Video interview: Aaron Sorkin
Today's video interview is with screenwriter-TV writer Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin's movie credits include A Few Good Men (1992), Malice (1993), The American President (1995), and Charlie Wilson's War (2007). His TV credits include "Sports Night" (45 episodes, 1998-2000), "The West Wing" (155 episodes, 1999-200

Daily Dialogue -- November 29, 2009
"Ain't it a shame how some of God's children have it so easy, while others have it so hard?"-- Mrs. Edson (Pauline Myers), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), screenplay by Chris Clark and Suzanne De Passe and Terence McCloy

"The Wire" - 50% off
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Question: Bolded sluglines -- yes or no?
Open forum question from The Douche Guide:bolded sluglinesthoughts? Let me back into the subject by talking first about transitions -- CUT TO, DISSOLVE TO, SMASH CUT TO, etc. My sense of style trends is that they are being used less and less. Why? I suspect because they can prove unnecessary. Worse they essentially eat up two lines of space. Two words for two entire lines of space? What a waste! If you insert a transition between each scene and your script has 60 scenes, that means you have over 2 pages of wasted space, pages you could h

2010 Hollywood movie release schedule -- Not Scheduled (A-L)
If you're serious about selling a spec script to a Hwood movie studio, you're well advised to keep up with what stories they're buying and what movies they're releasing. For the former, GITS posts every spec script and original pitch that sells as they occur. Re the latter, over the next four days, I'll post the 2010 movie release schedule, one quarter per day.