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Matt Atchity, a multimedia powerhouse with over 20 years of experience shaping the entertainment industry, is celebrated for his transformative role as Editor-in-Chief of Rotten Tomatoes. During his tenure, he established the Tomatometer rating system as the definitive metric for movie criticism. Beyond Rotten Tomatoes, Atchity has produced acclaimed content across platforms such as Moviefone and TYT Network. His deep understanding of audience dynamics and innovative drive has cemented his status as a leading authority in engaging viewers in the digital age, making his insights invaluable for creators, studios, and fans alike. At Rotten Tomatoes, Matt led a decade-long charge that elevated the site to household name status, pioneering TV reviews and expanding its industry influence. Additionally, he co-founded and co-hosted "What the Flick!?" with Ben Mankiewicz and Cenk Uygur, marking it as the inaugural spinoff show on the TYT network. Now, Matt Atchity has transitioned to a new chapter in his career, joining forces with his uncle Ken Atchity at Story Merchant - a company that represents and assists storytellers (writers, authors) in getting their stories published or adapted for film and television. Drawing on his extensive background and industry expertise, Matt brings a wealth of knowledge to the company's ventures in Hollywood. His strategic insights, honed from years at Rotten Tomatoes and other prominent platforms, promise to enrich Story Merchant's creative endeavors and expand its footprint in the entertainment landscape. Matt's shift to collaborate with Ken Atchity reflects his ongoing commitment to innovation and storytelling, ensuring his contributions continue to resonate across the industry. Website | LinkedIn

Ken Atchity, producer of the movie The Meg, staring Jason Statham, joins us for a fascinating discussion on becoming a Hollywood producer of such movies as "Life, or Something Like It," "The Expatriate" "Joe Somebody," and the HBO movie series "Shades of Love." ...but our time together was much more than talking about his international blockbusters. Ken is a Story Merchant...and he opens up about his roots, studying in French, Latin, Greek and conversational Japanese, along with enlightening stories of self sabotage, the dangers and blessings of A.I., and making peace with his brother Freddy. This episode is about family, and the melting pot that truly makes America great. About Kenneth Atchity: Ken Atchity is an American movie producer, author and columnist, book reviewer, brand consultant, and professor of comparative literature. Ken calls himself a professional Story Merchant. His decades well spent in the world of stories prompted the telling of his own. When it came time to do so, he thought “who is better to do it than me?” MY OBIT: Daddy Holding Me , Volume I, is published by Story Merchant Books, in paperback and launched late last year. Volume II, My Southern Belle, was published February 28, this year and also published by Story Merchant Books, in paperback. Atchity has also produced 30 films, including "Hysteria" with Maggie Gyllenhaal, "The Expatriate" with Aaron Eckhart, "The Lost Valentine" with Betty White, "Gospel Hill" with Danny Glover, "Joe Somebody" with Tim Allen, "Life or Something Like It" starring Angelina Jolie, "The Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes," "Shadow of Obsession," "The Madam's Family" with Ellen Burstyn, and "The Meg" with Jason Stathum. In addition to his literary management and coaching business, Ken recently added “Write Your Own Obituary” to his consulting options. Who better? After all, he wrote his own obit. Atchity is married to documentary filmmaker and former NHK producer Kayoko Mitsumatsu. About Awakened Nation: A Deep Dive Into The Extraordinary With guests like Dog The Bounty Hunter, NY Times Bestsellers Panache Desai, Stephen M.R. Covey, and Dan Millman, Chester Bennington's original band mates from Grey Daze, Star Wars artist Matt Busch, Grammy® nominated recording artist David Young, BNI founder Ivan Meisner, David Bowie promoter Tony Michaelides, MLB player Shea Hillenbrand, and many more...host Brad Szollose sets out to ignite game-changing conversations with today's outliers and cutting edge entrepreneurs, idea makers and disruptors—conversations that take a deep dive into the extraordinary. This podcast will shift your thinking. Think Art Bell meets Joe Rogan. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awakenednation/support

originally aired 02.27.2023 with Rick Steves and Ken Atchity The Story MerchantThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3240061/advertisement

Ken Atchity is a multi-talented author, literary entrepreneur, and film producer known for his expertise in storytelling. With a successful career spanning decades, he has written captivating books, represented authors, and produced films. His passion for storytelling and commitment to helping others unleash their creative potential make him a prominent figure in the industry. In addition to his literary management and coaching business, Ken recently added “Write Your Own Obituary” to his consulting options. Who better? After all, he wrote his own obit. My Obit 2: My Southern Belle The train that carried the author south from Kansas City to his native Cajun homeland was named “The Southern Belle,” which the young Atchity believed referred to his mother's all-powerful control over his imagination. He left a world of grape leaves, cabbage rolls, and houmus for steak & gravy, shrimp etouffee, gumbo, and boiled crawfish—and a welcome world of tall tales, endless jokes, and fishing stories that kept folks on the front porch for hours at a time. Where Vol 1, Daddy Holding Me, focused on his father, My Southern Belle analyzes the parent who inspired his multiple careers as an editor, writer, professor, literary manager, and producer. Where his father was a straightlaced accountant, Atchity's mother was a raconteur, jokester, and improvisational spinner of yarns of varying levels of veracity. Passive-aggressive, with boundless energy, and intensely optimistic, she created an environment that drove her children to excel and entertain in whatever they undertook. Connect with Ken Atchity: Website | Amazon | LinkedIn  

Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence AI? Science Fiction author Robert Rivenbark posed that exact same question when he wrote The Cloud. A combination of The Peripheral, Johnny Mnemonic and Blade Runner, The Cloud answers a simple question: if AI and Virtual Reality VR were combined...what kind of world would we be living in? And more sinister, what if those in power controlled this artificial world, programming it to keep the peasant class dumbed down, ignorant and domesticated? Robert Rivenbark sits down to have a fascinating discussion on the link between his work and the reality we face today. IS it really Science FICTION at this point? If you are a SciFi fan, you'll love this episode. About Robert Rivenbark: Robert Rivenbark earned a master's degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University after winning a full academic scholarship to study for two years in Oxford and London, England, based on his award- winning short story collection. His experience there gave him a global perspective as a storyteller. He returned to the U.S. for a career in journalism and advertising and worked as a senior copywriter and video producer for some of America's most prestigious advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Panasonic, Allergan, Experian, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Kimberly-Clark, Home Depot, and Biosense Webster, a division of Johnson & Johnson. Robert Rivenbark's novel, The Cloud, won First Place in the science fiction category in the San Antonio Writers Guild 27th Annual Writing Contest in February 2019. It was published in August 2022 from Story Merchant Books. He subsequently secured exclusive representation from Hollywood literary manager Ken Atchity of the Story Merchant and Atchity Productions. The novel is in development as a TV series with Atchity. Robert will expand The Cloud into a novel trilogy, also suitable for screen adaptation. He is the co-author with Elizabeth Rockett of Theodora, an epic historical dramatic TV series about the most powerful Roman Empress in history, who co-ruled with her husband Justinian. The series is in development with Atchity. Robert won two advertising awards, a Gold Icon for Best Direct Marketing Campaign for Seagull Scientific Software and a Best-In-Class Award for a Commercial Real Estate Multimedia Campaign for Jones Lang La Salle (JLL). Additionally, Robert has co-written a feature psychological thriller with Elizabeth Rockett and has been tapped by Atchity to co-write two other epic historical series. The link for the The Cloud is: www.thecloudnovel.com. About Awakened Nation: Fueled by the passion to ignite game-changing conversations, award-winning author Brad Szollose created Awakened Nation—a podcast dedicated to deeper conversations with today's outliers and cutting edge entrepreneurs, idea makers and disruptors, bestselling authors, activists, healers, spiritual leaders, professional athletes, celebrities, politicians and rock stars...conversations that take a deep dive into the extraordinary. This podcast will challenge your beliefs. Think Art Bell meets Joe Rogan. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awakenednation/support

Rick's newest book, Italy for Food Lovershttps://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/travel-newsRick Steves is a public TV host, author of dozens of guidebooks, and is America's most respected authority on European travel. His mission is to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. Rick uses his talent as being the “everyperson” traveler to down the best of every category in the new book, Rick Steves Ital for Food Lovers. This handbook will guide travelers through the great sights, eats, drinks, desserts, and more – town-by-town, and for each course. https://www.ricksteves.com/Ken Atchity, head of Story Merchant Books and Atchity Productions, has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing world, and over 20 years in entertainment. He has produced more than 30 films, including: The Meg (Jason Statham, Warner Bros), Gospel Hill (Danny Glover; Fox), Joe Somebody (Tim Allen; Fox), The Amityville Horror (NBC) and more. His books include, his most recent work, My Obit: Daddy Holding Me, My Obit: My Southern Belle, Japanese-In Law: Words and Phrases for Day-to-Day Living (with Keisaku Mitsumatsu), The Messiah Matrix and Seven Ways to Die (with William Diehl) and nonfiction books for writers at every stage of their career. https://www.thestorymerchant.com/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3240061/advertisement

Today guest is author, publisher, and producer Ken Atchity. Ken recently produced the global blockbuster (Jason Statham) and is the founder of Story Merchant. Ken wrote the best-seller Sell Your Story to Hollywood: Writer's Pocket Guide to the Business of Show Business. I wanted Ken on the show to discuss the business side of screenwriting, a part of the industry that isn't spoken about enough. We also discuss the "story market."Here some background on Ken.In 1976, Atchity founded L/A House, Inc., a consulting, translation, book, television, and film development and production company whose clients included the Getty Museum and the US Postal Service. L/A House began by extending Atchity's teaching of creative writing to manuscript consultation and soon moved on to publishing with the production of Follies, a magazine covering creativity, and CQ: Contemporary Quarterly; Poetry and Art of which he was editor. In the 1980s L/A House moved into television, with a syndicated television pilot of BreakThrough! of which Atchity was executive producer and co-writer.In 1985, L/A House began development of a set of video/TV romance film projects entitled Shades of Love, which became 16 full-length films, produced in 1986–87 with Atchity as executive producer, that aired throughout the world, distributed by Lorimar, Astral-Bellevue-Pathe, Manson International, and Warner Brothers International, nominated for Canada's Gemini Award; in the U.S. they premiered on Cinemax-HBO.In 1989 he sold L/A House and founded AEI (Atchity Editorial/Entertainment International), a literary management and motion picture production company. Atchity sold Steve Alten's Meg to Bantam-Doubleday at auction in a $2.2M deal; and then to Disney, partnered with Zide-Perry, for $1.2 (later, to Newline Pictures for a similar price). Incorporated in 1996, its name was changed to Atchity Entertainment International, Inc. in 2005.In 2006, he and manager-partner Fred Griffin of Houston's Griffin Partners along with a group of investors from Louisiana and Texas, acquired The Louisiana Wave Studio, LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana from Walt Disney Productions. The LWS is the only tank specifically designed to make waves for motion pictures in North America. Films produced at the LWS include The Guardian, Mayday—Bering Sea, Shark Night 3D, Streets of Blood, and I Love You, Philip Morris; along with numerous government and industrial films.In 2011 Atchity was nominated for an Emmy for producing The Kennedy Detail (Discovery) based on their clients' Jerry Blaine and Lisa McCubbin's New York Times bestselling book by the same title published by Gallery/Simon & Schuster in 2010. AEI's films include Joe Somebody (Tim Allen, Julie Bowen), Life Or Something Like It (Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns), and The MEG (Jason Statham).In 2010, Atchity also founded Atchity Productions and Story Merchant.Enjoy my conversation with Ken Atchity.

