Mark Lund

With the proliferation of streaming services now available at the click of a button or the touch of an app, countless movies and TV shows that once aired on terrestrial television are now being reintroduced to new audiences. On Pluto TV, I discovered one of my favorite series from the early 2000s—Fringe. This series had everything I loved in storytelling—science fiction, worldbuilding, “fringe”…

2024-04-30 Composite Sketch. Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously. Over the last 50 years, only a few U.S. presidents have addressed the release of UFO/UAP files.…

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from the American Heritage Museum about an upcoming event with a subject line “Symposium on the Ukraine-Russia War and Drone Technology in Warfare.” While the majority of us are fully aware of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 (the annexation of Crimea) and 2022 (invasion of the Donbas region), information disseminated to the public is distilled by…

Earth from Artemis II. Every week, I leave for the gym at 5 AM. But this week was different. This past week, Artemis II was on its way to the Moon. It’s a space mission NASA hasn’t performed since Apollo 17 in 1972. With the Moon visible in the night sky and generally favorable weather, I found myself looking up every morning, wondering about this historic mission. Somewhere between Earth and…

Suzanne Wilson being questioned by the media after her short program at Nationals As I write this, the 2026 World Figure Skating Championships are concluding in Prague, Czech Republic. When I was publishing International Figure Skating, it was this time of year that I would usually find myself out of the country, attending the pinnacle competition of the skating season. Last year, “Worlds” was…

For those who follow the world of James Bond, you probably know that all 25 films are now on Netflix. Although I’ve seen every Bond film, I decided to rewatch the entire franchise from Dr. No to No Time to Die over the last month. Watching the films at this pace, I could really see the overall pattern of successful (and not-so-successful) Bond films. There’s the opening setup, the introduction of…

AI Scene Concept for Serpentine: The president of the American Figure Skating Federation meets with a U.S. senator. On Monday, the film festival invitations for Serpentine began to arrive. If you are a part of the independent film world, you’ve probably heard of the film festival platform FilmFreeway. It is the primary portal through which short and feature films, along with screenplays, are…

2026 Winter Olympics Men’s Figure Skating Medalists. Whenever the Winter Olympics are on, I always think of my own experience at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Never in my life did I think I would make over 200 television appearances reporting on a figure skating scandal that rocked the sport to such a degree that not only were the rules changed, but a second Olympic gold medal was…

Yesterday, a friend and I saw the documentary, Melania. I didn’t know what to expect, but I knew when I first saw the trailer that I had to see the film. I’ve always been fascinated with the behind-the-scenes operations of The White House, in particular, the transition from one administration to another. How they turn The White House around from the outgoing first family to the incoming in a day…

Inside the FBI operations center, watching Suzanne Wilson perform at Worlds. After the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships concluded, I thought of a new media organization to report on the sport and created a pitch deck to introduce the project to venture capital firms. I know seed funding for media ventures is an arduous task, but as they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained. At the…

Suffice it to say, the TV series Stranger Things is no stranger to any of us. When it made its debut back in 2016, it first reminded me of the movie Stand by Me. But then, as it was set in the 1980s, it began to resonate with me for a variety of other reasons. From the kids playing D&D (I played in the 70s) to the shenanigans of high school teenagers (I graduated in 1983), to the adults living…

As Ed Amos in Fatal Vows. No, the title of this blog post has nothing to do with me getting married (I’m laughing at that one!). Rather, it concerns a character I played in the episode’ Fatal Vows,’ which aired last week on Oxygen TV’s Accident, Suicide or Murder. In that episode, I played Lowell Edwin “Ed” Amos, a convicted serial killer. I alluded to portraying this type of character in my…

As Detective Moretti in Accident Suicide or Murder. On Saturday, the Season 6 premiere of Accident Suicide or Murder aired on Oxygen. In the first episode, “A Man and His Balloon,” I play Detective Moretti. To watch the episode, please visit this link. These crime scene reenactment projects are a great deal of fun to work on. First, as the cases are real, so are the characters we are playing.…

Last week, my screenplay In Mind We Trust, the sequel to Justice Is Mind, won the prestigious Hemingway Award at the LA Live Film Festival. To quote the festival, “We have many winners for category and genre for feature-length screenplays, only one yearly will win the ‘Hemingway Award’, our most coveted award for literary works of art in the form of a screenplay. ‘In Mind We Trust’ is one of…

Film Threat‘s review of Stonegate. As I’ve often said to filmmakers, marketing a film is just as hard as making it.  Those who have worked with me know my determination to market a product. Whether these are magazines, films, or other projects, my goal has always been to relentlessly place a product in front of its target audience for purchase, stream, or participation.  As I’ve also said to…

At the Tewksbury State Hospital screening of Stonegate. On Saturday, Stonegate had its official screening at Tewksbury State Hospital. Hosted by the Public Health Museum (which is headquartered at the hospital), over 80 enthusiastic attendees asked some wonderful questions after the screening during a Q&A session moderated by Stonegate’s writer/director/producer, Daniel Groom. The museum,…