Our unplanned hiatus is OVER and we are ready to RAMBLE! Err... rumble?
- Screenwriting competitions, festivals, fellowships
- Spreadsheets are our savior. (Even if Caitlin is a psycho about it!)
- Reflecting on our pre-2021 episodes and our predictions and excitement (Inauguration fashion, Disney+ Marvel shows!)
- Amazon buys MGM for $8 Billion
- Wizard of Oz sequels - Return to OZ (1985)
- John Chu - Director (Crazy Rich Asians, In The Heights, Wicked)
- Our college days in NYC circa 2007-2012 and theater school antics at AMDA
- Anthony Ramos - actor and AMDA alum (Hamilton, In The Heights)
- Acting school tries to make every student a “blank slate” but ends up making everyone homogenous when what usually gets you the job is the thing that makes you stick out from the crowd!
- Originating a role versus replacing a role in theater
- Tick, Tick… BOOM! Movie musical trailer. Directed by Lin Manuel Miranda.
- Andrew Garfield - actor (The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Under the Silverlake, Spider-Man, The Social Network)
- *Disney+ SPOILERS* and our collective freak out on Disney’s Shareholder Day announcements
- Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni doing the most (and the best) at LucasFilms.
- Daniel Brühl - actor (Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Alienist)
- Loki, Disney+ series starring Tom Hiddleston
- Brit’s vision for an indie superhero movie a la Logan (2017)
- Brie Larson - actor (Captain Marvel, Room) who is prepping for Captain Marvel 2 with celebrity trainer, Jason Walsh (Rise Movement and Rise Nation - our favorite cardio class in LA!)
- Jurassic World sequel - Bryce Dallas Howard (actor) & Colin Trevorrow (writer/director)
- NOTE: Caitlin calls people by their first names simply because she is lazy. These people are ~ not ~ her friends.
- Dax Shepard’s podcast - Arm Chair Expert, Kerri Russel, and our love of JJ Abrams
- Pacific Palisades - JJ and Caitlin are from the same small town that has recently been dramatically renovated by developer, Rick Caruso
- Pitching! Our two recent pitches - one project to a studio and the other for an OWA at a major production company
- Our career coach, Lee Jessup
- Questions everyone in Hollywood asks about your project: 1. Why are you the person to tell this story? And 2. Why now?
- Adapting a real life event - what about this makes it a movie and not a documentary?
- No matter how specific a story, audiences need an emotional journey to connect to that makes the project feel universal
- Open Writing Assignment - screenwriting work for hire
- A brief interlude on music licensing in podcasting
- General meetings - we’ll cover that soon
- Tent Pole Intellectual Property - example: Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Star Wars
- ISA - International Screenwriting Association
- “Kill Your Darlings”
- Brit’s SKIMS obsession is real. We sidebar to discuss our favorite Kardashians.
- Caitlin’s recent TV binges: Shrill on Hulu and Peaky Blinders on Netflix
- Lindy West’s book - Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
- Our DMs are open! (Not THAT way. Or maybe…)
