I struggled with Act 2 for years. It was the barren desert where my screenplays went to die. What changed for me was realizing the role of Act 2 in the story. Embracing this was a huge breakthrough in my screenwriting. Here is how I attack Act 2 now: 🧵👇

Here’s what went down: we just won a clean 45 day gov extension, stripped GOP’s earlier 30% cuts to Social Security admin etc, staved off last minute anti-immigrant hijinks, and averted shutdown (for now). People will get paychecks and MTG threw a tantrum on the way out. Win-win

Today during yoga, the instructor spoke about trees becoming their strongest in autumn. Because they aren’t bearing fruit or producing leaves, all of their energy is pushed down into the roots. So what externally appears as death, is actually the catalyst for new life.

A Paris Bedbug Travels to America 🇫🇷

This is on some Looney Tunes type shit 😂😂😂

Preach! #SAGAFTRAStrong !!! SAG-AFTRA Writers Guild of America West Writers Guild of America East

Seth Rogen's advice? Don't be precious with your work. Get it out and on the page. At the end, he's talking about an exercise Judd Apatow taught him: Write down 100 ideas in one sitting - without being precious about them. Pick one and go with it. See what happens.

#Oscar #qualifying #shortfilm #Review: "Last Days of the Lab" @ bit.ly/3MC8DyM 271 Films Indeed W/D: María Vera Alvarez W: Ethan Newmyer EP: Constanza Castro (she/her) Doménica Castro Rishi Rajani #Cast: Alex Felix Arianna Ortiz (she/her) Juan Francisco Villa Reggie P. Louis Sofia Grace Clifton #SupportIndieFilm

One of the best edits I’ve ever seen.

One of the provisions of our new contract that I’m especially proud we achieved isn’t as easily digestible as other provisions, but it’s so important: increasing the “caps” — or “ceilings” — on Pension & Health contributions. I’ll do my best to explain the wonky details. 1/

BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! We’re extending the deadline for submissions. 🎉 You just got until end of year to get those submissions in, so punch up those jokes, proofread those typos, and send us something that will knock our slime green socks off. 💚

Every Thanksgiving conversation with my extended family today.

There’s a story I like to tell about my time at Marvel when James Viscardi and I placed the world premiere reveal of MILES MORALES at USA Today with Brian Truitt. It’s a story about bad faith actors and racism, which seems especially relevant in comics. Thread time.

a Roger Rabbit sequel where the looney tunes start mysteriously disappearing at the WB lot and in the end they uncover the CEO is deleting them for the insurance money

"I said to Emmanuel Lubezki, ‘We need to start from scratch. We need to make the film we would have made before we went to film school— before we learned how to shoot & became too obsessed with polishing everything." --- Alfonso Cuarón on 'Y tu mamá también' (2001)

Californians looking at New Yorkers freak over an earthquake.

The New York Yankees today announced that legendary Yankees play-by-play radio voice John Sterling, who has called 5,420 regular season Yankees games and 211 postseason Yankees games, is retiring effective immediately. He will be recognized in a pregame ceremony on Saturday,

BREAKING: Negro Leagues statistics will officially be integrated into MLB database on Wednesday. Negro Leagues legend Josh Gibson will become MLB record holder in multiple categories. Story to come for Yahoo Sports on a monumental day in baseball’s history.

🚨 BREAKING: IATSE REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH STUDIOS, AMPTP ON HOLLYWOOD BASIC AGREEMENT. The agreement is now pending ratification by our membership.