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PROJECT HEARTLIGHT?? Steven Spielberg & Mark Burnett Developing Reality Show To Find Movie Directors!!
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Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett are working on a new Fox reality series called “On The Lot,” a cross between “American Idol” and “Project Greenlight.”
Aspiring filmmakers will make a short film every week. There will be eliminations. The last helmer standing gets a development deal with DreamWorks.
Read all the gory details here.
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It's your big chance. Your chance to show 'em what a great fantasy director you could be. This is your destiny. Call Howie Long!
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Have you ever seen that episode of The Critic where Jay shows his student film? Imagine something a thousand times worse. I CAN'T WAIT!!
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You guys better let us know when the goddamn applications are going to be accessible. This website alone could provide about 500x what they need for the show.
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I thought Paramount bought Dreamworks for it's movie library and is dissolving it? So, did I ruin the surprise ending? "There really is no studio to make your deal, but welcome to Hollywood: you're screwed!"
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That was what Universal wanted to do.
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Finally, a chance for, "Broken Metaphors Of A Walk Through The MindPark" to reach a wider audience aside from me and my mother!
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If I film in 3 minute incriments, i'll be set in no time!
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I'm sorry, I know the execs love them cuz they're relatively cheap to make and you don't have to worry about the stars becoming primadonnas and demanding 1 million per episode and crap like that. but all reality shows are just the same shit over and over and and we all know its far from reality when they rig the outcome or pressure the contestants to do various things to increase ratings....seriously..does anyone remember The Running Man? we're really not that far away from that crap. All it's going to take is for one contestant to have an accident and die during one of the 'challenges' or whatever and wham, ratings will skyrocket..suddenly we've got Richard Dawson back from the dead. and Jesse Ventura suits up as Captain Freedom
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You'd think most of the pretentious symbol-obsessed nonsensical film students would realize that they have no grasp on how to actually tell a story and that they're a walking cliche but some still don't get it. But on the other hand, going to a film school also really opens your eyes to great films, and some people actually are darn talented. I'm not in the film department (screenwriting's way better man) but I just shot a parody of the Twilight Zone, it might turn out stupid but it was a heck of a lot of fun writing the script. Anyway, point is, there's plenty of good young filmmakers out there, so if this show finds some, it will be entertaining. Not to mention the fact that laughing at the "auteurs" will be a heck of a lot of fun too.
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Dude, think about it. The networks are not about to show a snuff scene. If a reality show personality were to die, I'm sure there would be a teary tribute to the fallen contestant, with pleasantly edited montages scored to soaring tearjerker music. They might even cancel the rest of the season or something. I'm sure a lot of people will tune in to catch all the (not at all) gory details, but you can bet the producers will double or triple the safety margin for the show's rules, whatever they are, so it never happens again. As for the reality TV concept itself: it's a good concept, but it is overused like most genres have been. Let's not forget one simple fact: as long as Americans keep watching reality TV, producers will keep making reality TV. It seems like you're blaming the supply instead of the demand, and that's flawed thinking.
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Please don't write parodies. Every aspiring screenwriting student without an original idea writes a parody. And no comic boook adaptations either! Have faith in your own ideas.
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YOU'RE OFF THE PICTURE!
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I like Spielberg as a director, but does anyone want to hear him blather for a 1/2hour or an hour straight. He loves to honor us with his wisdom. It's so condescending. I just bought the "Saving Private Ryan" DVD and one of the extras is "A Special Message From Steven Spielberg". He talks for 10 minutes about the importance of "D-Day". Thanks Steven, I had no idea! I'm just another non-Hollywood idiot who needs to be educated by you.
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so that we know we're about to click on a Variety link ahead of time. Everytime I see the word 'Skein' my blood pressure goes up four points...
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then again, could plucking annoying, eccentric people from the obscurity of making films with their home movie camera create films much worse than we are currently getting? Remains to be seen... maybe we'll have a newfound appreciation for the 'Shaggy Dog' remake.
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American Chopper for one. Ever see the behind the scenes episode or the one detailing their history up to now? The stuff about Senior getting sober was unbelievable. I don't think you see anything that real on network dramas. Maybe on HBO, but it's just that thing of seeing real people who've been through shit just like the rest of us and aren't writers, doctors, lawyers, or FBI agents. Anyway, other than that, there's a lot of good shit on the travel channel, like Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Most sarcastic person alive. Lives on cigarettes. Hell, I even like Blow-Out on bravo, with that whackjob hair stylist. Dirty Jobs is another good show... I don't know, I think if your only experience of reality shows is the network stuff, then I could see someone thinking it's all trash, cause on the networks, it is, but no way is it like that on Discovery, animal planet, bravo (ok, some of bravo), and the travel channel.
