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Saw it. A friend leaned over and whispered: "It's the equivalent of a 12-year old virgin writing bondage porn". It was pretty posturing.

My DRIVE comparison is in the fact that the marketing for Drive promised Fast and the Furious and packed theaters with moviegoers expecting that, but the result was more of an "art house" film, if you will. Same thing here. A lot of folks went expecting HEAT or MIAMI VICE but instead got something totally different, thus the "F" Cinemascore.

Just looked it up. DRIVE got a "C-" Cinemascore. Not quite an "F" but still, audiences disliked it. It was my favorite movie of 2011. Pretty much everyone I recommended it to (friends, FB, Twitter) hated it. So yeah, I think the analogy applies.

Just IMO, with the "aspiring screenwriting climate" the way it has been as of late, everyone is on the lookout for scams and ripoffs. In the words of Jamie Kennedy, EVERYBODY'S A SUSPECT!

It's hilarious to me how so many people have this notion that, in the writing world, the word "intern" -- which, in this case, barely even applies -- is somehow a powerful incentive…

Either it's a scam and there was a prior relationship that got the person the internship and CAA. Or the company is run by morons who didn't do a background check on someone they were attaching their names to in a press release. Either way.

We are lucky that we bought a house on higher ground.

Something I'd advise people to always consider when house hunting... Acts of God.

Or just buy an ark.

Sorry to hear Stay safe!

Wow...sad news. Not just for Nolan but all these people that lost their homes.

Hope anybody affected is okay.

my prayers to the families

This was an isolated incident in one small town. The world isn't suddenly less safe because of it, so if you want to go to the theater, please do so knowing you'll more than likely have a good time, assuming the movie isn't terrible, that is.

Exactly. It's a tragic anomaly, that's all. The world isn't less safe. There will always be the violently insane, earthquakes, fires etc. But there's a greater chance of dying via car accident. That's not to diminish this tragedy of course

Pretty funny.

DEATH F*CKING PRINTER:- THE ATLANTIC TAPES, VOLUME 1: EXECUDERE NOS CONFIDIMUS!

I. Smell. Oscar.

What Jiblings said!

Cjevy - It's only for a bit during prep. No MO commute for me.

Congrats King of the sarcastic wit!

@Frobisher - what actor had two big budget movies open and underperform in the same weekend against a low budget horror film?

Oh wow I didn't realize he voiced Turbo...oh no Ryan...

Ouch...

oh that story is *TOTALLY* writing itself! Could this be the film that, if made, gets Derek Luke *BACK* on the A-/B+ list?

I read the entire manifesto thanks to anonymous. I didn't think it was that "poorly written"it came off as way more intelligent than I expected.

It does seem like something ripped right out of a movie.

Already copyrighted Black Rambo last week.

Jiblings - water cooler talk among the people who keep track of this kind of thing. I guess it has to do with pre-sales and tracking.

Killer Joe is the top of my list. Probably get out to support Celeste and Jesse sometime soon. THOUGH. Next weekend should be big.

track field starts this weekend. i won't be watching anything *BUT* that...though i may try and see a few movies: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Total Recall and Bourne Legacy will be playing here this week and next so i'll try and check them out...

That means he "passed".

I was lucky he didn't leave one of his scripts behind.

def a "PASS" lol

As an asthma sufferer, I can support that.

You mean a Satan sufferer.

I wonder if satan suffers from asthma?

i admit i saw it too and the makeup/special effects team needs an Oscar for making Jeremy Renner look GOOD AS HELL! Like, seriously! Them folks need a statute cause that was a difficult task they did WELL AT! Gemma was worth it. She wasn't naked but in enough tight, form fitting clothes to make the entire 88 minute film almost bearable...

My girlfriend said of Gemma -- She keeps looking off screen for no reason. Do you think she's looking at her set chair or her driver?

That man could sit in front of a camera and read from the phonebook for 3 hours and I'd pay to watch it (of course, it would be best if he was shirtless at the same time).

