Movie Tycoon 5

HRTVAndrew · May 3, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="FlameSnoopy" data-cite="FlameSnoopy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">BACK TO THE FRAT HOUSE (STUDIO: TOMPKINS SQUARE STUDIOS)</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> Tompkins Square Studios return with Back To The Frat House, a comedy about three thirty-somethings who have been caught up in the colossal mess that is real life. Each one of them have their own issues, but they try to leave those troubles behind for an emergency frat alumni meeting. What ensues is parties, fights and girls, of course. Eventually all three have to come to grips with their own reality, yet it is done in a feel-good manner that helps keep the movie light-hearted even with dramatic substance to the characters.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> Back To The Frat House works so well because the cast fits the roles; Josh Radnor and Jason Segel have a long history working alongside each other and Charlie Day pulls out such a superb performance, it seems like the three actually are friends. Even if everything in the picture screams 'budget choice' from the aforementioned three to the director, Penny Marshall, Tompkins Square Studios have made the most out of a series of average cards. The only flaw in the plan was the uninspiring performance of Jason Segel as Shawn Smith. Even though Segel is capable of dramatic performances, it seems he relied too much on his familiar co-star in Josh Radnor, who had to carry him during their shared time on-screen.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> There is something to a film that does not try to take itself too seriously and to that credit Back To The Frat House is a perfect example. Plenty of laughs and hilarity befall in this comedy definitely worth the price of admission. By the time the screen fades to black, the cast comes off as a true ensemble. An ensemble one hopes would return in some form or another in the future.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">3.3</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> [CRITICAL RATING]</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> TOTAL BUDGET: $6.5M</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> TOTAL BOX OFFICE REVENUE: $9.8M</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> TOTAL FROM PHYSICAL COPIES: $2.6M</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> TOMPKINS SQUARE STUDIOS made a profit of $5.9M, your total balance now stands at $12,4M.</div></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> HAH!!! Take that, evil dice!</div>

jack ryder · May 3, 2017

Studio Name: Hot Freezy Studio

Founder Name(i.e. your IGN): Jack Ryder

Then, you can start to make a movie

(You can do this in the same post as your studio application)

Step One - Pre-Production

Title:Standing Back

Rating (i.e. G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17):PG

Genre: (Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, Arthouse, War, Western, etc)Sports-Drama

Brief summary of the movie:A footballer(Dean Harthwick) in his early 30's cannot play football after getting injured in an accident.He comes to USA to assist his mentor in managing a team to still be a part of the sport he loves while hiding his inner demons.

Amount you plan to spend on production: TBD

Amount you plan to spend on marketing: TBD

What will their role be? (Director, main lead, second lead, supporting, cameo)

Main lead - Dean Harthwick(Approach John Krasinski,Chris Evans)-An accident made him unfit to play football forever.Before the accident he at his best was an utility player for a team in premier league who would fight for not to be relegated(ex-QPR,Burnley,Hull etc).He has now come to USA to be assistant coach to his mentor Joe Healy while he still struggles with the injuries from the accident.

Joe Healy(Approach Vinnie Jones(Former footballer))-A 50 year old coach who found Dean and mentored him to be a premier league footballer,who doesn't know that he is suffering from terminal cancer.

Second lead - Sarah Harthwick(Approach Emily Blunt,Jenny Slate)-Wife of Dean,who herself is sports journalist.She is the main support of Dean.

Roderick Snow(Approach Matt Smith(Football Fan))-Captain of Houston Rangers FC,Dean sees himself in Roderick.

Supporting - Jean Healy(Approach Judi Dench)-Joe's mother,Family friend of the Harthwicks.

Liam Sooth(Approach-Brandon Mychal Smith)-Rangers FC flamboyant striker, a star in the making.

Tray Jazz(Approach Trevor Jackson),Jay Wong(Approach Ki Hong Lee),James Folder(approach Ryan Guzman)-Footballers in the Rangers.

Cameo-

Dr.Linda(Approach Katherine Heigl)-Doctor who checks Dean.

