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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TheOmniWarrior" data-cite="TheOmniWarrior" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="36553" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Quick Question... you know the "Grindhouse Double Feature" thin Tarantino/Rodriguez did some years back? Same cast for both flicks, both filmed at roughly the same time? There a way two companies could come together and do that with some kind of workaround around the 1-movie per actor per day dealio?</div></blockquote> I remember that double feature has different cast for both flicks. But anyway, same cast for both flicks on same day is fine, since they are working together and not for two films. Also, I am thinking of just switching the rules to 3 films per talent per week since I am not really working at the speed of multiple movies per day. With the new rules, the double feature will only count as one film and you can feel free to use the talents on both features, but they are likely to want more money if they are appearing on both. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Idiot - Green Day wants to do at least half of the OSTs of said movie. - Reprise Records prefer a 22% revenue + 300,000 deal. You can pay the 300,000 post-release since you are a new studio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Movie 666 Western is already action-packed so no need "Action Western", just "Western". Also, I don't think navy exists in western. And there's also a science dude. If this is something like "Cowboy & Alien", then just "Action" is fine. The "Western" genre is specficially about the wild west. If you have cowboy in a modern setting or some sort of sci-fi situation, then it's not a western. And I still need you to mark your cast with lead, second lead, support and cameo(if available). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fables DC Comics offers the following condition: - DC would like to eat 30% of the revenue(a fair offer) + an upfront cost of 1,500,000 - DC would like a fair share of star power, the cast has to be at least 6.00 SP in total(excluding director and cameo) - DC would prefer someone famous as the main lead(s) - The right is for 1 movie only ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mass Effect The previous deal: <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="36553" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>- The right is for 1 movie only. - Everything in the film is considered canon and can be used freely in future games in any way they wanted. In short, they have creative rights on what you create here. - They would like the movie to not utilize the game's storyline fully(GM's Note: It's more or less my personal request, as I think it's bad for the game if everyone can just do adaptation and copy'n'paste the story). You can follow the storyline but add your own thing, or make something original out of it. - EA would want 70% of the profit(Profit adjustment is in place, you will still get a good amount of money but the deal could have been better). They don't want to pressure you with instant cash but they do want to milk money out of you. - They would like the movie to be reasonable in cast. The lead has to be a star with a SP of 2.00 or above. They also want at least 2 second lead roles and 5 supports. You can up above the numbers, but never lower.</div></blockquote> The current offer: - The right is for 1 movie only. - Everything in the film is considered canon and can be used freely in future games in any way they wanted. In short, they have creative rights on what you create here. - They would like the movie to not utilize the game's storyline fully. You can follow the storyline but add your own thing, or make something original out of it. - EA would want 65% of the profit OR 60% + 2,000,000 upfront - They would like the movie to be reasonable in cast. The lead has to be a star with a SP of 2.00 or above(They would much prefer one with 2.50 but 2.00 is fine). They also want at least 2 second lead roles and 5 supports. You can go above the numbers, but never lower. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Players There's no approval needed, you can start as soon as you register your studio.

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<div style="text-align:center;">Pineapple Express 2 Review by: Mr.G</div> Daul(Seth Rogan) and Saul(Dave Franco) returns in Pineapple Express 2, continue their weed-ful life of smoking and selling and doing pretty much what they wanted the whole time. As enjoyable life tends to be, there's always something(or in this case, someone) that is out there trying to f*** your life up and in the case of the Pineapple duo, they get a major crime boss, Poppadowski(Bruce Willis) on their tail. Much like a crime boss, Poppadowski utilizes one typical yet useful strategy of kidnapping to force Dale and Saul to his demand. Saul's girlfriend(Kat Denning) isn't too stupid of a lady though, she turns Poppadowski's scheme over by manipulating his son(Zach Galifinakis) onto her side. When you see zach Galifinakis in a comedy, you kind of already know his character type, he's pretty much typecasted nowadays as the lovable idiot although one can debate on lovable in this one. One of the main factors that he is manipulated so easily, aside from stupidity, is his hatred over his dad. In his dad's mind, he has always been useless and that's something not even a simple-minded person would take kindly. He offers Daul and Saul a s*** ton of weapons and yes -- it is indeed a huge amount of weaponry. One amazing scene there. Sadly, this is a comedy so the weapons are more for show than useful, as the battle eventually turns to be more of a brawl than a shooting contest and there's even bear(yes, real wild bear) joining the fray later on. The final twist is pretty much the best part of the story as Danny actually turned into one bad-ass leader at the end and he wants Dale and Saul death. Turns out he isn't that stupid, eh? Okay, that's the whole story but now. One problem I find is that the entire story is a little too straightforward and it just doesn't really have the charm of the first Pineapple Express. The story is more straightforward this time which is not too bad of a choice but I would expect more creativity and uniqueness out of a Pineapple Express sequel. The new characters are decent though with the most significant one being Danny. One thing to pick about Danny though, it's hard for me to view Zach Galifianakis as Bruce Willis' son as Zach has a pretty mature face while Bruce Willis always possess a younger-than-his-age look. Perhaps someone a little younger would do better. The running time is also a problem here. The original Pineapple Express runs for 117 minutes and it's been a fun journey. To replicate it well, there has to be enough time to show the characters and show some funny stuff. The 80 minutes running time here seems a bit rushed and that hurts the overall flow of the story a little bit. While I guess this is a slightly better-than-average film, it comes out as a bit disappointing as a Pineapple Express sequel(Again, when you put Pineapple Express on the name, people expect much more compared to a regular movie) so I would say 2.25 stars. It's very hard for a sequel to top the original movie and this one doesn't break the "very hard" gate. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - The writing of Seth Rogen actually helped the movie a significant amount but still, the overall concept just isn't that appealing. - You have 726,125 leftover but you only used 363,000 of it. That's bad move to be frank, you need all the money you can throw in your early phase, especially when you have a 5M cast on a project, you can't really save on the production cost and marketing. - The marketing budget is too small and that really hurts the overall box office performance. The saving grace is that the name, "Pineapple Express", does attract a fair sare of people. - The characters is the strong point of this film. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Revenue: 8,956,000 20% Franchise: 1,791,200 ---------------------------- Studio Revenue: 7,164,800 Budget: 6,890,000 ---------------------------- Gross Profit: 274,800 Post-release: 577,500 20% bonus: 54,960 ---------------------------- Net Loss: 357,660 Top Of The Moutain Productions' budget = $7,756,125 - $357,660 = 7,398,465 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - Seth Rogen and James Franco utilizes their character control to redempt themselves so they are not really criticize too much over the mediocre performance of this film and their SP are saved. - Seth Rogen and Bruce Willis dislike each other after this film due to the constant conflict over the course of filming, much thanks to the egotatiscal nature of Bruce Willis and Seth Rogen not willing to give inat the same time. They will not work with each other for their next 3 films OR a period of time. - Zach Galifianakis' character stand out in this one, earning him a decent SP boost of 0.15. - Bruce Willis doesn't seem to work well in this film(much thanks to his conflict with Seth Rogen and his SP takes a fair hit. His SP decreased from 4.30 to 4.15. - The franchise owners think it's better to not do a Pineapple Express 3 too soon so they will not be giving that particular franchise right unless given to well-proven studios.

