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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).

The better choice may be CPO Sharkey. Or a reimagining of Mr. Ed.

Alf: The Return!

Ed Wood. 'Nuff said.

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

It's certainly 'character change'.

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

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.

LOL

=)

LOL.

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."

As an asthma sufferer, I can support that.

You mean a Satan sufferer.

I wonder if satan suffers from asthma?

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.

That's kind of awesome.

Sadly, it was only a PDF printing issue.

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

What Jiblings said!

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

Congrats King of the sarcastic wit!

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.

the fundamental problem with target audiences - compromising story for what the people in charge assume the target wants.

When it's a YA novel with a built in audience of millions they want to curb the amount of angry letters they get written on hello kitty stationary.

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...