Dr.Smith(Approach Patrick Dempsey-Doctor

One line speaking character-

Dr.James(Approach Neil Patrick Harris)

Director-Approach Boaz Yakin, Adam Mckay and Chris Evans. (Co-direction is still a no?)

Houston Dynamo will replace Houston Rangers FC if we get the license.

FlameSnoopy · May 3, 2017

You, My Blood (Studio: Finite Worlds Studios)

» Danny Boyle doesn't want to be paid post-release.

» Chandler Canterbury is fine with $300k.

» Cillian Murphy wants $650K now, $650K post-release.

» Regina King will take $600K.

» JK Simmons wants $850K now, $850K post-release.

» Rachel Bilson will do $650K and a guaranteed lead role (or the original offer).

» Clive Owen is fine with the whole shebang.

» Monica Belluci thinks the offer is too low.

» Mischa Barton doesn't want to be paid post-release.

Russelrules44 · May 3, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="jack ryder" data-cite="jack ryder" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Studio Name: Hot Freezy Studio Founder Name(i.e. your IGN): Jack Ryder Then, you can start to make a movie (You can do this in the same post as your studio application) Step One - Pre-Production Title:Standing Back Rating (i.e. G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17):PG Genre: (Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, Arthouse, War, Western, etc)Sports-Drama Brief summary of the movie:A footballer(Dean Harthwick) in his early 30's cannot play football after getting injured in an accident.He comes to USA to assist his mentor in managing a team to still be a part of the sport he loves while hiding his inner demons. Amount you plan to spend on production: TBD Amount you plan to spend on marketing: TBD What will their role be? (Director, main lead, second lead, supporting, cameo) Main lead - Dean Harthwick(Approach John Krasinski,Chris Evans)-An accident made him unfit to play football forever.Before the accident he at his best was an utility player for a team in premier league who would fight for not to be relegated(ex-QPR,Burnley,Hull etc).He has now come to USA to be assistant coach to his mentor Joe Healy while he still struggles with the injuries from the accident. Joe Healy(Approach Vinnie Jones(Former footballer))-A 50 year old coach who found Dean and mentored him to be a premier league footballer,who doesn't know that he is suffering from terminal cancer. Second lead - Sarah Harthwick(Approach Emily Blunt,Jenny Slate)-Wife of Dean,who herself is sports journalist.She is the main support of Dean. Roderick Snow(Approach Matt Smith(Football Fan))-Captain of Houston Rangers FC,Dean sees himself in Roderick. Supporting - Jean Healy(Approach Judi Dench)-Joe's mother,Family friend of the Harthwicks. Liam Sooth(Approach-Brandon Mychal Smith)-Rangers FC flamboyant striker, a star in the making. Tray Jazz(Approach Trevor Jackson),Jay Wong(Approach Ki Hong Lee),James Folder(approach Ryan Guzman)-Footballers in the Rangers. Cameo- Dr.Linda(Approach Katherine Heigl)-Doctor who checks Dean. Dr.Smith(Approach Patrick Dempsey-Doctor One line speaking character- Dr.James(Approach Neil Patrick Harris) Director-Approach Boaz Yakin, Adam Mckay and Chris Evans. (Co-direction is still a no?) Houston Dynamo will replace Houston Rangers FC if we get the license.</div></blockquote> Co-direction's probably a yes now. I don't know.

jack ryder · May 3, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Russelrules44" data-cite="Russelrules44" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Co-direction's a yes now.</div></blockquote> Then approach Chris Evans and Adam Mckay as a team to direct.

cappyboy · May 4, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="jack ryder" data-cite="jack ryder" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Should I post all the info about my previous production or should just post the writing? @thanks Cappyboi you help is a great treasure for me. You and back to the frat house has really helped me. I was on the wrong track.</div></blockquote> Glad you found it instructive. It's not a fancy format or anything but it sure does help me with my story structure

Russelrules44 · May 4, 2017

A'ight. Here's the update, we're entering the last third of the story now. The goal for the Viper's Den is to get this baby out by either tomorrow or Friday, depending on how fast I write this out for the next two days.

On a more personal note, i'm really happy to finally have the chance to be working on this movie. I've been working on how to adapt the movie since around October of last year, and I think I've got it all figured out.

