Screenwriters Rant Room on Twitter - https://twitter.com/screenwritersrr

220 - BLACK PANTHER'S QUEST Sep 03, 2018

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Geoffrey Thorne is back! This time to dispense more details (but still not a lot) on Marvel's Avengers: Black Panther's Quest; where he was the head writer.

You can see the just-dropped trailer here!

The show officially drops at the end of September on Disney XD, check your cable guide!

Geoff, most recently, repeated fabled screenwriter William Goldman's dictum "Nobody Knows Nothing" which was pulled from his classic book, "Adventures In The ScreenTrade", even though it was written in the early 1980s, at least 90% of it still holds true (which is sad and extremely telling), get yourself a copy at Amazon!

Also, its sequel "Which Lies Did I Tell" is well-worth reading too!

The latest article on A.I. Screenwriting!

Insatiable on Netflix; here's the Trailer.

To All The Boys I Loved Before on Netflix; here's the Trailer.

Angela Bassett's 60th Birthday Bikini Photo Shoot.

Gina Torres keeping it sexy on CLAWS - http://supagirl.tumblr.com/post/162536925675/gina-torres-in-claws and here: http://imgbox.com/P7G50iU9

Ezekiel 4:9 Bread - Per Ms. Bassett's diet plan!

Shout out to the Micheux Mission Podcast for keeping it on point with their discussion of Black films!

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

Follow Everybody on TWITTER!

Geoffrey Thorne: https://twitter.com/WintermanBooks

Lauren Warren - https://twitter.com/iamlaurenp

Chris Derrick - https://twitter.com/unauthorizedcbd

Lisa Bolekaja - https://twitter.com/lisabolekaja

Hilliard Guess - https://twitter.com/HilliardGuess

219 - "BLADE" 20th ANNIVERSARY! Aug 27, 2018

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Geoffrey Thorne returns to the show as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the superhero movie that paved the way for the über-dominance of cinema... by the Marvel Cinematic Universe... BLADE (1998) starring and produced by Wesley Snipes, written by David S. Goyer and directed by Steven Norrington.

Here's the BLADE script which is a KILLER read.

Shame on you if you haven't seen the film, here's the original trailer

We talked briefly about Guillermo del Toro's interview regarding his involvement on BLADE 2, which is available on VRV

And here's the trailer to SpikeTV's Blade series

Lisa was so excited about Udo Kier and Chris mentioned his memorable work in Luchino Visconti's THE DAMNED (here's the trailer for that crazy film)

Geoff talked up his upcoming Winterman Project, you can find out more about it here!

Shout out to the Micheux Mission Podcast for keeping it on point with their discussion of Black films!

As we morn the loss of the Queen of Soul, David Melnick wrote a stirring piece about Aretha Franklin in The New Yorker a few years ago

Fans of the show, your support is always welcome, and as we mentioned on the show, here's the link to this game-giving podcast's

Patreon link: http://bit.ly/SWRRPatreon

Direct Link: www.bit.ly/SWRR-219

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218 - MEDIA ETIQUETTE Aug 19, 2018

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Hilliard, Lisa, Chris and Lauren go IN on this hilarious episode, that's from beginning to end - full of industry game! Lauren and Lisa dispense some properly-charged thoughts on how poorly Boots Riley is reacting to the negative critiques on his experimental film, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Idris Elba’s 'Black James Bond' movie, Patrick Stewart and his Star Trek comeback, The Oscars New Blockbuster/Popular Category, Stunts Category should be awarded, engaging critics with Boots Riley's 'Sorry To Bother You' fiasco, BLACKkKLANSMAN and so much more!

It all started with Bitch Media's SORRY TO BOTHER YOU critique.

We mentioned Robert Downey, Sr.'s PUTNEY SWOPE Trailer, as a precursor to SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. Different eras, different films -- same ignition point (possibly), but handled with different spins.

DIRECT LINK: www.bit.ly/SWRR-218

Subscribe, Comment, Rate & 5 STAR Review on iTunes!

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Here's an interesting conversation between Paul Thomas Anderson and RDS on PUTNEY SWOPE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1HU2e4YcsM)

Lisa's not up for seeing Amma Asante's WHERE HANDS TOUCH the story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in NAZI Germany. But you can see it (when it comes out) and tell her what time it is!

Pauline Kael's 1974 critical review of Louis Malle's LACOMBE, LUCIEN, a similar story about love with a Nazi collaborator.

Douglas Sirk's film A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE, an early film on creating sympathy with German soldiers and civilians during WW2.

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