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<div style="text-align:center;">Chimpanzombees Review by: Mr.G</div> Chimpanzombees is basically a natural horror film but with some dip of fantasy element. The Chimpanzombees are pretty much zombified chimpanzees, as you could guess from its name, and they are out there wrecking havoc. The movie does explain the origin of Chimpanzombees decently well with its opening and eventually, the group of protagonists is sent to deal with the rising menace of chimps. The main protagonist is Dr.Wesley Wire, one of the world's top primatologist, and alongside him is his wife Nala Wire(Danai Gurira) and his son Preston Wire(Michael B. Jordan). As they arrived in Congo and assigned to the mission, they are joined by Kaspar Schmidt(David Hasselhoff), top German mercenary on a mission to elminate the threat of the Chimpanzombees and Ape-Men(human zombie turned by the Chimpanzombees). As you would expect, they eventually proceed with their mission and battle against a ton of Chimpanzombees followed by a final showdown against Mook, the villain and controller of the zombie-men-chimpanzees army. Simple plot, some solid horror moments and good finale. However, one thing that doesn't really click with me is that there's not much of thrill in this one thus making this more of a straight horror or horror action film than a horror thriller. In my mind, it's an action horror(a tone similar to the Resident Evil movies albeit this has more horror element in it like scare scenes) for the amount of action scene in this one and also a very action movie style finale(I would expect the final battle to be against one giant ass chimpanzombee for horror). One major factor of this not being a thriller is that this film relies on a slow buildup toward the final fight, which is fine on its own but definitely not thrilling. For a thriller to work, the movie has to pull off a good amount of suspense like making the Chimpanzombees squad much more forceful, constantly on-the-attack and just flat-out bad ass so the protagonists look like they are either out of time to deal with them, or out of option. A paced build-up toward a final fight is workable but not thrilling. So too bad for people that wanted to see this to be thrilled but you should get what you wanted if you are looking for a more horror approach. I also feel that the occupation of Dr. Wesley Wire is not really needed. While he is a primatologist and is assigned to the mission to observe the behavior of the Chimpanzombees(or something like that), it doesn't really played out in the movie at all. In the end, he's just a warrior that beat Mook in battle. He might as well just be a soldier or whatever as the primatologist angle is wasted. Personally, I would prefer if he actually captured a Chimpanzombee and observe it, do all those scientific stuff and so on if the movie is making him a primatologist. Otherwise, it's redundant, and a great movie has near-zero redundancy. While the overall stories is fine, there are not too many outstanding moments and add in some of the problems as explained above, this is ultimately a pretty standard movie. You will probably enjoy it but you will not really remember it a few days later after you walk out of the movie theater. Overall, I would say this is 2.75 stars. It's a hard fight between the 2.5 to 3.0 range but the overall performance puts it on 2.75. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - Marketing budget is 612,500. - While the production is fine with 500,000, your decision to film this in Congo eats up a good amount of the production so the overall production value suffers from it(which affect the overall grade). It's better if you film it in a random forest in America, while it might not be the best in term of realism, it's a good option for a budget of your size. - The trend helped a little, especially after people realize that this is more horror than thriller anyway. Some thrill-seekers are not necessarily happy with this though. - Running time is fine. - GM's Note: I am fine with Sasha Grey being a cameo but Temeura Morrison is pretty much a support. A minor support but still a support. Cameo is more on very brief characters and the Voodoo High-Priest helps in advancing the story and while he is only in one scene, it's a long scene thus he should be a support. Minor support can die after one scene anyway, they are there as a character of the overall story. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue: 13,323,145 Budget: 4,522,500 ---------------------------- Gross Profit: 8,800.645 Post-release: 1,500,000 29.5% bonus: 2,596,190 ---------------------------- Net Profit: 4,704,455 Ninja Pirate Bear Studios' budget = $4,522,500 + $4,704,455 = $9,226,955 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - Michael B. Jordan has one of the more interesting character in the movie thus benefits from the attention of the audience. His SP increased from 0.80 to 0.90. - Andy Serkis, as the man behind the entire chimpanzombees army, really enhances the film experience and that is enough to earn him some attention in the industry, his SP is now 1.65 after an increase of 0.15. - Idris Elba's character is regarded as one of the paper-cut protagonist and one boring one at that, and he suffers from such comment which gives him a slight 0.10 SP penalty. - Cliff Curtis is praised for his solid performance, giving him a slight 0.05 SP boost. - George A. Romero's experience with the Romero style zombie really enhanced the film when it comes to the chimpanzombees. Ultimately, all people think that he is the force of this film and without him, this film might suffer. George A. Romero's SP increased from 1.80 to 2.05. - Dania Gurira is expecting a bad-ass when she takes the script but her character turns out to be not as bad-ass as she thought. This might affect the negotiation process if you plan to use her in near-future.

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Goliath764 replied to Goliath764's topic in The Dog Pound

Hey sorry but I am just busy, I will catch up with this weekend.

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Goliath764 replied to Goliath764's topic in The Dog Pound

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Russelrules44" data-cite="Russelrules44" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="36553" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I regret to inform you that I'm cancelling The Chaperone. (for good this time)</div></blockquote> Aye, go ahead and plan your new movie. You might as well put John Travolta on this one, just saying.

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@PGHJuice Your budget is incorrect, you have 6,530,000 on talent and 500,000 on franchise upfront, that left you with 726,125 for marketing and production. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @Ayden You need to give me access to the docs, you can change it with the share button on your top right corner. Change the setting to "Anyone who has link can view".

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<div style="text-align:center;">LA Underground Review by: Mr.G</div> LA Underground revolves around a triangle of characters -- Police Commissioner Krasinski(Ray Liotta), ex-cop-now-assassin Angelo Perez(Andy Garcia) and crime lord Lorenzo Vincente(Ray Liotta). Personally, I find Krasinski and Vincente to be much more interesting than the supposed main lead Angelo Perez. Both of them just have so much personality compared to the dull and boring Angelo Perez, which is an assassin...and that's about it. Krasinski has motivation and a good background. His desire to change himself and really punish the criminal is fun to know and Danny Devito is pretty much one heck of a villain, mostly thanks to the sadistic scenes provided to his character. There's some deja vu on Andy Garcia's character, it's hard to shake off the image of his Dirty Old Bastard's character because he is also doing his fair share of stalking throughout this film. Not to mention that his character in Dirty Old Bastard has so much depth over his current one, which is your average assassin. He's the main lead, I am very interested in his background, like why he leaves the force to be an assassin? Does he perfer "The Punisher" way of Justice, something the police force can't do? Or there's some other personal reason, none really explained in the film. As dull as his character can be, I have to admit that Andy Garcia still portrays his character impressively and with flair. Angelo Perez's initial plan failed and this means Krasinski has to take another approach, which he did. While the court scene is intense as it is, it's hard to believe that one of the goons is able to carry gun into the court and even proceed to shoot someone inside the court, I consider that as one of the most unrealistic part of this movie, bordering a "WT*" level. The final kill of Angelo to Lorenzo, while fitting, is lacking in tension. It doesn't really have the feel of a climax or finale. Overall, the actors actually carry this film as this is ultimately a very average(some maybe argue slightly under average) crime film with underdeveloped characters. The talents' performance did secure this one a 2.25 stars. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - While the average crime film is likely longer, the content of this one seems to be suitable for 94 mins. - Crime is a huge trend, so definitely a good boost on this one albeit a little short-lived as the trend can't lure too many people after the averagely-scored reviews are out. - Still, the box office is actually surprisingly good for this one, albeit the regular score. - Again, marketing is usually more important than production in the early phase. No one is going to be too picky with a starting studio's production value but marketing is hugely important in spreading words about your movie. You can't get box office without people knowing about it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue: 7,676,000 Budget: 2,604,300 ---------------------------- Gross Profit: 5,071,700 Post-release: 2,825,000 18% bonus: 912,906 ---------------------------- Net Profit: 1,333,794 8 Ball Productions' budget = $2,604,300 + $1,333,794 = $3,938,094 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - Andy Garcia is mostly remembered for his stalking part in this one. While an acting expert would comment that his performance on such a lacking character is quite amusing, the public doesn't necessarily see it that way(or that deeply). Andy Garcia's SP increased slightly, from 2.05 to 2.10. Andy Garcia is afraid that if he doesn't shake of the stalker image, he might soon be listed in the official sex offender list. He will not be include in any film that has any sort of stalker elment for his next 3 films. - Ray Liotta and Danny Devito take solid praise for playing such wonderful characters beautifully. Both of them get a 0.15 SP rise. - DJ Caruso takes a slight hit on this one as the public thinks his direction is dull and he should have try to save the film more. He takes a slight 0.05 hit on SP. D.J. Caruso would like to do something other than crime genre next.

