WriteMovies Founder Dr Alex Ross discusses Disney and Pixar in Recent Newsweek Article!
Dr. Alex Ross has over twenty years in the Hollywood film industry working with and for the studios as agent, manager, and producer.
With his extensive knowledge, he recently spoke to Newsweek about the success of Inside Out 2 and whether it’s enough to resolve the problems Pixar is facing.
“Disney has much bigger problems,” he told Newsweek, “One successful picture to them is a drop in the ocean [for Disney]. All their boardroom issues aside, the company has completely lost its sense of direction.”
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Alex’s quote in Newsweek comes as he is set to teach a film course at Yale, which includes an outstanding list of guest speakers:
- Producers: Gail Katz, Hal Lieberman and Rob Simonds.
- Major company NRG has offered to fly out some of their line producers and forensic/audit film accountants over from California.
- Julie Delpy (2x Academy nominated writer, actor and director)
- Habib Zargarpour (2x Academy nominated VFX supervisor & former MS Studios lead game designer)
- Bruce Altman (actor)
- Todd Harris (film & theatre producer)
- Dr. Linda Seger (author & script consultant)
- Randa Haines (director)
- S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid (professor of film economics/finance)
- Angus Finney (Film Finance expert, University of Cambridge)
- Neil Sacker (attorney and producer)
- Kathryn Parsons (founder of Decoded – the expert on how careers will be determined
by AI)
You can have your scripts mentored directly by Alex Ross with WriteMovies.com!
You can hire Alex directly through WriteMovies.com, where he offers a range of services:
Studio Coverage: This is the same feedback a studio analyst will provide the executives or agents will receive when you submit for consideration. This costs $179.
Development Notes: These are the same notes that writers who have been optioned will receive from the studios and production companies. Available for $299.
Development Margin Notes: The same level of detail as the Development Notes above, but without the report. Costs $250.
New project concept pitch: Provides you with constructive feedback as well as improvement suggestions on the concept of your script. Either up to four pitches of up to half a page each or one longer synopsis of up to four pages. This costs $100.
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