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This little trailer (link now dead) has me so excited for The Office to come back. It encapsulates everything that is fantastic about the show.

If you’re a regular reader of ScreenwriterGuy (That’s right, I’m talking to both of you…) you know that I’m pouring most of my time lately into building a web site of short comedy pieces. Look for it to launch on January 14th. You heard it here! Anyway, I’m doing a lot of surfing lately looking [...]

In Los Angeles there exists a division: “Industry” and “Not.” Industry people tend to hang with their own sort, as do non-industry people, although the motivations of the two groups are different. The reason industry types want to meet other industry types is because they expect those people can help them somehow. And the reason [...]

Continued depravity from reality TV: I’m not a snob. But if you watch reality television–any reality television at all–I won’t be your friend. While this may seem like snobbery, it is actually a reasonable concern for our nation’s wellbeing. After all, reality television grows closer and closer to destroying the fabric of western society with [...]

Fall has long been my favorite season. The leaves go orange, the air turns crisp, and the mindless summer tentpoles give way to passion project Oscar bait. Of course, we’re not free from knock-offs of previous box-office champs, nor from standard Hollywood drivel. Still, the percentage of art-house fare rises, and I couldn’t be happier. [...]

I love when the premiere of a show just has good written all over it. You know, not the kind where you feel like it has potential and you’ll give it another shot, but the kind where you can’t wait to see the next episode. Studio 60, maybe The Riches, last forced onto my watchlist [...]

This evening is the first all-group meeting of my online sketch comedy effort. It will be the first time the writers, actors, and directors all meet each other. I’ve been gearing up for it for some time now, so I’m pleased to finally have it happen. I still have some handouts to finish preparing, but [...]

You know what movie was pretty darn good? Bridge to Terabithia. It has been sitting unwatched on my desk for a couple weeks, as other Netflix movies have come and gone, and tonight I put it in for background noise, expecting Narnia lite. The trailer for this movie was second in recent memory only to [...]

Just experienced my first L.A. tremor. (My housemates said there was one a few weeks ago, but I didn’t feel it.) This one was really minor, evidently a 4.5 centered 30 miles away. I’ve experienced much bigger, once in Las Vegas and once in Seattle. Still, there’s something really creepy about it every time, with [...]

Tutoring is slow over the summer, but I do have a couple of students I’m working with. One of them is a teen doing something of a writing intensive. To reinforce varying sentence structure, over the weekend I had him write 20 sentences of several different types. One of the resulting efforts was this sentence: [...]

Blessed be the filmmakers who actually honor their source material. After that atrocious poo-eating moment in the Alvin and the Chipmunks trailer I posted last week, I thought it would be a good idea to put up a trailer reminding us that CGI can also be a force for good, instead of evil.

Nothing is ever on time in L.A. Nothing. Ever. I don’t mean the way theater always starts 5-10 minutes late, or the way sometimes your friend’s watch is running slow. We’re talking any time you try to get 3 or more people together, it’s guaranteed that one of those people will be at least a [...]