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<div style="text-align:center;">The Connection Review by: Mr.G </div> What so impressive about The Connection to Mr.G is the creativity. One of the special elements of this film is that the main character has the ability to play with his senses. Close his eyes and any vision are denied and vice versa. Yeah I know, it's kind of like superpower. The film starts out with a simple plane ride, where Tony Args(Matt Damon) met Farrah Syne(Lena Headey)[i don't buy Lena Headay as a young lady, she's 39, still radiant and beautiful, but not young]. Everything is going just fine...until a lightning hits the plane and we finally get to the real story. Thank you lightning, for this film will not exist without you, and at that point Tony Args acquire his "power" and get to know that his existence depends on Farrah Syne as well, their life are "chained" together through some "scientifically-proven" supernatural type of phenomenon and Tony Args is set on a quest to keep the lady safe just so he can stay alive too at the same time. There's ton of action in this one as the assassin are still on Farrah's tail the whole darn time. Aside from action, there's also some solid character development but flawed at the same time(more on this later). Sealing off the movie is a final showdown with Jeremy Vasco(Adrien Brody) at the company building, which is pretty solid for a climax. On the general basis, this film has pretty much everything well covered so there's no doubt this is going to do well in the rating. However, there are some things I would like to talk about. First, I don't think drama should be on the genre list as I consider "drama" to be a sub-sub-genre for this film. Of course, this film has a ton of elements, I would argue that this is a sci-fi/action/thriller/romance/drama but the top 2 genres in my view are sci-fi and action. Sci-fi is a broad genre, one doesn't have to be space-related or have robots to be a sci-fi, The Connection employs a more "subtle" type of sci-fi with the power of senses and it has a very sci-fi-ish beginning to start the story off. The middle and the end possess a very action way of approach, tons of actions, high intensity, explosion and so on and that is why I consider this as sci-fi/action. Furthermore, the film focuses on the action side of thing with only a few slow spots that are necessarily to develop the characters a little bit but ultimately, it's very much an action film style of approach. Drama, at its core, is focused hugely on the characters(especially the main protagonist) and their emotional and relational development. It's focused on the story of human struggles and sadly, I consider the relational development to be the few problematic parts of this film. The main character needs more than that single relationship if he wants to have a drama level of development, which he doesn't have the whole time. Also, the relationship between Tony Args and Farrah Syne is just...unnatural, especially in the middle part. I don't especially buy their marriage as I fail to see why they have to marry to each other. They can be acquaintance, as long as neither of them doesn't die, it's fine. I fail to see how a marriage would help aside from making the relationship between them so much weirder and unrealistic(which is the opposite of drama). I am fine with them being closer to each other along the way but for them to be husband and wife out of nowhere is just too fast. While this sort of development will not really affect the score of a pure action film, I have to lower the mark for an "action/drama". There are also some unreal moments like Tony Args knowing how to operate a helicopter while being a businessman and without proper explanation, again, doesn't fit with drama but great for action film. That and I don't get how the assassin can manipulate thunderstorm into hitting the airplane, that has to be the most unrealistic part of this film. (And FYI, simple thunderstorm can bring an airplane down, I remembered a documentary that covers airplane incident caused by thunder strike. The rate is very low, like 1.xx airplane per year but it does happen) Throughout the movie, I don't necessarily like the setup of the final showdown because it's not hard to figure out that the company is a dangerous place as they are stepping into the assassin's territory. I consider this a small flaw on the overall story structure, but merely a small flaw. The ending is such a downer, I assume it's more or less to fit the drama genre but after watching the entire movie, I just don't feel it to be truly fitting based on how the film progresses. After all, Tony Args has kept the girl alive for so long and for him to fail so easily at the end, it's hard to shake off a feel of betrayal. It gives me a sense of "why bother? You are all dying in the end anyway" type of feeling and it's not easy to swallow that, considering that most(if not all) action films finish on a good ending and based on the overall progression of this film, I kind of settled on an action film ending. I am not sure if forcing sadness out of the ending is a good thing, but I think it's a pretty brave decision to do so albeit I don't fully agree with it. Personally, I think the ending should be the time both of them finally bond together as one, instead of some lame marriage in the middle. Part of me also wonder why the protagonist doesn't use his power there -- he could close his eyes, transcend through time and space and stay alive with his superpower. All in all, I think if this is a sci-fi/action, or just pure action movie, I would have given something like 4.00 to 4.25 but since drama is on the list, I have to judge accordingly and this is a 3.75 stars. Very close to a 4, but just not there. Barely, and sadly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - Action is not in the genre and drama is on a good spot. Mixing them both give you an average so only a minor boost. However, the minor boost is slightly decreased as well due to this one being more action than drama. Some moviegoers are fine with this one as a drama; some not so it's 50:50. - The movie is praised for its realistic and solid effects all around. - Could have been slightly longer, especially when you want to employ dramatic elements. - GM's Note: Slight penalty for changing rating from PG-13 to R although R is the right call in my view. - GM's Note: One of the reasons this is of a high score is because this is by far your most complete movie in terms of structure. Clear beginning, middle and end. - GM's Note: Next time when you do cameo please list the cameo talent name on their scene and maybe describe the scene more on the cameo's view. It's easier for me this way as I can see the impact of the cameo and I don't have to backtrack to the previous posts just to see what sort of cameo are they doing. - GM's Note: If you wonder what makes a drama, drama, I guess I will go with Gladiator(2000) as an example. While technically an epic historical drama film, some sites do put "action" into its genre. Gladiator is hugely focused on Maximus and his "life adventure", from betrayal to his rising as a gladiator. The story ultimately revolves around him -- his drive, his motivation, everything is depict well in the film. The Connection has a very action sort of approach from beginning to the end, nothing too dramatic about it and Tony Args' main development is only his relationship with the girl. His businessman background and other personalities and relationship are not developed throughout the film. - GM's Note: I am being a hard ass on genre because ultimately I want to make sure the movie is a link to its genre, to prevent people from just reaping award from the trend too easily. While the trend is important, don't be afraid to just write whatever your mind have as a great movie will triumph over an average movie with trend support. - GM's Note: Do note that as your budget goes bigger, you should consider using more stars in your film(in any roles) to increase star value. It's my way of trying to make sure more talents can get job and I think it is pretty normal for a movie to use a lot of stars, with more supporting roles as the scale increases. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue: 32,762,000 Budget: 10,000,000 ---------------------------- Gross Profit: 22,762,000 Post-release: 1,300,000 15% bonus: 3,414,300 ---------------------------- Net Profit: 18,047,700 True Bright Pictures' budget = $10,979,580 + 18,047,700 = 29,027,280 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - Matt Damon is said to be the true performer in this film, some even said he carries the whole film on his own. Matt Damon's SP increased from 3.75 to 4.10. Matt Damon wanted to try something else now that he has done enough for the action and drama genre. His next movie cannot be of action and/or drama genre. - Lena Headey's performance is decent but she should thank Matt Damon for "enhancing" her role. Lena Headey's SP increased from 1.45 to 1.65. - Many people find that some other directors could have done a better job than Coen Brothers, despite the success. Coen Brothers' SP decreased from 2.30 to 2.25.

