ReelzChannel Movie | by Jim Littler | Mon, Jan 5
Mon, Jan 5
August gives an insider's peek at the maddening process of scripting for commercial entertainment. A few behind-the-scenes frustrations were the change of management brought on by the dissolution of New Line Cinema, the Writer's Guild strike, and studio anxiety over what makes a box o...
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