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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Executive producer of Boston Legal at WIF on Jan 31

Events coming up at Women in Film...

BOSTON LEGAL Executive Producer/Writer Janet Leahy
Wed, January 31, 2007
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
El Torito Grill, Indoor/Outdoor Patio Area
9595 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills
Members $15, Non-members $20, RSVP 310.657.5144

Deborah Pratt, head writer of QUANTUM LEAP
Pearl Jr., author "BLACK WOMEN NEED LOVE TOO"
Roni Walter, a.k.a. POETRON GIRL
CUTTIN DA MUSTARD Writer-Producer-Director Reed McCants
Fri, February 9, 2007
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Chart House Restaurant, 18412 Pacific Coast Hwy., Malibu
TIME: 8:00am-10:00am
Members $10, Non-members $15
RSVP Candace Bowen 310.457.8664 candace@malibuonline.com

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Meet Everybody Important during the WGA Awards

Ok, well, maybe not everybody...but it seems like it. More than 70 celebrities including producers, directors, writers, agents, managers, and A-list actors. Gary Shusett is hosting a mega 4-day Screenwriters All-Access Weekend where you can meet and ask questions of some of the biggest in the business. Catch them while they're here for the WGA Awards.

February 8 to 11, 2007 in Beverly Hills

A small sample of the confirmed guests...

Screenwriters:

+ Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Borat
+ William Monahan, Departed
+ Zach Helm, Stranger than Fiction
+ Shane Black, Lethal Weapon
+ Jeff Arch, Sleepless in Seattle
+ David Twohy, The Fugitive
+ Ron Shusett, Total Recall
+ Guillermo Arriga, Babel

Directors:

+ Richard Donner, Lethal Weapon and Free Willy
+ Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
+ Tony Bill, FlyBoys and My Bodyguard
+ Irv Kershner, Star Wars

Actor/Directors:

+ Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
+ Micky Dolenz, the Monkees
+ Gregory Itzin, 24 (President Logan)

Agents:

+ William Morris
+ Paradigm

Pitching companies:

+ Red Wagon (RV, Memoirs of a Geisha)
+ Parkway Pictures (Penny Marshall's company)

Special $99 rate for the Basic Pass to the first 50 to register by January 31st. Get personal access to key players, subject to availability. Registration at www.sherwoodoakscollege.com under Classes. Contact sherwoodoak@hotmail.com or call 323-851-1769.

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Funny is Money...Comedy tops the box office again for 2006!

Of the 50 top-grossing movies of 2006, 26 are comedies, 13 are dramas, 9 are action, 9 are cartoons, and 4 are horror. Of the 10 top-grossing movies of 2006, 5 are comedies (Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Ice Age 2, Cars, Night at the Museum, Happy Feet), 6 are action movies (including Pirates 2), 3 are cartoons (all comedies), and 1 is a drama. Although comedies rarely win Oscars (Little Miss Sunshine is nominated this year for Best Picture), comedy touches more people. Last year's Academy Award winner Crash did less box office than Bewitched, Herbie Fully Loaded, or Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

ScreenplayLab is more than 1,300 screenwriters, actors, and filmmakers with the mission of making the world a better place through comedy in motion pictures and television. Most Hollywood networking organizations and film festivals have a bias for dark movies. Robin Rowe and Gabrielle Pantera launched ScreenplayLab in May of 2005 to create a nurturing environment for artists working on upbeat movies. ScreenplayLab meets weekly in Hollywood to workshop new pages with working actors and has given audiences the opportunity to ask questions of executives from Nickelodeon, MTV Films, The Cartoon Network, DreamWorks Animation, The Robert Evans Company, and many more. More than two dozen actors and writers have gotten an agent by being referred through ScreenplayLab.

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Dan Decker's CHAT ROOM THEATER

If you like the zany weirdness of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' you could have fun at this live event.

'CHAT ROOM THEATER'
by Dan Decker
performance art theater

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30
7pm to 10pm
The Strasberg
http://www.strasberg.com
Marilyn Monroe Theatre
7936 Santa Monica Blvd
Hollywood
FREE

(Parking on the street only. Look for a spot on South Fairfax. Do not park in the reserved spaces behind the theater.)

In CHAT ROOM THEATER ach actor reads a monologue of Internet chat room dialog from 15 numbered books and switches books at random. Actors not reading are free to improv. Nothing is memorized. Even some people in the audience may participate. Confusion and chaos happens, but that's part of the fun!

Featuring in Alphabetical Order:

Chip Bent
Corey Blake
Phil Bowers
Gregory Crafts
Nina Diamante
Arlene Forcen
Tamara Lelie
Pat Loeb
Carmen Mitchell
Marnie Olson
Cordell Pace
Joe Price
Adrian Quinonez
Joel Roman
Perry Smith
Saro Solis

This is a test run of a new play to see how it will look. If it works the plan is to mount it as a midnight show somewhere in Hollywood. Otherwise, you get to see the one and only show!

Ask for Dan Decker to get in. There's no RSVP. It's in the 99-seat Marilyn Monroe Theatre.