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LA Underground Ray Liotta(1.75 SP) - He is fine taking only 850,000 upfront and the remainign 375,000 later BUT he would like 3% of the movie's profit as compensation. Current deal: Pre-release: 2,050,000 Post-release: 2,825,000 + 18% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pineapple Express There's some misake on my calculation, here's the correct one: Pre-release: 6,530,000(Bruce Willis' trailer cost included) Post-release: 577,500 + 15% Don't forget that the 500,000 franchise upfront too when you do your budget. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will do the review later, too tired now to rate things so if any of you would like to get their movie rated soon, go ahead and post yours now.

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The Connection Matt Damon(3.75 SP) - 3,200,000; 1,900,000 upfront. Coen Brothers(2.30 SP) - They would like 1,250,000 + 15% OR 1,950,000 + 10% Lowest deal: Pre-release: 5,980,000 Post-release: 1,300,000 + 15%

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LA Underground Andy Garcia(2.05 SP) - He would like 1,640,000. He's fine taking only 640,000 upfront. Ray Liotta(1.75 SP) - He's up for 1,225,000. Danny Devito(1.50 SP) - He would like 650,000. - He has a production company too so he knows the tough job of starting up, so he will be fine taking only 200,000 upfront to help you out. D.J. Caruso(1.80 SP) - He's going for 1,000,000 + 15%. All are post-release since you gave him work before. Lowest deal: Pre-release: 2,425,000 Post-release: 2,450,000 + 15% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Connection Matt Damon(3.75 SP) - He's taking 4,125,000. - He's pretty interested in leading a non-drama film. If you can give him a main lead role in a non-drama film within your next 5 movies, he will do this for 3,250,000 and only taking 2,000,000 upfront. Lena Headey(1.45 SP) - She would like 1,305,000. Adrien Brody(2.95 SP) - He would like 1,475,000. Kevin Bacon(2.50 SP) - He would go for 45,000. - If you can put him in any of your next 5 films as at least a supporting role, he can do it for free. Michael Mando(1.10 SP) - He will take 5,000. Lowest deal: Pre-release: 4,830,000 Post-release: 1,250,000 I need director. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pineapple Express Relativity Media/Apatow Productions view your draft and offer you this: - They would like 500,000 upfront and also eating 20% of the revenue(An average deal for the revenue, you can try to negotiate if you want). Upfront means that you need to include the 500,000 onto your budget. - Seth Rogen has to be part of the writing crew(Just some post-release impact, you still write the story yourself) - The right is for one movie only. You can ask again in future if you want to do PE3. Talents: Seth Rogen(2.40 SP) - Since the request is that he's part of the writing crew, he thinks he deserve some of the profit out of this. He would like 1,750,000 + 5%. James Franco(2.20 SP) - He would go for 1,850,000. Bruce Willis(4.30 SP) - He would like 2,150,000 and yes, dude's one greedy man. - However, if you can cast him as main lead within your next 3 movies, he's fine with 1,400,000 and getting them after the movie is done. - He would like the biggest trailer and over-the-lead level of treatment on the set despite being a support. Yeah, egomaniac, I know. You will have to pay 100,000 for this in your pre-release budget. If you are willing to accept his main lead request, he will be fine with just an equal size trailer as the leading roles, only 50,000 in this case. Zach Galifianakis(1.90 SP) - He's fine with 760,000. - If you can give him at least a supporting role within your next 6 movies, then he will do this for 480,000. Kat Dennings(1.65 SP) - She would like to thank you for the status rise from your previous movie, so she's fine taking 577,500 post-release. David Gordon Green(1.45 SP) - He would like 1,000,000 + 10%. Lowest deal possible: Pre-release: 6,530,000(Bruce Willis' trailer cost included) Post-release: 577,500 + 20%