This is especially crucial seeing as I've got Brit McKillip in her first major theatrical release, Miranda Cosgrove trying not to get her third strike and Tom Jones onboard giving me some musical backbone. So, I really need them to perform well. If one, two or even all three of them end up failing, it would be a disaster.

So i'm asking you Lady Luck, when the movie comes out; shine on me as hard as you can.

HRTVAndrew · May 4, 2017

Gonna submit this now, although the script itself almost certainly won't be done between now and the end of the weekend.

CASTING & PRE-PRODUCTION FORM

MOVIE DETAILS

Title: The Reunion Tour

Genre: Comedy

Brief Summary Of The Plot: 25 years after then-music phenoms The Karate Kids broke up and swore to never tour again, an iteration of the band is brought back together by a desperate manager of one of music's top current acts, who's demanded them as an opening performer for his world tour. Featuring a singer and lead guitarist who have refused to talk for more than two decades, a born-again Christian on drums whose newfound morals mean he refuses to sing backup on songs about sex or drugs, and the out-of-wedlock son of their prematurely-deceased bass player, can the Karate Kids put their issues behind them and re-energize their careers?

Rating: PG-13 (language, crude humor)

Production Cost: TBD

Marketing Cost: TBD

TALENT CASTING

Director: After her success directing "Back to the Frat House," Penny Marshall is our top target. However, we'll also chat with old friend Aaron Sorkin.

Lead Role: Brian Ferguson

Brian Ferguson is the young, inexperienced agent of world-renowned rock star Jack "The Ripper" DiCaprio, whose world tour was marred after its kickoff show by a tragic bus accident that claimed the life of Katie Pearson, his opening act. DiCaprio demands Ferguson get his favorite band, The Karate Kids, in order to add publicity for his shows (plus secretly set a low bar for him to top with his performances, which have become increasingly erratic). It's on Ferguson to reunite the band, get them to co-exist, and make sure everyone is on the same page...or else he's fired. NOT an easy task.

Following his tour de force performance in "Back to the Frat House," Charlie Day gets consideration for this role. It's MUCH more of a "straight man" role than a wacky sidekick-type role, but the studio is confident he can pull it off if given the chance. We're also in talks with Elijah Wood, Michael B. Jordan, and Ryan Gosling.

Major Role: Mike Young

Mike Young is the lead singer of The Karate Kids. He was a certified heartthrob in his younger days, and he's continued to maintain a reasonable level of celebrity in the 25 years since their breakup, occasionally touring and appearing on C-level reality TV shows. He's not the easiest person to get along with, and deep down, he knows his value in entertainment is limited without his former bandmates. Unfortunately, that group includes lead guitarist Vance Frederickson, Mike's best friend turned mortal enemy.

...oh, come on, if you didn't think this role was written with John Stamos in mind, you're crazy. He's our top target, but we're also looking at others, including Charlie Sheen and Greg Kinnear.

Major Role: Vance Frederickson

While Mike Young brought the sizzle to the Karate Kids in their heyday, Vance Frederickson provided the musical foundation for much of their material. Girls went to the shows to see Mike, but many of the guys were brought in by Vance's guitar work and songwriting aptitude. With such differing personalities, Vance and Mike clashed constantly, and the fault of the duo's ultimate breakup is still debated among radio executives and rock and roll fans today. Vance is largely a recluse, although he gladly plays studio sessions for several established artists, and it's believed this is how he met Jack DiCaprio several years before the start of the film.

Vance can be standoffish, especially to newcomers, and that makes the relationship with Dominic Santini (son of former bass player Steve Santini) very contentious, at least initially. We're approaching Bryan Cranston, Terrence Howard, and Hank Azaria.

Major Role: Dominic Santini

Dominic Santini is a classically-trained musician in his mid-to-late-20's who takes after his father, former Karate Kids bassist Steve Santini, in many ways. He has no problem taking a backseat to others, but he possesses a quiet confidence that accentuates his clear musical talent and drive to be the best musician he can be. Steve passed away due to a heart attack five years before this film, and as such, young Dominic, who was barely even alive when the band toured most recently, has been pressed into service as the group's bass player. He's formed a bond with drummer Troy Montano, who acts as a guiding hand of sorts when dealing with the rest of the group.

