ON NEWSTANDS: Script Magazine (March/April 2010)

The latest issue of Script Magazine is out now.

For this issue, I had the pleasure to sit down with Linda Woolverton (Beauty & The Beast) and chat about her script for Alice in Wonderland. We talked about her decision to blend all of Lewis Carroll's Alice-texts together to create a revisionist sequel (of sorts), and she told me an insane story of how she broke into this business by marching into Disney and literally leaving her sample at the front desk.

For Alice, she got to make up a whole bunch of gibberish words in Carroll's style (awesome), and she revealed her favorite was futterwacken.

What does it mean? It's in the article...

Also in this issue, get ready for the final adventure from The Case Files of The Unlawyer.

A few years after moving to LA, I got one of the most unusual jobs: working in a high end entertainment law firm masquerading as a lawyer.

This is a true story.

I have been documenting the legal(ish) victories and the stressful disasters which could have been prevented by, presumably, a law degree... but the time has come to hang up the suit and tie.

The final installment --where I actually negotiated a contract for myself-- is called Talk To My Unlawyer.

Buy your copy today or subscribe here!

Illustration by wunderkind Paul Pape.

S.W.I.P.E. - Screen Grab

There is much news in the world of S.W.I.P.E.

Unfortunately, we're not allowed to discuss any of it. Top secret, and all.

In the meantime, our brilliant DP Tony Burns was kind enough to share this kick-ass screen grab of Agent Billdog Hicks (Max Hartman) doing what he does best: using excessive violence in the name of copyright protection. Enjoy!

More S.W.I.P.E. news to come.

Stay tuned...

NEWS: FOOD FIGHT, ANOTHER AWARD

At the recent HDFest in Los Angeles, the doc we worked on, FOOD FIGHT, picked up another award: The HDFEST Deffie Award for Best HD Documentary Feature.

Congrats to director Chris Taylor and editor Miranda Yousef!

We had a blast working on the film with you.

NEWS: FOOD FIGHT WINS AWARD!

This past weekend, the IDA (Independent Documentary Association) held its annual award ceremony at the DGA, and the doc we wrote the narration for, FOOD FIGHT!, won the 2008 Audience Award. Pretty cool honor!

Here's a link to the Variety coverage.


In addition, the film has been invited to a bunch of other festivals. HD FEST LA, Whistler Film Fest, Asheville Film Fest, and the Mammoth Film Fest.

Congrats to everyone who worked on this awesome doc! We're honored to have been a part of the creative process.

NEWS: S.W.I.P.E.

Fox Atomic Digital will be producing a new webseries Wade and I created called S.W.I.P.E. this December. We're in pre-production right now, as a matter of fact. Oh, did I mention we'll also be directing the episodes?

S.W.I.P.E. is an action/comedy that follows two members of a special division of the FBI dedicated to mercilessly upholding the copyright restrictions on music, movies and video games.

For Special Agents Billdog Hicks and Herschell Norton, no infraction is too small, no use of force is too excessive. Combining a fanatical devotion to justice, an intricate knowledge of DRM encryption techniques, and a penchant for unnecessary violence, these two devoted lawmen put the cop back into copyright protection.

We pitched it as a series that blends the testosterone-fueled grit of THE SHIELD with the Byzantine legal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

They loved it and asked for three episodes.

The madness begins.

Stay tuned for further details...

ARTICLES: FOOD FIGHT!

AFI Los Angeles has announced the date and time for the screening of the documentary we worked on, FOOD FIGHT.

If you have freakishly superhuman eyesight, you can read the miniaturized version of an article about it that I'm posting right here...

If you have normal old human eyes, like me, then just follow this link.

If you have an unnatural fear of following hyperlinks through the spooky internet, here's the most important information:

FOOD FIGHT - Screening (Free!)

Saturday, November 8th 3:15pm
Mann Chinese 6
Hollywood, California

Hope to see you there!

NEWS: FOOD FIGHT!

Earlier this year, Wade and I were hired to write the narration for Chris Taylor's documentary, Food Fight.

The film is a fascinating exploration of food in America and the birth of the organic food revolution - a movement that can trace its origins back to California in the late sixties. Here's one of the first reviews.

We just learned that Food Fight has been invited to screen as part of the 2008 AFI Fest Los Angeles. Details still to come, but it looks like it will be on November 8th.