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Ok, Harry's doing his thing, what about you' Wanna work on George Romero's DIAMOND DEAD' Ridley Scott is!
Hey folks, Harry here with this excellent opportunity for many of you to get your first foot in the film door! Not only is it a George Romero film, not only does it have music from the brain behind the music for the Rocky Horror Picture Show... but Ridley Scott has climbed aboard. SO... Get in there - help make a great cult film that reaches beyond that realm into the mainstream! This has all the right elements thus far! Here ya go...
Hey Harry- This is my first time writing you, probably won't be the last. I'm here in LA helping DIAMOND DEAD get off and running, and thought you'd be interested to know that RIDLEY SCOTT and SCOTT FREE PRODUCTIONS have just hopped on board. You heard right- Ridley Scott is joining Andrew Gaty as co-producer of a film directed by George Romero. This is great news for the production, and for fans of George- for obvious reasons.
I'd also like to throw this out for you and those interested:
We're looking for some passionate fans who'd be interested in helping us out. Right now we're looking to build a great team of interns (doesn't matter where you are, as long as you have an internet connection and a phone). Motivation and passion are the key factors in who we're looking for- so if anyone's interested, email me (cover letter and resume, or just tell me about yourself, why and how you want to help- no attached files...) at MCGOWAN@DIAMONDDEAD.COM
In short, there's an opportunity to work on this film as it is being wheeled to the launching pad. You don't need industry experience to apply- we want people who would LOVE to work on this film.
Don't forget to visit the website at DiamondDead.com
Thanks Harry!
Andrew McGowan
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I might just look into this... first I will be an intern for Diamond Dead, then I will RULE THE WORLD!
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"Right now we're looking to build a great team of interns (doesn't matter where you are, as long as you have an internet connection and a phone)" = spam message boards and call in to your local "zoo-crew" DJ to get the word out about Diamon Dead!.
Do you really need to send in a resume to prove you can perform these functions? What the hell has Ridley Scott gotten himself into? -
Probably trying to get people to intern (also known as slave labor) for Diamond Dead. Well, at least now I know what the sales pitch is gonna be...
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part of me really really wants to do this.. But then, there's that voice in my head popping up, telling me not to.. the same voice that pops up when i get letters in the mail offering me "high paying" job positions selling knives and "sports equipment" and shit..
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Attempts to do invariably fail.
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Not true. Bubba Ho-Tep, anyone? to cite only one recent example. The same is true (that is to say "untrue") of the proclamation that "camp" must be found and not manufactured, e.g. anything by John Waters.
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just kidding I know what it is...did that ever even come out? Straight to video I guess?
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It might aspire to be one, but it currently isn't. A cult film is a film that has a devoted following of repeat viewers, despite a lack of blockbuster success. See, eg., Spinal Tap, Office Space, the Big Lebowski--all films that were originally conceived as to be hits, but ended up as cult films. Films that start out trying to be cult films rarely find a cult. And, therefore, AREN'T cult films.
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and WHAM! It was made.
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Apr 04, 2004 12:24:03 AM CST
I thought Richard O'Brien was the brains behind the music to Roc
by crimson dynamo
Not Richard Hartley
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Neither Don Coscarelli nor Bruce Campbell would have ever envisioned a film concerning an elderly Elvis and a black JFK fighting a mummy in a retirement home to be a potential cash cow. (Maybe its investors thought it could be a hit, who knows.) There was clearly never any hope of it receiving a sizeable release or a decent box office take, because its creators were doubtless aware of the limited appeal of its premise. They knew that the people who would enjoy the movie would eventually discover it on their own, perhaps even years later on video, and that those who would embrace it would embrace it dearly. In its own uncompromising way, Bubba Ho-Tep is very much a movie that insists its audiences approach it on their own terms and not those of a studio. *** Similarly, last year's Bad Santa is likely to achieve cult status as early as this Christmas. Although Miramax probably bet on heavy initial returns for it, it was obvious to anyone who didn't work for them that it would do mediocre numbers at best and then reap a shitload when it arrives on DVD and people introduce it to their friends and make viewing it a holiday tradition. I firmly believe that this is what Zwigoff and the Coens (who co-executive produced it) were aiming for... no movie that grim, foul, vulgar, and hilarious could get the attention it deserves on its theatrical run. No, it is not a cult film yet, but it was meant to be, and it will be.
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Apr 04, 2004 6:57:36 AM CDT
Cause being a "Producer" and being a bitch ass intern is the sam
by jon e cin
Harry doing his "thing" in now way is the same "thing" as being an intern.
