Podcasts by USC School of Cinematic Arts Conversations With... Speakers Series Podcast
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Melissa Rosenberg from 2010-04-23T12:00
Melissa Rosenberg is one of the most successful female screenwriters of all time. Her screenplays for Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse have helped the franchise to grosses of over $1b. A trained da...
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James Vanderbilt from 2010-04-09T12:00
James Vanderbilt graduated from USC in 1999, with his first script sale coming two days before graduation. By 2003 three of his screenplays had been made into films: Basic, starring John Travolta a...
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Stephen J Cannell from 2010-01-22T12:00
Stephen J Cannell is a television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor. He has scripted more than 450 episodes and produced or executive produced over 1,500 episodes of network TV. Despi...
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Stephen J Cannell from 2010-01-22T12:00
Stephen J Cannell is a television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor. He has scripted more than 450 episodes and produced or executive produced over 1,500 episodes of network TV. Despi...
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Stephen J Cannell from 2010-01-22T12:00
Stephen J Cannell is a television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor. He has scripted more than 450 episodes and produced or executive produced over 1,500 episodes of network TV. Despi...
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Paul Foley, Doug Miro and Scott Murphy from 2009-11-10T12:00
All SCA Alumni, All working writers... Paul Foley: The Jetsons, Curious George, Scooby Doo 3. Doug Miro: The Great Raid, The Uninvited, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Sharky's Machine (201...
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Conversations With... Speaker Series - Scott Neustadter from 2009-10-14T12:00
In 1998 Scott Neustadter was hired to work in the story department of Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions, first as story editor, then as Director of Development. Neustadter and his writing partne...
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Conversations With... Speaker Series - Pamela Ribon from 2009-10-09T12:00
Pamela Ribon was a producer on Mind of Mencia and Executive Story Editor on Samantha Who. She is currently developing a pilot for a major studio. Her novels include Why Girls Are Weird, Why Moms Ar...
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Conversations With... Speaker Series - Stephen Susco from 2009-09-02T12:00
Over the past thirteen years, Susco has penned and sold over forty scripts and pitches. He has written for a variety of acclaimed directors and producers. His first film, The Grudge, was produced b...
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Conversations With... Speaker Series - Susannah Grant from 2009-04-29T12:00
Susannah Grant wrote Erin Brockovich and received Academy Award, BAFTA and WGA nominations for Best Original Screenplay. A recipient of a 1992 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, her other credits...
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Conversations With... Speaker Series - Ronald D. Moore from 2009-03-27T12:00
Ronald D. Moore co-created Battlestar Galactica with David Eick and executive produced it throughout its four-season run. He has written, produced and run shows such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Jonathan Levine from 2009-03-13T12:00
Jonathan Levine wrote and directed The Wackness which won the Audience Awards at the Sundance and LA Film Festivals. He also directed All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and has projects in development wi...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Vince Gilligan from 2009-01-30T12:00
Vince Gilligan is the creator of AMC's Breaking Bad and was an executive producer on The X-Files for which he wrote 30 episodes and received two Golden Globe awards and three Emmy nominations. His ...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Peter Buchman from 2008-11-07T12:00
Peter Buchman Blurb: Peter Buchman wrote Che, the epic biopic of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, for Steven Soderbergh, His other credits include Jurassic Park III and Eragon. Buchman was interviewed by S...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Mark & Michael Polish from 2008-10-24T12:00
Mark & Michael Polish wrote and produced Twin Falls Idaho, Jackpot, Northfork and The Astronaut Farmer. In addition to writing, Michael directed and Mark starred in these films. Under their Prohib...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Stuart Beattie from 2008-10-10T12:00
Stuart Beattie wrote Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl on spec, and has since gone on to write Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Australia and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra....
