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This site was started in October 2004 by ManagerGuy as a way to bring the bane of any producer's existence to the outside world. Sadly, ManagerGuy passed on during the summer of 2005. This site is dedicated to his memory.
"I have recently completed a spec script, THE VIRGIN MISSILE CRISIS, a dramatic comedy about a sixteen-year old boy, the son of a high-ranking State Department intelligence official, who loses his virginity during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the course of the film, the boy takes his first steps toward independence from his oppressively quirky family and faces the twin challenges of sex and nuclear annihilation. This script features strong, appealing roles for major actors and has real potential as both an independent or studio feature. I look forward to hearing from you about the script."
"SUDDEN LIFE is a comedy about a reincarnated young man who discovers that the love of his previous life is now married to his killer.
"In a small Wyoming town, a stranger arrives, asking questions about a drifter, who was discovered sleeping in a highway culvert near the town 10 years earlier, and then delivering something unexpected to several residents whose paths crossed with the drifter."
"In "Superzero", the devil persuades a disillusioned young man to assume the identity of a superhero and embark on a violent rampage against evildoers. It is a rambunctious tale about fantasy, desire, disappointment, and the dangers of combining beer and hard liquor."
"Amanda McKendrick is dead. Now a cloned replica of herself, she must solve her own murder before the killer strikes again."
A fellow blog reader sent in this description of a TV series airing on Sahar TV in Iran. This scores on two points: One, the bizzaro factor. Two, pure propaganda. And for some reason, doesn't this sound like an episode of DARK ANGEL?
"After living on earth for many years, what would you feel if somebody reveals to you that your parents are angels? How does it feel to know in the end that your mission involves killing your own father?"
"When a prison Warden who is planning to retire from his job and a little green guy known as a "Gumby" team up to save an elderly convict from being carried out in a body bag strange things begin to happen and for all the right reasons."
"A space bounty hunter nabs a conniving pirate, but fails to turn him over when an unlikely friendship develops.
With the Christmas break approaching, my blog will slow down dramatically, just like Paramount's production schedule!
"Title: Fangs
"Frank and Alysia were supposed to colonize a distant planet. Frank has changed those plans. Now he must save Alysia, her rescuers, Earth and himself."
"TITLE: IGOR CHUMKIN'S TEMPLE OF LOVE
"When sharks invade a flooded coastal town, a mother, nearly crippled by a previous attack, must venture out alone in a small boat to rescue her troubled teenage daughter."
"I am a writer/director.
"APOLONIA, working on a secret genetic project in the US military inseminates herself with a Superchild composite and takes off towards Latin America pursued by Homeland Security."
"The screenplay "ALL SCREWED UP" is designated for large groups of people who have been left out by the film industry. These people consists of: teenagers who are friends to the learning disabled as well as those that are leaning disabled, a teenager and parent who have wanted to go to the movies together but have had nothing to see, and adults who haven't lost the spirit of youth in them. "All Screwed Up" is the story of a seventeen year old woman Teenisha, who suffers from ADD who transfers into the body of Pete one of the most popular football players in her high school. Pete and Teenisha will learn more about true friendship, social climbing and themselves during this transformation then they have learned their entire life. I wanted to create this screenplay like me with a little rebel in it, just when you figured it out I add a little twist. There are more twists, turns and laughs in this ninety six page screenplay then the "Cyclone" at Coney Island but an ending that will leave the viewer fully satisfied."
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"Eyna!" (South African for "Ouch!") is the comedic tale of a man, a manly-man, a sports-legend, national hero, nay a cricket god, who finds himself... pregnant? Ah, the fickle finger of fate and misguided storks."
I'm not sure why, but this is funny shit. I found it on a big press release website, meaning that someone is looking to capitalize on it.
Super Model Gisele Bundchen, Reneges on “Lost Dog” Reward Offer;
Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) December 10, 2004 -- Supermodel Gisele Bundchen’s “no questions asked” $5000.00 reward offer for her lost dog just before Thanksgiving, may have gotten her dog back, but, according to the young couple who responded to the offer and returned her seven year old Yorkshire terrier, Bundchen’s attitude now is “no questions answered”. Reminiscent of Bundchen’s former agency boss, John Casablanca's widely publicized description of Bundchen that she is “a monster of selfishness” and designer Roberto Cavalli’s claim that Bundchen “welshed" on a business deal with him, Janelle Olson (20) and Paul Douwenga (21) of San Bernardino County, California, (90 miles east of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Hollywood Hills Estate to which the dog was returned according to Los Angeles police), have had to retain an attorney to find out what happened to the “hefty” reward offer which Bundchen published when she was reportedly "depressed, devastated and frantic" over the disappearance of her seven year old Yorkshire terrier, Vida on November 17, which had no identifying information on its collar when found running in the public street.
