We not only submitted dozens of positive book reviews of a client to amazon, but we also used an extras casting company to fill a booksigning with "fans". The result, a spot on the LA times bestseller list for our client and a movie option in the same week.
As far as sit-coms go, Just Shoot Me rocks. It's got a solid, likable cast and it's always funny. I just can't believe they replaced it on Thursday with Good Morning Miami. Now that's a piece of crap sit-com.
As far as Firefly goes, I don't watch a lot of science fiction. I can't stomach watching a bunch of pretty boys talk with overwhelming earnestness about Flux Capacitors and such. Give me the hijinks at Blush magazine any day.
Of the hundreds of books you've read, most probably deserve this kind of harsh snubbing. Like mysteries, horror and westerns, science fiction is a genre whose greats usually aren't all that great. It's the nature of genre writing. The original six Dune books transcended their genre, and this isn't the case with the newer works. I feel like "perfectly good" sullies the memory of some of my favorite stories. I would like to challenge the authors,particularly Anderson, to create something of their own like Frank Herbert did. I don't think they have it in them. Subtract the Dune vocabulary from these books and you haven't got much left.
I give credit to Brian Herbert for the foresight of enlisting the help of Kevin J. Anderson in the creation of the Dune "prequels" as he openly admitted that he did not possess all of the "tools" required to under take this project, kudos.
Kevin Anderson is a tool alright. If I wanted Star Wars books set in the Dune universe I'd... I'd... I'd read this.
it was in an episode of CHiPs once. A guy rocketed from the bed of a pickup up onto an overpass. The amazing thing is that the truck was in Bakersfield and the overpass was in Santa Monica.
Films are not shot on DVD, and I guarantee you that transferring a 35 or 70mm movie to DVD is just as expensive, below the line, as engineering a CD.
Distribution is the same story. DVDs and CDs both have to get to blockbuster. Production, shipping, storage and all that crap is the same.
Marketing costs for a DVD may be lower because they usually release DVDs close enough to the theatrical dates these days that the movie still has some residual buzz to drive the market. Anectdotally, though, it certainly seems like major DVD releases get more mainstream advertising as well.
There's no way a DVD release is just free money. They have a similar set of initial expenses, yet the market for DVDs sets the price at 10 bucks. Why? If you ask me it's because I can rent a DVD for 2, so if they cost twenty I'd never bother. The fact remains that even at the 10 dollar price point DVDs are incredibly profitable.
what the hell does one thing have to do with another? It's not like starbucks is planning on offering competitive welfare or school lunch or any other so-called liberal social programs.
Oklahoma City is run by ultraconservatives so it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the local mcdonalds started offering 49 cent cheeseburgers on tuesdays.
See because the actions of nationwide fast food chains are dictated by the political ideology of municipal governement. It all makes perfect sense.
My fiancee was totally cool with the idea of another kind of stone, or with a fake. Show your girl some pictures of the kids from the mines, you'd be surprised how receptive she gets.
Get a GIANT phoney and she can still brag/lie to her family/friends and secretly feel morally superior.
From what I've been hearing lately, an ever growing percentage of trailers are getting cut on FCP. I don't know for sure if that's for theatrical or tv distribution.
The guys I work with use speed razor, but they're thinking about going with either FCP or DVE for offline. FCP seems to be on the rise while I've never heard anybody talk about Premiere with anything but mockery and scorn.
Can they just do a classic version so I can see Star Wars like it was when I saw it in the drive in movie theatre in 1977. My VHS copies are getting a little spotty from old age.
The real money's not going to come from records or tours. The real money, for big money acts like B. Spears, is in cross promotion. Her Pepsi contract is probably worth more than she's gonna make from music in her whole career. "Who let the dogs out" has been on the soundtrack for every kids movie that even has mention of a dog in the last 2 years. Get ready for a world where every popular song is a jingle, theme, or corporate anthem.
I think it's more than possible for artists to make money from touring. The key is to keep promotional costs low and consider laying off the guy who picks out all the brown m&ms.
Skip the lines. See Deuces Wild. It's a fifties rumble picture and it's fantastic. If you like seeing people get hit with bats, pipes and chains this is the movie for you.
I suspect that irregardless of anything else somebody is going to have to re-enter all that data. As a result, their checks (or monkeyfeed or however they're being paid) is probably being added to the cost of the new computer systems making a reasonable replacement for the mainframe even less likely.
If you ask me they should hire 20 people, buy no computers and enter all the information on index cards. If I lived in that town I would not be comfortable with any of my tax information residing on a city computer.
I learned "the hard way" that I can't have my toaster, fridge, washing machine and microwave on the same circuit. If only maytag could have been there to stop me.
Pleny of companies are very profitable offering service solutions around free sunlight. Johnson & Johnson, for example does pretty well on a product called sun screen.
It's true. I worked for a PR firm that handled a writer. We actually went so far as to hire TV extras to come to book signings and buy copies of the book. We'd walk around the mall offering people $5 over the price of the book to go in, buy one and bring it back signed.
The plan worked, he got to #4 on the LA Times best seller list and the quote for film rights to the book went through the ceiling. I felt dirty and got out of the PR game.
If I go to the Indian place down the street and pay for the lunch buffet, that means I get to eat all I want/can. If they don't like it they can stop offering the buffet. What they can't do is tell me halfway through my meal that they're going to charge me more because I ate too much.
Why do these monster slayers insist on lugging 15 tons of weapons and ammo into the sewers, and then use them to repetively, and innefectively, shoot the monsters?
Many scenes looked like technology tests for spiderman special effects.
The reapers anus-like heart is more than worth the price of admission. Now we can effectivly classify the goatse guy.
