random Film/TV stuff

HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?

Sat, 19 May 2012 19:03:11 +0200

Kids:

A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because they once created a show and cast my good friend Jeff Davis on it, so how bad can they be.

Why’d Sony want me gone? I can’t answer that because I’ve been in as much contact with them as you have. They literally haven’t called me since the season four pickup, so their reasons for replacing me are clearly none of my business. Community is their property, I only own ten percent of it, and I kind of don’t want to hear what their complaints are because I’m sure it would hurt my feelings even more now that I’d be listening for free.

I do want to correct a couple points of spin, now that I’m free to do so:

The important one is this quote from Bob Greenblatt in which he says he’s sure I’m going to be involved somehow, something like that. That’s a misquote. I think he meant to say he’s sure cookies are yummy, because he’s never called me once in the entire duration of his employment at NBC. He didn’t call me to say he was starting to work there, he didn’t call me to say I was no longer working there and he definitely didn’t call to ask if I was going to be involved. I’m not saying it’s wrong for him to have bigger fish to fry, I’m just saying, NBC is not a credible source of All News Dan Harmon.

You may have read that I am technically “signed on,” by default, to be an executive consulting something or other - which is a relatively standard protective clause for a creator in my position. Guys like me can’t actually just be shot and left in a ditch by Skynet, we’re still allowed to have a title on the things we create and “help out,” like, I guess sharpening pencils and stuff.

However, if I actually chose to go to the office, I wouldn’t have any power there. Nobody would have to do anything I said, ever. I would be “offering” thoughts on other people’s scripts, not allowed to rewrite them, not allowed to ask anyone else to rewrite them, not allowed to say whether a single joke was funny or go near the edit bay, etc. It’s….not really the way the previous episodes got done. I was what you might call a….hands on producer. Are my….periods giving this enough….pointedness? I’m not saying you can’t make a good version of Community without me, but I am definitely saying that you can’t make my version of it unless I have the option of saying “it has to be like this or I quit” roughly 8 times a day.

The same contract also gives me the same salary and title if I spend all day masturbating and playing Prototype 2. And before you ask yourself what you would do in my situation: buy Prototype 2. It’s fucking great.

Because Prototype 2 is great, and because nobody called me, and then started hiring people to run the show, I had my assistant start packing up my office days ago. I’m sorry. I’m not saying seasons 1, 2 and 3 were my definition of perfect television, I’m just saying that whatever they’re going to do for season 4, they’re aiming to do without my help. So do not believe anyone that tells you on Monday that I quit or diminished my role so I could spend more time with my loved ones, or that I negotiated and we couldn’t come to an agreement, etc. It couldn’t be less true because, just to make this clear, literally nobody called me. Also don’t believe anyone that says I have sex with animals. And if there’s a photo of me doing it with an animal - I’m not saying one exists, I’m just saying, if one surfaces - it’s a fake. Look at the shadow. Why would it be in front of the giraffe if the sun is behind the jeep?

Where was I? Oh yeah. I’m not running Community for season 4. They replaced me. Them’s the facts.

When I was a kid, sometimes I’d run home to Mommy with a bloody nose and say, “Mom, my friends beat me up,” and my Mom would say “well then they’re not worth having as friends, are they?” At the time, I figured she was just trying to put a postive spin on having birthed an unpopular pussy. But this is, after all, the same lady that bought me my first typewriter. Then later, a Commodore 64. And later, a 300 baud modem for it. Through which I met new friends that did like me much, much more.

I’m 39, now. The friends my Mom warned me about are bigger now, and older, bloodying my nose with old world numbers, and old world tactics, like, oh, I don’t know, sending out press releases to TV Guide at 7pm on a Friday.

But my Commodore 64 is mobile now, like yours, and the modems are invisible, and the internet is the air all around us. And the good friends, the real friends, are finding each other, and connecting with each other, and my Mom is turning out to be more right than ever.

Ah, shit, I still haven’t called my fucking Mom.

Mom, Happy Mother’s Day. I got fired.

Yes, Mom. AGAIN.

"What about the rumored Blade Runner sequel? Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the Blade..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:54:55 +0200

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What about the rumored Blade Runner sequel?

Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week. We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist.

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- innen. Egyik legjobb boys-club noir scifi női főszereplőt kap Scott állítása alapján. Most komolyan, ez már az öregkori szenilitás? Vagy jó húzás? Mert elsőre nem hangzik annak.

Bár a Person 21. részében nem volt erős a zene, erre az 1x22-re...

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:39:33 +0200

Bár a Person 21. részében nem volt erős a zene, erre az 1x22-re beválasztotta a zenei szerkesztő Bowiet és hellllló

Robert Pattinson Cronenberg munkáiból inspirált fotókon

Tue, 15 May 2012 19:27:17 +0200

Robert Pattinson Cronenberg munkáiból inspirált fotókon

House találgatás, mittomén, spoiler

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:45:53 +0200

Szerintem

az írók nem fogják életben hagyni a doktort, a megváltást eljátszotta már. Esetleg húz egy végső Sherlock Holmesot.