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Metro: Fields of Dreams What I learned from re-read and not first read and some extra notes: - Hedeon's quest is to reach Polis but it's hard to deny that looking for his wife is such a strong emotional motivator to Hedeon, especially since it's the thing on his mind throughout his journey. It's not hard to see relate that he wants to get to Polis because his wife is there. Also, his objective is not really one of the points I have a problem with, the main thing is the process of going there(act 2). - I am not familar with Metro so maybe a good explanation of this Polis place will help for the uneducated. Metro has a good world but you will have to explain well on parts that you would use in the movie like the faction relation and so on. It's the hard part of adaptation, to put a huge universe into something that runs only for 2 hours. - The middle part(act 2) can still be more exciting, I would like to see more events and relationship building in the middle part. The climax and finale of a film is usually short and intense, the journey toward there is the longest part of a film so more content is preferable. I do understand that act 2 is the toughest part of a movie(or just any story), it's much easier to figure out the starting and ending, but the middle part is so much tougher to establish. - Re-reading the first page, apparently Hedeon's job has more impact to the story than what I stated on my review, so my bad on that. However, I would like to see more interaction between him and his wife, that advice still stands. - I expect more graphical action sequence if you are writing long. After all, it's a sci-fi action, I would appreciate some efforts on writing the action scenes if you plan on writing long. - I re-read the long plot and then, short plot, but it's just not as good as I expected it to be, if I can be honest. I also think that splitting this into two parts might be the problem here, as I still have to judge each one as an individual movie and the ending part of this one isn't too impressive. It's a little bit of a lackluster because after right after Andrei exposed himself as the evil one, he then killed himself. Hedeon is merely witnessing everything going down, he doesn't really do too much. The intensity just isn't there, there's not enough excitement to that. If the escaping part is longer, it could make the climax better to be frank, but it's a little bit too short from what you have written. - It's important that the protagonist is active. In The Good Men, General Paul Stone is trying to stop the war, he wants to stop Operation Swiftforce and he is actively trying to sotp it. In Back to Business, the big 4 are doing their best to try and defend the place from that specific a-hole. In Metro, Hedeon is just merely pushed around by events after events, everyone is giving him something to do and he do that, he doesn't actively try to do something, he is merely following orders. He's not the man of his own destiny despite having the desire to find his wife. It would be cool to see him doing something that he decides for once, which I expect to see in the next film, but I don't really see too much of them aside from the ending part in this one. - I re-calculated the film since I forgot about franchise power. I also forgot to charge you upfront on the franchise so I add them into the movie's cost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Long vs Short As for long vs short, I would like to explain this to everyone. The main reason that long =/= quality is I want this game to be casual. This is a forum game, a more casual-oriented game, and is not supposed to be a contest of length. It's very unfair if I just give every plot with good length a much higher score and it's not fun that way so I have to judge things accordingly. While writing long plots can be a bit of a double-edged sword, it's still beneficary. The double-edged sword thing is that when you lengthen your plot, it's much easier for me to find plot holes and take a shot at them. However, if you explain everything fairly well, you are likely to get a higher score on average if you write longer. How so? Because every short recap is almost going to sound generic. You can try to recap 10 superheroes movie, they are going to end up similar: "Superhero A is trying to defeat his nemesis Villain A" vs "Villain B is trying to destroy the city, Superhero B is coming to the rescue". A longer plot is more personal and unique because it makes every story different. Good detail will help the score as I believe in good creativity. I would argue that it's much easier to get a 4.0 and above from a longer plot(doesn't have to be HUGE, but a good length) than a short synopsis as long as you can write an interesting story. Of course, shorter plots do have chance too because it's only fair to do so but it has more of a luck factor than a longer plot. I will have to determine on a lot of things like talent performance, marketing budget, production, the premise(very important for shorter plot). A longer plot though, you can have the worst premise or initial concept of the world but if you write it well, then I will score you well. You don't depend luck as much as the others but good luck can further enhance your movie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.0 Stars & Above Some might go "what the frak, when are you going to score a 4.0 or above?". Personally, a solid, good movie will give you a 3.0 stars and above; 4.0 and above is more of a "God" region. My idea of a 4.0 and above is 80 on Metacritic, RottenTomatoes or 8.0 in IMDB. Those scores are very tough to get and there's only a little amount of movies per year that can get such score. Also, one of the problem with the original 1.0 Movie Game is that there's too much high score out there. Hence, 4.0 and above is given only to the great movies out there. Personally, I think the challenge will make the player happier about getting 4.0 star. I don't want to throw them out too easily because it just loses its value by then. You should be happy on getting a 3.0 stars and above, it means you are being successful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Formula I re-adjusted the franchise formula, I am posting it on the 2nd post of first page.

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<div style="text-align:center;"><div style="text-align:center;">Deja Vu Review by: Mr.G</div></div> It's hard for me to believe that Kat Dennings is starring in a crime film. It's a true challenge to her acting capability in this one as her character is probably the most complex character among all in this film. Deja Vu starts out as a pretty standard crime film, we have Emma Szymanski(Kat Dennings), a homicide detective with very strong desire to find out the killer of her parents, a desire so strong that it could kill people if she's a psychic. Emma Szymanski has some other weird traits too, memory loss, random anger issues, those are actually good foreshadowing of what's going to come. She is sunken deeper and deeper as the killer shows up once again and in action. Nick Hatton(Michael Douglas) tries his best to stop her from being so obsessed but it's a really tough job and so he decided it would be best to just assist her to put her objective to a rest, so she could live a normal life once and for all. The killer appears to be so much tougher than they thought he could be, clues are so much harder to find and they are only hitting walls after walls...BAM, plot twist! Police Chief Officer Bronson(Aaron Eckhart) is found dead in Szymankis's apartment and Emma Szymanski pretty much shows up her true self or her "B personality". Apparently, she has split personality disorder and a very serious one at that. After some struggle from Nick Hatton, even trying to turn Emma Szymanski back to her "A personality", the normal one, to get out of the situation. The climax is pretty intense and eventually Hatton shot and finished the true killer once and for all. Okay, pretty solid overall story plus some decent acting so...is there anything that falls short? Yup. First, the new victims are killed in the same exact way as Emma's parents but...how in the world can Emma be so capable of killing people when she's a child? It would be more believable if she's teenager when she killed her parents. Second, I think there should be an event that trigger Emma at the beginning of the film to put a reason for her to re-open her killing spree. After all, she has calmed down so many years and for her "B personality" to go rampage again, there has to be a reason, something that ticks her inner self off. Otherwise, she should be committing a ton of murders over the years, which is also an approach, but not the approach this film is using. Perhaps having another father figure in Nick Hatton is the trigger? I personally think it's a workable angle. I also think that on the final part, Emma is giving in too easily. Someone with split order personality should be more...hmm...hard-to-guess and probably won't expose herself too easily. I feel that for Bronson to find out about Emma's disorder and then confront her leading to the final part could help the film. It's also more crime-oriented as there's more investigation going rather than the more psychological thriller approach. All in all, this film's a good one, a real close to a 3.75 actually but adding up all the minor flaws, it's a really good 3.5 stars out of 5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - This one hits the trend perfectly in time and draws a pretty good amount of moviegoers despite a fairly limited marketing fund. Still, the marketing could be higher. - Some people have doubt about Kat Dennings starring this one, it's a minor turnoff but not too much. - The rather limited production budget is one minor flaw. Some of the scenes look a bit amateurish. - The time could be slightly longer, maybe 100+ mins. - GM's Note: You miscalculated your talent fund, it should be 2,700,000 and not 2,780,000. Too bad, as the 80,000 could be useful on other output of the film. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue: 11,487,000 Budget: 2,920,000 ---------------------------- Gross Profit: 8,567,000 Post-release: 2,740,000 12.5% bonus: 1,070,875 ---------------------------- Net Loss: 4,756,125 Top Of The Moutain Productions' budget = 3,000,000 + 4,756,125 = 7,756,125 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - While one can argue that Kat Denning isn't as good as many actresses out there, she actually pulls off an impressive performance that not many sees coming. She is now not only a comedic actress as this movie opens up a new route for her in Hollywood. Kat Denning's SP increased from 1.25 to 1.65. - David Fincher shows that he is still a boss and will be a boss for a long time in this genre. His SP increased from 3.50 to 3.70. - Michael Douglas' stock rises as he's in a successful film, from 2.80 to 2.90. It's a little sad for Aaron Eckhart that his role is so insignificant that no one really remember him by the end, so no rise for him. - BONUS: Mental Strength - NMHA(National Mental Health Association) is impressed by the portrayal of mental disorder in this film. They said that if you can make a film about any significant mental disorder in a good way(as in, positive portrayal, like a mental patient trying his best in life and so on) in future, they are willing to sponsor your film. The sponsor deal is that they will rebate 15% of the expenses of that film.

