“The best-kept secret in Hollywood, especially from Wall Street, is that the movie studios’ biggest profit center is not theatrical movies, or even DVD sales; it is TV licensing.” From SLATE, Hollywood’s profits, demystified. By Edward Jay Epstein
What’s On Your Nightstand in 2050?
Wired magazine offers a glimpse into the future, via tomorrow’s bookshelf, featuring such must-have titles as, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Cyborgs,” “Coping With Post-Singularity Depression,” by Ray Kurzweil, “Talking to Your Kids About Mitochondrial De-Aging,” “A Short History of Blogging (And Why It Flamed Out),” and “Is Your […]
Never mind Red State or Blue State, liberal or conservative. It doesn’t matter which way you go in Hollywood, as long as you keep the budge LOW. Jason Apuzzo concludes that if you are going to be a gadfly lefty, like Michael Moore, or a conservative Catholic, like Mel Gibson, just keep the budget under […]
A Screenwriter Takes To Novel Writing
Wesley Strick is a screenwriter whose credits include “Cape Fear” (1991) and “Return to Paradise” (1998). His first novel, “Out There in the Dark,” was published this year by St. Martin’s Press.
A few years ago, I called the guy at my agent’s office who handles book projects to say I […]
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