The act of writing is an act of communication. When we write, we are creating something that did not exist before.  Robert Rivenbark earned a master's degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University after winning a full academic scholarship to study for two years in Oxford and London, England, based on his winning short story collection. His experience there gave him global perspective as a storyteller. He returned to the U.S. for a career in journalism and advertising and worked as a senior copywriter and video producer for some of America's most prestigious advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Panasonic, Allergan, Experian, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Kimberly-Clark, Home Depot, and Biosense Webster, a division of Johnson & Johnson. Robert Rivenbark's novel, The Cloud, won First Place in the science fiction category in the San Antonio Writers Guild 27th Annual Writing Contest in February 2019. It published in August August 2022 from Story Merchant Books, $12.99, softcover-$4.99 Kindle. He subsequently secured exclusive representation from Hollywood literary manager Ken Atchity of the Story Merchant and Atchity Productions. The novel is in development as a TV series with Atchity. Robert will expand The Cloud into a novel trilogy, also suitable for screen adaptation. Prize-winning Novelist/Screenwriter/Director/Producer/Copywriter Robert Rivenbark joins host Denise Griffitts to share his epic journey from London to Hollywood.  Website | LinkedIn | Facebook

Growing up in NJ, stories about the mob often led the news. It was terrifying, but peaked one's curiosity at the same time. And being of Italian decent, it was the topic of many conversationsToday on my #LittleItalyPodcast and #DeborahKobyltLIVE, I speak with James Pierre, author, “GAMBINO: The Rise,” and also Ken Atchity, film producer and literary manager who's turned many best sellers into successful films.Pierre got the idea for the book when he witnessed something as a child - a mob hit - and told no one until he decided to write about it as an adult. He talks about growing up in NY, and calls himself “a student of all things mafia,” and his knowledge past and present is astounding, as is his story.Ken has been behind some of the Hollywood's most successful films, and says this story has “Godfather” potential with its rich history and cultural perspective.James and Ken both join us for our interview. I hope you'll tune in, and invite your friends, too, available on all video and audio podcast platforms. #DeborahZaraKobylt-#KennethAtchity #memoir #filmmaking #autobiography #Interview #reading #author #writing #storymerchantbooks #Books #publishingSupport the show

Ken Atchity - My Obit: Daddy Holding Me ‘'Know Thyself', attributed to Socrates, was carved into stone at the entrance to Apollo's temple at Delphi in ancient Greece, according to legend. Now Dr. Kenneth Atchity—film producer, literary manager, novelist, multilingual Yale doctorate holder, former classics professor at Occidental College in L.A., and author of twenty-plus books—embraces Socrates' maxim full-tilt in his thought-provoking, heartfelt, and brilliantly composed autobiography—volume one of a two-volume opus (the second in the works, according to the author). “Story Merchant” Ken Atchity, head of Story Merchant Books and Atchity Productions, has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing world, and over 20 years in entertainment. His books include, most recently, My Obit: Daddy Holding Me, Japanese-In Law: Words and Phrases for Day-to-Day Living (with Keisaku Mitsumatsu), The Messiah Matrix and Seven Ways to Die (with William Diehl) and nonfiction books for writers at every stage of their career. Based on his teaching, managing, and writing experience, he's successfully built bestselling careers for novelists, nonfiction writers, and screenwriters from the ground up. His bestselling clients have led him to all areas of communications. His is a truly fascinating story/journey and you can listen as we chat LIVE! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest | Facebook | Amazon

Ken Atchitystorymerchant.comKen Atchity, head of Story Merchant Books and Atchity Productions, has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing world, and over 20 years in entertainment. His latest book is titled My Obit: Daddy Holding Me. Based on his teaching, managing, and writing experience, Ken has successfully built bestselling careers for novelists, nonfiction writers, and screenwriters from the ground up. His bestselling clients have led him to all areas of communications. http://www.kenatchityblog.com/Paul LaRueLifeGivingWarmth.comPaul LaRue founded Life Giving Warmth with his wife Carolynne which creates battery-powered, portable electric blankets that generate up to 3 hours of continuous warmth. All their products are made with a weather-resistant exterior that is designed to withstand wind, snow, and light rain, and their micro-fleece lining encases an internal insulation that maximizes heat retention. https://lifegivingwarmth.com/Alex Ranciatomorethanlikes.orgAlex Ranciato is the CEO/Founder of More Than Likes, a new nonprofit organization designed to end the stigma around teenagers and their infatuation with technology (more importantly social media). The goal for More Than Likes is to get teenagers off of their devices and show that they are more than "likes" on a screen, through impactful acts of community service (from breast cancer awareness /fundraising to anti-bullying campaigns). https://morethanlikes.org/

“Story Merchant” Ken Atchity, head of Story Merchant Books and Atchity Productions, has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing world, and over 20 years in entertainment. “At the prompting of a marketing friend, I was advised to title this book, My Intensely Madcap, Lebanese/Cajun, Jesuit-Schizoid, Terminally Narcissistic, Food-Focused, East Coast/West Coast, Georgetown/Yale, Career-Changing, Cross-Dressing, Runaway Catholic Italophile, Paradoxically Dramatic, Linguistically Neurotic, Hollywood Academic, ADD-Overcompensating, Niche-Abhorring, Jocoserious Obit. But when my designer pointed out that title wouldn't fit on the spine, much less on any public display list, I changed my mind. Again! The story of my life. Which this is at least the first volume of. I hope it makes you laugh, spares you some of my grief, and leads you to insist on telling your story to anyone who will listen,” shares prolific story merchant Ken Atchity with Late Night Health's Mark Alyn about his MY OBIT: Daddy Holding Me, Volume 1.

“Story Merchant” Ken Atchity, head of Story Merchant Books and Atchity Productions, has more than 40 years of experience in the publishing world, and over 20 years in entertainment. “At the prompting of a marketing friend, I was advised to title this book, My Intensely Madcap, Lebanese/Cajun, Jesuit-Schizoid, Terminally Narcissistic, Food-Focused, East Coast/West Coast, Georgetown/Yale, Career-Changing, Cross-Dressing, Runaway Catholic Italophile, Paradoxically Dramatic, Linguistically Neurotic, Hollywood Academic, ADD-Overcompensating, Niche-Abhorring, Jocoserious Obit. But when my designer pointed out that title wouldn't fit on the spine, much less on any public display list, I changed my mind. Again! The story of my life. Which this is at least the first volume of. I hope it makes you laugh, spares you some of my grief, and leads you to insist on telling your story to anyone who will listen,” shares prolific story merchant Ken Atchity with Late Night Health's Mark Alyn about his MY OBIT: Daddy Holding Me, Volume 1.