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Karey Kirkpatrick from 2008-09-26T12:00
Karey Kirkpatrick is the writer of Chicken Run, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Spiderwick Chronicles and many other films. He co-wrote and -directed Over the Hedge, and made his live-act...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Nicholas Meyer from 2008-09-12T12:00
Nicholas Meyer has written and/or directed Star Treks II, IV and VI, as well as Time After Time, Sommersby, The Human Stain, Elegy and The Seven-per-cent Solution, for which he received an Academy ...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith from 2008-04-25T12:00
Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith are the creative team behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as well as music videos of Beck, The Wannadies, Vampire Weekend, R.E.M. and Fatboy Slim, among ot...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Derek Haas and Michael Brandt from 2008-03-14T12:00
Derek Haas and Michael Brandt are the writers of 3:10 To Yuma and the action blockbuster 2 Fast 2 Furious. They've also penned the upcoming Angelina Jolie film Wanted. Haas and Brandt were featured...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Tom Schulman from 2008-02-22T12:00
Tom Schulman is the Academy Award-winning writer of Dead Poets Society; Honey, I Shrunk The Kids; What About Bob; Medicine Man and 8 Heads In A Duffel Bag (which he also directed). Schulman was a f...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Bill Prady, Dave Goetsch and Jennifer Glickman from 2008-02-01T12:00
Bill Prady (Two and a Half Men, Dharma & Greg), executive producer and co-creator of The Big Bang Theory, discusses his show, along with staff writers Dave Goetsch (3rd Rock From the Sun) and Jenni...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - David Weiss from 2007-11-11T12:00
David Weiss '87 has worked in animation for over 15 years, writingsuch films as All Dogs Go To Heaven, Shrek 2, Jimmy Neutron and The Rugrats Movie. His work in television includes Cybill, Rugrats ...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Alfred Gough & Miles Millar from 2007-10-26T12:00
Alfred Gough & Miles Millar are the creators of the hit show Smallville. As a writing team they have worked on Spiderman 2, Lethal Weapon 4, Shanghai Noon and Herbie Fully Loaded. They are both 199...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Julie Taymor from 2007-10-12T12:00
Julie Taymor is known for directing such films as Frida (2003), and the recently released Across the Universe (2007). Taymor was the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical with h...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Jerry Stahl from 2007-10-05T12:00
Jerry Stahl is the writer of Bad Boys 2 and the book Permanent Midnight (adapted into the film starring Ben Stiller). He's written over 10 episodes of CSI, and has also written episodes of Northern...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Richard Shepard from 2007-09-28T12:00
Richard Shepard is the critically acclaimed writer/director of The Hunting Party and The Matador. He also recently won an Emmy and the Director's Guild Award for directing the TV pilot of Ugly Bett...
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Conversations With... Speakers Series - Mark Fergus from 2007-09-21T12:00
Mark Fergus is best known for his work on Children of Men, for which he was honored with the USC Scripter Award. Fergus and his partner Hawk Otsby also penned the adaptation of John Carter Of Mars,...
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Zaki Gordon Speakers Series - Jane Anderson from 2007-04-06T12:00
Jane Anderson is an award-winning writer/director whose work has spanned film, television and theater. A California native, Anderson started her career in New York theatre, appearing in David Mamet...
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Zaki Gordon Speakers Series - Stephen Chbosky from 2007-03-23T12:00
Stephen Chbosky wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Rent (2005). Chbosky also co-created and serves as executive producer of ...
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Zaki Gordon Speakers Series - Jamie Vanderbilt from 2007-02-23T12:00
Jamie Vanderbilt is a writer/producer with a penchant for dark dramas, including the murder mystery Basic (2003) and the serial killer chiller Zodiac (2007). A 1999 graduate of the School of Cinema...
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Q&A with Simon Kinberg from 2006-10-06T12:00
Simon Kinberg is a British-born writer whose work on projects such as X-Men: The Last Stand and Mr. and Mrs. Smith has made him one of Hollywood's hottest scribes and earned him accolades such as b...
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Q&A with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg from 2006-09-22T12:00
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg are the writing force behind the 2004 hit comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. The film depicts the lives of two 20-something stoner roommates - one a Korean...
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Q&A with Joel Michaely from 2006-09-12T03:37:05
Joel Michaely is best known as an actor from such films as Academy Award-winner Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction, But I'm a Cheerleader, and the teen classic Can't Hardly Wait, where he was th...
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Q&A with Suzanne Todd from 2006-04-28T12:00
Suzanne Todd has become one of cinema's leading producers, along with her sister Jennifer who is the other half of Team Todd. Together the two have been a driving force behind a string of commercia...
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Q&A with Gary Ross from 2006-03-24T11:11:05
Gary Ross has written numerous hit films, including Big, Mr. Baseball, Dave and Lassie, in addition to directing Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Ros...
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Q&A with Frank Wuliger from 2006-02-21T12:00
Frank Wuliger, vice president of the Feature Literary Department at the Gersh Agency, represents writers and directors and has worked on films such as Eve's Bayou, The Day After Tomorrow, Chocolat,...
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Q&A with Barry Blaustein - USC from 2006-01-17T12:00
Barry Blaustein is best known for having written such comedy classics as Coming to America, Boomerang and The Nutty Professor I & II. Blaustein recently penned and directed The Ringer, which stars ...
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Q&A with Barry Blaustein - USC from 2006-01-17T12:00
Barry Blaustein is best known for having written such comedy classics as Coming to America, Boomerang and The Nutty Professor I&II. Blaustein recently penned and directed The Ringer, which stars Jo...
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Q&A with Barry Blaustein - USC from 2006-01-17T12:00
Barry Blaustein is best known for having written such comedy classics as Coming to America, Boomerang and The Nutty Professor I&II. Blaustein recently penned and directed The Ringer, which stars Jo...
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