Scott Crawford
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Just a friendly reminder TO BACK ALL YOUR SHIT UP.
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cancel my account
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Is there a reason both Paddington movies are released in early January stateside and miss the Oscar cut-off? These movies are amazing (I see Paddington 1 wasn't even nominated in the animation category).
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Testing out the black list. Anyone have a really good experience with the site?
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Everything I hear is of a similar nature, especially the contradictory nature of reviews. You expect people to react differently to a script, but not THAT differently. It could be an ending should be improved, most endings COULD be improved, but some people are more willing to except a straightforward, traditional ending. But still, people getting a new 8 and. 3 for the same script?!
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Any box office experts here-- Passengers is nearing 300 million world wide--is that a hit? What is the likely profit? Not sure how it all breaks down after advertising and theater split. I imagine they will also add a lot more money from streaming and other revenue.
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Any box office experts here-- Passengers is nearing 300 million world wide--is that a hit? What is the likely profit? Not sure how it all breaks down after advertising and theater split. I imagine they will also add a lot more money from streaming and other revenue.
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It's 40% of the BO - so that would be $120 million - minus the production cost and the cost of advertising, etc. That would be about 70% of the production cost, maybe more. That would e $84 million. So $120 million minus $204 million = $84 million loss. No citations here but this is based on stuff I've read about over the years. Also Pearl harbor made double its worldwide BO in the aftermarket - some $800 million after it left movie theaters. But that was...
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After reading several scripts from the black list, two things have become clear: It's breathe, not breath and use your damn spell check. Unreal.
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bitch list, anyone?
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So who wants to take a guess at what this A24 untitled trailer is for? It's A24, so whatever they are selling, I'm buying.
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Has anyone read this years BlackList winner "Blonde Ambition"? Thoughts?
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@sbbn Ha! So true... if you're name's Sorkin. And there have been scripts like The Libertine which did well (on the Black List) but the odds are always on the more fast paced scripts. Social Network (indeed, most scripts based on good true stories) had a lot of stuff to get through. i've read amateur scripts where it's quite clear from the first ten, fifteen that the writer doesn't have enough story to fill the pages. There are always exceptions... but in the main what...
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Has anyone read this years BlackList winner "Blonde Ambition"? Thoughts?
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Read some of it. Typical biopic material but... so important for amateur writers to see SHORT SCENES and lots of them. quickest way to spot an amateur script is if there's a severe page dialogue scene within the first ten pages. Pretty sure sign that you don't have enough material and are already having to pad things out. that BA does not do and it's that PACE as well as the subject matter that made people like it.
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Reading through the Black List Logline Game: Take a drink every time you read the words "based on a true story." See if you live til the end.
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Black List announced tomorrow. They've moved it up a day from the 14th - the day before Rogue One opens. I guess they figured no one would be interested in the new Star Wars movie. Will we be allowed to see the scripts? Already I've gotten... heat over distributing O2. How do they expect to generate... heat if they won't let people see the scripts?
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Loving the choice of Walton Goggins in Tomb Raider, pumped for it.
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A fun look at the heroes journey in episode two of writing the detective, fantasy or spy novel, presented by Andrew Marr http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p040pw15/sleuths-spies-sorcerers-andrew-marrs-paperback-heroes-2-fantasy
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The new JACK REACHER flick is boring...
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FINALLY. A NEW COLUMN ON WORDPLAYER: http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp55.Time.Risk.html
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Saw Independence Day 2 this morning. Good, enjoyable, not spectacular, not as good as the original but it was never going to be. What's really important to note is the diversity of the cast, and to an extent the setting. Men, women, black, Chinese, British, French. It's something we're all going to have think about as the box office changes.
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Saw Independence Day 2 this morning. Good, enjoyable, not spectacular, not as good as the original but it was never going to be. What's really important to note is the diversity of the cast, and to an extent the setting. Men, women, black, Chinese, British, French. It's something we're all going to have think about as the box office changes.
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Okay, I know it's a cliche old standby, but... What is the best (still) unproduced script you've ever read?
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There's a widely accepted structural perimeter, or axiom in screenwriting that generally insists on character arc. "In what ways is your character different in the end from in the beginning?" Consider Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. I see no arc in who they are as people/characters. Yes, the story itself has an arc, but how are either of these characters different in the end from the beginning? Other examples of such?
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Watched CA: Civil War last night, and I have to say, it is the best film Marvel have made to date. Spider-man gets more screen time than I imagined. And as for Black Panther, is the best hero to enter the MCU in a long time. The costume, his fighting style make him so bad-ass. I cannot wait for his solo outing.
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Wish the Black List would just post the list instead of NSFW videos. Guess I'll just have to wait...
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Pretty much spot on with his 75%. I've set up a Google Drive with all the ones I've got:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BybNvm-CX6dkSEVxWG83dHlzanc&usp=sharing
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Wish the Black List would just post the list instead of NSFW videos. Guess I'll just have to wait...