Thank you Ken Atchity for joining me today on the Born To Talk Radio Show Podcast. Ken's Background. To start with, Ken attended Georgetown (BA) and Yale (Ph.d).  Then he became a professor of literature at Occidental College.  Followed by a  Fulbright Professor of American Studies to the University of Bologna. But that was just... The post Ken Atchity appeared first on Born To Talk.

This session, we have the multitalented Ken Atchity, a best-selling author, producer, literary manger, professor and editor who aptly goes by the moniker The Story Merchant. He got his B.A. at Georgetown, his Ph.D. at Yale. He was a tenured professor of comparative literature at Occidental College and a distinguished instructor at UCLA Writers program. He's worked in publishing and filmmaking and is a member of the TV Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Producer's Guild.   SHOW NOTES: Blog: www.kenatchityblog.com "Writing Treatments that Sell": https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Treatments-That-Sell-Industry/dp/0805072780 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryMerchant/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storymerchant https://www.instagram.com/atchityproductions https://www.instagram.com/ken_atchity Twitter: https://twitter.com/storymerchant https://twitter.com/kennja  

Kenneth Atchity, Founder of Story Merchant Books and author of 'Tell Your Story to the World & Sell it for Millions' joins Host Denise Griffitts again to answer some very important questions: The power of storytelling and the business of storytelling. What makes a great storyteller? What are the elements of a great story? How did he go from telling jokes to selling stories for serious money? How does a story get to Hollywood and the big screen? Listen in as we broadcast live and I invite you to listen to our first conversation 'Things Every Great Story Has to Have' here.  Website | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest | Facebook | Amazon With more than forty years experience in the publishing world, and twenty-five years in entertainment, Dr. Ken Atchity is a self-defined “Story Merchant” – author, professor, producer, career coach, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching dozens of books and films. Ken's life passion is finding great storytellers and shaping them into commercial authors and screenwriters.

"I believe stories can change the world." - Kenneth Atchity, Founder of Story Merchant Books With more than forty years' experience in the publishing world, and twenty-five years in entertainment, Dr. Ken Atchity is a self-defined “Story Merchant” – author, professor, producer, career coach, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching dozens of books and films. Georgetown (BA) and Yale (Ph.D.), then professor of literature at Occidental College and Fulbright Professor to the University of Bologna before beginning his second career as literary manager and producer, Ken's life passion is finding great storytellers and shaping them into commercial authors and screenwriters. His books include, most recently, My Obit: Daddy Holding Me, Japanese-In Law: Words and Phrases for Day-to-Day Living (with Keisaku Mitsumatsu), The Messiah Matrix, and Seven Ways to Die (with William Diehl) and nonfiction books for writers at every stage of their career. His is a truly fascinating story/journey and you can listen as we chat LIVE! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest | Facebook | Amazon

Ken Atchity is a writer, editor, professor, producer, literary manager who's spent his life in the world of stories. Ken has written over 20 books, produced more than 30 films for television and theater, and made hundreds of Hollywood and traditional publishing deals for his writer clients, including nearly 20 New York Times bestsellers.­­­­­ https://www.thestorymerchant.com.Creek Stewart's survival knowledge comes from experience. His life-long study of outdoor living and survival skills is backed by thousands of man-hours in the field. Creek is a frequent guest survival expert in the media and has been featured on/in The TODAY Show, Inside Edition, Fox & Friends, Men's Fitness Magazine, and countless radio and on-line events. Creek's latest book, The Disaster-Ready Home will help you create a safe, well-stocked place to weather out any emergency. http://www.creekstewart.comJerad W. Alexander, author of Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War, has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Narratively, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Literary Reportage from the New York University Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism. From 1998 to 2006, he served as a U.S. Marine, deploying to the Mediterranean, East Africa, and Iraq. https://www.workman.com/products/volunteers/hardback

Dr. Ken Atchity is an American movie and TV producer, writer, author, columnist, and has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. He has had nearly 50 years experience in publishing, and 25 years in entertainment. His passion in life is to find great storytellers and turn them into bestselling authors and screenwriters. One of his companies, The Story Merchant, helps and guides writers to take their career to the next level.Movies he has produced include The MEG starring Jason Statham, Eraser with Aaron Eckhart, Hysteria with Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Life or Something Like It starring Angelina Jolie, just to name a few.Recently he has co-written, with his Japanese father-in-law, a Japanese/English phrase book. The easy-to-use Japanese In-Law pocketbook is written for those who’ve fallen in love with Japanese. Its simple goal is to help you communicate from morning until night with household words and phrases. It’s divided into sequential chapters to get you through the day and has a glossary of “Everyday Words & Phrases” that rarely includes words you wouldn’t normally use in a family setting. This rough-and-ready, little book is meant to bring families closer through the wonder of language.Sponsors:Bearfoot Bar. 12 different types of Japanese made craft beers, both bottles and on tap. A range of whiskeys and basic cocktails also available. Tapas style menu and burgers. Friendly English and Japanese speaking staff. Open 7 days a week. Located in downtown Sapporo, walking distance from the subway station. Why not pop in for a drink if you are in town!https://www.facebook.com/bearfootbarRed HouseLocated in the heart of Rusutsu Ski Resort, just cross the main road and it’s behind the Seicomart Convenience store. The restaurant features a mix of Japanese, Asian fusion, and western Style dishes, including shabu-shabu with wagyu beef and Hokkaido wagyu beef steak. Open winter and summer, 12-3pm for lunch, 5-9pm for dinner, with prices ranging from under Yen 1000 to about Yen 5000.https://theredhouse.jp/Rusutsu LodgesOpen all year round. Located 5 minutes walk to the main Rusutsu Ski Resort Gondola. There are Japanese, Western, and apartment style rooms with breakfast packages available. There’s a Japanese sento (public bath), two convenience stores less than a minute walk, ski room and tune up tables, free pick up available from the bus stop, plenty of free parking space, and summer BBQ packages available. Check out the website for more information and availability.http://rusutsulodges.comUse our Buzzsprout affiliate link to start your podcast today!Website:https://www.voicesinjapan.com/Follow us and check out our other content:https://twitter.com/voicesinjapanhttps://www.facebook.com/voicesinjapan/https://www.instagram.com/voicesinjapan/Get in touch: voicesinjapan@gmail.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/voicesinjapan)

Welcome to a very special episode of Shades of Love. Amanda interviews Ken Atchity about his wonderful direct to video romance series Shades of Love. Then Amanda and Dan discuss two entries from the series, Echoes in Crimson and The Rose Cafe (both 1987). Ken was a wonderful guest and provides a lot of info about this great series where you will only want to speak of love. We do hope you enjoy!