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<div style="text-align:center;">Dirty Old Bastard Review by: Mr.G</div> Let me just say it straight out that Dirty Old Bastard is a stalker thriller and not an action film, the story is nothing too special to be honest as it is one pretty typical stalker film that involves a stalker stalking the heck out of his victim. A little enhancer of this one is that Ashley(Kaley Cuoco) is already stalked before by the stalker(Andy Garcia) and this is more of a re-stalking process. Another attempt actually. I would prefer more flashback out of this one to be frank, as it will add to the tension between Ashley and the stalker if the audience are able to see more about past events. Perhaps leading to a mental meltdown of Ashley as I have always liked the mindf***ing expect of a thriller. This movie prefers a more physical approach though as eventually the stalker pulls off his plan of directly attacking his victim. Bam and bam, tons of hide and seek and some creepy moments and eventually the stalker finally catches up to Ashley but only to be killed by the sheriff. All in all, it's not too bad of a film with good performance from the actors, especially Andy Garcia's performance is so good he might probably be thought to be a real stalker in real life. However, since this is branded as "action", then I have to rate it as an action film, in this case this just doesn't fit the action genre as it has not much of action throughout the film. It's a good stalker thriller/horror film but the incorrect genre choice is hurting this one. It's 2.5 to 3 stars probably for a thriller but I can only give like 1.5 stars for an action film and that's already pretty generous. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - More marketing would help. Production isn't too key for the starting film. - Some of the action fans are angried at the false advertising(incorrect genre) but some of the fans spread the words that this is more of a wrongly-branded stalker thriller so eventually the film hits the correct demographic..but a little too late. (GM's Note: Genre choice is important so be careful with it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue: 4,018,000 Budget: 3,000,000 ---------------------------- Gross Profit: 1,018,000 Post-release: 1,225,000 15% bonus: 152,700 ---------------------------- Net Loss: 395,700 8 Ball Productions' budget = 3,000,000 - 395,700 = 2,604,300 GM's Note: This is definitely an earner in the correct genre but the tone and approach is just so far away from an action film I can't make it do too well on the revenue. Sorry on that but with the correct genre, your second film could be a real hit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - Andy Garcia's excellent performance creeps people out and creeping people out is apparently a way to gain popularity. Andy Garcia's SP increased from 1.85 to 2.05. - Nudity can be helpful and in this case, Kaley Cuoco gets a slight SP boost from 1.00 to 1.05 because of that. - DJ Caruso is praised for his directing in this one, earning a SP boost of 0.15 and his new SP is now 1.80.

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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="dakydaky" data-cite="dakydaky" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="36553" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Wow that's dissapointing, my best movie till date and such a low score and a no profit. Also, the review completely missed the point of the movie, since his primary task is to actually get to Polis, which makes so much more sense. I also don't see the point of writing a longer plot when my 200 word which was far less diverse and filled got a lot higher score :/</div></blockquote> You know what, I will give it a re-read later.

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<div style="text-align:center;">Serendipity 2: This Is It Review by: Mr.G</div> Serendipity changes from "drama" to "horror thriller". I really don't see genre change coming out of a trilogy but I guess anything is possible when it comes to Serendipity. Speaking of anything is possible, the previous film ends when Marra Sorde wanting to break Ryan Froggy out of prison and this one starts with...Ryan Froggy out of the prison? What the heck? Can we, the audience, at least gets to see how Marra Sorde breaks him out? Pluck in some random violence and we arrive at the main venue of this film...the Sorde manor. Well, after you reached this part of the film, you realize this is going to be as senseless as Serendipity 1 because everything here has zero sense. Apparently, there's no "sense" in the dictionary of Serendipityverse. We at least get to know why Marra Sorde is so f***ed up in her thinking way, because she comes from a f***ed up place where there's a goddess of sister and every other sisters have to worship her. Man, this is some kinky fetish type of stuff, probably more workable in the adult industry to be frank. Ryan Froggy suddenly turns into a villain right after then and sided with ghost Ankola and not Marra Sorde. Holy mother of God, it's really hard to grasp the next move in this film because everything is just so surprising. One second, Ryan Froggy is with Marra Sorde; another second, he teams up with a ghost. Dude probably has multiple personality disorder. The part where Marra broke Ankola's neck and the neck just recovered is supposed to be creepy I guess, but it's hard to not laugh at that. After some struggling and so on, the movie eventually reaches the end part. First, I don't know why Ankola needs a gun since she's a ghost and unkillable; second, I don't even know why the frak is she helping Ganya since she is trying to kill her just minutes ago. Again, everything makes no sense. And then we have an officer coming on screen to just die to eight bullets, LOL-worthy. So in the end, Ankola disappears, Marra and Ryan became servant of Ganya after 194 minutes of horrifying adventure. It's a wonder the studio did 194 mins of a film AFTER a ton of complaint that the first one IS TOO LONG at 170 mins. Oh man, the horror. All in all, another bad film with zero logical sense and some of the weirdest story ever but oh well, at least it is indeed a horror thriller so I would say 0.75 stars. Personally, I find it more funny than serious because of the senselessness, kind of like Scary Movie sort of movie. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - You won't get CGI with 25,000 production. - Going for a sequel RIGHT AFTER a huge flop of the first one is a very bad move. When the memory of the first one is still fresh out there, no one is going to bother with the second one. You only do sequel on successful films and if you want to do a sequel of a non-successful film, do it much later. - Marketiing budget is fine but due to the reason above, it ain't helping too much. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue: 628,000 Budget: 2,000,000 ---------------------------- Gross Loss: 1,372,000 Post-release: 10,995,000 ---------------------------- Net Loss: 12,367,000 Nitrous Acid Films' budget = 2,000,000 - 12,367,000 = -10,367,000 Nitrous Acid Films declared bankrupt over a total debt of $15,317,000. The player, nitrousacid, can come back to the game after a 1 week break(7 days). Thank you for playing and let's hope that you have a better outcome with your next studio. (GM's Note: The 1 week break is to prevent exploit of players losing money at their first film and then intentionally do a crap second film so they can restart on a $3M/$5M budget instantly) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - When a film is bad, it's excusable but when everyone joins in for its direct sequel, which is also that bad, their stock are going to drop. Every returning talent involved in the trilogy has their SP decreased by 0.50. Newly joined talents' SP decreased by 0.25. Darren Ewing is an exception because his SP is already so low.