For this role, we're looking at Adam Lambert, whose musical chops give him an obvious edge, as well as Topher Grace and Taylor Lautner.

Minor Role: Troy Montano

Troy Montano is the drummer of the Karate Kids, and he's done a LOT of living. While his drinking and drug issues weren't ALL of what broke up the band, those demons certainly didn't help matters, and many close to the group expected a grim end. However, Montano got clean and sober a year after the band broke up, and he's stayed that way for more than two decades while rededicating himself to his church, where he serves as the leader of the local choir. He reluctantly agrees to go back on tour (largely at the insistence of Dominic Santini), on the condition that he not have to sing backup on some of the group's most suggestive songs (some of which he wrote!).

For this role, we're approaching Danny Trejo, John Turturro, and David Hasselhoff.

Minor Role: Jack DiCaprio

Jack "The Ripper" DiCaprio is the biggest current name in music. He's billed as a cross between Prince, Justin Timberlake, and John Lennon (whatever THAT means), and tabloids and crowds follow him wherever he goes. He's long been a closet Karate Kids fan, and when his opening act dies unexpectedly, he sees an opportunity to tour with his idols, while also making himself look even better by comparison. As you'd expect, this guy's a bit of a sleazebag.

We're approaching Robert Pattinson, Chris Pine, Nick Jonas, and Topher Grace.

Key Cameo: Steve Santini

The long-beloved bass player of the Karate Kids, Steve Santini perished five years before this film due to a heart attack that was NOT brought on by illicit means. His death rocked the band, as he was the only guy every band member unconditionally liked. All three even went to his funeral and served as pallbearers, although Mike and Vance still refused to speak to one another (much to Troy's annoyance). Steve only appears once, talking to his son in a bizarre ghost-ish sequence.

And this is where the homage comes: We are seeking one person and one person only for this role, and it's Ralph Macchio.

EddieFnG · May 4, 2017

Feel like my script is way too long, almost 8000 words and I feel like I haven't even got the movie started..

FlameSnoopy · May 4, 2017

Standing Back (Studio: Hot Freezy Studio)

» (for the role of the director) Boaz Yakin asks for $1.7M. Adam McKay doesn't want to co-direct with someone the caliber of Chris Evans. Adam McKay asks for $4.2M to do it solo. Chris Evans asks for $550K.

» (for the role of Dean Harthwick) John Krasinski asks for $2.6M. He is also willing to direct the movie for an additional $400K. Chris Evans asks for $5.5M. If you cast Evans as both the director and lead, in total he wants $5.8M.

» (for the role of Joe Healy) Vinnie Jones likes the script after he discovered it was indeed not about American football. He asks for $400K.

» (for the role of Sarah Harthwick) Emily Blunt asks for $2.2M. Jenny Slate asks for $350K.

» (for the role of Roderick Snow) Matt Smith asks for $475K.

» (for the role of Jean Healy) Judi Dench asks for $650K.

» (for the role of Liam Sooth) Brandon Mychal Smith asks for $100K.

» (for the role of Tray Jazz) Trevor Jackson asks for $115K.

» (for the role of Jay Wong) Ki Hong Lee asks for $100K.

» (for the role of James Folder) Ryan Guzman asks for $100K.

» (for the role of Dr. Linda) Katherine Heigl asks for $100K.

» (for the role of Dr. Smith) Patrick Dempsey asks for $50K.

» (for the role of Dr. James) Neil Patrick Harris asks for $50K.

The Reunion Tour (Studio: Tompkins Square Studios)

» (for the role of the director) Penny Marshall asks for $850K. Aaron Sorkin is sticking with his ask of $850K once again.

» (for the role of Brian Ferguson) Charlie Day asks for $1.7M. Elijah Wood asks for $3.5M. Michael B. Jordan asks for $2.5M. Ryan Gosling asks for $6.2M.

» (for the role of Mike Young) John Stamos asks for $1.5M. Charlie Sheen asks for $1.9M. Greg Kinnear asks for $2.0M.

