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Mission: Hollywood - lighting the fuse on 2006.

By Burbanked on Jan 3, 2006 in Celebrities, Mission: Hollywood, Movies, The Oscars | 699 views |

hollywood boom Okay, Hollywood. It’s time to stop complaining and shake off the stagnant box office slumpery of 2005. Time to set new goals - to reassess, realign, restructure. Here at Burbanked we’re all too happy to assist; consider the tasks below as your Mission: Hollywood - The Rookie Assignment:

Nice job inspiring the nerd brigade. Set aside another $20 million in seed money so that they can get to work on a functioning transporter.
Might be time to roll out that Academy Award Legitimacy Campaign - it seems that a few of our esteemed Oscar winners have a bit too much time on their hands.
For the love of Sid Grauman, get these two back into a movie together. Shame on you, Hollywood, for squandering such red-hot celebrity chemistry (and style)!
Apparently the PR industry has run out of reasons why their clients keep taking their clothes off and expecting no one to take pictures of them. Let’s work on some excuses that at least flirt with originality, shall we?
Find out who the movie pirates are and ruin their otherwise promising careers. Actually, never mind; looks like that last part’s been taken care of.
Forget Whoopi and don’t even bring up Ellen - think outside the box and plunder this guy’s ideas instead.

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11.20.2008Dedicated screenwriting 101 here: From an interview with Harrison Ford on the MTV Movies Blog in which the inevitability of another Indiana Jones movie is mentioned:
MTV: Is the ball in George’s court at this point? Ford: It is. That’s the process. With some general input he goes off and searches for the MacGuffin and then stumbles into a story. And at some point we have a chance to take a look at and give some input.
Now granted this is Ford’s opinion of Lucas’ “creative process”, yet still: when one of the three principals of the Indiana Jones legacy classifies the story creation process as a haphazard, one-man effort that only superficially seeks outside input, it’s hard not to feel frustrated. Not surprised, just frustrated. Dear Mr. Spielberg: please put your foot down and either demand a coherent story or walk away. Just do us all a favor, could you? Maybe? (found via FilmDrunk)
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