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Click the PLAY button above to watch Star Trek New Voyages: World Enough and Time. The award winning Star Trek episode starring George Takei that was directed by Marc and co-written by Marc and his good friend and Emmy-award winning friend Michael Reaves. Don’t see the video? Cl

Hi, guys - I just wanted to update you on a great new development. Elaine and I have just launched a new, super cool website for Supermentors. We’re going to be posting all kinds of useful information, tips, and insights that will help you move forward in the business as well in

Hi, guys, Thanks for all the sweet birthday wishes, they were much appreciated. Elaine and I took some time over the last few days to slow down and enjoy ourselves. We saw John Sayles moving new film AMIGO, about the American takeover of the Phillipines during the Spanish American War

Hi, guys, The last few days have been quite a ride.  Word of the class we’re doing with Neil Johnson on How To Make a Sci-Fi Blockbuster For Loose Change — and Turn a Profit! has spread around the world. In fact, Sci-Fi London has asked us to do a presentation at their Fes

Hi, guys,Here it is — Neil Johnson’s really quite remarkable. To see the TRAILER click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtAnZu3ajPE Website  www.scifiblockbuster.com Our class this upcoming weekend with Neil on HOW TO MAKE A SCI-FI BLOCKBUSTER FOR LOOSE CHANGE — AND

HOW TO MAKE A SCI-FI BLOCKBUSTER   FOR LOOSE CHANGE — AND TURN A PROFIT!   SECRETS REVEALED – BY WORKING PROFESSIONALS! Tired of taking meetings, talking about it, talking about it more… and getting nowhere?    So many offer courses on how to make low budget films, but how

Just finished the first draft of my new screenplay FURIOUS, a thriller with a small bit of science fiction in it (as opposed to FUGITIVE SPACE, which is a big science fiction film set in space, with aliens, the works).  Now I’ll take a few days away from it to gain some perspect

Visited this afternoon with my good friend Ray Bradbury at his home — what a marvelous time!  Ray’s turning 91 on August 22, so I brought him an early birthday present, a DVD of the restored METROPOLIS, with thirty minutes of additional scenes lost for over 80 years.  Ray

Just got this photo of Sally Kellerman and me from the Paley STAR TREK event, where we screened “World Enough and Time” and the two STAR TREK pilots, the second of which, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” Sally starred in. What an honor to watch this with her and

Some remarkable times the last twenty-four hours… Last night Elaine and I did a Skype video up-link with the Dallas arm of the Industry Roundtable we run.  There were forty-two people at the restaurant who’d braved the 100-plus heat to come ask questions of us, and for the