By Burbanked on May 2, 2008 in Movies, Screenwriting | 1,024 views |
Disclaimer: If you’re a friend, coworker or landscaper of mine, you’ve likely already heard this story. Knowing me, probably more than once. I’d suggest that you visit another website for the next 10 minutes. Perhaps you’d enjoy a story about ancient animal dung?
Carlo Conda is a blogger and aspiring screenwriter who visits and comments here [...]
By Burbanked on Feb 12, 2008 in Blogging, Gossip, Movies, Newest | 544 views |
Defamer’s long-time editor Mark Lisanti is calling it quits, and I mention it because Defamer is one of the first blogs that I ever read with consistency and excitement. His style was always brisk, sarcastic, hilarious and insightful - everything I wanted to be when I decided, a couple years into reading his daily output, [...]
No comments yet. Add yours. | Read the rest of it...By Burbanked on Jan 11, 2008 in Blogging, Off the Rails | 661 views |
It’s tough to pinpoint exactly what I find so amusing about this video, and you might not chuckle even once if you’ve never been to Hollywood, but there’s something strangely compelling and catchy about the following:
HIGH-FIVE HOLLYWOOD! on FunnyOrDie.com
(via YesButNoButYes)
By Burbanked on Feb 22, 2007 in Celebrities, Celebrity Stupid, Movie Marketing 101, Movies | 1,580 views |
When pressed into the service of creating buzz and publicity for their movie projects, celebrities are frequently called upon to “speak”. This can sometimes be a tricky and dangerous proposition, because generally celebrities are trained and practiced in the fine arts of saying clever things that someone else has written for them. Those dangerous waters [...]
7 comments. Join the party. | Read the rest of it...By Burbanked on Nov 16, 2006 in Celebrities, Celebrity Stupid, Gossip, Movies | 1,237 views |
A quick lesson for all of you Hollywood star wannabes: at your earliest possible opportunity, distinguish yourself from the pack of stunning, muscled, beautiful, chiseled, blown-dry, fake-tanned starlet-clones from which you seek your deserved distinction by providing the media with an outrageously idiotic quote. It doesn’t matter if the quote is humorous, factual, eloquent or [...]
No comments yet. Add yours. | Read the rest of it...By Burbanked on Jan 23, 2006 in DVD, TV | 773 views |
With every day, it seems, we learn that Hollywood has programmed some new tidbit of entertainment joy just for us. A movie being made based on our favorite 70s TV show? Splendid! A new reality show in which celebrities engage in dangerous contests against each other? Rapture!
But we know the truth, don’t we? We understand [...]
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11.20.2008
Dedicated 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)(2)
11.19.2008Okay, I need your help here. Sonny, Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen keep bringing up the fact that they want to go see Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
How do I get out of this? I love going to the movies with my boys, opening up their minds to the great pleasures of cinema and all that, but this is a hard one. Please help me: do I suck it up and just go, or can anyone out there provide me with a plausible, kind-hearted, permanent way out? (10)
11.14.2008I’m not sure how to say it nicely: This one-sheet is crap.
(additional thoughts about Apatow/Sandler’s collaboration here) (3)
10.23.2008What an excellent tribute to the late great movie voiceover guy Don LaFontaine. No need for more words, because the Voice already says it all:See more funny videos at Funny or Die (5)
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