Bill Swadley is a writer and financial wizard living in Los Angeles. He spends his days masquerading as a Director of Finance in the Home Entertainment division of 20th Century Fox.

Bill has spent the last 25 years working at every level in the entertainment industry from professional theater production to on-the-ground film crews when he was first starting out to his current executive position. Prior to his current position, he worked for a combined total of 10 years in corporate finance for Saban Entertainment/Fox Family Worldwide and Lions Gate Entertainment.

Bill is absolutely certain that the people in charge of the country, even those who are halfway-competent, are flying-blind and hobbled by the cynical nature of our plutocracy. He is always proud to tell you that he predicted both the Dot-com bust and the current housing train-wreck years before they each occurred.

He blames Bill Clinton's libido, Linda Trip, and Ralph Nader for giving us the first four years of G.W. Bush and John Kerry for the second four. He is overjoyed that the United States is once again on the road of righteousness and has never in his life been more proud to be an American than at this time. And to those who think the Obama Administration is faltering at the job, he points out that Bush got 8 full years to screw everything up, so it might just take a little while to clean up the mess.

Hobbies include economics and acquiring vast amounts of useless information. He is also a raconteur and serious film buff.

Bill has written a dozen screenplays and saw his first play, North Beach, produced a few years back. He wrote his Oscar acceptance speech when he was in his 20's and still plans on delivering it one day.

Bill is currently working on a novel entitled BEING and a guidebook for career success called Beyond the 8-Ball.

Bill's regular blog is here.

Blog Entries by Bill Swadley

In Hollywood, There is No Such Thing as a Lone Gun

2 Comments | Posted November 12, 2009 | 03:28 PM (EST)


In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell makes a compelling case for the notion that the "self-made man" is a rare exception at best, but more often than not, a complete myth. Nowhere is this more true than in Hollywood.

Several months ago I started working with a group...

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In Hollywood, Nobody Still Knows Anything

17 Comments | Posted June 22, 2009 | 03:47 PM (EST)


Working for a major studio and having friends at other studios, it's hard to ignore the doom and gloom talk that pervades this business when the topic turns to feature films.

"Why would anyone go to the theater when they have HD at home?"

"Movies have to be bigger than...

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Look, Stop Saying "LOOK"

Posted November 20, 2008 | 06:00 PM (EST)


One of the side effects of the rise of Obama and accompanying Obamamania is the newly pervasive use of the word, 'look' to start any sentence, regardless of the contextual irrelevance of that word to the rest of the statement. Its frequent misuse by the man who gets more public...

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My Name Is Bill Swadley, And I Work For Fox

Posted October 7, 2008 | 08:06 AM (EST)


"I'm at Fox now." That's what I used to tell people when I first started working for my current employer, after a strategic move from the world of the small independent studio to mega-corporate entertainment where I now spend my 9-5's. A colleague of mine, when I told him of...

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