INTERNING SUCKS...no pay/no respect and getting lots of coffee for assholes! I been there.. -
Apr 04, 2004 9:15:02 AM CDT
And people were bitching about a DOTD remake. Well here you go,
by darksider
About a zombie rock band. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Why is Ridley Scott wasting his time with this piece of shit and not making something else like...AN ALIEN FILM?! Why is Romero making this film instead of the one his fans want to see? Is it because he realizes that he'll be making the same movie for the fourth time? No wonder he can't get any money to do the fourth one.
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My point is this: It doesn't matter whether the producers intended a film to be a cult film, in order to to be one it must actually have a cult of fans and, typically, films designed to be cult films do not in fact develop said cult. Therefore, they don't actually become cult films. A cult film tends to be a film that develops a fan base or cult by word of mouth, etc., not by marketing or design.
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Apr 04, 2004 5:45:49 PM CDT
Where the fuck is Romero's long-promised remake of CLAMBAKE?
by uncle stan
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If he's not doing a zombie picture, then it better be somethng good...... Oh wait, it isn't. Undead musical... I've already seen Rocky Horror. Aren't there any smart investors out there who realize that they can basically market Dead 4 as a sequel to Dawn of the Dead? Which, by the way, was number 1 for a week...
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As much as I'd love to build up a massive phone bill this seems to be just too much for me.
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I thought that was gonna be the best thing since sliced brains?
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AT least that looked like it might have some potential. Not this Anne Rice with zombies bullshit.
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Darksider said.. Romero "realizes that he'll be making the same movie for the fourth time? No wonder he can't get any money to do the fourth one." Ahh, I don't really know how romero's dead films are identicial besides zombies and the problems that the living have with them and themselves. I mean just consider style alone, these films are drastically different. Oh and to the guy who said "did Bubba Ho-Tep come out? I thought it went direct-to-video?" What kind of hick town do you live in that didn't show Bubba Ho-Tep? I live in a smaller to mid size city and the theatre I work at showed the film. We had plenty of sold-out shows!
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C'mon Bill Gates has to love zombie movies-- he's a geek. The world's richest geek. Can't he give Romero $5,000,000 for the movie?? They could M$ product placements in the movie. It'd work.
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Apr 06, 2004 8:17:33 AM CDT
You can shell out money for people being trapped in the same sce
by darksider
I won't. The same shit has been used three times already. Now if Romero will update the story a bit, make the characters more real, do things other than just hide and bitch and have a ending to the story then I'll bite. Otherwise, it's like having Kevin Smith doing Clerks sequels in a movie theater, restauraunt and a bar. Same shit different places. And about DOTD 2004 for being #1 for only a week? Well it only beat out THE PASSION which had been #1 for about 3 weeks with 300 million dollars and was knocked out by SCOOBY 2 and that was obviously going to make more money.
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Aren't there literally like SIX prints of Bubba Ho-Tep going around? No need to make fun of people for not getting to see it. And why the FUCK is someone financing a horror musical when they won't make a fourth Dead movie? Seriously. Zombie movies usually don't make money, but is a fucking MUSICAL more commerically viable? Has George Romero just lost it completely? I wonder if Jerry Only knows about Diamond Dead. He'll probably be begging to get on the soundtrack.
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say what you want about ridley scott, but "a fool soon parted with his money" isn't one of them, _white squall_ and other bumps along smooth return-on-investment laffer curve notwithstanding. as lame as _dd_ inarguably sounds, m. scott must smell the potential for filthy lucre here the way an alien smelled the growth potential in john hurt's gastrointestinal tract. say what you want about el jorge (not much for the past, what, 23 years?) but i'll take _the ridley horror picture show_ over _dead but 4 the burying_ any freakin' day of the week. give it up, george a. & fanboys alike. we must admit that the sort of independent filmmaking practice within which g.a.r. made his bones is O-VER. PERIOD. SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD AND BUILD ME A BONFIRE. BUH-FRICKIN-BYE. just ask _dawn_ producer (new & old) "richie rich" rubenstein -- even from a purely financial standpoint, he's not exactly burning up the phone lines trying to jumpstart his former partner's _dead wreckoning_. on the plus side, this does mean that we'll no longer hear the self-important intoning of "auteur theory" and "andrew sarris" from m. rubenstein did in the making-of documentary on _dawn I_, _document of the dead_. buh-frickin, as above. AND, considering how much romero revere's powell's _tales of hoffman_, can it really be that what george needs most to jumpstart his career is...a MUSCIAL?!?! can't say i'll be in a hurry to intern for _diamond dead_ but neither will i write it off. yet.
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After the new DotD it seems like a movie worth revisiting. And am I the only one bitterly disappointed with Day of the Dead? That movie just seemed worthless compared to the other two. The over the top soldiers were the worst part of it, and very little character to the characters....
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