August 27
August 29
Disaster Movie
My Mexican Shivah
September 3
The Pool
September 5
August Evening
Bangkok Dangerous
Save Me
As long as I'm bumming scripts, I may as well scout around also for Joshua James' adaptation of Peter Biskind's "Down and Dirty Pictures," which is apparently going to be shooting soon under the aegis of director Kenneth Bowser, producer Kevin Scott Frakes and PalmStar Entertainment.
The finished film will almost certainly fail, of course. Any film produced by a company named "Palm Star Entertainment," trust me, hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of being even half-tolerable. (The conjunction of the words "palm" and "star" assures ostentation and cluelessness.) In a column posted yesterday Fox News 411's Roger Friedman said it was politically doomed as well.
The "Down and Dirty" project was first announced in a Variety story in August 2006.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Posted by George Prager
at March 28, 2008 01:09 PM
Posted by A.H.
at March 28, 2008 01:16 PM
Posted by MikeSchaeferSF
at March 28, 2008 01:19 PM
Posted by JayMaloneyJr
at March 28, 2008 08:07 PM
comment #5
says ...Enjoyed the book, which got its share of good reviews. But a feature film is a terrible idea.
Posted by btwnproductions
at March 28, 2008 08:32 PM
Posted by Joel
at March 28, 2008 09:48 PM
comment #7
says ..."Critically panned, much-loathed, bitter?"
I don't remember any of those being the case. It was a good, fun read, not loathed by many except the subjects.
Posted by Josh Massey
at March 29, 2008 06:59 AM
comment #8
says ...Here's what was so "loathed" about the book... at least in Roger Friedman's universe... Simply go to the book's appendix...
Friedman is basically exposed to be a total hack of Weinstein's in Biskind's book..
page 410, quoting Dennis Higgins: " There's no one in the pocket (of Harvey) like Roger. It's almost whaddya want him to write? We even got him to say 'The Shipping News' is great!"
I'm not saying I need to see the book into a movie, but at least that's where the crazy negativity comes from...
Posted by tinkero
at March 29, 2008 10:25 AM
Posted by TL
at March 31, 2008 02:19 PM
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