With more than forty years' experience in the publishing world, and twenty years in entertainment, Dr. Ken Atchity is a "story merchant"—former professor, writer, producer, career coach, publisher, and literary manager, responsible for launching hundreds of books, including 20+ New York Times bestsellers. His life's passion is finding great storytellers and turning them into bestselling authors and screenwriters. “Our universe is made of stories, not atoms.” In his second career, Ken has also produced 30+ films, including The Meg (Jason Statham), Hysteria (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Informant Media), Erased (Aaron Eckhart, Informant), the Emmy-nominated The Kennedy Detail (Discovery), The Lost Valentine (Betty White; Hallmark Hall of Fame), Joe Somebody (Tim Allen; Fox), Life or Something Like It (Angelina Jolie; Fox), and the award-winning documentary 14 Days with Alzheimer's. His many books include books for writers at every stage of their careers, most recently Tell Your Story to the World & Sell It for Millions. You can learn more about Ken on his website: https://www.storymerchant.com/.

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With more than forty years’ experience in the publishing world, and nearly thirty in entertainment, Dr. Ken Atchity is a "story merchant"-- writer, editor, producer, career coach, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching hundreds of books and dozens of film and television productions. His life's passion is finding great storytellers and turning them into bestselling authors and produced screenwriters. In one of his recent works he produced the film called “The Meg” (Jason Statham, Warner Brothers), "Hysteria" (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Informant Media), "Expatriate" (Aaron Eckhart, Informant), the Emmy-nominated "The Kennedy Detail" (Discovery), "The Lost Valentine" (Betty White; Hallmark Hall of Fame), "Joe Somebody" (Tim Allen; Fox), "Life or Something Like It" (Angelina Jolie; Fox), and "14 Days with Alzheimer's."  His own books include novels, The Messiah Matrix and Seven Ways to Die, and nonfiction A Writer’s Time, Writing Treatments that Sell, and Sell Your Story to Hollywood.   https://storymerchant.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.  

With more than forty years’ experience in the publishing world, and nearly thirty in entertainment, Dr. Ken Atchity is a "story merchant"-- writer, editor, producer, career coach, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching hundreds of books and dozens of film and television productions. His life's passion is finding great storytellers and turning them into bestselling authors and produced screenwriters. In one of his recent works he produced the film called “The Meg” (Jason Statham, Warner Brothers), "Hysteria" (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Informant Media), "Expatriate" (Aaron Eckhart, Informant), the Emmy-nominated "The Kennedy Detail" (Discovery), "The Lost Valentine" (Betty White; Hallmark Hall of Fame), "Joe Somebody" (Tim Allen; Fox), "Life or Something Like It" (Angelina Jolie; Fox), and "14 Days with Alzheimer's."  His own books include novels, The Messiah Matrix and Seven Ways to Die, and nonfiction A Writer’s Time, Writing Treatments that Sell, and Sell Your Story to Hollywood.   https://storymerchant.com/   StoryHinge http://storyhinge.com Where we dig deeper into story and story creation.  We amplify personal stories to consider more possibility and realize more potential and happiness in life.

Today guest is author, publisher, and producer Ken Atchity. Ken recently produced the global blockbuster  (Jason Statham) and is the founder of Story Merchant. Ken wrote the best-seller Sell Your Story to Hollywood: Writer's Pocket Guide to the Business of Show Business. I wanted Ken on the show to discuss the business side of screenwriting, a part of the industry that isn't spoken about enough. We also discuss the "story market."Enjoy my conversation with Ken Atchity.

Today guest is author, publisher, and producer Ken Atchity. Ken recently produced the global blockbuster  (Jason Statham) and is the founder of Story Merchant. Ken wrote the best-seller Sell Your Story to Hollywood: Writer's Pocket Guide to the Business of Show Business. I wanted Ken on the show to discuss the business side of screenwriting, a part of the industry that isn't spoken about enough. We also discuss the "story market."Enjoy my conversation with Ken Atchity.

Many authors have a goal of seeing their book made into a film or TV series, but how can you maximize the chances of that happening? Ken Atchity has some tips for creating loglines and standing out in a crowded content market in today's show. In my personal update, Productivity for Authors is now available […] The post From Book To Hollywood Film With Ken Atchity first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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With more than forty years' experience in the publishing world, and twenty-five years in entertainment, Dr. Ken Atchity is a self-defined "Story Merchant" – author, professor, producer, career coach, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching dozens of books and films. Ken's life passion is finding great storytellers and turning them into commercial authors and screenwriters.   This show is sponsored by Experiment 27. Get the discovery call script & questions template HERE.   In this episode you'll learn: [01:14] Dr. Ken's first deal was for 8 movies [05:25] No one knows anything in Hollywood [06:14] Entertainment business is based on wild ideas [06:36] What stops someone from thinking outside the box [08:40] It took 22 years for Meg to get to the screen [12:13] Story market is very volatile  [15:14] How is Dr. Ken setting up the meetings with studio heads [17:55] How to stay memorable [19:50] Pitching is an art [23:00] Difference between amateur and veteran pitching [23:55] What makes for a good film story [28:55] It's hard to get in the story market at a national level Links mentioned: Story Merchant Brought to you by Experiment 27. Find us on Youtube.   If you've enjoyed the episode, please subscribe to The Alex Berman Podcast on iTunes and leave us a 5-star review.   Get access to our FREE Sales Courses.

