Effin' Beautiful

Recent Nikki Finke post confirms what every middling screenwriter already new.

"It's crazy how shitty the spec market has been this year, especially given what a debacle 2007 and 2008 were," a source tells me.

But as one who's developed a spec script with some producers who are prepping to take it to the studios in the very near future, there are some words you don't like to read. Words like "piss-poor" and "2009" and "development".

And you really don't like to read them in this order:

"The rest of the 2009 studio development business is in piss-poor shape."

Read her full post here.

Would You Like That To Go?

From the Hollywood to English Dictionary:

Take Out, v. To introduce a pitch or spec script to potential buyers (aka The Town).

In the real world "take out" is used in reference to Chinese food. And garbage.

In the not real world you "take out" the pitch or script with the goal of it being "picked up". Which, yeah, sounds pretty much like the garbage analogy. Just without the curb.

Forget I said anything.