Chuck Norris kept a roof over my head

In memoriam

For a little while in the early ‘90s, when I first got to Hollywood, apparently I was Chuck Norris’s  favorite script reader at Cannon Films.

It was the ‘legendary trash house’ of low budget action pictures. (Read The Rise And Fall of Cannon Films - there was also a 2014 documentary about it.)

Because Norris liked my harsh script coverage (I would point out “We’ve seen this before! Nothing new here!”) he kept requesting me to read scripts submitted to him. Another cool $40 for me.

If I actually liked a script it was worth looking at, I suppose he began to figure. That helped me make my rent.

Thanks Chuck, for all the memories.

Chuck Norris (3/10/40 - 3/19/26)

Our advisor Craig Kornblau advises Google Ventures on the future of film in a streaming world

It's been wonderful for the past year and a half having Craig Kornblau advise our entertainment tech startup 10 BLOCK  — and Google Ventures’ GV — on the intersection of the entertainment industry and the tech world. "The reason I decided to work with early-stage and growth companies is, having lived in big corporate America and big entertainment companies, it's really hard to find massive innovation in large companies. I think real innovation is going to come from small companies," he says in this interview about the future of film in a streaming world.