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Now if only a few of them were – sigh – ours…
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Why Spike Lee’s Kickstarter campaign is not the success you think it is
What? You didn’t think Spike Lee’s Kickstarter campaign was a success? You didn’t even know he had one.
Sheesh! Get with the program, kids. How else are you/we ever gonna be taken seriously as, you know, being in the biz?
Luckily for all concerned, The Bitter Script Reader’s been keeping his eye out for all of us:
Proof If You Needed It That Peter Capaldi is the Perfect Choice to be DOCTOR WHO’s New Doctor
Lookit this note he sent to Doctor Who Magazine:
Dood’s a fan. Maybe even the Biggest Fan Evah. Click on the pic to check it out:
RAMBO Coming to TV?
Word around L.A. is that Entertainment One is teaming with Nu Image Prods to bring a series based on Sly Stallone’s various Rambo films to TV.
Originally, the story was that Stallone would be involved in the project creatively as well as playing Rambo, but news over the weekend is that he’s no longer considering playing the part.
That, of course, leaves the possibility of the Slyman being creative very much in the mix. And, yeppers, we’d love to see it cuz let’s face it – ain’t nobody ever seen this dude be “creative” before. (ROCKY doesn’t count. It’s the most overrated film of the ’70s. Work out. Slur some words. Work out. Kiss. Work out. Talk. Punch. Punch. Punchpunchpunchpunch… If that’s creativity, then Michael Bay is a filmic genus.)
Why Robert Rodriguez Is Hating On Sony TV
Nikki Finke doesn’t write all that often anymore, but when she does…well, hell, kids, let’s just say that nobody bashes like she does:
by Nikki Finke
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline reported this week that Sony TV just announced it will produce an El Mariachi series based on the 1992 Robert Rodriguez film. Now I’ve learned that Robert Rodriguez and his reps are really pissed about it. I’m told that Sony TV execs reached out to Rodriguez only once to say that they were “thinking” about doing a TV show based on the writer/director’s trilogy ofEl Mariachi/Desperado/Once Upon A Time In Mexico characters.
“After that they stopped returning our calls. So we thought that this had been abandoned,” one of RR’s insiders tells me. “Not only does Robert not have any involvement in this show, he wasn’t even given a ‘head’s up’ on Sony’s press release. In it we noticed that Sony mentioned something about ‘staying true to the original story’. Good luck with that without involving the creator! Not that it matters as the budget that’s allocated for the television production will make Robert’s original budget of $7,000 for El Mariachi look like Avatar. This TV series is a sloppy and lazy replica for the tourist trade, without any of the heart and soul that made the original El Mariachi win the Sundance Audience Award and become a landmark in independent cinema.”