Ken Atchity is a former Fulbright professor of comparative literature, has produced more than 30 films, and made nearly 100 deals with Hollywood studios, independents, and broadcasters. As an author of more than twenty books he has also represented nearly 20 New York Times bestselling books for clients. His most recent book is Sell Your Story to Hollywood: Writer’s Pocket Guide to the Business of Show Business. He believes in the power of stories to change the world. Learn more at http://www.storymerchant.com and follow Ken on Twitter @kennja or on Facebook at Story Merchant. You can connect with Laura at www.laurapowers.net, on Facebook @thatlaurapowers, on Twitter @thatlaurapowers, and on Instagram @laurapowers44.

Kenneth Atchity began writing stories as a child under his mother's supervision. By the age of 16 he was a book reviewer for the Kansas City Star (no one at the newspaper realized how old he was when they hired him over the phone). Ken started in the film industry after working as a professor for […] The post 107: How to Turn a Book Into a Movie with Ken Atchity appeared first on TCK Publishing.

Welcome to this edition of the Real Fast Results podcast!  Today's special guest is Dr. Ken Atchity, who is a very well-known Hollywood producer.  As a matter of fact, he is a producer and author who has also worked as a literary manager, speaker, writer, editor, and professor of comparative literature, among other things.  During this exclusive interview, Ken shares insight on what it takes to sell your story to Hollywood.  Without further ado, please welcome Ken to the show... What's Your Promise Today? I think what we're trying to get across today is giving our audience insight into how a story gets sold into Hollywood and whether they should have any hope of selling their story into Hollywood.  That's my goal. What Are the Benefits of Selling My Story? Every book writer and storyteller would like to see their story in front of a maximum audience.  That's what I have dedicated my last 30 years to, is helping storytellers find their maximum audience, and I long ago realized, of course, that the maximum audience is the screen.  We used to call it the "big screen" and the "little screen" before the advent of the flat screen in homes.  Sometimes that screen can be as big as the one at the movie theater.  But, in any case, television and film take stories around the world.  There isn't a country, with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia, that doesn't love movies. When you get a story told to the movies, the world gets to see your story.  You know, it can be dubbed in 182 languages, etc.  If the story came from a book that you wrote, then guess what?  The book will sell many, many more copies than it ever sold before.  We've had several examples of that in the last couple of years.  The Lost Valentine with Betty White ended up selling a whole bunch of copies of the book, which was republished for the purpose. Meg is about...after years and years of preproduction, Meg is going into production this summer in New Zealand, and we've already geared up the books to be sold again, even though they've been selling for 15 years now.  They'll really sell now because the movie becomes a commercial for your story, for your book.  So, it will sell more books.  You're getting your story out to everyone, the people who read and the people who watch.  That's the exciting part about making a Hollywood deal. Can You Run Me Through the Steps of How My Story Might Get Told? I think the first and most important element your story needs to have is to be universal.  It needs to be the kind of story that everyone wants to hear about.  There aren't that many stories in human experience, but we want to hear over and over again because every time we hear them anew, we actually hear things we haven't heard before, and we think of that story in ways that we hadn't thought before.  Therefore, it applies to our life and gives us a better inkling of how to deal with this crazy hodgepodge of stimulation that we call life.  Stories are...When we stop, and pause, and ask the question, "What's it all about," and "What would happen if a person like me got stuck into a situation like that,"...That's kind of the ancient formula of storytelling. So, its first quality is it has got to be something we care about universally.  You can start with the Seven Deadly Sins, or the Seven Virtues, and it isn't hard to figure out what people care about.  Love, and hate, and fear, and loss, etcetera, these are all big human subjects for stories, and therefore universally applicable.  That's the #1 quality that you need to have.  The second quality that a story for Hollywood needs to have is a hero.  I use the word loosely because I know better, as a former professor of classics and Greek drama.  I know that the real word is protagonist.  The Greeks invented that. The very first plays that were staged in Athens only had one actor.  He was the protagonist.  He was not only the protagonist, he was the only actor, and he basically came out on stage and acted out a story.  Later on, some genius added the second actor, who was known as the antagonist, the one who tries to stop the protagonist because he has opposite goals.  You know, we were off and running with drama when we had those two actors.  We still need that first actor, the one whose story it is and who has to do things in order to make his story turn out either happily or tragically.  So, that's what the protagonist is all about, but he's the first...He's the actor, the one who causes action to happen, and he is the primary reason that we're watching.  That means the protagonist, the hero, has to be sympathetic. Sympathetic is another ancient Greek concept.  It doesn't mean that we have sympathy because he lost his mother or he lost his daughter.  It means that we are able to suffer along with him.  That he's got such charisma as a character that we instantly get his suffering and can experience, through him and with him.  That's what "sympathetic" means.  So, we need a sympathetic hero.  If someone's completely unlikable, we lose interest within the first few minutes, but this hero doesn't necessarily have to be a good guy. My favorite example is Shakespeare's Richard III, where this ugly, kind of crippled, stupid guy comes out onto the stage in a black costume and proceeds to tell us how unhappy he is with life because he's constantly getting the short end of everything and that he's finally decided to do something about it.  He's going to go out and kill his brother's family and take the throne, after committing the 10 crimes that he predicts that he will commit.  Within a few lines of this amazing opening, everybody is totally rooting for him, not because he's a good guy, but because we are fascinated, mesmerized, horrified, by his candor.  You know, his outspoken willingness to tell us how bad he is and that he's going to do something about it, and we watch in horror for the rest of the play, until he finally brings himself down in ruins along with the whole kingdom. There's an example of a sympathetic hero.  Or, the beginning of Lethal Weapon, the first movie, when Mel Gibson wakes up in his really sleazy-looking trailer and reaches for a beer can that's open.  He takes a slug of beer, stands up and takes a walk into his bathroom and pisses.  Then, sits down again, pulls out his gun, and starts Russian roulette with the barrel of the gun in his mouth, and then we learn that he's a homicide detective.  Within the first few minutes of this, we can't stop watching.  Here's a story in which the hero is a suicidal homicide detective, and of course, he's matched with a partner who has only got a couple of weeks to retire after a long and happy career.  