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<div style="text-align:center;">Metro: Field of Dreams Review by: Mr.G</div> So, Metro 2033 finally has its own movie, huh? I wonder if S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will get one in the future. Well, this is not franchise talk so let's focus on the movie itself. Metro: Field of Dreams is the first half of a complete story, kind of like Kill Bill, which has two parts too. The story mainly revolves around Hedeon(Anton Yelchin) and his "adventure" through the screwed up world. For the non-Metro fans, the story happens in a post-apocalyptic world so the people are already in a very screwed up place to begin with. Hedeon is merely a normal fisherman(I have near zero knowledge of Metro but you can fish underground in Metroverse?) until some sort of parasite screwed his life over, wiped the entire station and left him on a quest to find his wife. Thorough his journey, he eventually confronts the one who screw his station over and some events later, found his wife and decided to go on surface. Okay, let's just say I am not really enthusiastic with my recap because this film is missing in several marks. Big marks. Let's start with the journey, as you would realize I recap them in such a short way because it's pretty uneventful. The main critical part is that there's a ton of sleeping and wake up, which to me, is bad storytelling. It's kind of like "I don't know how to get the protagonist from point A to point B, so I will just knock him out after point A and put him to the beginning of point B". No, don't do that, it's fine if you do the knock out routine once in a movie but do it too much and it's a "slideshow". The connection is slim throughout the scenes, it just doesn't feel like a complete story. The audience would like to see how the hero go from A to B, his journey is what makes the story. Quick cutting his story is only going to hurt the completeness of it. We want to see the hero travels from here to there, makes his own decision and manipulates his own destiny, not forced upon by events after events. The hero also never seems to be in control until the very last part, we have him trying to find his wife but most of the time it's the events driven him to a place, not himself. In this kind of story, the hero should have a more "active" role as seeking his wife is an active task. He is moving to find his wife, not waiting, so more "pushing forward" of the hero himself is much needed here. Okay, now we are on the topic of his wife. The main motivation and objective of the journey of Hedeon is he wants to find his wife, Olga, yet the film doesn't really put much effort into establishing their intimacy. The introduction focuses on Hedeon being a fisherman and that's okay but it doesn't really help with the story. Hedeon is still Hedeon, be it a carpenter, a driver, a mayor or a fisherman. His job has no direct impact to the story aside from maybe a connection to the fish-like monster. There should be more foreshadowing in the front part, get the audience to know more about his connection with his wife, engross the audience with it, so the audience will be hooked in the journey. The audience could careless if a stranger known as Bob is looking for his wife because the audience doesn't know Bob...or his wife. It's hard to "get into" the film on a emotion level on this one. I am not too sure why the protagonist wants to kill the station anyway. No, of course, there's the sacrifice for God and so on but perhaps more explanation to the audience? Non-Metro fans don't really know the world of Metro so the movie has to put more into the background story for the uneducated, to make it easier on them. The Field of Dream, the Gods, it's pretty confusing when the movie just skim over them. I don't even fully sure about the antagonist's motivation(and how he spraed the virus) after I watch the movie. It's just too generic of a reason and not well-explained at that. HOWEVER, there's the second half so the studio can always redempt the movie by explaining stuff there. This movie also has "action" in its genre but I really don't see too much action here. I expect some battle with the fish monsters but I don't get them. The battle in the end is also way too short to fit into action genre. How about just "Sci-Fi"? A film can have some action without being an action film but you better put a good amount of it if you plan on tagging "action" into its genre mix. Overall, I feel the story of Metro: Field of Dreams is the problem here. Just not too well established and not too exciting of a journey. Put Hedeon as the driver and not merely a passenger, inject more actions, especially with freakish monsters because that's fun to watch and more emotion and the second part of Metro will definitely be a better movie. For now, this is merely a 2 stars from me. It's almost a 1.75 stars but at least it has an overall story, just not that good of one so I stay at 2.0 stars. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Information - Production value of this film is freaking awesome, too awesome actually as more marketing might be better. - The movie did surprisingly good in Russia. - Fans of the book appreciate the story but fans of the video game expect a much more action-packed film out of this. - The film is too long at 134 minutes(GM's Note: The middle is too short IMO, reaching the final showdown climax too early. Personally, I would extend the survivor phase against the monsters and establish more between the relationship of Hedeon and Andrei, so the betrayal has much more impact) - The star power is a little too slim for a movie of this size. There's a ton of Milla Jovovich and Tom Hardy fans but they are disappointed by the lack of exposure of the two. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue: 24,547,000 50% Franchise: 12,273,500 ---------------------------- Revenue: 12,273,500 Budget: 12,000,000 ---------------------------- Gross Profit: 273,000 Post-release: 500,000 Franchise: 1,000,000 15% Bonus: No need for loss ---------------------------- Net Loss: 1,227,000 True Bright Pictures's new capital = 12,206,580 - 1,227,000 = 10,979,580 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Impact - All the talents have done fairly good work in this one so there's not much of SR drop aside from a slight drop of Milla Jovovich and Tom Hardy. Both of them have their SP reduced by 0.05. - Tim Burton, though, takes huge flame on tons of Metro community throughout the globe for this mediocre product, pulling his stock down from 2.30 to 2.10. - While disappointed, Dmitry Glukhovsky is fine giving you another chance with the second half since you did did what he wanted, like use a ton of Russian talents for example. However, he would like you to do a second half AT LEAST after two more films, so you have the time plot a story and hopefully the audience will forget about the first half by then and give second half a better chance.

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Sorry for not replying, schoolwork is being a beyotch, I will sleep and do the reviews in like 10 hours.

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Ayden is correct, the default is pre-release.

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Goliath764 replied to Goliath764's topic in The Dog Pound

Metro: Field of Dreams Per our agreement, I think you should STILL write a synopsis for plot on the site. A link to a "full plot" and a much shorter synopsis here. As for the marketing, making a good game takes time and money. As Metro 2033 is a legit video game franchise, the owner refuses to make a rushed movie game(which always sucks) and so I think it's not possible for the game to be out before the movie is up in theater. Also, per agreement with the owner, they have the right to make game based on the movie on their own, you have no right in that part so technically you shouldn't be able to make the game legally. A flash game or something, though, is possible. Or you can always find other ideas of marketing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deja Vu Michael Douglas - He considers and set up a new deal: 1,840,000; 900,000 upfront. Current deal: Pre-release: 2,700,000 Post-release: 2,740,000 + 12.5% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dirty Old Bastard Kaley Cuoco - Deal Andy Garcia - While 10,000 is not much of money, he feels that if he is willing to take small cut on every movie, it will accumulate into a huge sum over his entire career. So, he would like you to just get that him that extra 10,000 anyway. HOWEVER, your negotiation team talked him down so deal on 1,100,000. DJ Caruso - Sadly, he doesn't trust a brand new studio with with no record. It's always a wild bet without a constant. Hence, he would like to lower his deal a little bit just to secure the deal: 1,550,000 + 10% OR 1,050,000 + 15%. Lowest deal possible: Pre-release: 2,587,500 Post-release: 1,225,000 + 15% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Chaperone Zac Efron(1.10 SP) - He will do it for 900,000, post-release. Hilary Duff(0.90 SP) - 720,000, post-release. Neil Patrick Harris(1.75 SP) - He would like 875,000. - He can lower it to 600,000 if you are willing to give him at least another supporting role within your next 5 movies. Justin Timberlake(1.45 SP) - He can do the song. He will do the role and the song for 375,000 post-release. Lindsay Lohan(1.20 SP) - 480,000, post-release. Gail Kim(0.30 SP) - 80,000, post-release. Eddie Murphy(3.50 SP) - 1,050,000; 550,000 upfront. I assume your "The Rest" means "Cameo"(and cameo can't show up too much in the movie, there will be penalty if you do so): Charlie Sheen(3.00 SP) - He's too busy and could do without the lead role agreement. - He will do the cameo role for 100,000. Tito Ortiz(0.40 SP) - He will do it for 5,000 only since he is friendly to you. - However, he knows that he cannot be lead in your next movie because you NEED to put John Travolta on lead and mr.Travolta will not work with him. So, he will just take 5,000 and perhaps in future you can hire him again. Chris Columbus(3.00 SP) - He would take 2,000,000; 750,000 upfront + 15%. Lowest deal possible: Pre-release: 1,900,000 Post-release: 4,410,000 + 15%

