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fingers crossed for Pacific Rim.

David Spade is working for his opening. He made a promotional appearance at the K-Mart across from The Grove last week.

Just the fact that ANYONE will go see Grown Ups 2 is depressing to me. In fact, Adam Sandler's entire career...

No one else?

Halle Berry. ALWAYS Halle Berry.

Take Shelter is a ridiculously good movie.

Can't Netflix figure out how to block these dorks?

everything engineered can be reverse engineered.

A friend of mine whose company deals with intnl. distribution told me all the distribs talked about at Cannes was the mortal fear they all have of losing control to loopholes in streaming policies nation by nation.

He hasn't burnt any bridges, at least that I know of, and he has a familiar face - pretty much all you need to be a working actor.

He had a lot of charisma on Dawson's Creek but hasn't picked great roles since. (Fringe included.) He needs to do lighter comic stuff. Not sure about The Affair but will tune in! My "I-don't-understand-how-he-keeps-getting-work" actor is Michael Trucco. Delightful in person, so blah on screen.

Trucco is probably easy to work with on set and looks nice on screen. In terms of acting, well, I mean as long as he can say the lines even remotely believably...

I compare it to Stephen King's "It". And by that, I mean when the "monster" was revealed. Not that there was a "monster" revealed in Under the Dome, but it was, to me, quite underwhelming. Laughable, actually. But as I've stated many times here, it's all subjective.

pilot reads great. haven't watched it yet. but no, not Mick Garris...

Pilot script was a hell of a lot of fun.

100% agree with Jiblings. While there are A, B storylines, and seasonal, and episodical arcs you aim to hit in a series, overall, the structure has become increasingly different per series over the years. Heck, some shows are up to 6-7 acts now per episode.

Tv is changing radically thanks to Netflix etc.

There are no paradigms. World of difference between episodic and serial. World of difference between ad breaks and straight through.

Write the show you want to watch.

Try and find the bible for the show you want to emulate. Some of them lay out the structure each episode should follow.

I think you found your answer S_W

whered u find gears of war?

adlocke got it a while ago. Let me see if I can find it in my archive...

I've been looking forward to I, FRANKENRANKEN for ages pic.twitter.com/9rVYhvXXD1

Nomadwriter's right. The prologue's with IMAX M:I-4 and trailer's with SH2. I think the trailer was always meant to be in front of Holmes anyway.

Okay, well that's okay with me because I assume the normal trailer will be online by Monday, at the latest, as those things usually do, so I don't need to pay to see Sherlock Holmes. I already shelled out $18.50 plus processing fee for M:I4 in iMax... whattamI Bruce friggin' Wayne ova here? [dying trumpet noise]

If you sign up with Seefilm first or log in, then you can watch the Dark Knight Prologue only. There's no film to accompany it, its just the first six minutes. I tried to go one in London, but last nights was sold out. And i can't make the Manchester as have induction for new job. The only one's i can see left: 10pm,12/13 at Riverfront park, Spokane. AMC, San Fran,10:30pm 12/13. Catherdal city and one in NJ.

what's the Google group list? or rather, where is it?

Are we talking the google writers group list?

@Jiblings -- "THE BULLETIN" tab along top of page

The only complete copy was held on a secure floor at LA Center. Keycard access. The whole bit.

Wow.

The only thing for the script that is out there is the script pages for the opening 7 minutes for the introduction to Bane. I've read those.

12 Angry Men

Michael Mann based "Heat" (1995) on his earlier TV-movie treatment of the same premise, titled "L.A. Takedown" (1989).

Scum (1979). TV version was banned

I'm also a fan, and the hallway scene was a ton of fun! And the twist at the end made my skin crawl.

The hallway scene, the consuming of the octopus... the whole premise why release a guy after x amount of years? And then, of course, the twist and the final hypothetical. There's some much going on. You don't get this kind of ambition in hollywood.

The hallway scene didn't look real, it was obviously stunt men. The long single take felt like the director intruding, it pulled me out. Same with the octopus; I wasn't watching a character eat an octopus, I was watching an ACTOR push himself to prove that he was tough. And the final twist...adds up to what? What's the point?

Definitely with you on that

I'm good at keeping secrets too! I swear! Someone please PM me into the loop too.

Someone posted it in File Exchange and then took down the thread. I'm assuming -- a) he/she posted the wrong script -- or he/she got told to pull it off the site.

So... anyone know what happened?

Mid-six for Run. Don't have more specific than that.

I very much enjoyed the conversation with Mr. Weaver. I'm reading Dutch Southern's Hoof Harrington's Greatest Hits right now.

You are much more likely to run up against the "no unsolicited material" response from agents and prodcos.

Honestly you should just cold submit wherever. What's the worst that can happen? They don't respond (which is identical to a co. that does take unsolicited). Believe me if your pitch is actually strong that won't stop people from requesting it.

Placing in some sort of decently prestigious or recognized script competition will help you greatly...

It's so perfect in so many ways. The coincidence of Cooper actually asking Sean Penn a question is fantastic.

Now the only question is, was Cooper a "plant" that had already broken through and they knew he was going to be a star? Cynical thought, I know. ;-)

Woooow... LOL that's crazy! Although the cynical side of me thinks Bradley was CGI'd in lol.

My name is sbbn and I have no idea what the fuck you guys are talking about. That is all.

Bunheads was the last work done by Kubrick before he died. You can't really call yourself a lover of film and television and NOT see it.

3D was done in post and the movie is dark enough already, be careful sankofa. Outside of that, enjoy the ride!

just saw the movie... easily one of the worst movies i've ever seen. every scene that didn't involve a giant monster fight made me cringe. so glad its over

So, Pompalompa, how do you really feel?

Ah, good to know. Because the teaser didn't look all that great to me.

Hear, hear to TB White!

Dude. My brother loves the shit out of these movies. He's seen Chronicles of Riddick more times than Return of the Jedi. Loves em.

If you're trying to write to any network you may end up writing to none of them, and your script's tone may suffer.

^^^Agreed.

Fugg't, man. I say write it... all over the goddamn place. Then, when you do a rough polish, after you have distanced yourself from it enough, and before you actually send it out to anybody, edit it out.

Thumbs down

A sad day. The guy surely made the most of his life though.