New York Eddie Cinema ramblings with a definite Horror slant.
If you're a Spotify user, you may want to check your activity on the streaming service. The service may recently have suffered a breach, according to a new report, with hundreds of users' credentials being posted online.
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Great casting is like finding a great relationship: it involves a rare synergy that often can't be described in words. Sometimes, you get it on the first try; other times, it takes 15,000 rejections to find the right one.
At the Tribeca Film Festival, esteemed casting directors Ellen Chenoweth and Ellen Lewis sat down with their mutual friend, theater and casting director Bernard Telsey, in a rare discussion of their casting careers. Between them, the Ellens have cast dozens of Best Picture nominees and winners, from Goodfellas to Forrest Gump to Gangs of New York to The Aviator.
"You don’t want to fully expose the rejection that people went through," Lewis said. "It’s private. That has [created] a shroud of mystery about what it is we do."
While some people believe writer's block isn't a real thing ("Have you ever heard of plumber's block?"), it has been subject of a great deal of writing and filmmaking. Kind of ironic, no?
"If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work."
What to do? We recently found the site Pantomime Pony, a treasure trove of resources for writers (stuck or not). There's a Plot Twist Generator, as well as one for Ideas, First Lines, and Characters.
I tried it out and got everything from the mundane—"An investigative reporter has 24 hours to find the evidence"— to the cryptic—"A disinterested train driver and a thief get together to solve a mystery."
