Here's one that ought to interest a lot of you.
SCRIPTLAND: Kyle Ward reaching new Hollywood 'Heights'
By Jay A. Fernandez
Special to The Times
April 25, 2007
As recently as three weeks ago, Kyle Ward was just another assistant at DreamWorks. Until he sold his first screenplay, "Fiasco Heights," to Universal Pictures for Michael Bay to produce. Four days after that, Creative Artists Agency signed him as a client. Last Thursday, Lionsgate hired the 27-year-old to adapt "Kane & Lynch," a video game launching in September about two death row escapees.
And then Saturday night he strode into Guy's Bar on Beverly Boulevard straight into the excited embrace of a handful of industry strivers who were throwing a celebratory party in his honor.
Such is the trajectory of young Hollywood - "young" signifying both literal age and those freshly minted on the successful side of the industry scale. A seminal moment like this is really something to witness. At Guy's, a sea of former agency and studio assistants, once-struggling writers and first-time producers, having gotten their initial taste of power, money and recognition - either firsthand or vicariously - were now licking their lips, suffused with the warm rush of the momentum of success and hungry for more.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1746870.story
SCRIPTLAND: Kyle Ward reaching new Hollywood 'Heights'
By Jay A. Fernandez
Special to The Times
April 25, 2007
As recently as three weeks ago, Kyle Ward was just another assistant at DreamWorks. Until he sold his first screenplay, "Fiasco Heights," to Universal Pictures for Michael Bay to produce. Four days after that, Creative Artists Agency signed him as a client. Last Thursday, Lionsgate hired the 27-year-old to adapt "Kane & Lynch," a video game launching in September about two death row escapees.
And then Saturday night he strode into Guy's Bar on Beverly Boulevard straight into the excited embrace of a handful of industry strivers who were throwing a celebratory party in his honor.
Such is the trajectory of young Hollywood - "young" signifying both literal age and those freshly minted on the successful side of the industry scale. A seminal moment like this is really something to witness. At Guy's, a sea of former agency and studio assistants, once-struggling writers and first-time producers, having gotten their initial taste of power, money and recognition - either firsthand or vicariously - were now licking their lips, suffused with the warm rush of the momentum of success and hungry for more.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1746870.story
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