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https://variety.com/2024/film/news/francis-ford-coppola-wild-megalopolis-plot-distributors-1235964635/variety posted:Sources noted that LaBeouf’s shaved eyebrows and physicality – used to punctuate his character – were more distracting than artful. lol he's gonna bankrupt himself for the shittiest movie ever
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It sounds like ultimately what's blocking a deal is just that coppola wants 9 digits of marketing commitment from the studio and that's probably not happening. Probably he'll get over his old man self or I guess it'll go big at cannes and the studios will come crawling back
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they definitely workshopped spitballs a bit. I'm impressed. it's still not quite there but it's not nearly as bad as the first one was. they cut most of the frame narrative, which is... an interesting solution. instead of trying to improve it, just deemphasize it lol it makes it feel a bit like nockforce? I assume nobody here knows what that was, but it was this old web cartoon where the dude basically just animated audio recordings of him and his friend bullshitting with each other. I remember liking nockforce. and the guy that made it went on to create o.k. k.o. for the cartoon network, so, not the worst guy in the world to seem like and the conversation in this one is closer to what's actually entertaining about rlm's off-the-cuff pitches. the conversation feels more natural, like they're treating the pitch a little more straight-facedly, where in the first one you could tell they knew they were being silly and you kinda zone out. one of the boys' strengths is their production-mindedness- the angle that they come at things from tends to be sorta the turning gears of how a movie works and how it gets made. if they're going to reach a tv audience, I think that's a good secret sauce- they know enough about how movies work that when they do this it almost feels like they're describing a real movie the animator is doing ok too sometimes fan animators try a little too hard instead of working with the material. they'll like try to do a bit that's... not at odds with the material, per se, but commentating on it or else not having anything to do with it. breaking the hat on top of a hat rule. this dude seems to strike a better balance. he did miss a couple tricks, I think. one of the most reliably funny gags with this kind of set up is when the described reality spontaneously changes to match its description from the frame narrative. so like when rich asked if it was a period piece set in the 70's, if they had not been depicted as 70's characters up until mike says sure, it'd be funnier. you can beat that joke into the loving dirt, it never gets old. drunk history got like 6 seasons out of it. animator guy almost nailed it in the bit where rich says "heroes... or love interests, whatever." if there was just a fraction more of a pause it'd be perfect. it's good, it just needed a little more breathing room but it's just little stuff like that from the first one, I would not have thought that it'd ever get picked up. but clearly they looked at what worked and didn't work and iterated a bit it went from like no hope at all to "okay, I can actually see why they're still trying this, and it's not just sheer desperation, there is a nugget of potential here" 
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No Mods No Masters posted:It sounds like ultimately what's blocking a deal is just that coppola wants 9 digits of marketing commitment from the studio and that's probably not happening. Probably he'll get over his old man self or I guess it'll go big at cannes and the studios will come crawling back man it's not even fun to root for his failure. as low as I can drag him, the studio dreck is always waiting at the bottom for me to shy away from
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As we know the only guy getting 9 digits of marketing spend for R rated dark absurd genre defying nightmarish/tedious material is todd phillips. And coppola is no todd phillips (complimentary)
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good analysis. or at least it was aesthetically pleasing to read. I watched 3 seconds of the original animation and none of the second one but I assume this all tracks.
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kalel posted:good analysis. or at least it was aesthetically pleasing to read. I watched 3 seconds of the original animation and none of the second one but I assume this all tracks. lol
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I was amused by the Spitballs, but I don't see it ever getting picked up for something beyond Youtube. Every terrible idea they make fun of is one potential actual project Hollywood might want to try eventually, or at the very least, a script that some nepobaby might want to sell to a studio where it can die before entering production. Obviously a bunch of nepobaby screenwriters don't want that happening. It's probably better this way, whatever they put on youtube is going to be better than whatever comes back from some terrible studio executives with a bunch of notes.
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I would so want to see the notes they were getting from adult swim that this was the premise they ended up with. It seems like a wildly bad match
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I was disappointed they didn't make a joke about them escaping to the strike animations, only for the bowling ball from those to still kill someone.