“My friends and I found the dog running in the street where it was almost hit by a pickup truck” said Janelle, we picked it up and took it with us to keep it safe. As soon as she could get back to
"Even after they were cleared by police, Bundchen's people have wrongly maintained and implied Paul and Janelle deserved the humiliating treatment they received. " said the couples attorney, Frank Harrigan. “At this point, based upon everything we know, it appears Bundchen and others who conspired with her had no intention of paying the reward when they made the offer. For example, according to what the police told my clients, there was a video tape, apparently part of Dicaprio’s security system, of Janelle’s vehicle when her friends rescued Vida from the street. From the day the dog was missing the police may have known how to find Janelle and the dog, but they made no attempt contact her. Also, one press report initiated by Bundchen’s press operation, however, explicitly stated that Bundchen suspected “dognappers” in the disappearance of Vida. The “hefty” reward offer was a clearly trick, a ruse and a deception, from what we have read perhaps suggested by Ms. Hilton. Now that the police have verified Janelle and Paul acted innocently, Bundchen and her people still don’t want to honor the reward or even apologize to Paul and Janelle for what they went through, including a car chase in which someone apparently associated with Bundchen terrorized Janelle by chasing her car around the Hollywood Hills the day she learned of the reward. By going public the couple stated they hoped to begin to counter the false impressions created by the arrest, press reports and Bundchen's failure to honor her 'no questions asked" reward, according to the couple.
"The Messiah or the Fuher...is one about to return?
"Can you guess what the following successful horror flicks, "Silent Night, Deadly Night," "Halloween," and "Valentine's Day" all have in common? Yup, that's right, they're all "holiday-themed" gore-fests! But there's one holiday that's never been adapted to a grisly big screen feature - and oddly enough - it's the biggest movie-going day of the year.
"With new knowledge of legendary buried silver and gold from the Civil War, Matthew Jennings infiltrates a gay deprogramming camp located on land that once belonged to his family. While searching for the silver, Matt must contend with other students, one of whom is an undercover reporter gathering facts for a stinging expose of the wacky goings on this Southern Gothic sadistic camp.
"Dear Esteemed Film Expert:
"MAYBE DECEMBER is a quirky, edgy love story about a young paramedic obsessed with the death around him. His world is thrown askew when he befriends a much older woman who, as a result of cutting edge hormone replacement testing, becomes the first person to ever age in reverse!
"After a chilling encounter with the same Ouija Board that drove his mother to commit murder, a young man is haunted by a mysterious entity that leads him deep into his forgotten past and to an evil he has never known...or has he?"
"1968. Vietnam. Navy SEAL Gabriel Hemloche leads his team deep into enemy territory. Gabriel and his unit are torn apart….by vampires. Bitten, Gabriel starts to change."
"Ten years ago Marcus killed his lover for greed and money. His guilt forces him to try to come up with a way to give back to the world. He hangs out on the streets befriending homeless people looking for a way to reconcile his guilt."
"Unless a pretty student and a plant operator stop a greedy platinum miner from injecting hazardous wastes deep into the Earth, their town will explode in a fiery blast, triggering earthquakes, volcanoes, fires, and floods."
"CONFESSIONS OF A SEX-CRAZED TEEN-AGE VIRGIN
"TITLE: LOVE ON PUBLIC ACCESS - Romantic Comedy
"A boy with no sense of danger. A dog with no care for danger. Together they will become best friends for life...
"IMMACULATE DECEPTION
"Query Letter for "Survival"
"Say You Love Me", is a fire and ice dating experience, between two ill tempered loud mouths. Instead of the standard ,I love you's; they tend to cuss each other out and then make up. Borders on obsessive love for the male, who is desparate to get married and start a family."
"The Dead-end - a suspense-thriller along the lines of The Sixth Sense meets The Others.
"Deerly Beloved: Comedy. When a deer crashes her wedding, a jappy New York advertising executive must go into the Connecticut woods and retrieve her wedding ring (which is around its antler). With her womanizing sports agent fiancé in traction and 48 hours until deer hunting season begins, she turns to a local bumbling policeman for help."
" 'The Beloved' is the first of a trilogy. A supernatural thriller set in present time, we meet Archangel Michael's teenage daughter Hamiah, introduced onto Earth through a human mother. Unbeknown to her she's part of a simple Divine plan to ensure a piece of human nature is preserved when the world ends. But Lucifer and his forces of evil rule Earth and he doesn't intend to let Hamiah inherit it. And so for the unsuspecting innocent Hamiah, a very perilous journey begins and she's soon vying for her life as Lucifer drives her towards self-annihilation."
New Line just paid an ungodly amount of money to buy HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU. Now read this Variety quote from the man who calls the shots there:
You the public have been very helpful in contributing information to the blog and I thank you for it. This is the first email I've received from a reader who loves one of these ideas.
Title: Honolulu 6:PM ( Anarchy On Waikiki)
"GENIE IN A COKE BOTTLE, a comedy about a newly engaged pampered heiress who is tricked by a mischievous Genie into trading identities. Trapped in Genieland to a life of poverty and servitude, the heiress fights to free herself before the greedy Genie bags her fiance and blows her trust fund."
Title: Chaos Breeds Chaos - Horror/comedy/fantasy
"This is the fast paced story about two rebellious college students that go into the ghost busting business in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Hawai.