Haha. And you shouldnt. It's your language, we're just borrowing it. And abusing it. Did you think about going 'home' for the Olympics? Evidently, a lot of empty seats - which is just wrong.

Nothing wrong with it - just don't here many people in the States referring to "adverts" on the tele.

Yes the verts are pretty terrible.

It was emailed to me and I can't find an external link. It's basically that the WGA has a full MBA deal in place with the "People’s Production Company (PPC), the Amazon affiliate responsible for professional content development and production."

It might help if the WGA were to acknowledge that the amorphous "new media" realm has come a long way since the strike FIVE YEARS AGO. You know, to actually try to fight the studios (and other companies, like Amazon, Netflix, whoever) from treating creatives like slave labor because, "no one knows how to make a profit yet from the internet space." Apparently, all of those ads on Hulu, Youtube, and every other streaming site are purchased with sawdust and dreams.

If the WGA was interested in fighting anyone they'd stop electing producers as their presidents. The dream of every WGA member is to become a producer so he/she can screw over other writers.

Ha!

there's no need to consult a firm, just google torrentz or demonoid...

I remember the script being entertaining, but the film ended up being a steaming pile.

That's kind of awesome.

Sadly, it was only a PDF printing issue.

sure that wasn't a way to track the draft?

I don't really know anything about AS. I know the person offering me the gig. There would be no reason to hire me unless they were producing and selling content.

Do it sanguine!

How does the offer compare to your current employ? I worked at Amazon (as e-commerce in Seattle) and there were a lot of smart folks there.

Seen Kevin Smith's "Red State?" The long epilogue, aka "John Goodman explains what happened in the climax," felt like Kevin Smith was trying to do the Coen Bros. (e.g., ending of No Country). It was awkward. But if this film is Smith's transition into challenging himself to do more complex films, then it's a nice start.

And the worst summation scene is M. Night's cameo at the end of "The Village." Yikes.

Let's not forget the psychiatrist in Psycho.

And while we're at it, let's honor TV's mini-version of this scene, which usually begins with the crusty police boss saying, "Let me get this straight. You're tell me a dead body/pound of heroin/bag of gold was found in a school locker/deserted warehouse/clown's anus etc."

Ed Wood. 'Nuff said.

they'd like "what? this is so stupid."

It's certainly 'character change'.

I think they should turn one of the space shuttles into a taco truck.

Found footage alien movie with footage from security cams all around the ship OR...

Or read the original (blacklist version) draft of Seven Pounds...

The stories about the abuse he took from Paramount on GI Joe are incredible. At least he was talented enough to turn out a releasable film.

I didn't hear about this?...I just remember really liking Stewart Beattie's first draft back when it was Delta Force.

The first film tested really well. Unfortunately for Sommers the phrase "tested better than both Transformer movies combined" got repeated a lot. Suddenly, a rumor appears on Don Murphy's message board that Sommers has been fired and the film is a disaster. It all played out so publicly it was kind of amazing. I've never seen a studio work so hard to sabotage a film in the home stretch.

It did.

TO RESHOOT EVERYTHING AND EXTEND EVERYTHING ANOTHER YEAR!

It's probably b/c the FX house and the actors and the P&A are all taking their cut off the back end. Hahaha. I'm kidding!

Yeah, that number is a LOT closer to $150.

For reading and doing the notes on the submitted scripts. I was wondering if the readers had finally made it to $25.

What's the pay structure for Nicholl's readers? This is all unfamiliar to me because I never have paid much attention to competitions before.

It's $22 this year for first round with a log, a page of coverage and category scoring. Being a reader for Nicholl is like Fight Club. Getting the $22 rate out of someone was hard enough.

Does it work better as porridges?

I better check my porridge references and make sure they don't say "prodigies" now. Crap.

To be fair it's a FR-UK coproduction and I think the writer is from Israel. But it is better if I'm thinking of animated bowls of porridge.

Said to be in the vein of "American History X" meets "The Son of Rambow" - a powerful tale of religious zealotry through the eyes of children.

Fools. Everyone knows Hellmouth is in Sunnydale.

YUP! Sunnydale truly did suck ...didn't it?