Egy könycsepp a Finderért miközben az ember a Common Lawt nézi.

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:26:39 +0200

Egy könycsepp a Finderért miközben az ember a Common Lawt nézi.

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Sun, 13 May 2012 14:54:44 +0200

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Fri, 11 May 2012 14:07:24 +0200

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Fri, 11 May 2012 14:04:44 +0200

Gosling az anyjával

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:01:30 +0200

Gosling az anyjával

Coach Taylor Wants To Tell You Something

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:31:30 +0200

Coach Taylor Wants To Tell You Something

ez ment a Gangster Squad trailer végefelé. 1949-ben játszódik a...

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:08:02 +0200

ez ment a Gangster Squad trailer végefelé. 1949-ben játszódik a film elvileg.

La Haine @Criterion Collection

Wed, 09 May 2012 03:09:08 +0200

La Haine @Criterion Collection

Budapest, eső, a frizura mégis tart.

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:17:38 +0200

Budapest, eső, a frizura mégis tart.

RIDLEY SCOTT: "A MEDVEHAGYMA ELLEN TEHETETLEN VAGYOK"

Sun, 06 May 2012 14:45:00 +0200

RIDLEY SCOTT: "A MEDVEHAGYMA ELLEN TEHETETLEN VAGYOK":

A közönség legnagyobb meglepetésére az angol rendező készülő új filmje, a Prometheus díj nélkül maradt a hétvégi Hype Awards-on.

„Még meg se jelent a film, de máris mindenki erről beszél. Akkor hogy lehet, hogy valami erdei fű elviszi előlem a díjat?” - méltatlankodott Ridley Scott, aki a várakozások ellenére nem kapta meg a Hype Awards idei fődíját, az Arany Ajnárt, amit a mostanában nagyon népszerű erdei fűszer- és gyógynövénynek, a medvehagymának ítélt oda a szakmai zsűri.

Pedig Scott számára kedvező jelek mutatkoztak, a kritikusok imádták a trailereket, és több nagy amerikai napilaptól látatlanban kaptak egyszavas értékelést (“Awesome”, “Breathtaking”, sőt, a New York Times szerint egyenesen “Hipster”), így érthető a rendező csalódottsága.

„Mikor megláttam, milyen szar lett az új Lana Del Rey-klip, már zsebemben éreztem a győzelmet, de úgy tűnik, a medvehagyma ellen még kevés vagyok” - osztotta meg gondolatait a világgal tumblr-blogján keresztül Ridley Scott, aki inkább a cinemagramos animgifektől tartott a versenyben, mint a növénytől.

“I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am...

Sat, 05 May 2012 19:59:13 +0200

“I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I’m free in all the ways that you are not.”

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Sat, 05 May 2012 17:58:57 +0200

Forgatják az Evil Dead akármit

Sat, 05 May 2012 17:48:00 +0200

Principal photography has started for Evil Dead in Auckland, New Zealand and will wrap in early July 2012.

Ghost House Pictures is producing the remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult-hit horror film The Evil Dead; the film that effectively launched the careers of Sam Raimi (first three “Spider-Man” films); Rob Tapert (30 Days of Night) and Bruce Campbell, who played the Ash character and was co-producer of the original, now brings them back to produce an Evil Dead for today’s audience from a screenplay written by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. Executive producers are J.R. Young, Nathan Kahane, Joseph Drake and Peter Schlessel.

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) and FilmDistrict have partnered with Ghost House Pictures on a worldwide deal - excluding U.K. and France - for Sony Pictures to distribute the remake of Evil Dead.

In the film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin where they discover a Book Of The Dead and unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.

Jane Levy (“Suburgatory”) stars as Mia, Shiloh Fernandez (Deadgirl, Red Riding Hood) as David; Lou Taylor Pucci (Carriers) as Eric; Jessica Lucas (Cloverfield) as Olivia and Elizabeth Blackmore (“Legend of the Seeker”) as Natalie.

“This cast of burgeoning talent share the same spirit we had when creating the original,” says Tapert. “The desire to deliver an unexpected and outrageously scary movie experience for the audience.”

Evil Dead marks director Fede Alvarez’ feature debut. Originally from Uruguay, Alvarez studied filmmaking and communications, later opening his own production and post production company. In 2005, he won a scholarship to complete a masters in screenwriting in Amsterdam. In November 2009, he posted his four-minute short “Panic Attack!,” which became an instant viral internet phenomenon prompting intense interest from Hollywood and Ghost House Pictures in particular.

“We found a brilliant artist in Fede Alvarez. As a director, he understands what makes a story work and how to put the pieces together,” says Raimi. “I’m really excited to see this story, that I care deeply about, retold by such a fine storyteller.”

The part where Steve Rogers tipped Fury…

Sat, 05 May 2012 16:49:06 +0200

The part where Steve Rogers tipped Fury…

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Fri, 04 May 2012 11:43:37 +0200