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Sunday, June 1st, 2008, 3pm to 5:30pm
Networking at 2:30pm

Craig Mazin
Featured Speaker 4:15-5:30pm
Screenwriter and blogger Craig Mazin [IMDB].
Craig is best known as a screenwriter for 'Scary Movie 3' and 'Scary Movie 4'. He's currently writing an action comedy for Jerry Bruckheimer and collaborating on a book adaptation with screenwriter Scott Frank. His Artful Writer blog on screenwriting and the workings of the WGA is a must-read for all screenwriters
Audience Participation Workshop 3-4pm
Workshop Reading - 'Full On'
Screenplay reading by working actors of the first 30 pages of the rock drama 'Full On' by Anzu Lawson, about a Japanese-American pop star. Based on a true story. Reading follwed by Q&A with audience. Moderated by Robin Rowe. Casting director Gabrielle Pantera.
Raleigh Studios
Enter at Van Ness Gate
5300 Melrose Avenue (across from Paramount)
Hollywood, California
Free parking available on the street
Parking on the lot, if available, costs $5
Smoking is not permitted at any ScreenPlayLab event

IMPORTANT: Professional Protocol

You will have an opportunity to learn in this session about how to write comedy and hear tips how to be successful in the industry.

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Speaker Bio

Craig Mazin is the cowriter of the hit comedies Scary Movie 3 and 4, and wrote and directed Superhero Movie for Dimension Films. He has written in a variety of film genres, including romantic comedy, spoof, drama and horror, including screen adaptations of Philip K. Dick's The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and the classic Broadway play Harvey, both for Miramax Films. Currently, Craig is working on an action-comedy for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and collaborating on a book adaptation with acclaimed screenwriter Scott Frank.

Craig lives with his wife and two children in a small town north of Los Angeles.


Venue: Raleigh Pickford Theatre

Raleigh Studios

  • The Pickford Theatre is a 42-seat screening room. Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose, Hollywood. Enter at Van Ness Gate. From the gate it's diagonally all the way across the lot. Enter the doors next to the cafe. Up the stairs, second floor.

Raleigh Studios is the longest continuously operating motion picture studio in the country, since 1915. It's directly across the street from the giant Paramount Studios, Raleigh has thirteen soundstages with 5,000 to 15,000 square feet of space each. In the 1920s it was known as Clune Studios, then Mary Pickford Productions, California Studio, and Producers Studios.

Some feature films shot here:

  • The Mark of Zorro
  • The Three Musketeers
  • Hopalong Cassidy
  • A Star is Born, 1937 with Janet Gaynor
  • The Best Years of Our Lives, Best Picture 1946
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962, with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
  • In the Heat of the Night, Best Picture 1967 with Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier

Some television series shot here:

  • Life of Riley
  • Cisco Kid
  • Superman
  • Gunsmoke
  • Have Gun, Will Travel
  • Perry Mason
  • America's Funniest Home Videos
  • The Larry Sanders Show
  • Whose Line is it Anyway?
  • Ugly Betty

Raleigh also manages Disney's soundstage complex in Manhattan Beach, where David E. Kelley is headquartered.

ScreenplayLab expresses special thanks to Mike Donahue and Randal Miles.


Questions to info@ScreenplayLab.com
Created May 19, 2008. Updated May 30, 2008