The adventures of a professional screenwriter and frequent film festival jurist, slogging through the trenches of Hollywood, writing movies that you have never heard of, and getting no respect.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions
JJ Abrams kicks Ray Manzarek's ass on the boards in this Shamberg song from the MTV Movie Awards about action movie explosions. I had to post it here eventually - it's all about action movies...
Be good to read some of your thoughts on Tarantino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, either in the magazine, or preferably on the blog, seeing as it's coming out very soon...
I've written 19 films that were carelessly slapped onto celluloid: 3 for HBO, 2 for Showtime, 2 for USA Net, and a whole bunch of CineMax Originals (which is what happens when an HBO movie goes really, really wrong). I've been on some film festival juries, including Raindance in London (twice - once with Mike Figgis and Saffron Burrows, once with Lennie James and Edgar Wright). Roger Ebert discussed my work with Gene Siskel on his 1997 "If We Picked The Winners" Oscar show. I'm quoted a few times in Bordwell's great book "The Way Hollywood tells It". My USA Net flick HARD EVIDENCE was released on video the same day as the Julia Roberts' film Something To Talk About and out-rented it in the USA. I've also written a whole bunch of theatrical projects that never got made (I got paid) and was stupid enough to actually *turn down* the job of adapting Dan Brown's ANGELS & DEMONS. On the personal side - I'm single and fat and 6 foot 4 inches tall. Like dogs, hate cats. Why is the blog called Sex In A Submarine?
2 Comments:
Wow. Does Sanberg ever look like Sidney Crosby (Capt. of the Pittsburgh Penguins)!
Did you hear that Robert Rodriguez's MACHETE starts shooting in 5 weeks.
What are your thoughts on the Grindhouse actioner?
Be good to read some of your thoughts on Tarantino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, either in the magazine, or preferably on the blog, seeing as it's coming out very soon...
Also, interested in your thoughts on PELHAM 123.
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