Movie Tycoon 1.0

Goliath764 replied to Goliath764's topic in The Dog Pound

Metro: Field of Dreams Milla Jovovich(2.85 SP) - In that case, she would like 1,500,000 upfront. Tim Burton(2.30 SP) - He would like to be the direct of the second part too. - He would like 2,070,000 + 15% of the film's profit. Current total: Pre-release: 5,305,000 Post-release: 500,000 + 15%. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chimpanzombees Cliff Curtis - He likes the second lead in future film but it must be within your next 6. - He re-negotiate with 525,000 total and 200,000 upfront. Pre-release: 3,410,000 Post-release: 1,500,000 + 29.5% I can do Fables later. Or you can choose to delay it until your current film is out. As your studio's reputation grows, adaptation deals might be better on your side(as the other owners believe in your studio's ability and will be more fine with you doing it). It's up to you though, if you are confident with your current film you can consider delaying it but if you would like Fables ASAP then I can do it for you later. As for swearing, I prefer unedited assuming it's not against this forum's rule(which I don't know all of them). As for long, I write long-winded crap so I am fine with long. I prefer wall of texts more than TL;DR anyway. It also makes my review job easier if you can explain your film more thoroughly. However, long =/= instant quality though so it's not a contest of whose film is longest. Dakydaky asked a similar question few pages ago, if you want you can direct me to maybe google doc if your movie page if it is too long for the forum. However, if you want to link me to another site, please make a shorter synopsis here for the mass and for format's sake. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dirty Old Bastard Kaley Cuoco(1.00 SP) - She's fine with partial nudity.(GM's Note: But you can always try to talk her into more.) - She would like 900,000 with 400,000 upfront as she appreciate being cast as a movie's lead. Andy Garcia(1.85 SP) - With another movie in the horizon, he's fine with only 1,110,000. 500,000 upfront. Tom Selleck(1.65 SP) - He will take 412,500. Elijah Wood(1.95 SP) - He will take 780,000. - If you are fine with him being at least second lead within your next 6 movies, he will go for 550,000 with 225,000 upfront. DJ Caruso(1.65 SP) - He would like 1,650,000 + 10% OR 1,150,000 + 15% Lowest deal possible: Pre-release: 2,687,500 Post-release: 1,335,000 + 15% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deja Vu I checked the genre on various website, Crime is actually a sub-genre of drama but big enough to stand on its own as a genre, so I think you don't need to do "Crime/Drama", just "Crime" is fine. David Fincher(3.50 SP) - He would like 3,000,000; 1,500,000 upfront OR 2,000,000; 1,000,000 upfront + 12.5%. Kat Dennings(1.25 SP) - One main and one supporting role, that's pretty awesome. - She would be fine with 900,000 in this one; 450,000 upfront. Michael Douglas(2.80 SP) - He would like 1,960,000; 980,000 upfront. Aaron Eckhart(2.00 SP) - He would like 700,000; 350,000 upfront. Lowest deal possible: Pre-release: 2,780,000 Post-release: 2,780,000 + 12.5% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Serendipity 2: This Is It Jennifer Lopez(1.90 SP) - She would go as low as 1,125,000; 525,000 upfront. Anne Hathaway(3.00 SP) - Deal. Eddie Murphy(3.50 SP) - He feels insulted by your words of "terrible performance", he ain't going to drop his price lower than 2,200,000; 1,200,000 upfront. - If you really feel he is terrible, then just leave him out of the film, he doesn't care. Total: Pre-release: 1,725,000 Post-release: 10,995,000

Movie Tycoon 1.0

Goliath764 replied to Goliath764's topic in The Dog Pound

Metro: Field of Dreams Anton Yelchin(1.20 SP) - Aye on light beard. - He would like 1,000,000. He lowers his price since it's more of a two movie deal anyway. Konstantin Khabenskiy(0.60 SP) - He would like 540,000. - If you are willing to give him at least a support role within your next 6 movies, he would lower it to 420,000. Mila Jovovich(2.85 SP) - She would like 1,000,000 + 2% for this one. Rade Serbedzija(0.70 SP) - 315,000 is all it takes. Tom Hardy(1.45 SP) - He wore mask on Batman so it's no problem. - He would like 870,000. - He would lower his price to 500,000 and make that post-release if you can give him at least a second lead role within your next 5 movies. Note: You forgot director. Current lowest total: Pre-release: 2,735,000 Post-release: 500,000 + 2%. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Serendipity 2: This Is It Per the request of AFI, most talents are asked to only receive payment post-release to help out the studio. Selena Gomez(0.95 SP) - 950,000, post-release. Anne Hathaway(3.00 SP) - 2,700,000, post-release. Eddie Murphy(3.50 SP) - He would only accept a maximum of partial nudity. - 2,275,000. 1,275,000 upfront; 1,000,000 post-release. Ashley Tisdale(1.00 SP) - No full frontal nudity please, partial is fine. - 650,000, post-release. Lilly Collins(1.10 SP) - 715,000, post-release. Minka Kelly(1.10 SP) - 715,000, post-release. Jennifer Lopez(1.90 SP) - 1,235,000, post-release. 525,000 upfront; 710,000 post-release. Darren Ewing(0.30 SP) - 165,000, post-release. Jude Law(3.50 SP) - 3,500,000, post-release. Total: Pre-release: 1,800,000 Post-release: 11,105,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chimpanzombees Your current total is: Pre-release: 3,185,000 Post-release: 1,175,000 + 29.5%(I know my last post said 28.5%, I forgot The Hoff's 1%) Temuera Morrison(1.10 SP) - He would like 25,000 for cameo. Cliff Curtis(0.95 SP) - He would like 332,500. New total: Pre-release: 3,542,500 Post-release: 1,175,000 + 29.5% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russelrules44 You don't have to wait for me, just start changing cast or talk to your current cast. Or plan another movie. It's your decision. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update The trends are changing, please check the 3rd post for the new list. - People's lust for action movies are satisfied. - They still want horrors. - Comedy are not as wanted as previously. - People's desire for a good drama has increased. - A top wanted serial killer was caught recently and his story and method are exposed on various media. This started the people's hunt for a good crime movie. - Fantasy remains the top trend. The initial sheet is done and is up on first post. Credit to Dakydaky for helping with the sheet. The amount of talent is still not very huge so if you plan on using some stars in future and would like to get them into the database right now, you can list them and I will rate and put them in. If you wonder why the female talents' SP looked a little too low, sadly the movie business is male-oriented with male starring in most movies so the female talents do have lower SP on average. I hereby clarify that the maximum starting SP is 5.00 but a talent can go over that through the course of the game. There's no limit or cap for SP, a talent can reach 6.00, 7.00 and so on through progression of the game. I will be adding an explanation page to the sheet soon, to serve as a readme for the sheet.

Movie Tycoon 1.0

Goliath764 replied to Goliath764's topic in The Dog Pound

You don't have enough money pre-release to accept all of them(You only have $2,459,000). You need to either change some of them to cheaper talents or try to talk the price down.

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