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Did They Watch Their Own Movie?

I've read that the producers of 300 were "surprised" that the movie has been drawing in so many women.

300 is 85% glistening, jaw-droppingly cut manly men doing manly men things, and features a strong-willed queen (Gorgo).

The movie also has fans in the gay community, another "surprise" audience.

300 is 85% glistening, jaw-droppingly cut manly men doing manly men things, and features a strong-willed queen (Xerxes).

Tonight We Dine in Heck

For the three of you who haven't seen this yet (I apparently was the fourth), here is 300, the PG version.



This... is... CAKE TOOOOOOWN!

Writers Co-Op

From The Thinking Writer comes a tip to Variety's article on John Wells' fascinating, just-launched venture at Warner Bros. Participating screenwriters will forgo their upfront paychecks in favor of a cut of the gross, roles as producers, and writers' rights (writes?) such as ownership of the rewrite process and other production decisions.

Interesting experiment? Utopian folly? A sign of things to come?

If anyone can pull this off, it's Wells, co-founders Nick Kazan ("Reversal of Fortune") and Tom Schulman ("Dead Poets Society"), and their posse.

Check out this who's who: Ron Bass ("Rain Man"), Henry Bean ("Internal Affairs"), David Benioff ("Troy"), Scott Frank ("Out of Sight"), Robert Nelson Jacobs ("Chocolat"), Callie Khouri ("Thelma & Louise"), Richard LaGravanese ("The Fisher King"), Phil Alden Robinson ("Field of Dreams"), Bruce Joel Rubin ("Ghost"), Stephen Schiff ("The Deep End of the Ocean"), Ed Solomon ("Men in Black"), Dana Stevens ("For Love of the Game"), Robin Swicord ("Memoirs of a Geisha"), Michael Tolkin ("The Player"), Rafael Yglesias ("Fearless"), and the writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ("City Slickers").

Excelsior, folks!

Off to GDC

I'm up in San Francisco for the rest of the week for the Game Developers Conference, to catch such sessions as the panel Ted Elliott is headlining on writing across multiple platforms.

Happy gaming and writing, all!

BSG

OMG!