Jeff Howard
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CAA. Haunting of Hill House. Midnight Mass. Oculus. Ouija: Origin of Evil. Gerald's Game. Wytches. info @jhsessions .com for consults. Jeff Howard Sessions on YT.
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Hundreds more people in office like this please.
Cicilline: You know who didn’t have constitutional right to life respected? The kids at Parkland and Sandy Hook and Uvalde… so spare me the bullshit
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Hi, I directed Spinal Tap, Sure Thing, Stand By Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men. In a row.
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Not an American thing to do, not a human thing to do.
After years living in the U.S. for 30 years, a 39-year-old immigrant in metro Detroit was deported this morning to Mexico. Escorted by ICE agents, he said bye to wife and 2 kids before boarding. He was brought to US from Mexico when he was 10-yrs-old, too old to qualify for DACA:
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I admire the hubris the Oscars has to assume it will exist in ten years!
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Screenwriting is most certainly *not* a get-rich-quick scheme.
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Tomorrow when California rolls back to lockdown, everyone will at last get to experience what it’s like to be a screenwriter. “Three months work? Undone by others? Back to the drawing board?” Welcome aboard!
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When I was a kid, this is how we learned disappointment.
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@thetzechun
“Janie, I see you everyday. Remember how we met in elementary school and have continued to share our secret hopes and dreams as best friends ever since?”
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Dear entertainment consumers — please stop tagging filmmakers in your shit posts. They know, they don’t need it, and *you* couldn’t handle it. You know they’re already having a bad time with whatever you’re shitting on, and your comments aren’t actually clever.
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Wow, what an emotional feeling. We donated the umbilical cord of our new baby to be used as stem cells, and were just told they were used almost immediately on a newborn who was extremely weak and will now be good. Fuckin’ science is a wonderful thing.
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@JoeyMannarinoUS
Your hero doesn't like masks cos his orange makeup gets on them. But please, go on.
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When starting out, I broke down the structure of hundreds of movies, minute by minute. Put my favorite movies on and wrote out scenes in script format, to see what they looked like by me. I watched movies I disliked to learn structure, because it’s easier to see it.
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Love this movie. Met the producer right after it flopped, quoted it endlessly and she stared at me like I was insane.
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“I don’t outline” and “I wanna write for TV” don’t really quite add up. If you get that job, you’re gonna outline.
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A good day to read only your most trusted sources and ignore any and all other noise. For me, that’s been
@MollyJongFast
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@atrupar
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I love driving through L.A and noticing all the street names writers stole for characters last names in movies.
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Yesterday scariest day of life. Diana and the boys hit by another car without me. Air bags, car totaled, hospital til one AM. They were all so brave and strong. Everyone is home to be monitored a few days for the inevitable post-crash pains and discoveries. Hug the ones you love.
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@TheMaryGirls
@CatholicLeague
How about paying some taxes since you have opinions, Catholic League?
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Thrilled to share and to be adapting Mr Ito for live action!
Junji Ito’s Horror Manga ‘Bloodsucking Darkness’ Getting Live-Action Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)
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Why am I for zoom rooms? Because I could hire someone from Lafayette, LA or Baltimore or Japan who might be fantastic and can’t afford to live here. And save money for the screen. And I can live anywhere. Understand what you lose, but I appreciate the gains.
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My wife is from Uganda. When we went to see Black Panther, I watched her pride grow to nearly bursting and saw her marvel at seeing her people, her style, her heritage on the big screen in such a lavish production. For months, she felt on top of the world. Thank you, Mr Boseman.
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If you want to hear a genuine Hollywood rule you should internalize now — *nothing* will ever happen on your schedule, nor as fast as you think it should.
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You’re goddamn right.
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE is voted the best series in the history of netflix by entertainment weekly.
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Next time you want to criticize the 17-year old who gets to make a movie, remind yourself it happened through hard work and savvy self marketing. Then ask yourself again why this kids success is making *you* angry…
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Watching many pre WGA friends having an existential crisis. The writers who were helpful before the strike will still be helpful. The writers who didn’t care before the strike, still won’t care after.
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Every post I see today is another writer I respect out there suffering mentally, financially and spiritually. Just wanna say - me, too.
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Strangest pitch ever: Sometime in 1997, Nicolas Cage’s producing partner read a script of mine. Had me in to meet a bunch of times. Told me Cage wanted to play Jesus, but in a different way. In elevator on way down, it hit me. I went back and pitched —
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How to stay sane as a Hollywood writer:
Get your self esteem and happiness elsewhere.
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Not the time for writers to be sniping at each other. Pre-WGA, what I tell people at my zooms is —
Forget other writers for the most part. Make your tribe baby producers and new directors and current assistants / future masters of universe.
Be the writer in the group.
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The man who taught me how to write and how to have fun is now in hospice care. This is us about three minutes after finding out we’d sold our first screenplay. I never had a brother, other than Chris Beutler.
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When someone gives you a note, it most often manifests as a poor idea to replace what you had. Ignore that, but look at the spot that knocked them out of the read. Try to figure out what happened and then fix it your own way.
