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The February edition of On Stage With RB was our highest attended yet! Nearly 2200 viewed the webcast LIVE! Incredible! I was honored to have two incredible guests on the show - independent film producer, David Harris, and writer, actor, producer, David Paterson. Both provided an amazing amount of information and inspiration. The entire webcast can be viewed here, but for the purpose of today's blog, we've broken down my interview with David Harris into 6 segments (as well as t…
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog – even for my own site. In all honesty there just hasn’t been anything that compelled me to sit down and put my thoughts out there… but as I had previously written about the death of camera assistant Sarah Jones, and as two years have now passed since the incident that took her life (she was killed on February 20th, 2014), I decided to revisit my feelings on the topic and look at what has come of that loss. Sever…
I always chuckle when I read a query letter from a writer saying they have included the first 10 pages of their screenplay because I’ll “be so hooked by the first 10 pages,” I will certainly request the whole thing. I laugh because it’s not the first 10 pages of a screenplay that concern the reader - it is everything from Page 30 to 75 that we focus on. Arguably, writing the first 10 pages of a screenplay is not terribly difficult to write. The writer is simply s…
Welcome to the weekend, everyone. A quick reminder. I will be hosting our FREE online Oscar and Film Industry Webcast along with Alex Ferrari of Indie Film Hustle today at 3PM PST. All are invited. To tune in, click here - https://www.stage32.com/live In this edition of the Weekend Blog under ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: Female protagonists are on the rise in Hollywood, but that’s not the whole story; the New York Times believes the Academy may be deluding itself regarding its diversity p…
Welcome to the weekend, everyone! Gearing up for Sundance and our panels and parties at the festival, so let’s get right to it! Jumping right in…This week under ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: a plethora of news out of Sundance; Idris Elba eloquently tackles the Oscar diversity issue; a guide as to were to watch the Oscar nominated films; a look at how The Hateful Eight came together; John Landgraf isn’t happy; Dick Wolf isn’t happy; Spotlight and Mr. Robot win big at the C…
EXCITING UPDATE! Stage 32 will be broadcasting a breaking news LIVE feed from the 2015 NAB show in Las Vegas, NV all week long! NAB is the premier conference to discover emerging technologies and latest innovations in digital media, film, entertainment, post-production and more! We'll be bringing you the latest and greatest from: Blackmagic Design, Kinefinity, Canon, Zacuto, Atomos, Vinten, G-Tech, Sony, Convergent Design, Datavideo, smallHD, Anton/Bauer,…