axalon

Thanks Sbbn

I should also add that for a fair cut, I would be happy to help dig up money-filled barrels in the desert.

Better call Sbbn

Amazing

i agree. it was breathtaking.

Double yes to this. Flipping incredible.

Really? True Detective is like metaphor heaven.

True Detective is a little more subtle and tactful about it, House of Cards is so blatant that sometimes I wonder if the metaphors are an inside joke among the writers.

Even Achilles was only as strong as his heel.

You're right Stringer, should have specified, I specifically meant pitching sci-fi.

I was just curious based on Neil Blomkampp's Alien artwork he posted on Instagram.

My advice if you're going to include it is to limit the images and make sure they are getting across a clear, concise message that augments/clarifies the pitch.

Visual images/concept art can be very useful when pitching. As Axalon says, if you're creating a sci-fi world it's a very good idea if you can access the right materials.

The best thing you will read all day, is this, the real-life introduction of Meth into the midwest by Ton (yes!) Arnold's sister: http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/bad-bad-lori-arnold

uh, Tom, not Ton

At one point he was on the verge of being Ton Arnold, but he divorced Rosanne and thus escaped that fate ...

I legitimately thought it was going to top the box office this weekend.

I guess people felt they just saw it in OLYMPUS...

sadly, WHD is the better "die hard in the white house" film... Hell, Emmerich even lampshades Independence Day in the film.

Loved the book, loved the film. But Affleck needs to stop skipping leg day in the gym. He's suffering from Hugh Jackman syndrome -- huge upper body, chicken legs. This of course did not deter my appreciation of the film, important as this issue obviously is. ;-)

Spec_Writer: LMAO Ben's doing the chicken legs diet?! What's up with folk not doing squats and deadlifts these days? so weird...LOL

Jackman can deadlift ~485lbs, he's not skipping leg day.

It truly sucks. I think Wright makes massively entertaining films - I don't know why they wouldn't trust his vision. Marvel has lost the plot...probably literally. Now that it's 'dead' can we get our hands on Wright's draft?

I find it incredibly hard to believe that Marvel would take a script from two proven writers with produced credits and hand it off to two no names. That said, Whedon and Simon Pegg's tweets suggest that 1.) Wright walked away 2.) Marvel was pushy on something and being difficult. So it's not outside the realm of possibility.

And now Drew Goddard has left Daredevil. Wow. What is going on over there?

Bruges? It's a fuckin' shithole, man.

If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.

Love that movie.

Don't know about tracking, but it got pushed from a prime spot of late December to MLK weekend. That to me is not a great sign.

I don't give a shit whether Dana or mom are great actresses -- Brody's gone so the rest of the family needs to go. I don't need a show about families working through their interpersonal issues. I have American Dad for that.

Well, he's not really gone... Clearly, tehy're going to circle back to him by the end of the season. But enough of that. Was that Death-By-Bottle harsh or what?

No shit "he's not really gone" but when they include him in all of one episode for the entire first half to the season and for no real meaningful purpose, for all intents and purposes to the most present episode, he's non-existent.

I was just thinking about that, in terms of how so many of the hits of the 80s would not even get greenlit now. So many of the pop culture "tentpoles" of the 80s were not designed as franchises, even if they did spawn sequels.

ask jennifer aniston

She looks pretty good in the Horrible Bosses 2 trailer!

justin theroux is brilliant and he, Liv Tyler, Amy Brennaman (sp), etc. along with the rest of the cast is what's keeping me watching the show...

The first hour was really good, I loved watching him build up his business but the last two hours felt like roughly the same scene copy and pasted over and over.

I did think the meeting Belfort had with the FBI agents on his boat was really great too.

Is it essentially about Decaprio getting super rich while taking advantage of people? I'm trying to get a sense of the story.

I just saw it - thought it was hilarious.

After all the reviews talking about how near-pornographic it's supposed to be, I was surprised that I thought it was all-and-all relatively tame on that front. Maybe I'm too desensitized from watching HBO and Showtime. I'm talking about you, Game of Thrones!

Have you read it? I found it just as dull and uninvolving on the page as the critics seem to find it on the screen. I'm actually relieved to know I'm not alone. I like that Clooney takes chances and is willing to make mistakes and have failures, I'm just not excited by about 99% of his output as a filmmaker.

I couldn't even get past the first thirty pages of the script.

I'm with the critics on this one. Found it lacking in drama, unfocused, emotionally leading. It's not horrific, but it's a terrible disappointment given the talent involved.

I was definitely down for McAdams as Aurora, at least over Witherspoon. Charlize Theron might be a good choice too.

I was disheartened by this news. I have wanted Charlize Theron as Aurora.

but it needs one!

Also, apparently Scorsese was able to cut the movie down to 2 hours 45 minutes.

Loving this trailer. Really thought this movie would suck given what I know about how it came together, but it looks great.

this trailer is awesome! and jonah hill looks surprisingly good

I'm sorry, it's nothing personal.

SPOILER. I love the proud smile he has when his uncles are watching the tape of Jessie telling of how he killed a child in cold blood.

"That opie dead-eyed piece of shit"

What a great line

Yep, fantastic movie. One of the year's best along with BEFORE MIDNIGHT, STOKER, FRANCES HA, PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, DRUG WAR and FRUITVALE STATION. Been a good year for movies so far if you can just ignore the popcorn movies.

I just saw it this weekend. Amazing.

@ira It really sucks how all those movies you listed got completely buried under crap like R.I.P.D.

If only those movies had the advertising campaigns like the aforementioned.

i'm going today or tomorrow. looks great.

I felt his best work was dramatizing Justin Beiber's hat on Twitter.

sure he makes excuses but film is a collaborative process. when something fails it's most likely due to a lot of people's mistakes.

@dsjones... yea that end action sequence seemed out of place and unnecessary. I also hated how hard everyone was hitting each other and yet sustaining no visible damage