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Hollywood and the script market

Shawn Nelson

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I'm not sure if this makes me want to cry or pull my hair out
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids;_ylt=Ai7aX26VRCP5V6GVAsT75PYDW7oF

So FOUR studios engaged in a bidding war to buy the rights to make a movie based on this
Circa_79.jpg


Then read the article further, they are developing movies based on board games.

Wow.

Last year I went to a big pitch fest in LA and was astonished by how little the studios cared about receiving pitches. Sure, they were all "there", but they had all sent low level "barista" types who did not know story and seemed very disengaged by EVERYONE.

Fuck Hollywood.

Oh wait, nevermind! I just want Hollywood to like ME, grrrr
 
Many studio movies these days are nothing more than two hour long infomercials that treat the audience with utter disdain. Their shameless commercialism knows no bounds and yet so many people fail to see it - how depressing is that!
 
If a film based on a Disney Park Theme Ride (Pirates of the Caribbean) can work, I'm not saying in advance this will fail. But it is kind of a stretch.
 
Shawn Nelson said:
I'm not sure if this makes me want to cry or pull my hair out
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids;_ylt=Ai7aX26VRCP5V6GVAsT75PYDW7oF

So FOUR studios engaged in a bidding war to buy the rights to make a movie based on this
Circa_79.jpg


Then read the article further, they are developing movies based on board games.

Wow.

Last year I went to a big pitch fest in LA and was astonished by how little the studios cared about receiving pitches. Sure, they were all "there", but they had all sent low level "barista" types who did not know story and seemed very disengaged by EVERYONE.

Fuck Hollywood.

Oh wait, nevermind! I just want Hollywood to like ME, grrrr
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But WTF are they bidding for - just the name rights?
 
they are doing the uwe boll formula here.


take a game with a fan base (nostalgia)
cgi/sfi Fi
not complicated
one or two known actors
=

gross around 500 000 000


=

we do it...


guess there will be


captain future
saber raider
mech warrior
resistance


soon

my opinion:

wordless
 
Cüneyt Kaya said:
they are doing the uwe boll formula here.


take a game with a fan base (nostalgia)
cgi/sfi Fi
not complicated
one or two known actors
=

gross around 500 000 000


=

we do it...
Click to expand...
Your formula is wrong. It should be:

take a game/toy/ride with a fan base
cgi/sfi Fi
not complicated
one or two known actors

+

$200,000,000 on marketing

=

gross around 500 000 000


=

we do it...
 
Liam Hall said:
Your formula is wrong. It should be:

take a game/toy/ride with a fan base
cgi/sfi Fi
not complicated
one or two known actors

+

$200,000,000 on marketing

=

gross around 500 000 000


=

we do it...
Click to expand...

yes you are right.


hope gi joe will loose a hundred million, than this can be finished really quick :)
 
Welcome to the "entertainment" industry. Things like talent, good idea or hard work will get you nowhere here. Who you talk to and sleep with are the only things that matter, unfortunately.
 
Come-on Shawn, don't be so discouraged. I know its ridiculous how these things happen. But its because the idiots running the studios nowadays don't care about something being creative or a new idea. They just want to squeeze as much money out of the public as they can before the movie goers figure out that the movie is crap. Granted sometimes they can make something pretty entertaining with the right string of writers. But that is few and far between.
 
This story is just hot off the wire. What. The. Fuck.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56857

View Master. YES, View Master, the little red thing that you put a circular set of slides into and flick the little lever with your thumb. YES, I almost cried just as bad as when I read the Asteroids story.

""Fringe" co-producer/writer Brad Caleb Kane will be writing a movie based on the View-Master toy, which first came on the market in 1939.

He announced on his Twitter account that after he's done penning the sci-fi action-adventure Uprising for director Wolfgang Petersen and Columbia Pictures, he will take on the project for DreamWorks Pictures."

viewmastermovie.jpg
 
this is really starting to annoy me...I'm looking for the quality that the old films use to have...Godfather, Goodfellas, Starwars (old ones) and other such films that people today still find fun to watch...Pulp Fiction...

It just seems to be a downward spiral for the industry though....

which makes me wonder...

Whens this web 2.0 crap gonna hit 3.0?

When is it possible for Indie film makers to hit the level of Hollywood style films (for me I can still tell the difference between a independent film and a studio one...) and place it somewhere, for maximum audience exposure immediately without incurring the middle party costs and so forth...(cost of producing dvds etc. and distrubting)...

Because right now...taking a game that has NO story line to it and piecing something together from that?bloody well just buy a script thats been made from scratch. Better yet work on making the current films that have been so crud from video games better...DOOM is a prime example..that was utter rubbish, so was D.O.A and pretty much every other video game film thats existed.

Just DONT understand this damn strategy of quick cash rather then quick LONG sustained cash flow...I'm sure Hollywood is still making money off the classics...why not make NEW classics...ones that will last as long as the old ones!
 
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