Monthly Archives: May 2010

King John by way of the Romans.

“It was f***ing ridiculous,” laughs Scott. “It was terrible, a page-one rewrite. If you’re going to invest in a Robin Hood story, why call it Nottingham? You’d end up spending 80% of the publicity budget explaining why it’s Nottingham and not just Robin Hood. It doesn’t make any sense.”
So rather than have his Robin Hood [...]

Would increasing the legal age for alcohol increase UK cinemagoing?

I was just reading this blog post by Ted Hope and the first comment by Michael Walker got me thinking. In America, due to the drinking age being 21, there is little for people under that age to do when it comes to going out of the house. Hence the cinema becomes a usual thing [...]

We Like… Barrie White

We met Barrie years ago on the sadly defunct ‘Featurelab’ scheme run by Screeneast. We were writing a feature script about a guy who cannot remember a key moment in his life thanks to drinking too much, he was writing a feature script about a sniper trying to protect a group of innocents against the [...]