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We not only submitted dozens of positive book reviews of a client to amazon, but we also used an extras casting company to fill a booksigning with "fans". The result, a spot on the LA times bestseller list for our client and a movie option in the same week.
My neighbor got this treatment. She wasn't allowed within 12 feet of living things for something lie 2 weeks.
As far as sit-coms go, Just Shoot Me rocks. It's got a solid, likable cast and it's always funny. I just can't believe they replaced it on Thursday with Good Morning Miami. Now that's a piece of crap sit-com.
As far as Firefly goes, I don't watch a lot of science fiction. I can't stomach watching a bunch of pretty boys talk with overwhelming earnestness about Flux Capacitors and such. Give me the hijinks at Blush magazine any day.
Of the hundreds of books you've read, most probably deserve this kind of harsh snubbing. Like mysteries, horror and westerns, science fiction is a genre whose greats usually aren't all that great. It's the nature of genre writing. The original six Dune books transcended their genre, and this isn't the case with the newer works. I feel like "perfectly good" sullies the memory of some of my favorite stories. I would like to challenge the authors,particularly Anderson, to create something of their own like Frank Herbert did. I don't think they have it in them. Subtract the Dune vocabulary from these books and you haven't got much left.
it was in an episode of CHiPs once. A guy rocketed from the bed of a pickup up onto an overpass. The amazing thing is that the truck was in Bakersfield and the overpass was in Santa Monica.
Films are not shot on DVD, and I guarantee you that transferring a 35 or 70mm movie to DVD is just as expensive, below the line, as engineering a CD.
Distribution is the same story. DVDs and CDs both have to get to blockbuster. Production, shipping, storage and all that crap is the same.
Marketing costs for a DVD may be lower because they usually release DVDs close enough to the theatrical dates these days that the movie still has some residual buzz to drive the market. Anectdotally, though, it certainly seems like major DVD releases get more mainstream advertising as well.
There's no way a DVD release is just free money. They have a similar set of initial expenses, yet the market for DVDs sets the price at 10 bucks. Why? If you ask me it's because I can rent a DVD for 2, so if they cost twenty I'd never bother. The fact remains that even at the 10 dollar price point DVDs are incredibly profitable.
what the hell does one thing have to do with another? It's not like starbucks is planning on offering competitive welfare or school lunch or any other so-called liberal social programs.
Oklahoma City is run by ultraconservatives so it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the local mcdonalds started offering 49 cent cheeseburgers on tuesdays.
See because the actions of nationwide fast food chains are dictated by the political ideology of municipal governement. It all makes perfect sense.
My fiancee was totally cool with the idea of another kind of stone, or with a fake. Show your girl some pictures of the kids from the mines, you'd be surprised how receptive she gets.
Get a GIANT phoney and she can still brag/lie to her family/friends and secretly feel morally superior.
From what I've been hearing lately, an ever growing percentage of trailers are getting cut on FCP. I don't know for sure if that's for theatrical or tv distribution.
The guys I work with use speed razor, but they're thinking about going with either FCP or DVE for offline. FCP seems to be on the rise while I've never heard anybody talk about Premiere with anything but mockery and scorn.
It's also a damned fine way to beat the devil.
it's true. if photoshop, for example, wasn't so easy to get for free I think you'd see a lot more gimp out there.
and it would be a shame.
Can they just do a classic version so I can see Star Wars like it was when I saw it in the drive in movie theatre in 1977. My VHS copies are getting a little spotty from old age.
Fill in tired obligatory Al Gore comment here.
E.B. White was also a co author of Elements of Style. A book so many of us in these forums should spend more time with.
The real money's not going to come from records or tours. The real money, for big money acts like B. Spears, is in cross promotion. Her Pepsi contract is probably worth more than she's gonna make from music in her whole career. "Who let the dogs out" has been on the soundtrack for every kids movie that even has mention of a dog in the last 2 years. Get ready for a world where every popular song is a jingle, theme, or corporate anthem.
I think it's more than possible for artists to make money from touring. The key is to keep promotional costs low and consider laying off the guy who picks out all the brown m&ms.
Skip the lines. See Deuces Wild. It's a fifties rumble picture and it's fantastic. If you like seeing people get hit with bats, pipes and chains this is the movie for you.
I suspect that irregardless of anything else somebody is going to have to re-enter all that data. As a result, their checks (or monkeyfeed or however they're being paid) is probably being added to the cost of the new computer systems making a reasonable replacement for the mainframe even less likely.
If you ask me they should hire 20 people, buy no computers and enter all the information on index cards. If I lived in that town I would not be comfortable with any of my tax information residing on a city computer.
I learned "the hard way" that I can't have my toaster, fridge, washing machine and microwave on the same circuit. If only maytag could have been there to stop me.
Pleny of companies are very profitable offering service solutions around free sunlight. Johnson & Johnson, for example does pretty well on a product called sun screen.
It's true. I worked for a PR firm that handled a writer. We actually went so far as to hire TV extras to come to book signings and buy copies of the book. We'd walk around the mall offering people $5 over the price of the book to go in, buy one and bring it back signed.
The plan worked, he got to #4 on the LA Times best seller list and the quote for film rights to the book went through the ceiling. I felt dirty and got out of the PR game.
If I go to the Indian place down the street and pay for the lunch buffet, that means I get to eat all I want/can. If they don't like it they can stop offering the buffet. What they can't do is tell me halfway through my meal that they're going to charge me more because I ate too much.
They did have their faces right in front of about a 10" bore pipe directly to the outside of the house.
Why do these monster slayers insist on lugging 15 tons of weapons and ammo into the sewers, and then use them to repetively, and innefectively, shoot the monsters?
Many scenes looked like technology tests for spiderman special effects.
The reapers anus-like heart is more than worth the price of admission. Now we can effectivly classify the goatse guy.