By now the trailer has become one of the most watched in Apple history. James Cameron’s AVATAR is due to hit theaters in December 18th, 2009. About four months from now.
Just after the trailer came out, AVATAR DAY occurred — a limited run of a 15 minute version of the trailer in 3D IMAX.
in both [...]
I was in the gym a few years back and I misheard a song lyric. I heard “Bald Freaks on Main Street.” I don’t remember what the real lyric was. That’s not important. What was important were those four words.
What did they mean? Something, surely. Something important. But what?
Why were they bald? Why were they [...]
Sunset from my office window.
Sternberg’s women. All of them.
My interview in Playboy.
Mr. Martin Scorsese.
Mozart’s Brandenberg concerto’s.
Collecting $200 for passing ‘Go.’
Roots. The book. Not that television horseshit.
Women on beaches.
– Mark Winslow
One thing newbie writers do is to think that their dialogue is so clever (a-la Clerks) that it will carry a movie. It won’t.
Movies are about “moving pictures” not “moving pictures of two people talking.” If I want to see two people talking, I can go down to the local Jack in the Box, right?
Right.
Put [...]
Pushing through the act 2 rewrite of ‘Below the Ice.’
Had a group of college kids over yesterday for a reading of ‘THE FOURTH.’ What a kick. They were very enthusiastic. Hopefully we can do it again in the weeks to come.
Not a lot of new writing this year. Just re-write. After re-write. After re-write. Now [...]