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Wired on Hollywood's Elite Message Boards

Posted by chrisd on from the where-the-elite-meet-to-crush-pipsqueaks dept.

superflippy writes " Wired journalist Ben Mezrich gets the scoop on the online forums that film producers and other Hollywood heavyweights use to "track" the buzz on spec scripts, actors, writers, etc. "The tracking boards are the herd mentality gone digital," says one tracker. This helps explain how dreck like Kangaroo Jack makes it to theaters."

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  1. AC flames kill movie projects! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    One detractor? A single, semi-anonymous comment can sink a script?

    Imagine what a goatse redirect would do!

    1. Re:AC flames kill movie projects! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      "One detractor? A single, semi-anonymous comment can sink a script?
      Imagine what a goatse redirect would do!"

      Remind George Lucas that he's got room to make 3 more movies?

    2. Re:AC flames kill movie projects! by thynk · · Score: 3, Funny

      They critize the movie script before they even read it? My lord - it's /. for hollywood!

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      Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
  2. "If the buzz is any indicator..." by da3dAlus · · Score: 5, Funny

    "that movie's gonna make some huge bank."
    "What buzz?"
    "The Internet buzz."
    "What the fuck is the Internet?!"

    --

    Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
  3. Re:Hollywood Execs are a bunch of Trolls by RLiegh · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, if I see a link on one of those boards to a film called "two hands and a stretched anus", does that mean I should NOT click on it? ;^)

  4. Re:herd mentality by ArsonSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wanna be diffrent just like everyone else.

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    Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
  5. Re:herd mentality by beerman2k · · Score: 5, Funny
    That's why I only watch indy movies. I like to steer clear of herd mentality. I don't put much stock in mainstream stuff anyway, since lately it's all bull.

    You pretentious little fuck.

  6. I don't believe this... by Wirr · · Score: 4, Funny
    nobody can be that stupid.
    reading a board is one thing, basing your decesions on it another.
    Then again, there is this anecdote from Terry Pratchett. He met a Hollywood executive who wanted to make a movie out of his book "Mort" (that is about Death taking on an apprentice). Here's what happened in the word of Pratchett himself:


    "A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.

    Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."

  7. Re:herd mentality by dimension6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, the next Indy movie is set to cost $130,000,000 up front (Indiana Jones 4, starring Ford and Connery, directed by Lucas and Spielberg). You're telling me that's not a mainstream movie??

  8. Slashdot, The Movie by StarTux · · Score: 3, Funny

    So Slashdot, the movie died on one of these boards?

    Can you imagine, Wil Wheaton playing CmdrTaco?

    StarTux