So, this is called creating sympathy for the characters, and these are some of the qualities of a great story. Those are three big things that you need to have to get your story sold to Hollywood.  There are others.  There has to be a very three act structure.  What are the three acts?  The beginning, the middle, and the end, not necessarily in that order, as a famous Italian director once said, but you have to have them.  The ending has to be conclusive and satisfying.  It can't just be intellectual, and thoughtful, and [open ended]...Movies that have those types of endings are not huge blockbuster successes.  People pay for stories, and stories as far as ordinary people are concerned, the audience, is "I want something that instantly drags me into the story, that keeps my attention the whole time, and then that punches me at the end with a conclusion so satisfying that I feel like I really got my money's worth for my ticket.  And, if I'm watching on television, that doesn't cause me to push the remote at any time during the story, other than maybe to turn the volume up. That's what it's all about, and that's what we are all looking for in Hollywood.  The good news about Hollywood is that it has become a lot more complicated than it used to be.  It's much more voracious for stories than it used to be because we have so many channels, and so many outlets, and so many ways of distribution.  All of them have to be fed, like a dragon that's eating rabbits.  It needs rabbits every day.  If it sees a rabbit it likes, then it will make a deal. It chases rabbits, and you know, one of the things that struck me when I entered this profession, from the academic world years ago, is that there are people called "trackers" who spend their whole days tracking down the rights to stories, and calling people like me and saying, "Do you control the rights to XYZ story?"  All they want to hear is "yes," or "No, but I'll tell you who does control them."  Then, they report back to their bosses, who pay them monthly just to track stories.  I thought, "Wow, this is really the world of storytelling if people are tracking them, not to mention paying lots of money for them, and investing millions and millions into making movies out of them." What Can I Do to Punch Up the Ending to My Story? Be creative.  That's where the creativity comes in.  You want to have an ending that leaves people bowled over and thoughtful, and sitting there in the theater thinking about it because they're so impressed by it.  If it's an action movie, it's going to be a big, climatic action scene with explosions, and guns, and all of that kind of stuff.  If it's a romance, you want a very satisfying conclusion.  It doesn't always have to be a happy ending, although in today's world that's what mostly succeeds.  I always use the example of the ending of Witness, where Harrison Ford's character is leaving Kelly McGillis' character, who lives on an Amish farm in Pennsylvania.  He is a tough Philadelphia detective, and as they kiss for the last time and he gets in his car, the audience is heartbroken.  They are thinking, "This is the most beautiful romance we've ever seen, and now he's leaving?" The director, Adrian Lyne, shows a very large place, a ranch or a farm, with a very long driveway.  That was probably the most important thing, when they were location scouting, was to choose it for the length of the driveway because his last shot is of Harrison Ford's car driving down that driveway.  As it's driving down, we see that it's slow, it's hesitating, and we're rooting for him to make a u-turn and go back into her arms because she's standing there in tears, watching her leave.  Then, as it keeps going, and he doesn't turn around, we start thinking, "Wait a minute, would I believe that?  A Philadelphia detective decides to live on a farm with Amish people, or would I believe it if she jumped in his car and went to Philadelphia with him?  Can I see a future in that?"  And, you realize, you get resigned to the fact that that's not the way this story can end. Finally, he reaches the end of the driveway and disappears from view as he turns, and you feel stunned by the beauty of the story and by the realization that some romance doesn't have to end in wedding bells and have happy endings.  It doesn't make it less beautiful; it just makes it more real.  So, there's an example of enhancing an ending so that the story leaves you satisfied. And, notice that the director is  filled with dramatic insight because he knows that it will take that long for the audience to be rooting for the ending he has chosen for this story.  You know, if you did it too suddenly, you'd feel weird and dissatisfied.  So, suspense and drama are what movies are all about, and if what you started with isn't dramatic or suspenseful enough, you write a treatment to fit your story, and in that treatment, you make sure the ending is more dramatic than what your source material was. What is a Treatment?  What Else Will I Need? I wrote a book about treatments years ago because I kept hearing the word, and I realized no one had a common definition of it.  My partner and I, Chi-Li Wong and I, did a survey of 200 execs in television and film, and writers and directors, and got back responses.  We used those responses to explain what a treatment is and to define what a treatment is.  Basically, it's a tool that has two functions.  It's a tool for focusing your story, like a diagnostic tool, and it is a tool for selling your story, a marketing tool.  So, diagnostics and marketing. I always urge the writers that we work with to write a treatment before they even start writing a script or anything else.  The treatment is the perfect way to do it because you're not invested emotionally in the pages you've created.  Since they're simply a tool, they're not the final result, and you don't have to moan and groan if we decide to change the sex of a character, or if we decide there are too many characters, you can just cut out the character and put him in the back of your head for another story sometime. So, a treatment is very useful because it allows people to read a quick overview of your story, you know?  It can be five to, say, ten pages long.  There are no rules about that.  We say a treatment is a relatively brief narrative, a loosely-written narrative.  I always say the best way to think of it is like a passionate letter to your best friend, explaining the night that you walked out on your wife.  You would not be using expository prose from sixth grade lessons; you would just be explosively describing, "I came home, and I found her naked in the middle of the living room, dancing with my neighbor who I thought was my best friend."  And, "blah blah blah..."  You just instantly blurt it all out.  That's what a treatment is, and it makes someone immediately want to make this movie, basically. That's what a treatment is, and it's one of several things you need to market your story.  Another thing that you need is a pitch, which is a one-line pitch of your story that will be unforgettable, describing the situation in a way that makes the listener want to know how it comes out.  As I said, the skeletal, generic pitch is, "What would happen if a gal like this found herself in the middle of a situation like that?"  That's what your pitch needs to be.  Once you have that pitch, it's called a logline, you can then email it to people in the industry who might be interested in looking at your story.  They'll then ask you, "I'm interested in the idea you have.  Do you have the treatment, or what do you have?"  And then, you send them the treatment to further hook them. At the end of the day, if you started with a script or if you started with a book, they'll ask to see that too, but it's a sales scenario in which these are the tools that you use to make the sale.  