I’m moving through an incredibly busy time right now… The short ROOT OF THE PROBLEM (I think that’s going to be the name) is days away from being done. Then off to the fests. Go go short! Director Ryan Spindell has done a kick ass job and really poured his heart into the project. It [...]
Ideas need to be SIMPLE and COMPLEX. They need to be NEW yet FAMILIAR. Why? because it’s safe and Hollywood LOVES safe (sequels, projects based on already-established properties, same actors and actresses, same fonts, same one-sheets, same SFX houses, and on… and on…). Prometheus is getting panned for some shoddy story-telling and putting in motion [...]
With the R-rated Prometheus on track to make some major coin, let’s take a look at the top R rated movies at the box office: 1. Matrix Reloaded, 742.1M 2. Passion of the Christ, 611.9M 3. The Hangover Part II, 581.5M 4. Troy, 497.4M 5. Saving Private Ryan, 481.8M 6. The Hangover, 467.5M 7. The [...]
By the time you’ve seen the latest show at the theater, it’s gone through thousands of man-hours of edits. What worked in the field doesn’t work in the context of the movie, scenes need to be paced a certain way, and sometimes major plot-points need to be excised. Here are 13 Movies Weakened by Directors [...]
The May 24th issue of Rolling Stone (issue 1157) has an interview with George R.R. Martin, the writer of Game of Thrones. George is asked what sort of writer he is. “I have a name for those types of writers: I call them architects and gardeners. The architect, before he drives a nail into a [...]