The Hollywood sequel machine takes a handful of turns for the worse. »

In an industry like Hollywood where once-famous actors and actresses are thrown upon the heap of public boredom; where today’s hotshot agent can’t get anyone on the phone tomorrow; where crafty and clever screenwriters, having failed to score multi-million dollar spec sales, are stacked on the bottom of a low-level development executive’s weekend read list; [...]

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Blame the Screenwriter: Inside Man, Larry the Cable Guy, Stay Alive »

Friday is Hollywood’s Big Day, where careers are made or crushed into dust based on the performance of a given film’s opening night. And while we’ll be the first (and perhaps only) to allow Hollywood screenwriters to claim such box office victories, we’re also willing to point out that our previous predictions have been more [...]

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