The electricity in half of my home has been off for 3 days now… the computer/video production half. Hopefully, it will be fixed tomorrow.
It is easy to blame one’s tools – or the unavailability of them – for a lack of productivity. But I see it kind of like the weather. 50 degrees in New York in March is a nice day. In LA, it’s freezing. Is it an added layer of clothing or just all in our heads?
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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
1 hour video review for Jack and Jill / Sandler movie
– they really didn’t like it – also has spoilers for the movie
2nd part of the video highlights all the product placement
by lots of companies …
worth checking out the 2nd part of the video – they
make lots of interesting points than its just another
dumb movie …comparing it to a wall street type scam
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-jack-and-jill/
FWIW, I’d like to point out that it’s a balmy 70 in NYC right now and will remain so through the rest of the week.
several sites are reporting – Disney projects $200 million ‘John Carter’ loss
DP – your the money guy … thoughts ?
4 actors for Prometheus have done dp/30’s before ..so does it mean .. more dp/30 for this movie or let the comic con geeks do the interviews?
Its way to early to project losses on John Carter, let international finish first before we get a sense of losses.
Saw Adventures of Tin Tin over weekend. Cute, light fair. Felt long for kids’ movie, but I was smiling throughout.
I was doubtful for awhile, but now I have no doubt the Hunger Games tidal wave will be epic. I bet it falls short of The Dark Knight, but will be close to $120-$130.
David, I will trade you for the rest of the electricity in your house, that probably has a working air conditioner! Nothing worse than living in the South, not having a Winter, and not having an air conditioner! OY THE HUMANITY!
Also, we live in a world where a rather decent John Carter movie will struggle to make what Hunger Games will make this weekend. Somewhere, Edgar Rice Burroughs is shaking his fist at tween-lit!
“Also, we live in a world where a rather decent John Carter movie will struggle to make what Hunger Games will make this weekend. Somewhere, Edgar Rice Burroughs is shaking his fist at tween-lit!”
Ditto.
Yes it had its flaws, but I still enjoyed it. My main problem was I really did not see the $250m on the screen. This looked no better than Star Trek, or Tron Legacy, or most other other-worldly epic, but the others came in way under this budget, and actually had a couple of money shots. This had none.
The opening credits for Tin Tin felt long for kids’ movie; my daughter sighed loudly and asked “When’s the movie going to start?!?”
OMG, this is priceless:
“Margaret Thatcher depicted as a Hitler-admiring leader who wants to destroy the working class in a pirated version of the film”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/19/iron-lady-margaret-thatcher-russian-version
“In the Russian version, which has been dubbed to have her say that she would crush the working class, an adviser responds: ‘Of course you went a bit over the top … One of them [the workers] could be literate and have a television and see everything and tell all the rest,’ he says, ‘and then rumours would spread that you are a pitiless, heartless bitch.'”
The kicker is that one Russian film critic thought this was the real version, and gave it a positive review.
The comments below the article are even better, stating that THIS version finally presents the real Thatcher.
Okay any one want to guess how much The Hunger Games grosses this weekend? Apparently it could gross as high as 140 to 150 million this weekend according to the INDUSTRY PROJECTION. While those figures do seem sort of insane. This has been a trippy year for box office, and seeing that we may have an even more insane weekend gross coming for TDK-R (200m!). The high estimate doesn’t seem so crazy on The Hunger Games, but 125m seems more logical to me.
Yeah it was in the mid-60s in Los Angeles today and will be 69 tomorrow and that is the coldest it has been all winter.
Pray for us.
We hit 80 yesterday in Illinois.
Winter skipped the northeast this year and I’m getting punished by allergies.
I was annoyed when the projected release date for Avatar 2 was delayed to 2014. Not that I think Cameron is Andrei Tarkovsky or anything, but he’s by far the most consistent big money filmmaker out there and his films deliver completely. I was annoyed they were saying five years between films when he was going on about how he had the process all figured out.
