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    The Rules of Director Jail

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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    Darren Aronofsky has a lifetime cool exemption...as he should.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/24/09

    @belltolls: For π, I assume? Since Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler were all crimes in the first degree against cinema. But π.. yes. Very interesting indie.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    11/24/09

    @snugbug: Pi and Requiem (and I actually liked the Fountain but I understand it sucks) but if Aronofsky has crimes what in Holy Hell is it that M Night does?
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    11/24/09

    @belltolls: I can't really muster much hate against M. Night Shama-Lama-Ding-Dong because he excreted two thriller classics, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. He's been coasting along and flogging his one-trick pony narrative device to death since, but I still think he's got something ELSE to say.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    As ever, "Make somebody shitloads of money" = "Get out of jail free" card
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    Image of Juancho Juancho
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    John Lee Hancock has always had cash rolling in as an in-demand screenwriter (particularly on rewrites). Kind of a nice gig to fall back on.

    I should add, not directing The Alamo is quite possibly the smartest thing Ron Howard ever did.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    On "The Grosses Speak Law," doesn't this have its tentacles in "The Big Cool Friend Exemption?" Not in terms so much of getting household names committed to your next project, but having industry names follow through on the marketing of your film that can make or break gross receipts? There are numerous examples of good films not getting the studio backing they needed to launch and can only aspire to be a Donnie Darko-esque film instead.
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    Edited by PaisleyPajamas at 11/24/09 7:21 PM PaisleyPajamas was starred PaisleyPajamas was unstarred
    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    Interesting piece I will reread..

    Thought this was about writer/Tarantino collaborator Avary, Tweeting from jail.
    For DUI manslaughter. It's actually pretty compelling reading. Sheets that although laundered, have "the ball-sweat of a thousand men" on them. Uh, vivid! Also, all inmates forced to watch Fox.

    (How he Tweets: Avary uses his phone time each day to speak to a service that does the Tweets for him. Capitalism is amazing.)
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Rules of Director Jail
    Why am I in film school again?

    I'll be right back. I'm going to go dunk my head in the kitchen sink for a few minutes.
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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Unrelenting Push for the 2010 Blockbuster Is Aready Beginning
    Kick-Ass gets it right where Year One got it wrong, you need to have McLovin' shooting guns in your comedies if you're casting him.
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    Image of Sharpstyx Sharpstyx
    10/01/09

    In reply to Twitter Co-Founder Disses Own Condo Furnishings
    Canada, americas cap.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/02/09

    @Sharpstyx: America, Canada's footrest.
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    Image of TRexstasy TRexstasy
    08/17/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    Gosh for a second I thought this about Harvey Fierstein and I was going to get really sad. Instead it's a great big schadenfreude sundae! Yay!
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    08/16/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    Anyone know where Harvey’s sled is? Rose-something?
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    Image of noonecaresowen noonecaresowen
    08/16/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    The Smith story is amusing, but it's nothing new. Harvey confused Joey Lauren Adams with Renee Zellweger at the Golden Globes the year Joey was nominated for "Chasing Amy".
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    08/16/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    One of my first disaster experiences with the Weinsteins was Dimenson's release of Pulse, a remake of the strangely thoughtful and detached Kiyoshi Kurosawa ghost film Kairo. The orginal film, while not a blockbuster by any means while in release in Japan, was known as something critically-revered and highly respected by aficionados of the genre, and after a first screening where the film was panned by teenage boys who misunderstood the film's quiet concept, it was retooled as a CGI-laden action-survival film so that it could make a lot of money, totally eschewing the reasons for having purchased the movie from the Japanese in the first place. It was a flop of unexpected proportions, pushed back three times from the late winter (when such a "cold" film had a chance) to late summer, and was a horrifying example of the American dream corrupting the intellectual vision of the way actual cinematic visionaries are cultivated in foreign countries.

    That last anecdote by Kevin Smith I loved so much I reread it maybe ten times while trying to put it into the context of so many of their business mistakes, that Harvey especially is so unfocused he doesn't even know who's working for him, only what he's working towards in the hypothetical. He's grasping at straws, trying simultaneously to make certain films that are merely cash cows while making others to gain credible critical adulation, two things which only go hand in hand by accident, not by design. I have a terrible feeling about their next few years, but quality control is obviously not their strong suit. I'm glad they got their Oscar win for The Reader, and are using that critical success to... restart the Scream franchise from the 1990's. Bizarre.
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    Foster Kamer promoted this comment ampersandparade was starred ampersandparade was unstarred
    Image of lionboy lionboy
    08/16/09

    @ampersandparade: As I read the article this morning, I found the Weinsteins to seem more and more irrelevant until I had to question why I was even reading it. Your last sentence summarizes the whole sorry situation quite nicely.
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    Image of Joao Barbosa Joao Barbosa
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    Bad Girls = Toy Soldiers with girls
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    Am I the only person on Earth who has never read one of these books or seen one of these movies?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/17/09

    @BxgrlJeri: If you're referring solely to Harry Potter, then no--I wouldn't touch this stuff with a ten-foot wizard's staff. If you're referring to the other stuff mentioned above, though, then maybe--I've read Bad Girls and seen Clerks and Chasing Amy. I could listen to Joey Lauren Adams talk forever...or at least for ten minutes, which is longer than most people.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    07/17/09

    @DahlELama: Just Harry Potter. I love Clerks and Chasing Amy.
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    So Bad Girls is just The Beach, with the Leo character wearing a knee-length plaid skirt?
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