April 26, 2024
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Finally get to see American Gangster on a big screen. $5 before-noon matinee, here I come!
Should be close. But I’ll go with Bee Movie edging out.
Not sure where these huge numbers for American Gangster are coming from. I doubt it’ll be very close to Bee Movie, although neither movie really looks like it’ll be all that great.
Bee Movie is on more screens and it’s a lot shorter. I liked “American Gangster,” but I don’t see how it can win this weekend’s box office.
I think the lean towards Gangster came from excellent tracking and the underestimate on Bee Movie came from weaker tracking… tracking which rarely accounts for kids effectively.
Gangster will do at least $15 million from black Americans… and that, plus the rest of America, should make it Denzel’s biggest opening ever.
I can see Bee Movie failing miserably. Actually; Seinfeld is such a kooky dufus wife-stealer, that I hope it fails miserably. Screw him. Like he needs something else to be successful… WHEN HE MAKES 60 MILLION A YEAR OFF OF HIS OLD SHOW’S RERUNS. *the following has been stated in half-hearted gest… although… Seinfeld is a creep. This is an undisputed fact.*
A very funny creep, nonetheless. Though Bee Movie looks like crap.
I always had the feeling AG would open to 40m+ and it looks like I was right (my amateur predictions for animated stuff like Bee Movie however usually suck and are way off mark)
According to DHD, AG took in 17m on Friday, probably equalling about 45m for the weekend. Bee Movie took in 10m for probably 35m or so.
Glad to see a good gross for Ridley and Crowe, two guys I really like. Hammy “pleeeeease give me an Oscar” Denzel…not so much.
DW had better hope that “Bee Movie” gets the usual ‘toon pick-me-up on Saturday and Sunday because all they basically have is three days.
“Fred Claus” will gobble up the “family” audience–and several other key demographics as well–next weekend, and “Mr. Magorium” and “Enchanted” immediately follow in its heels.
I still say that “Bee” should have opened in the same early October slot as DW’s “Shark Tale” three years ago.
This is likely to go down as another bone-headed ’07 studio scheduling blunder (e.g., opening “Spider-Man 3,” “Shrek 3” and “Pirates 3” in the same month, thereby guaranteeing that none of them would live up to their full b.o. potential).
“This is likely to go down as another bone-headed ’07 studio scheduling blunder (e.g., opening “Spider-Man 3,” “Shrek 3” and “Pirates 3″ in the same month, thereby guaranteeing that none of them would live up to their full b.o. potential).”
I don’t know if I agree with this, but I could be wrong. I think the sheer amount of press generated by pitting these three against each other and by really getting those release dates out there in the public mind got people to see them on opening weekend in MASSIVE droves, which helped the studios as they started to lose screens a couple of weeks later.
Audience fatigue might’ve hurt “Pirates 3” a little, but if it came out over – say – Thanksgiving and didn’t play like a Big Summer Event Film, I wonder if it would’ve made the same money. Similarly, word-of-mouth on it wasn’t that great and you can’t help but wonder if audiences – just caught up in the merriment of seeing All The Big Summer Movies showed up to “Pirates 3” in a way that they might not have in November or December if they’d heard it wasn’t great.
Again, I could be wrong, but even though it was a lot of huge release movies to put on the market at once, I think having four movies (and almost five with “Potter”) going to $300 million is pretty solid.
American Gangstger is probably going to do close to $50 million, this weekend. Great campaign by Universal and the rest of the studio’s should thank them – even I got to see the film, earlier this week on DVD. The piracy debate is officially OVER. Now stop running those obnoxious ads in movie theaters.
Bee Movie underperformed a bit, but that had to be the most obnoxious ad campaign I had ever seen. This is coming from some who loved Seinfeld, the show. I have to wonder if a lot or parents were just sick of seeing him and decided NOT to take their kids.
I’d rather see Fred Claus than Bee Movie.
IO, I’m sure Jerry Seinfeld is really upset that he’s more successful than you.
LOL