A one-page synopsis is part of it too.  Like, you'll have a pitch, a one-paragraph or one-page outline of the story.  Well, not an outline; you shouldn't use that word because that's one of those sixth grade word that, synopsis/outline, nothing to do with drama, nothing to do with Hollywood.  We want something that punches us in the face and makes us decide, you know, "you've got to see it".  That's the biggest, probably...Most used sales pitch of friends to friends on the phone, or email, or text is, "You've got to see it." Then, they might say, "Well, what's it about?"  And you say, "It's about a dog that waited for its master for 25 years, until he came home."  You know, that's the pitch.  "Okay, I'll see it."  You know, "Who is in it?"  "Richard Gere. "  "Okay, I definitely want to see that."  You know, it's that simple.  It's not complicated psychologically; it's just human. So, If My Story Doesn't Have All the Elements That it Needs, I Can Just Repair It in the Treatment? Exactly.  The treatment, what the beauty of it is...Let's say your story is based on a book that you wrote, if your book doesn't have a conclusive ending, now you give it one.  If your book doesn't have a well-defined "Act II", with a lot of ups and downs and twists and turns, you make sure the treatment does.  You might have to invent some of that stuff, but that's okay.  You're the creator.  You invented the story in the first place.  Now you try to make the story a movie, and movies are governed by action.  I always say there's two kinds of action.  One is, "He opened the front door and she shot him."  You know, "She was standing there with the shotgun and blasted at him."  That's action. But, dialog is also action in a movie.  It's not action in a restaurant where you overhear someone at the next table because mostly people are saying kind of inane things like, "How are you feeling today...Oh, I'm feeling okay.  How about you?"  This kind of dialog is not dramatic dialogue.  Dialog is...You know, there's a famous scene from China Town, Robert Towne's script, in which the detective, Gittes, is with the leading lady, and he says, "I want the truth,' and she says, "My sister...She's my sister."  And, he slaps her and he goes, "The truth, god damn it, I need to hear the truth," and she goes, "My mother," and he goes, "I just want the truth," and he slaps her again.  "My sister, my mother, my sister, my mother..."  Then finally, "She's my sister and my mother."  This dialogue suddenly reveals why this woman is so tortured and why, you know, the things that have happened in the story have happened. It's extremely dramatic, with very few words.  There's a great line in a Hemingway short story that I also love, in which these two people are sitting and waiting for a train in Spain and he is jabbering away, talking about like, "It's fine, you'll just go there and let a little air in, and then everything will be fine, and we'll be just the way we were before, and there's really no big deal to it."  The girl is not saying anything, and he keeps talking.  "I'll go with you if you want me to.  I mean, I'm willing to do it, but you can do it by yourself," and so on.  And, she says, "Would you do me a favor?"  "I'll do anything for you.  I told you, I'll do anything for you."  Well, she says, "Will you please, please, please, please, please stop talking." The next line is...The man did not say anything for a moment, and then he said, "Would you like a beer?" You realize, at that moment, that there is no future for this couple, that he is not on her wavelength, and that they are headed in a different direction.  That's all done with dialogue.  There's hardly any action in the story.  You know, there's hardly any physical action.  It's done with only dramatic dialogue, which is action.  And so, novels have much non-dramatic dialogue in them, connectives that get you from one place to the other, but when you actually want to turn it into a film, you need to get rid of all of that and replace it only with the dialogue that moves things and makes things happen. Any More Words of Wisdom for People Who Really Want to Do This? It's difficult.  That's my first word of wisdom.  It's not easy.  Think about it.  Everyone in the world would like to have their stories told by Hollywood, but the great part about it is the difficult part.  The fact is, when you succeed you will have done what everyone in the world wants to do.  So, you need to be your own decider here and not listen to the advice of anyone.  Just go for it, and never stop going for it.  Just learn as much as you can about the business (It's called "show business" for a reason), and about how it works.  That is our #1 goal...is to help you to understand the business procedures by which it works so that you have a chance there, and never forget that they are looking for you as much as you're looking for them. I always say, "People think of it as a dark, slow-moving river that you can never get across.  In the middle is an island with beautiful trees, and flowers, and beautiful people."  Once you get on that island, even though it was difficult to get on it, guess what?  It's going to be even more difficult to get off of it.  That's because once you're in there, they want you to [stay], and they become loyal to you because they're proud of the fact that you crossed that island.  They recognize you for that.  So, it's a great goal, and it's a goal that never gets old because no matter how old you are, you can still sell stories and Hollywood is still listening to them.  You know, people say, "How many chances do you get at Hollywood?"  Well, you get as many chances as you are willing to take.  That's how many you get. Where Can I Go to Learn More? If you're interested in selling your story to Hollywood, you can definitely head on over to http://realfasthollywooddeal.com/ .  There, you'll find an on-demand webinar that I helped to produce.  It will take you much more in-depth into how to go about selling your story, you novel, your short story, your story idea to Hollywood.  It's completely free to check this out. The aim of the webinar is to help you to take that next step in your education, or at least dip a toe and find out whether or not you want to take the journey.  You may not. The fact of the matter is that it is difficult, but for a lot of people it's well worth it.  That's up to you to decide.  The webinar that's being offered for free is an on-demand webinar.  You can go, and register for it, and basically start listening to it within 10 minutes from right now.  Again, you can check out much more thorough training on this topic at RealFastHollywoodDeal.com. 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Ken Atchity With more than forty years experience in the publishing world, and twenty years in entertainment, Dr. Ken Atchity is a self-defined "story merchant" - writer, producer, career coach, teacher, and literary manager, responsible for launching dozens of books and films. His life's passion is finding great storytellers and turning them into bestselling authors and screenwriters. Ken has produced 30 films, including "Joe Somebody" (Tim Allen; Fox), "Life or Something Like It" (Angelina Jolie; Fox), "The Amityville Horror" (NBC), "Shadow of Obsession" (NBC), "The Madam's Family" (CBS), "Gospel Hill" (Fox), and "The Kennedy Detail" (Discovery). Films in development include "Meg," "3 Men Seeking Monsters" (Informant Media), "Demonkeeper," "The Lost Valentine" (Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt), "Hysteria" (Informant Media, starring Maggie Gylenhaal and Jonathan Price), "Boobytrap" (Informant Media), and Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not (starring Jim Carrey; Paramount).