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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1778123463783231921?t=Jil51NXU_rwOdZSq5v0xVA&s=19 Sword fighting and Ana De Armas definitely have me interested in it
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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1778123463783231921?t=Jil51NXU_rwOdZSq5v0xVA&s=19 Prequels remain the best sign that a franchise is out of ideas and its time to check out. I wasn't surprised when they did the whole young Winston show because you can do that cheaply with different actors, but I'm kind of disappointed that Keanu is staying involved now that the franchise is so obviously past it's expiration date. I guess if they're gonna write a big leading role check for anyone it should be him.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Prequels remain the best sign that a franchise is out of ideas and its time to check out. But like half of the Godfather 2 is a prequel, and it's the best one!
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Mulva posted:But like half of the Godfather 2 is a prequel, and it's the best one! Flashbacks don't count. This doesn't apply to Back to the Future 2 either.
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Cubone posted:he did miss a couple tricks, I think. one of the most reliably funny gags with this kind of set up is when the described reality spontaneously changes to match its description from the frame narrative. so like when rich asked if it was a period piece set in the 70's, if they had not been depicted as 70's characters up until mike says sure, it'd be funnier. I noticed this too. The fun of a premise like this, if it's going to work* would be watching the animation jumping around along with their flights of fancy. *It's not going to work, but, you know what I mean.
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LanceHunter posted:So, about Spitballs possibly getting picked up by a network... The world just isn’t ready for newgrounds flash animations from 2004
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Endless Trash posted:The world just isn’t ready for newgrounds flash animations from 2004 Even there the boys were beaten to the punch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=435-cRijW2I
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I don't get it, is 83k views in 5 hours bad?
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I enjoyed the Clerks animated series.
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everyone gets sucked into a dangerous video game, it was just like that movie, you know, cube? no wait it was that one with malcolm in the middle where if you die in the game you die for real
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CaptainBeefart posted:I enjoyed the Clerks animated series. i did too. jay and silent bob work strangely well as "troublemakers"
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CaptainBeefart posted:I enjoyed the Clerks animated series. It was excellent for what it was, although I haven't watched the episodes in over a decade by now. I watched it on tv when I was 12 and thought to myself "a show about clerks is a really great idea" and would have no idea that it was based on a movie until 2 years later when I saw that Clerks was on the AFI 100 years, 100 films list. Future generations will never know what it was like to randomly discover stuff by watching network tv.
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kalel posted:because he's so old! got a hearing test done today and they said i had good hearing so that makes my paranoid rear end feel better Cubone posted:they definitely workshopped spitballs a bit. I'm impressed. it's still not quite there but it's not nearly as bad as the first one was. if i was a streaming studio producer looking to pick up this show, i would have them only set up the frame narrative in the 1st ep and thats all you need, no reminders every ep because everyone has watched the 1st ep and gets it already, we've seen what theyve done with 15 years of half in the bag skits and they just dont have any more juice in that tank im afraid also i still have not watched the vid yet (not one of the 85k lol) so brb hmmm i just dont think the boys are actors. anything not off the cuff has no charm or humor. and this whole concept feels out of a different time. not that thats inherently bad. well, at least they like doing it Endless Trash posted:The world just isn’t ready for newgrounds flash animations from 2004 yeah....
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i love that part of mike's pitch for the script is to literally have lightning strike twice
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counterfeitsaint posted:I don't get it, is 83k views in 5 hours bad? It's so over, you don't even know! Also, Netflix made a black-and-white adaptation of Talented Mister Ripley as a miniseries. So I would say Spitballs has a great chance of getting network backing.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Oh great, someone else for you to tag with instead of me. We could always form a faction!
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I just saw that the final season of star trek discovery started. This is how you dump a contractually obligated series.
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Ultimately adult swim is usually more of a weed and screaming thing. Booze and muttering seems hard for them to break into
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what if lightning struck a manxx tt super bike cabinet and you got sucked in and had to listen to this guys voice for the rest of your life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA3COGmT4i0
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PostNouveau posted:I don't think Adult Swim is gonna pick this up guys It can easily be on Adult Swim Smalls. Like this thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtN0dr-GZs4 Or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bza8pSqPgJc
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Paladinus posted:It can easily be on Adult Swim Smalls. Like this thing I'm sorry to say both these are better than Spitballs
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Spitballs more like shitballs! (Did anyone else already say that??)
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id rather have a hooker spit on my balls than watch this!
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