CAUTION: HERE THERE BE SPOILERS!
GOING IN STYLE is a remake of the 1979 heist film that starred comedy legends George Burns and Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg, acting coach extraordinaire as a trio of retired gentlemen who plan a bank robbery. In the 2017 version, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin and Morgan Freeman take over the roles of the three long- time friends.
THE STORY:
My friends, you’re in the home stretch, but don’t lose steam on me now, because there are still plenty of things to do. However, take pride in your accomplishments — you’ve completed filming a project you wrote! Timing becomes a lot less important now because everything you need to assemble a web series is in the can. You can and should set deadlines for rough cuts and the eventual release dates, but there’s a little bit less pressure. A little bit.
Good reasons to get through editing quickly:
1. It ensures your cast and crew stay excited about the project instead of moving on to other things.
2. If reshoots or ADR (additional dialog recording) sessions are needed, a quicker edit ensures a higher likelihood your cast and crew are still available and motivated to work.
3. It reassures cast and crew that all their (likely unpaid) efforts weren’t in vain.
4. It keeps the momentum from your crowdfunding campaign going.
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On April 18, 2017, Prison Break: Season 5 Episode 3 The Liar aired. In this episode T-Bag surprises Sarah and informs her that two henchmen are following her. Meanwhile, in Syria, Lincoln attempts to recover his stolen passport, and Michael makes his move to escape Ogygia, the prison he is in.
THE GOOD:
The paradigm, she is a’changin’:
A report by MoffettNathanson found that the pay cable industry lost 762,000 subscribers in Q1 2017, the worst drop ever. To compare last year’s Q1 saw a mere 141,000 subscribers lost.
Analyst Craig Moffett said that the “Pay TV subscriber universe [shrank] at its worst ever annual rate of decline (-2.4%)” and there have been 6.5 million cord-cutter (and the new “cord-never” user who doesn’t install a Pay TV source at all) watchers since 2013.
A succinct and, overall, quite fair report on the negotiation process in the 2017 WGA-AMPTP contract negotiations from one of H’wood’s favorite trade mags:
The dam broke at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday night. With 90 minutes to go to the strike deadline, the WGA and major studios began to find their way to the compromises that had been elusive during the previous five days of contract negotiations.