reported by Gerry Weber, CyberScreenwriter.com

Salon City, Inc. has begun the nationwide process to select the host of its first original web series.

"It's very exciting to begin casting," said SCI president and CEO Steven Casciola. "Our magazine is all about glamour, lifestyle, beauty and entertainment – and our series host will bring the magazine to life."

Applicants are invited to submit a video explaining why they would be the perfect host for the series. Each video must be 2 minutes or less and be uploaded to YouTube.com with the tag 'Salon City Casting.' The resulting YouTube link, along with contact information and acting experience resume (if any), should then be emailed to casting@matrixxpictures.com.

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reported by Jesse Desi, CyberScreenwriter.com

A film that wins critical acclaim is likely to be an R-rated drama, adapted from a prize-winning play or book and based on a true story, with the original author or director involved in writing the screenplay. It is unlikely to be a sequel or remake, a comedy or musical, a summer release, a big-budget project, have a PG-13 rating, open on numerous screens or do a big box office on the first weekend. It probably has an excellent score, but it may not have an award-winning song.

But box-office hits may have entirely different profiles.

Dean Simonton, a professor of psychology at UC Davis, has subjected thousands of feature-length, English-language, narrative films to a battery of statistical tests – including Pearson product-moment coefficients and hierarchical regression analyses – to get at the formula for cinematic creative triumph and box-office success.

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