Has many ScreenplayLab actors. Please let me know afterwards how it was. I wish I could go, but I have an improv class that night with Jim Belushi. ScreenplayLab's Gabrielle Pantera did the casting, but she won't be there either. She's working late at Irish Dream Time, Pierce Brosnan's company.

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Send me your success stories

With the help of the Writer's Store, Backstage, the Hollywood Reporter, Final Draft, Raleigh Studios, ACME Comedy Theatre, ACMT Gleason Theater, the Fine Arts Theatre, and many others including yourself, we've gathered a weekly live audience of 20 to 120 people for going on two years. Our subscriber list has grown from nothing to over 1,300 screenwriters, actors and filmmakers. We haven't grown merely in size.

ScreenplayLab has had concrete results. Two dozen actors got an agent. Two writers got an agent. Many writers got pitch meetings at studios or prodcos. A producer got a famous actress to be in her movie. All successes sparked through introductions or networking at ScreenplayLab.

What has ScreenplayLab done for you? If you have a ScreenplayLab success story please share it! Please email me your success stories, and let me know if I can tell everyone else about it, too. We all like to hear good news!

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ScreenplayLab presents Dan Decker on Jan. 21st

'Anatomy of a Screenplay' author Dan Decker will be speaking on screenplay scene writing on Sunday, January 21st. At the Gleason Theater in Hollywood. Free. 3-6pm. Also on the program, workshop reading with actors of The Glad Game by Gabrielle Pantera. RSVP at www.screenplaylab.com.

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Dan Decker ProTrack Course

There's still an opportunity to get into Dan Decker's ProTrack course at the 1/3-off special rate. Writers looking for mentoring and to break out to the next level should consider. The course is that length to give you time to get all the way from your initial story idea to first draft to polished rewrite. It is a lot of money, but not that much for a six-month program, under $2k. Starts Feb. 6th. Contact me for details.

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More Special Offers

Dan Decker is offering a discount to ScreenplayLab at my request. Let me know what sort of special offers you'd like to get. I can get us discounts.

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ScreenplayLab Mixer on Jan. 22nd

Just for fun. Informal mixer at Acapulco's in the Cabo backroom. Last time the party included two dozen people. Good inexpensive Mexican food and cheap margaritas. RSVP at www.screenplaylab.com.

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Intl Film & TV Finance Summit

7th Annual International Film & TV Finance Summit Feb 5-7, 2007...

At the InterContinental Hotel, Los Angeles, $395 to $1,495.
See http://www.atlas-sfi.com/film/schedule.htm

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Get Your Geek on at SCALE on Feb 10-11th


February 10-11, 2007, 10:15am to 5:30pm
Los Angeles Airport Westin
5400 West Century
Exhibits pass cost $10
Conference pass cost is $60, but see below for half-price tickets


LinuxMovies.org is a group of more than 300 motion technologists, and CinePaint is software used in the motion picture industry on movies such as 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man'. I've led both projects for many years. We'll have a booth at the Fifth Annual Southern California Linux Expo. Come by to see me and other guests. I'll be answering questions about CinePaint, Glasgow and Linux in the motion picture industry.

Get half price conference tickets! Email me for a special code to get into the conference for half price. When you write me please put 'CinePaint at SCALE' in the subject so I can't miss your email. I get a lot of email!

Robin

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Cordell 'Joker' Pace at The Icehouse Comedy Club on Jan 31st

ScreenplayLab actor Cordell Pace will be performing stand-up comedy on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007, 8pm at The Uncle Clyde Comedy Contest at The Icehouse Comedy Club, The Annex Stage, 24 North Mentor, Pasadena, CA. $10 with a 2 drink minimum.

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The ScreenplayLab Query Contest

We got into the holidays and so busy with our own screenplays that there wasn't time for organizing the ScreenplayLab Query Contest. Sorry about the delay. We're still doing it. Look for an announcement soon.

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All ScreenplayLab actors please provide your latest headshots!

Gabrielle Pantera, our beautiful casting director at ScreenplayLab, has a new web-based actors headshot system at RisingCast. She was going crazy from all the headshots coming in emails. A bonus, the new system lets you upload and display your headshot and resume online, a bit like NowCasting or Actors Access. The link created on RisingCast is easy to email.

Gabrielle is allowing any actor who's a friend of ScreenplayLab to post his or her headshot and resume for free. It's on the honor system. If you say you're a friend then it's assumed you're a friend. For the secret code for access to the RisingCast system email me. Don't forget to check the 'Available for ScreenplayLab' box if you want to be considered for upcoming ScreenplayLab workshop readings. Even if you're too busy with work to do ScreenplayLab now, it's ok to use the system to put your headshot online. Here's the upload page where you enter your info:

http://risingcast.com/upload.html

Robin

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Dan Decker ProTrack Special Offer - Get 1/3 off!

Ready to complete your best script ever in six months?

My friend Dan Decker, author of “Anatomy of a Screenplay” and popular ScreenplayLab speaker, is opening a new section in his exclusive six-month ProTrack distance learning screenwriting program. For anyone who’s been too busy or too far away from Hollywood to commit to finishing a great screenplay, here’s your chance. No driving. No traffic. No parking.

