Charlie Kaufman: Screenwriting Lecture

LOL: The Reoccurring Prop Newspaper.

If you watch enough television shows and movies, then you might even start to notice that a bunch of the same props are used over and over again. I first noticed this with a magazine prop in various television shows including Married With Children, which featured a gum advertisement on the back cover. Someone on Reddit recently put together a compilation of photos from various television shows, commercials and movies, showing how one newspaper prop gets around and is reused, and reused again.

I don’t know the story behind this prop newspaper, but I assume it was created as a royalty free prop for television shows. Somewhere along the line, the prop became a reoccurring gag between propmasters. Something like how sound designers reuse the Wilhem Scream in every movie.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/04/lol-the-reoccurring-prop-newspaper/

Sinking Star Wars.

1998: Lucas Sent This To Cameron, When Titanic Dethroned Star Wars At The Box Office.

kinda great.