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Apparently a glutton for punishment. This is how I outline —
First a three pager of just bullet points through end
Second a 5-7 pager with more details
Third a 20 pager from which anyone else could write the script if I were hit by bus.
Layering the work makes it easier.
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I’ll hate myself for this — if you’ve ever gotten 37 pages into a script and suddenly you were blocked and you can’t figure out how to move forward or how to recapture the tone of what you’ve done — you should’ve outlined.
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Cop protecting Vatican artifacts loses them to thieves, teams with a man who claims to be Jesus and wants his stolen property back. One’s a tough cop, one’s the Prince of peace. 48 Psalms.
Their office was amazing, I loved the Superman cape.
Feedback: studio says too weird.
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In my 23rd year of screenwriting sales, from my experience what matters is:
Talent
Perseverance
Networking
Luck
They’re all just about evenly important. Why do some great writers fail? They focus on the first two. Why do some mediocre writers get ahead? They ace second two.
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Dear Random Assholes who want to question why others are still wearing masks inside -- we have kids who can't be vaccinated, you dumb fuck so mind your own fucking business.
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The TV staffing job you’re chasing? It’s literally a bunch of writers sitting in a room making a long-assed outline. OUTLINING zoom today at 5pm pst. Technique to layer the creative work and make it easier. Low cost, high impact, no aerobics. DM me for link if you want to join.
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Midnight Mass WGA award nominated. Best part - getting to take
@DianaKankunda1
to the show! Here we are last time for Hill House.
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One of the people whose scripts I read and circulated has just been signed by an amazing manager!!! She’s so damn good!
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“Characters in screenplays almost always either gain confidence or learn to care” is one of the few work tips that’s stuck with me for about twenty years now.
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Mediocre movies of the 80s and 90s now play like masterpieces.
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Just turned in the feature draft that will most likely be first movie written by me solo. Exciting!
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A big part of career survival is knowing when to bail on a situation, no matter how awesome it looks from the outside.
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I worked with an action director who was a salacious dude. He asked me my biggest fantasy and I said “faking my own death and disappearing.” He was clearly hugely disappointed by my answer, but also leaned forward and quietly said:
“I have a guy.”
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If you’re trying to break in, focus more attention toward legit entertainment lawyers and baby producers and less on agents and managers. May get to same place faster.
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Just read thread of the worst biz advice. Please don’t follow trends, please write your passion. Passion sells, chasing trends largely a dead end. Those decisions you’re chasing are two years old, time moved on. Ouch.
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(pppsssst - some men love powerful and successful women.)
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I believe box office will be higher as soon as there are fewer layers between filmmaker and green light, and the biz understands that a low cost movie doesn’t have to be perceived as a low wattage movie. Make greenlightable $15-30 million dollar movies and rake it in.
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“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit.”
Thinking of my dads Hollywood advice as I prep for a five meeting day.
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As a former history student, it’s funny to remember a time when the monstrously rich would sink their money into public works programs and arts and science funding to advance civilization.
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Excited about this new series, where I was co-EP and a writer. It’s going to surprise you by hitting you in the feels. Very fun to do and wonderful people all around. We actually wrote it about four months ago, but you know, global pandemic delays.
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For 20 years, jobs were crazy hard to find and nail down.
For four years, a streaming boom hugely increased available jobs.
Two years ago, that crashed.
The future is unwritten, but plan well, stack projects, and cross between TV, movies and animation to survive.
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Screenwriting translations:
Vomit draft = I don’t care enough to outline
Core wound = cheap way to try and make people care
Second act problems = “even I haven’t read it”
“___” ghosted me = they didn’t like it
I have a new idea haunting me = I don’t wanna finish this one
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No one gives a fuck if you “support” or “approve” of the term pre-WGA. I see tweets from people and the level of conceit is astounding. People can call their status whatever they want, what’s it your fucking business?
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I would recommend approaching this career like a job and not a dream. It’s a real, tangible job and you can get it for the relatively low cost of trading out thousands of hours of your own time. Work on your scripts and your networking, but most of all - outline and rewrite.
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Didn’t make anything off four movies, wasn’t solvent til Hill House.
If you're a screenwriter and you want to get super-rich, the two paths are 1: become a name brand creator of multiple shows like Shonda Rhimes or Greg Berlanti who gets a megadeal from a streamer, or 2: create a moderately well-liked network procedural that runs for 8 seasons.
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Two trillion on Afghanistan. Two thousand billion.
Cost to end homelessness in US: 20 billion
Cost to vaccinate world against Covid: 25 billion
Cost to colonize the moon: 25 billion
Cost to pay off our debt to China: 1.1 trillion
Cost to end world hunger: 265 billion
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Don’t know why I’m surprised this turned up but here it is.