Dan Decker takes you from your idea for a movie through to a complete first draft and rewrite of the script you develop. You’ll master developmental of story, character, treatment, scene and dialog, all the way through first draft and rewrite. Dan Decker presents to writers as a group and does one-on-one coaching with you during the week. ProTrack controls what you see on your computer screen as he coaches you over the phone. The class sessions occur online over a live teleconference link.

The first six weeks of the course are devoted to story development. Next comes the writing of the first draft. Scene by scene, page by page, you concentrate on developing the moments of your script to go beyond storytelling. The last six weeks of the program address rewrite strategies. Now that you know your script better, you get a chance to go back and tighten it all up before you show it to agents or producers.

In ProTrack other students do not read your script. All feedback comes from Dan Decker himself. He gives constructive advice to empower you to achieve the best script version of YOUR movie idea. Starts Tuesday February 6th and meets online fifteen Tuesday nights from 6-7pm PST over the six-month period. You get the full schedule in advance, as well as a workbook to help guide you through the process.

Don’t pay the regular price of $2,950. Get a full 1/3 off. Six-month comprehensive program including class sessions, critiques, and private consultations for $1,975. With one-on-one coaching included, space is, of course, limited. ENROLL NOW.

Email me to get Dan Decker’s personal email address and phone #. He’s only letting me give that out to writers intent on completing a great screenplay that will get serious traction in Hollywood. Is that you?

Robin

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Thursday, January 04, 2007

DMA speaking on story structure Jan. 14th

IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: DMA speaking on story structure, workshop reading 'Fire Bear', ACME Comedy classes starting, Jennifer Sims in 'Nip/Tuck', Michael Taylor Gray in 'The Bacchae', Bill Cunningham brings 'Sex Machine' to Anthem distribution deal, and Andrea Shreeman free 1-hour actors workshop on Jan 5th.

Author Donna Michelle Anderson on January 14th...


On her book "1-3-5 Story Structure Made Simple System" that covers the essentials of screenplay story structure based on what industry readers look for in recommending a screenplay. Sunday, January 14th, 2007, 3pm to 6pm, Mingle starting at 2:30. At Raleigh Studios. Free. RSVP online at www.ScreenplayLab.com.

Workshop Reading on January 14th...


'Fire Bear' by Robin Rowe. In this talking animals feature screenplay, an outcast delinquent bear learns to be a fireman. Sunday, January 14th, 2007, 3pm to 6pm, Mingle starting at 2:30. At Raleigh Studios. Free. RSVP online at www.ScreenplayLab.com.

ACME Comedy classes and shows starting...


Lots of fun stuff happening at ScreenplayLab host theater ACME Comedy. Free Audition Class on Thursday, January 4th at 7 pm! A great opportunity to join ACME's family and see what they're like. By the way, Gabrielle Pantera is taking the sketch writing course starting on Saturday, January 27th, 1:30-4:30pm. Cost is $475. The Improv course costs $350. The stand-up course costs $325. My friend Jodi Miller teaches that. She says that it's nearly 100% on the success rate with graduates getting to perform at comedy clubs. ACME Comedy shows you can see. TBD Improv Thursday nights at 10 pm. Dusty Gulch, the wild new Western soap opera from the Zebra Company Fridays at 10 pm. ACME Comedy Theatre, 135 N La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA. www.acmecomedy.com
323-525-0233 or 323-525-0202 for reservations.

Jennifer Sims in 'Nip/Tuck'...


Actress Jennifer Sims appeared in 'Nip/Tuck'. She's one of the actors who's participated in ScreenplayLab.

Michael Taylor Gray performing at the Celebration Theatre...


Actor Michael Taylor Gray is appearing in 'The Bacchae' at the Celebration Theatre opening January 12th. He's one of the actors who's participated in ScreenplayLab. World premiere adaptation by Allain Rochel based on the play by Euripides and directed by Michael Matthews. Radical re-imagining of Euripides' tragedy incorporating original music and dance. The Bacchae explores modern images of gay sexuality as gorgeous, leather-clad, shirtless "West Hollywood" club kids, the play examines what it means to be gay outside of a sexual context. $20. Half Price Preview January 11th. The Celebration Theatre, 7051 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. 323-957-1884.

Bill Cunningham brings 'Sex Machine' to Anthem distribution deal...


Writer-Producer Bill Cunningham who spoke at ScreenplayLab last year about Direct-to-DVD (D2DVD) distribution, has gained distribution for 'Sex Machine', winner of the 2006 MicroCinema and DeadCenter Film Festivals. Anthem Pictures acquired worldwide distribution rights. The scary action-thriller is scheduled for a DVD premiere in the U.S. in March 2007 and will be on retail shelves everywhere.

d2dvd.blogspot.com
Fangoria

Andrea Shreeman free 1-hour actors workshop on Jan 5th...


Free actors workshop on Fri, Jan 5th, 1-2pm. Guided visualization. Stage exercises. Partner exercises. Building imagination. At Writers Boot Camp in Santa Monica. Call 310-877-5042.

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