Movie Tycoon 1.0

Ayden · August 22, 2013

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Goliath764" data-cite="Goliath764" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="36553" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Metro: Field of Dreams 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. </div></blockquote> Deal for Cliff Curtis Ill leave Fables until after Chimpanzombees is out. Ill see how long my story is before I link to a google doc. It might be ok As for the swearing, I am gonna experiment to see if the forums are edited...****

Ayden · August 22, 2013

So, it edits swear words <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

Maybe I will link to a google doc

Goliath764 · August 22, 2013

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.

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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%

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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%

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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%

dakydaky · August 22, 2013

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Goliath764" data-cite="Goliath764" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="36553" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>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. </div></blockquote> There, fixed.

nitrousacid · August 22, 2013

Title- Serendipity 2: This is it

Lead Actress- Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway

And: Eddie Murphy, Ashley Tisdale, Lilly Collins, Minka Kelly, Jennifer Lopez, Darren Ewing

Director - Jude Law

Genre- Horror thriller

Rating- R

Plot- Marra Sorde (Selena Gomez) goes on to free Ryan Froggy (Eddie Murphy) from the prison since he is her only true love.However, after they kiss heavily in the middle of the street, a guy attacks Ryan Froggy, and that's when Ryan proves that he is a real man. He punches out the man and sits on his unconscious body making a red splatter out of his face (done in CGI). After it's done Marra gets a call from her sister Ankola (Anne Hathaway) to come back to Sorde manor but not to bring Ryan Froggy with her. Shes okay with it but Ryan protests and starts to yell. She goes to the mannor next day and when she 0arrives she is greeted by her sister Stakyat (J-Lo) who welcomes her. When she enters, she sees her sister Ganya (Ashley Tisdale) sitting on the golden throne, with other two sisters, Karma (Minka Kelly), and Romma (Lilly Collins) kissing her feet. Ganya was alway goddess of Sorde household, and her sisters were practically her servants she used to prove her dominance to and thats why Marra left in first place. When Ganya saw Marra she told her to come kiss her godly foot, which she obeyed without question. She asked Marra why shes back, and she replied that Ankola invited her. That's when Ganya started to scream, she yelled that Ankola is dead and this must be a trap, and that's when they heard the main door fall down. There were Ryan Froggy and Ankola standing, smiling. Everyone was screaming and started to run, but Ryan shot down Karma (Minka Kelly). The remaining sisters hid in the basement, but basement doors opened. It was Froggy. He smiled creepily and shot down Stakyat. Ganya and Marra started to jump out of window, but when they saw that the third remaining sister, Romma has hurt her foot and can't jump they left her there as a bait for Ryan Froggy and Ankola. They successfuly landed in bushes, and started to run, but that's when Ankola grabbed Marra. Marra punched Ankola and broke her neck but it returned to place instantly. Ankola was a ghostly creature. Ryan Froggy got out with Romma's head and threw it away. He saw his ex-girlfriend Marra (Selena Gomez) and house's goddess Ganya (Ashley Tisdale), and smiled. He arrived close, and said that he wants them two alive. He wants to have intercourse with the goddess, and Marra to watch it. Marra broke the neck of Ankola once more but it fixed instantly. And that's when it happened, Ankola grabbed the gun of Froggy, and ordered him to listen to goddess Ganya (Ashley Tisdale) since she is the boss here. That's when Officer James arrived (Darren Ewing) arrived, but Ankola shot him down with eight bullets to the head, all filmed realistically. Ankola dissapeared, and now Ryan Froggy had to serve goddess Ganya but so did Marra too. She knew that her sister would be a good goddess though and looked forward to being her servant as well with Ryan. The next scene shows Marra and Ryan Froggy kissing Ganya's (Ashley Tisdale) godly feet while shes smiling. She is victorious, as always. She saw officer james moving however in front of her house, and she orders her servant Ryan Froggy to cut his head off which he does with a machete in an mega-realistic CGI.

Location- U.S.

Budget: 2,000,000

Talent fee- 1,725,000

Production- 25,000

Marketing-)- 250,000

Duration - 194 minutes

I hope this one will be success more than last one.

PGHJuice · August 22, 2013

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%

We accept his terms and look forward to filming

Russelrules44 · August 22, 2013

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Goliath764" data-cite="Goliath764" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="36553" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Metro: Field of Dreams 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%</div></blockquote> To accept or not to accept............I'll accept you all! <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

TheOmniWarrior · August 22, 2013

Quick question if the deal isn't "x total, with y upfront" and just "x total" does that pay go pre or post release?

Ayden · August 23, 2013

From my understanding everything is pre-release unless stated otherwise

Goliath764 · August 23, 2013

Ayden is correct, the default is pre-release.

TheOmniWarrior · August 23, 2013

Title- Dirty Old Bastard

Lead Actor- Andy Garcia

Lead Actress- Kaley Cuoco

Supporting Actor- Tom Selleck, Elijah Wood

Supporting Actress- N/A

Director - DJ Caruso

Genre- Action

Rating- R

Plot- When a violent, sexual predator [Garcia] is released from Prison he makes it his mission to torment his former victim, Ashley's[Cuoco's] life. He torments her, stalks her and creeps on her. When she realizes she's being stalked, she pleads with the local sherriff[selleck] to put him back behind bars. He believes in the rehabilitation of all criminals, and without proof will do nothing. Helpless for the moment, she moves in with her boyfriend[Wood] but the stalking continues. Eventually, everything escalates, her assailant gets braver with his stalking and threats, eventually getting to the point that he murders her boyfriend and attacks her. She calls the police and hides but her assailant seems determined to make her his victim once more. She stalls him off as long as she can, but finally he catches her, and just as he's about to repeat his old sins, the Sherriff gets there and sends him to hell with a bullet to the brain. The next scene shows Ashley in a moving truck, heading away from Texas for a fresh start somewhere else.

