http://www.scriptenabler.com Screenplay Wish Fulfillment Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:09:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great News!  1,001 Ways to Enjoy the Missionary Position just got selected for the Arizona Underground Film Festival.  This will be our World Premiere!  Congrats and thanks to everyone who worked on it! http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=183 Our esteemed co-producer and production attorney for our film "1,001 Ways to Enjoy the Missionary Position" is now available in paperback.  "My Immortal: The Vampires of Berlin" is available for purchase at Amazon.com. Another buddy, Joe Wang, is also available in paperback.  "Joe Wang's Code to Unleashing Your Inner Coach" is ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=179 The conventional wisdom is that reshoots are expensive.  Something's not right about the scene that's discovered later in the process (typically post production or during focus group testing). The reasons why you need to reshoot are many: technical glitches, rewrites for clarity or intent, or recasting to name a few. Now you ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=168 Some of my scripts are stubbornly Asian American.  Some people have argued that this stubbornness may have hindered my career (others simply claim that I'm a crappy writer). Nevertheless, I write the stories and the characters I'd like to see.  And yes... many of those characters are Asian American.  It is ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=160 A while back I observed that in pilot episodes, consistently around the third act (roughly about 28-32 minutes in without commercials), a character will explicitly state the theme of the series. With a few notable exceptions (Sarah Connor Chronicles breaks this rule successfully), this has been the rule more than the ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=150 Christmas movies don't always have to be about Christmas (you know, kids, presents, relatives).  Here are ten movies set around Christmas but aren't necessarily about Christmas. oooooooooooooo 10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - James Bond falls in love and gets married and though our intrepid agent saves the world with alarming ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=138 I'm growing more and more convinced that modern technology is a hindrance to good writing.  Being accessible by cell phone, text message and email may have its advantages but it certainly has its drawbacks. The luxury of having undisturbed, unstructured time is something we have to grab for ourselves.  Many people ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=131 Dinner tonight:  Beef stew.  Beef, carrots, potatoes, onions and tomatoes. http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=127 ... and I'm getting quite good at it. I've been cooking for myself, partly to save money and partly based on the belief that if I cook it myself, it must be healthy. Steak and eggs for breakfast is now healthy. Two boneless NY strip steaks cooked medium rare on a toasted baguette.  ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=123 I've been thinking a lot about the telephone and how it affects storytelling.  There was a musical from the 1920s (I can't recall the title), but the opening scene was of the maid answering the telephone and the dialogue went something like this: [scrippet] INT. MANSION - PARLOR - DAY The MAID answers ... http://www.scriptenabler.com/?p=102