I’ve been a busy busy bee. Finished a long pass on BOCKSCAR. Re-wrote THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM a few times. Finished a long treatment called EXITUS. Started on a revision of a treatment called PARCHED. Bockscar took a while because we intro’d time-travel into the mix. It made it much more complicated — yet [...]
Scream 4 comes out this week. And if you know Scream, you know there are “certain rules” that define the slasher genre. the good folks over at Slate took the time to chart out how body counts change from sequel to sequel. M A R K
I don’t think this is news to anyone, but when Sucker Punch flopped (74% drop in week 2, estimated production budget of 80M, and what appears to me a 60M P&A spend) I just thought… “…of course it flopped.” I’m no Nostradamus. And I want EVERY movie to be a life changing event. But… I [...]