Location- Texas

Budget: 3 Million. Throwing in all the marbles

Talent fee- 2,587,500

Production- 312,500

Marketing- 100,000

Duration - 88 minutes

Goliath764 · August 23, 2013

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

Ayden · August 23, 2013

I must also say for those concerned (which is probably none of you <img alt="

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PGHJuice · August 24, 2013

Title- Deja Vu

Lead Actor- Michael Douglas (Detective Nick Hatton)

Lead Actress- Kat Dennings (Detective Emma Szymanski)

Supporting Actor- Aaron Eckhart (Police Chief Bronson)

Director - David Finch

Genre- Crime

Rating- R

Plot- After witnessing her parents murder as a child, a young woman (Dennings) decides to pursue a career in law enforcement, swearing to do whatever she can to stop this from ever happening to anyone else. She eventually becomes a homicide detective, and she's paired with the grizzly veteran (Douglas). Eventually they bond and become very close, and he becomes the father figure she never had. But he starts to notice things. Her memory loss, anger issues, her obsession with finding the man who killed her parents. He feels that it's only a matter of time before her life spirals out of control. Then, it happens. Murders start taking place, in the exact same way that her parents were murdered all those years before. After the investigation takes a turn for the worse, lead after lead goes cold, they can't find any clues to any of the murders, and then, detective Szymanski (Dennings) disappears. Her partner searches her apartment and discovers something grizzly. Police Chief Bronson (Eckhart) dead in detective Szymankis (Dennings) apartment.

Before he can call in what he's found, detective Szymanski blindsides him, knocking him out cold. When he awakes he finds himself tied up to a chair, no way to escape. Eventually he comes to realize that detective Szymanki has a serious split personality disorder. She was the one who killed her parents all those years ago, and she was the one commiting the murders now. Eventually, he gets her to dig deep and come back to her normal self. She unties him, but the normal doesn't last long. A switch is flipped in her head and she tries to attack detective Hatton with a butcher knife, after a quick struggle, Detective Hatton finally reaches his gun, and shots Szymanski, ending the madness. He calls it in, funerals take place, End of movie.

Location- Pittsburgh, PA

Budget: (Total of talent + production + marketing)

Talent fee- 2,780,000

Production- 120,000

Marketing- 100,000

Duration - 95 Minutes

Goliath764 · August 24, 2013

<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.

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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.

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Revenue: 24,547,000

50% Franchise: 12,273,500

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Revenue: 12,273,500

Budget: 12,000,000

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Gross Profit: 273,000

Post-release: 500,000

Franchise: 1,000,000

15% Bonus: No need for loss

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Net Loss: 1,227,000

True Bright Pictures's new capital = 12,206,580 - 1,227,000 = 10,979,580

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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.

dakydaky · August 24, 2013

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 :/

Goliath764 · August 24, 2013

<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.

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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.

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Revenue: 628,000

Budget: 2,000,000

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Gross Loss: 1,372,000

Post-release: 10,995,000

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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)

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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.

Goliath764 · August 24, 2013

<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.

Goliath764 · August 24, 2013

<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.

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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)

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Revenue: 4,018,000

Budget: 3,000,000

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Gross Profit: 1,018,000

Post-release: 1,225,000

15% bonus: 152,700

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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.

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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.

Goliath764 · August 24, 2013

<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.

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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.

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Revenue: 11,487,000

Budget: 2,920,000

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Gross Profit: 8,567,000

Post-release: 2,740,000

12.5% bonus: 1,070,875

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Net Loss: 4,756,125

Top Of The Moutain Productions' budget = 3,000,000 + 4,756,125 = 7,756,125

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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.

TheOmniWarrior · August 24, 2013

Title: LA Underground

Rating: R

Genre: TBD

Brief summary of the movie: When organized crime in LA is getting to be too much for the local police to handle, The Chief contacts an old friend. A Hitman. He offers him ten grand, if he can kill the crime boss and help put a stopper to the crimes.

Amount you plan to spend on production: 200k

Amount you plan to spend on marketing: 100k

Contacting:

Andy Garcia [Main Lead]

Ray Liotta [second Lead]

Danny Devito [support]

DJ Caruso [director]

What other perks are you offering? (This can range from a leading role in your next film to a larger sized trailer during shooting)

Andy Garcia: Hitman. No nudity. No perks

Ray Liotta: Crime Boss. No Nudity. No perks

Danny Devito: Police Commissioner. No Nudity. No Perks

Goliath764 · August 24, 2013

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.

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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.

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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.

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Formula

I re-adjusted the franchise formula, I am posting it on the 2nd post of first page.

Ayden · August 24, 2013

This is an incredibly stupid question as I am computer-illiterate but how do you change the text of a link you post so that the link says something like "Click here" etc instead of just the URL itself?

PGHJuice · August 24, 2013

Top Of The Mountain Productions would like to start their next picture. However, we would like to secure rights to make a sequel to a previous film.

We are interested in making a sequel to Pineapple Express. We are willing to negotiate rights.

Goliath764 · August 24, 2013

This is an incredibly stupid question as I am computer-illiterate but how do you change the text of a link you post so that the link says something like "Click here" etc instead of just the URL itself?

["url"=your link]Click here[/url]

Cut out the "".

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