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A Los Angeles Times "Best Bet". A Hollywood Today selection.

COMEDY WALK is the biggest comedy walk in the world and the largest monthly comedy event in Los Angeles. 

Special Screening with the Cast
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men

Cast present to be announced...

Striving to go where no fan film has gone before, 'Star Trek: Of Gods and Men' is an 87-minute film featuring a cast that spans all five Star Trek TV series, as well as eight of the Star Trek feature films.

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men stars Walter Koenig (Chekov), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and Alan Ruck (Captain John Harriman of the 7th Trek feature film, Star Trek Generations) along with Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand of the original series). Joining them are Garrett Wang (Star Trek: Voyager) and Ethan Phillips (Star Trek: Voyager as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation); Cirroc Lofton, Chase Masterson and JG Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Gary Graham and Crystal Allen (Star Trek: Enterprise), and Herb Jefferson (Battlestar Galactica). Directed by Tim Russ (reprising his role as Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager).

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men was produced in association with Star Trek: New Voyages and was filmed in part on the “New Voyages” sets in New York. In addition, numerous location scenes were filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, including the famous Vasquez Rocks, a familiar location seen in many episodes of the original series.

A Los Angeles Times "Best Bet". A Hollywood Today selection.

COMEDY WALK is the biggest comedy walk event in the world and the largest monthly comedy show in Los Angeles. Second Thursday of each month.

The ScreenPlayLab Process

• We're an association of upbeat writers, actors, producers, directors, executives, agents, managers, composers, and so on...not just for writers.
• ScreenPlayLab hosts audience Q&A sessions with VIPs, workshops, mixers and screenings.
• We send event announcements and good news to our email list a few times a week. We cover our own events (typically free) and many other interesting happenings in Hollywood (free and non-free). Subscribe.
• Our speakers are some of the most exciting people in the film and television industry. You have an opportunity to get your question answered personally during our event Q&A. Speakers often stay afterwards to chat. How to contact a speaker.
• ScreenPlayLab is an open forum for the stimulating exchange of ideas. Audience members sign a release form.
• Our workshops are fantastic because our feedback is upbeat and productive. We're a very positive and proactive group of artists, not a clique of bitter critics.
• Actors who participate in our workshops have an opportunity to showcase their talents. Dozens of actors have signed with an agent as a result. Actor database.
• All of our events provide opportunities for networking. ScreenPlayLab is an opportunity to practice being "good in the room".
• We've been workshopping scripts with actors in front of live audiences since 2005. As of 2008, we discontinued accepting open script submissions from outside writers. However, if you have the first 20 to 30 pages of an outstanding upbeat screenplay that you feel driven to have considered for a ScreenPlayLab workshop, send an email to info@ScreenplayLab.com with the subject "ScreenPlayLab Query". There's a fee of $99 if your screenplay is accepted to workshop. Other groups that do readings are on our Links page.

Funny Is Money Again for 2007 Top 50 Box Office

Of the top 50 grossing movies of 2007, 22 are comedies, 14 are action, 10 are dramas, and 4 are horror. As a sub-genre, 5 are animated, 2 are musicals, 1 is a thriller and 1 is a Western. As usual, comedies dominate the top 50.

Of the top 10 grossing movies of 2007,, 7 are action (Spider-Man 3, Transformers, Pirates 3, Harry Potter 5, Bourne 3, 300, I am Legend) and 3 are comedies (Shrek 3, Ratatouille, The Simpsons Movie). As usual, franchise action movies and comedies dominated the top 10.

The Best Picture Academy Award winner No Country for Old Men ranked #36 at the box office. Miramax's No Country for Old Men did less box office than Norbit or Evan Almighty and came in just ahead of Fred Claus.

Data source: Box Office Mojo

Documentary Taping

We video tape most of our events in anticipation of some day producing a documentary about ScreenPlayLab. We do not offer tapes of our speakers' presentations (unless the speaker would wish it). Video of screenplay workshops may be made available to the screenwriters or the actors for their personal review (with the consent of the writers). We'd like to put some short clips up on the web (with permission of course), but so far haven't found time.