When are we getting another Michael Dougherty movie?

Derek Kolstad's Ordained is a fantastic idea and getting Colin Farrell is even more genius. DK is the man.

Just discovered that I could semi-successfully port PDFs into Final Draft (with some formatting tweaks). Sometimes I have 'lost' screenplays that don't exist in editable versions. However, there's usually a reason why I no longer have workable FDX files of those scripts. They're

'We'll circle back in January' starts happening on Monday. I swear it's earlier and earlier. I wish school was like that back in the day. 'Oh yeah that exam and paper? We'll just touch base in Q1'

Planes, Trains and Automobiles but it's an action thriller. That idea should fill the 'there are no Thanksgiving action movies' dilemma. Y'know, Gerry Butler and Statham trying to get home for Thanksgiving or something but their former black ops history catches up with them and

It's always wild when Shawn Levy turns up in some Canadian 80's b-movie. 'Don't worry man, this isn't going to be your career."

Marty Supreme looks so good. Looking forward to that one and - of course - Avatar. I love the holiday movie season. I always give a shout out to the EPIC holiday movie season of 1995. Not gonna list the movies here for the umpteenth time but you know what bangers came out that

Friday after Thanksgiving is not a real day.

Who remembers? #1980s

The Heat 2 cast is probably going to be more 'the best actors for the roles' rather than 'so and so looks like DeNiro, Pacino, Kilmer'. I think DiCaprio saying that it's more of a homage than an imitiation reveals a lot.

Netflix just wants the rights to Paula Gosling's 'A Running Duck' novel that WB owns so they can do another Cobra or Fair Game ('95). Maybe even a mini-series. Something has to replace Stranger Things.

Cinderella Man and The Irishman are non-Christmas movies I watch every Christmas season.

There's always one big spec sale before the holiday shut down. It won't be me but I'm excited to see who'll get it.

Guns n' Roses Chinese Democracy is a Christmas album. Don't know why, but I break that album out during the season. I think because it came out in November of '08 and played the hell out of it for months.

Guns n' Roses turned into Afghan Whigs so slowly I barely noticed.

Rather than do a tech update on an old action spec, I'm just gonna say it's a period piece. 'Look, it's MEANT to take place in 2005'.

A screenwriter superpower is the ability to find typos immediately -- not in my own work, mind you -- but everywhere else.

You know what's nuts? Heat and Casino in the same holiday movie season in 1995. I remember cracking open that Premiere fall preview issue and being like 'oh snap'. But, honestly, I didn't appreciate the line-up at the time. Bond was in there too. Toy Story. Even some pulp like