Peter Guber is a legendary figure in the industry. An entertainment executive, film producer, entrepreneur, sports team owner, television host, and sometimes college professor, he began with some early success at Columbia Pictures and kept on racking up the accomplishments throughout a career that has spanned over 40 years and counting. His new book, [...]
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Whether or not you became a fan of Tina Fey when she was a co-host of Weekend Update on “Saturday Night Live” or as the creator/showrunner and star of the Emmy winning NBC series “30 Rock,” you must recognize that she has broken a lot of ground as a woman in comedy, an especially [...]
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As you know, here at YII, we LOVE getting the inside story on successful professionals in the biz, as well as finding out about great resources we can all use. In this case, we’re getting both! Sarah Sido and Claire Winters are dedicated working L.A.-based actors who have taken their own “lessons from the trenches” and the expertise [...]
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Forget the malls and the madness of holiday shopping. This year, let Your Industry Insider make it easy on you by providing you with suggestions for every entertainment industry enthusiast on your shopping list. The budding director, the junior agent, the high school drama club president… There’s something here for everyone! The below book and [...]
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Media-Match.com is a site which helps entertainment professionals and those looking to hire them find each other. Job-seekers (both freelance and permanent) can create profiles and can also search the jobs posted to the site, which come directly from the companies doing the search or from other job sites across the internet. Companies can post jobs [...]
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There are many books on the market about the TV writing business. Unfortunately, most tend to fall into one of two somewhat-unsuccsesful camps. Those that are written by academics tend to cover the basics well, but have too much of an outsider POV to give true insight into the actual workings of the biz and the path to success. Those written by [...]
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Depending upon who you are as a music professional, it’s either a very scary, depressing time or a very exciting, creative time. For those who are/were part of the old model of the music business, when record companies ruled the world and getting signed was the way (as in the only way) to make it [...]
Read More →Like Hollywood Mom Blog which we recommended earlier this year, ChildrenInFilm.com was created to provide information about children working in entertainment. While Hollywood Mom Blog is written from the point-of-view of the mother of a child actor (actually several mother/managers now write for it), and has a fun, friendly tone, and free content (with advertising its only [...]
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We here at YII HQ have been fans of “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross for many years. But it was a special treat to find the iPod loaded up with an interview of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. The description provided indicated that they would talk about the award-winning album, “American Idiot”‘s transformation into a [...]
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Being in entertainment means taking a lot of meetings. Job interviews, pitch meetings, investor meetings, actor meet-and-greets, press meetings, do-I-like-you-enough-to-want-you-on-my-project meetings. It never ends. Often there are meetings to prep for the real meeting! The term ‘good in a room’ originally referred to writers, directors, producers, and others who excelled at pitching stories/projects in meetings with decision-makers. [...]
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