WHY I’M STRIKING: “A lot of previous generations came out and did it for me and that’s what provides health care for my kids and a retirement for my future and I’d like to support the same thing for the next generation of writers,” Jeff Howard tells Deadline
#WritersStrike
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Anyone interested in an experiment? I got offered the chance to chase a huge job today. It'll play out over next few weeks. I would have to be vague, but thought it might be interesting -- win, lose or draw -- to lay out the steps as they unfold, just to share the experience...?
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What happens when you mix an episodic horror pilot with a legendary horror director, the best upcoming producing duo in the biz, and four writers you know and love?? And then head to broadcast networks? I’ll let you know before end of year!
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I must be excited cos I stayed up late and took a fuzzy photo of my credit! Happy Midnight Mass Day.
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Last night, a giant bat slammed into the window, sent glass flying everywhere and terrified the entire family. Turns out, it was just the Bram Stoker Awards way of letting me know I was nominated for Midnight Mass episode.
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Three people repped, one staffed, a Blood List winner, one advanced from outline to draft on a deal. Everyday I get messages about how the zooms are helping. Thank you all, they’ve been hugely therapeutic to me and it’s they’re helping you.
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Things you have to get used to and not take personally to be a writer:
Meetings being moved around a lot, especially TV
Taking notes without arguing back in a non-factual way
Being ghosted by execs who don't want to pass to your face
Being cold til you're hot then cold again
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I wasn’t expecting the Game of Thrones prequel to sound actually really good.
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The main studio of Billy Wilders career will soon be a Halloween store or perhaps an outdoor flea market.
Sony plans to sell the historic Melrose lot, the Paramount Pictures studio, if they succeed in their joint bid with Apollo to buy Paramount, per Bloomberg.
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If financial issues are keeping you from attending my zooms, please DM me and know we will work it out and ain’t nobody gonna know but us. No one has ever or will ever be turned away.
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I offered my wife an omelette or a full sized omel for breakfast, and I don’t think there’s an appreciation for the great amount of material I burn off on this family.
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Glee from writers over a temporary situation at Netflix is… you’re in a life raft, gazillions of people want in the raft, and you’re stabbing it with a dull knife. Do you not understand where this massive new number of staff jobs came from? Do you know how few there used to be?
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If you want to be a TV writer maybe study the 1960s studio musicians known as The Wrecking Crew. They played the tracks on every great L.A 60s record. Were the best musicians, came to sessions to elevate the vision, contributed stellar ideas, then went home. No applause needed.
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Hey producers and managers and agents - if you’re everrrrr looking for great clients, DM me. I’ve read twenty or thirty people who have the goods and know how to get it on the page.
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In a week, it’ll be the 22nd anniversary of my first screenplay sale.
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Mommy on a book call so Jamesy makes a rare garage office visit!
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Reps. All writers want them. Why don't you have one yet? Because reps are heat-seeking missiles. They show up when that first thing is getting ready to pop and then swoop in and sign you. Why do they wait? Because *they* are valued at their company based on how much $ they --
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Three years til someone gets bright idea to “broadcast” entertainment over the air waves for free, with advertisements to pay for it.
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No one prepares you for the cumulative effect of losing people as you age.
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50 scripts, 35 responses so far. A lot of notes and thoughts, but four have been perfect and are passed on to producers, managers, working on agents. I apologize for slowing down last couple of weeks —
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I’ll be damned!
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Two people I intro’d to two different managers over the last two weeks appear headed toward two signings and that is doubly gratifying.
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Happy 7th birthday to Oculus, which most certainly changed my life.
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Universal was the place to be today. Kirk Moore, Kyra Jones, Dani Fernandez, Jorge Rivera, Carlos Foglia, and a dozen more twitter favorites I’ve always wanted to meet. Plus my new steady buddy JS Mayank. A real treat getting to know so many writers!
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This is so true. Hill House and Midnight Mass were four hour days, Resident Evil maybe 4-5. In every room, the first day was the only time anyone stuck around til 5. Please never let this streak end.
A friendly reminder that writers rooms can have humane hours. We just ran a room for 2+ years that met for about 4 hours a day (and half day Fridays), left time to write and do meetings and rest. It was a highly serialized ensemble action adventure fantasy comedy with huge lore.
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My first writing partner and I worked together for eleven years — two of them successful, right there at the end.
He was the funniest person I ever knew. He’d been a bass player and a cowboy and a puppeteer. He got kidnapped into a religious cult —
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I don’t see any of this as directing on the page, and neither would any director, performer or producer I’ve come across. This is how to do it.
If you want to understand why you should never listen to anyone who tells you not to direct on the page--
--read as much Better Call Saul as you can get your hands on.
I've underlined the directing in RED. The "unfilmmables". They are the linch pins of the entire read.
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On the care and usage of “established writers” on Twitter.
Many of you know I’m pretty open and approachable. It’s led to being lawsuit threatened twice in the last year, which is not fun. It gives your lawyer the chance to say “I told you so” and nobody needs that.
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I’m a Gen X guy. I have a WGA pension coming. And of all the Gen-X friends I’ve kept in touch with, I’m the only one with a pension. Thanks, WGA.
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