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because the real fun is watching all the screwups and backstabbing while the movie is getting made... not watching the crappy short films people make to get on that show to begin with.
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Is that project dead? I thought it was coming out last December?The coolest thing about Greenlight was you got to see that Matt Damon has a serious bug up his ass and Ben Affleck realizes how lucky he is.
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Where is that dick-sandwich that kept trying to challenge Kevin Smith to a 'screen-off'???
This should be right up his alley. Pretentious dribble about some nitwit sitting on a mountain.
Come on man... Where are you?
Skip Smith and go straight for Spielberg!!!
Maybe we can get that guy 'famous_actor' from the IMDB messageboards who is always pitching his ideas for sequels to shit movies (Valentine?!?!) and 'created' a new serial killer character for a 12 movie franchise (with all 12 scripts already 'written'). Oh man that guy is a hoot! Someone asked him what the difference was between his killer (named... dun-dun-DUN... CONOR VANCE) and Jason.
"Conor wears a devil mask and Jason wears a hockey mask."
BRILLIANT!!!
OK, I'm rambling even more than normal, but I really want to see some of these deluded wannabe-directors getting their asses handed to them by Spielberg, Simon Cowell style.
"That... that was... just... ATROCIOUS..." -
Hollywood has to many crap-shit directors right now. And they are doing a show about finding more?
Let them do a show to fire directors whos time is up or never even was here. First vote for Spielberg! -
They can't be any worse judge of talent than Chris Moore and his fratboy cronies...Remember Greenlight season 2. Moore should have been shot for hiring those comedy goofs to direct a drama.
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I know that valuable space on this site has to be taken up for the next Rom-com or whatever....but come on! But what about Gulager? Help a brother out!
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I remember one time Moore and Affleck (and maybe Damon) were getting pissed and how things were going with Beevis & Butthead. They were joking about how Greenlight was a failure because, if these two jokers were the best the contest could provide, then that was proof that all the talented people already were working in Hollywood. Problem with Greenlight movies is they have 6 months from the end of the contest to the release of the film, all for under $1 million. I would challenge even the most talented of directors working in Hollywood to put out a good movie in that time, with that budget. And getting available name-actors willing to work for next to nothing with a 20-day shooting schedule. Greenlight is a good idea but they need to loosen the purse strings a little if they want to create a commercially successful movie.
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One of the guys killed himself, and they had a teary tribute to him in the show. Also, it kind of narrowed down who was going to win because it became immediately obvious that it wasn't him, so I wonder if maybe it hurt the ratings?
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Shhhpeilberg shays, 'You're shhhacked!'
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He killed himself after it was filming, but before the show aired and before the live finale fight. They started with 16 so I don't think knowing one person who wouldn't be winning that final fight made any difference to the ratings.
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they should find some new actors to replace all those huge egos and quacks who think that they're gods because they can read lines on a page (do they really do anything else?). Movies would be a whole lot cheaper if they kept salaries and perks reasonable. And I'm not saying the money they save should go into the pockets of execs, it should go into things like to fund a 48 episode season of Lost or BSG, or to make every theatre an IMAX or lower ticket prices or maybe fund our public schools and healthcare. Was that a rant? Sorry about that.
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but like all reality shows it is the editing that makes it interesting. The fights were great because they were edited to only show the highlights so they looked more exciting then they really were. This was all too evident in the final fight because it was live with no editing and it was so very dull.
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...searching for a suitable indyIV writer.
spielberg should know better things to encourage and support new talent than doing lame reality tv shit. maybe someone can find new directors without stupid audiences, juries and a tv camera. for me this sounds a bit like a tiny little sell out.
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Goddammit I hate reality shows. But if you want to be in this and appeal to Spielberg's sensabilities, have a lot of shots of people looking in awe at stuff off camera, a hero with father issues and a kid. You need a smart aleck kid. There's your Spielberg movie.
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bwhahahahaha. Seriously, it'd be funny.
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What if the winner, instead of a production deal with Dreamworks, gets the chance to tinker with George's prequels? They could do no worse. And who knows? Maybe have a cameo by George on how important it is to keep going back to the well of past glories. Think of the possibilities. And the sequels (prequels).
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