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The Numbers Don't Lie: What the WIFTI Summit, IWD & Women's History Month Are Telling Us to Do Next
Imagination Precedes Logic
Coffee & Content: Making Great Work Is Only Half The Battle
An Insider’s Guide To Your First Meeting With A Producer Or Studio Executive
Our Past TV Comedy Winners Got Signed to IAG and Hired on SNL. You Could Be Next!
Exclusive Q&A: From Bestselling Novel to HBO Max: The Creator of HEATED RIVALRY Is Sitting Down Exclusively with Writers' Room Members!
Insider Intel: Let's Talk Mandates- What is the Town Looking for?
Coffee & Content: Why the Creative Process Is Meant to Change & Challenge
Insider Intel: Commercial Films Are Going Indie. Where Does That Leave Arthouse Films?
Why Stage 32 Feels Like a Choose Your Own Adventure
Stage 32 + Cannes Film Festival Marche du Film present a Free Webinar on How to Navigate Cannes!
Happy Monday, Creative Army! If you’ve ever dreamed of taking your film to the Croisette, shaking hands with global buyers, or simply navigating the incredible whirlwind that is the Cannes Film Festival and its Marché du Film, this is for you. I’m thrilled to announce that this upcoming Wednesday, April 1st, we’re hosting a completely FREE webinar with the Executive Director of the Marché du Film, Guillaume Esmiol, to help you prepare for Cannes—wh…
You Might Land on TV or in a Magazine If You Never Give Up!
In a past life, as they say, I worked in the Olympic Movement. I will wait while you drift off and think of only the glamorous side of that, because yes, I was a Chief Press Officer at two Summer Games. But let me take you behind the scenes. There’s a popular expression, “It takes a village.” And people are also quick to whip out phrases like, “It takes teamwork to make the dream work.” But the fact of the matter is, there honestly was really only one perso…
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise Fighting: We’re Worried About the Wrong Thing
Long title… I know. Should have gotten AI to do it. Lol. You've probably seen it by now. A 15-second AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise throwing punches on a rooftop, conjured by Oscar-nominated Irish director Ruairi Robinson using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 tool. It looks polished. It looks cinematic. And it sent Hollywood into the kind of collective panic attack usually reserved for opening weekend box office disasters. Screenwriter Rhett Reese, co-writer of Deadpool …
Insider Intel: Hollywood Is Going Back to Safety: The Book Adaptation Boom
The New Gold Rush of Book Adaptations? Hollywood is going back to books and it's paying off. HAIL MARY, THE HOUSEMAID, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, VLADIMIR, PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION. The adaptations are coming fast and from every corner of the literary world. It would be easy to just assume studios are playing it safe, that they're leaning on proven IP, built-in fanbases, and the validation of an existing readership to reduce risk in an uncertain market. And there's truth in that. The numbers…
Stage 32 Now Certifying Mexico: A New Era for Mexican Film Talent
I am proud to share an exciting milestone for the film industry in Mexico: CANACINE, the National Chamber of the Film Industry, has entered into a strategic partnership with Stage 32 to open up Stage 32’s certification program to Mexican filmmakers. This collaboration represents a powerful step forward, not only for Mexico’s creative community, but also for the global audiovisual industry looking toward Mexico as a premier destination for film and television production. Mex…
Exclusive Q&A: From Bestselling Novel to HBO Max: The Creator of HEATED RIVALRY Is Sitting Down Exclusively with Writers' Room Members!
If you've been paying attention to the conversation around prestige TV lately, you've heard about HEATED RIVALRY. The Canadian sports romance series, created, written, and directed by Jacob Tierney for Crave and streaming on HBO Max in the U.S., has taken the world by storm. Based on Rachel Reid's beloved Game Changers novel series, it follows two rival professional hockey players whose on-ice animosity conceals a passionate secret romance. It stars Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Fran…
Coffee & Content: Your Voice Is Your Superpower, No Matter the Budget
Happy Sunday, Creative Army! Let’s kick things off with a huge shoutout to everyone who has already jumped into this month’s Introduce Yourself Weekend. Thousands of creatives from around the world are connecting, sharing their stories, and building relationships that can lead to collaborations, opportunities, and lifelong friendships. If you haven’t made your introduction yet, you still have time. Head over to the Introduce Yourself Lounge before the weekend wraps. B…
An Insider’s Guide To Your First Meeting With A Producer Or Studio Executive
I've worked with a lot of big-name talent, developed movies from best-selling books from Stephen King to Ann Rule, and optioned and developed a few Opera Book Club picks, including Songs In Ordinary Time, Jewel (won the Humanitas Award), and Midwives. I have worked with and developed projects for Warner Brothers, Sony/Tri-Star/Columbia, Mark Harmon's Wings Productions, and more over the past 30 years of my career. Over the years, I have worked with hundreds of screenwriters in all stage…
The Numbers Don't Lie: What the WIFTI Summit, IWD & Women's History Month Are Telling Us to Do Next
It's been more than a month since WIFTI chapters from around the world gathered in Adare, Ireland, for the 2026 WIFTI Summit, International Women's Day has come and gone, and now we’re almost at the end of Women's History Month. But what have we actually learned? What stuck? What still stings? And where do we go from here? This month, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the ideas and conversations that surround this month and ask you to reflect too. Because the truth is, refl…
Stop Waiting, Start Moving: Your Creative Breakthrough Starts Here!
Happy Thursday, Stage 32 Community! As we head into Spring 2026, there’s something I want to ask you: Are you moving forward with intention… or waiting for the “right moment” to start? If you’ve been feeling stuck, unsure of your next step, or like you’re creating in a vacuum, I want to personally invite you to this month’s Stage 32 Community Open House. This will be our final FREE Open House event until this summer, so you don't want to mis…
Insider Intel: Let's Talk Mandates- What is the Town Looking for?
Mandates come and go. But what's in this week? Horror is IN. And it's not just me saying it, it's the Academy. I know every cinephile pundit in town is going to have a take on what mattered and what's going to shape the culture going forward, but for the first time in a long time, the Academy Awards didn't feel like same old, same old. As a lifelong horror and monster movie aficionado, I was rooting hard for SINNERS, WEAPONS, and FRANKENSTEIN…and I certainly wasn't disappointed.…
Imagination Precedes Logic
I had the script, the DP, the studio and the composer. All I didn’t have was the money. A common experience for filmmakers, and nothing to mark this out as noteworthy. We decided to take a punt and go ahead with the auditions; we sent out the call for talent (one actress needed), we booked a room in an office block and auditioned five different actresses. There was agreement in who we should ask to fulfil the role of ‘Sorrow’. I got home, the house was in darkness, so…
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