Then I heard about this Challenger Deep thing, and I’m just in awe of Cameron. That is so cool!
watched stevie tv – vh1 – Stevie Ryan makes fun of reality shows / pop culture … she pretty much plays every chracter
there’s 6-8 segments per show – but there are movie references with Megan Fox / Lindsay Lohan
overall – i just didn’t find it funny – wouldn’t surprise me if this got cancelled .. Stevie Ryan does have some comic talent ..
watch the first 3 episodes here
http://www.vh1.com/shows/stevie_tv/series.jhtml
so i figured the 9 PM showing of 21 jump street would
be half empty but it was sold out.
so i left without watching a movie i kinda wanted to see.
in the end i blame hollywood for wasting 1 hour of my time just getting to the theatre.
one of my highest rated dp/30 ever …
DP predicted her rise to fame as the it girl and as
a commodity … so many great quotes
DP/30: Winter’s Bone, actor Jennifer Lawrence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmzElDO2ic
DP – put this interview on the front page for 2 weeks ..
people need to see this ..i mean the people who never
seen a dp/30 before. if hunger games is going to make 100 million ..then thousands should see this..
also i’ve seen way too many dp/30’s – i like it the best
when people keep it real – some seemed to be forced by DP to real them up – most interviews are standard .
i also listen to a lot of audio interviews as well – visually they aren’t on the screen but somehow i can
tell how real it is ..depending on the interviewer .
i listened to a 1 hour audio interview with a comic actor that could have been told in 10 minutes – i also listened
to 1 hour actress interview that should have been 20 minutes but then they wouldn’t tell the entire story they were telling ..
still my #1 bestest interviewer ever is Stephen Colbert.
pretty amazing what he can do in 5 minutes .
at least 50 actors still need a dp/30 .. DP just
doesn’t seem to chase these actors enough …
even if it was TMZ style ..
it sucks DP doesn’t go around the world travelling to
other movie festivals plus all the dp/30’s should be done
outside in the sunlight instead of all these hotel rooms.
Jennifer Lawrence on David Letterman
pretty funny –
12 minute video –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qjYeVIXCXxQ
Poland – are you effing kidding me???? Just saw the Twitter post about Ben Fritz on the home page.
After running story after story (okay, link after link) about the trouble the newspaper business is in, you have the jaw-dropping, very definition of “cognitive dissonance” chutzpah to complain about the L.A. Times paywall which means that you can’t bring yourself to support YOUR OWN hometown paper?
I understand that even a professional can’t afford to pay for the dozens of entertainment sites out there, but for someone like yourself to deign not to pay for it as a personal expense…
Holy fucking shit, bro.
watched Fireflies in the Garden 2008
– big cast with big stars – felt like a small
indie movie
the acting didn’t bug me – it was the story .
first 20 minutes i was confused – it had a lot of
flashbacks througout
i didn’t hate the movie – i just found it forgettable .
just didn’t care what happened to anybody in the
movie or why it happened cause it dragged on and on.
anybody watch this ? like it ? hate it ?
I assume, Roy, that you saw the follow up.
I can afford the LA Times. And, if fact, MCN already pays for a print subscription. But I am afraid I have little use for the paper overall. Showbiz is about all they do that I cant do better with elsewhere. For $100, worth it. For $200, not.
so the mainstream medai is talking about Oprah / Rosie not working out how Oprah could lose millions for making her tv channel ..
Chris Hardwick has dozens of programs just for geeks / games / comics – coming out on youtube … even if they don’t all work out – he’s probably not going to lose millions +
Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist Channel Press Conference
5 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwSBxMmetXU&list=UUTAgbu2l6_rBKdbTvEodEDw&feature=plcp
actors reading tweets about themselves – 3 minute video
from Jimmy Kimmel ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RRBoPveyETc
Felicia Day – 1 hour audio podcast ..
actress but mostly does internet series like the guild ..
but has been on buffy the vampire slayer and other tv
shows
http://www.nerdist.com/2010/08/nerdist-podcast-32-felicia-day/
awesome story near the last 20 minutes on how she risked
a lot after getting huge success from the guild web series.. she got lots of offers from tv shows but she’s
sticking to web series mostly
this is the type of story that is perfect for a dp/30 but they got it first .
plus she likes all her internet actor friends . she gets freedom to do more internet videos .
DP – do you know who she is ? on your radar ? or do you not have time for silly web videos that gets millions of views ?