While speaking to a group of students in the digital media program at the Austin Art Institute, we broached the subject of the need for writers to stay tuned to the media/box office about what's hot and what's topical because this is an excellent way to get a read on what the execs are hoping to find and buy. As a case in point, I told them that now that The Kids are All Right has won a couple of Golden Globes and been nominated for no less than four Oscars, there will be more gay and lesbian relationship movies. The worldwide box office cume is strong too, considering the budget was only 4 million and it was in limited release. I'm willing to bet the DVD sell-thru and rentals will add considerably to that number before all is said and done. Chances are somebody (probably more than one somebody) is pitching some LGBT ideas as we speak. Of course, we have had some great gay/lesbian films in the recent past and a few successful TV series. As the saying goes, timing is everything.
Gay marriage is being revisited afresh now that there's a new crop of legislators on Capitol Hill. And President Obama is going to have to stop waffling on the subject as well. The New York Times carried this story, yesterday. This morning, while tuning in to Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood blog, there it was...the first public evidence of another alternative lifestyle movie in the making. Sony Pictures is polling the public about coming out and living gay. Here's the clip.
Whatever your views are on gay marriage, you have to admit that this is a story arena that has only begun to be explored. It's fertile ground for development.
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