» (for the role of Vance Frederickson) Bryan Cranston thinks he would enjoy potraying the role. He asks for $680K. Terrence Howard asks for $2.3M. He thinks the thought of him working a character named Vance Frederickson is 'ridiculous'. Hank Azaria asks for $550K.

» (for the role of Dominic Santini) Adam Lambert asks for $500K. Topher Grace asks for $1.0M. Taylor Lautner asks for $1.5M.

» (for the role of Troy Montano) Danny Trejo asks for $550K. John Turturro asks for $220K. David Hasselhoff asks for $330K.

» (for the role of Jack DiCaprio) Robert Pattinson asks for $900K. Chris Pine asks for $600K. Nick Jonas asks for $450K. Topher Grace asks for $350K.

» (for the role of Steve Santini) Ralph Macchio asks for $50K.

HRTVAndrew · May 4, 2017

Tompkins Square Studios is pleased to announce the following hirings for our third effort, "The Reunion Tour."

- Penny Marshall is hired to direct, and will be paid $850,000.

- Charlie Day is hired, and will be paid $1.7 million for the role of Brian Ferguson. The studio was a bit wary of paying the full pricetag, but his performance in "Back to the Frat House" instilled a certain level of trust.

- John Stamos is hired, and will be paid $1.5 million for the role of Mike Young.

- Bryan Cranston is hired, and will be paid $680,000 for the role of Vance Frederickson.

- Adam Lambert is hired, and will be paid $500,000 for the role of Dominic Santini.

- Danny Trejo is hired, and will be paid $550,000 for the role of Troy Montano.

- Nick Jonas is hired, and will be paid $450,000 for the role of Jack DiCaprio. Initially, the studio was intrigued by the idea of Robert Pattinson playing the role, but when he requested twice the money as someone with legitimate musical talent, the studio balked.

- Ralph Macchio is hired, and will be paid $50,000 for the role of Steve Santini.

With these hirings, the talent budget is $6.28 million. Our production budget will be $1.72 million (a little extra so as to make sure everyone's musical talent/band chemistry is up to snuff), and our marketing budget will be $1.5 million. That pushes our movie's total budget to $9.5 million (keeping some cash in the bank), and production will start immediately.

OOC NOTE: The script will likely take a few days. I work in horse racing, and the next few days will be extremely busy.

Russelrules44 · May 4, 2017

I hope you Adam treats you well like he did for Greenwater!

UPDATE: Google Drive decided to be a douche to me and completely eject an entire sequence I had written out. Great, just great. In short; it's not looking like it's coming out tonight or tomorrow unless I write like hell.

HRTVAndrew · May 4, 2017

Question to those who have played longer than me: How am I doing in terms of script length? Obviously, longer movies will have longer scripts, but I've cranked out about 2,000 words twice now, and seeing that someone's writing 8,000 is making me worried I'm not writing enough!

Russelrules44 · May 4, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="HRTVAndrew" data-cite="HRTVAndrew" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Question to those who have played longer than me: How am I doing in terms of script length? Obviously, longer movies will have longer scripts, but I've cranked out about 2,000 words twice now, and seeing that someone's writing 8,000 is making me worried I'm not writing enough!</div></blockquote> Trust me, you think 8,000 is long? Try reading Madeline's Great Adventure. That movie was around 15,000 words long, and it got four stars for it's troubles. I think you're doing pretty good in terms of script length, it's not too long or short and it gets right to the point. You're doing your own thing and that's great. Like I said earlier, it doesn't really matter how long or short a script is; what really matters is how you tell the story. Your story could be the longest, greatest epic in history; but if your core storyline is poor, it drags the movie down. In short: Don't worry about your script length, keep doing what you're doing and don't be afraid to add more or less if you feel the script calls for it.

cappyboy · May 4, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="HRTVAndrew" data-cite="HRTVAndrew" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Question to those who have played longer than me: How am I doing in terms of script length? Obviously, longer movies will have longer scripts, but I've cranked out about 2,000 words twice now, and seeing that someone's writing 8,000 is making me worried I'm not writing enough!</div></blockquote> Honestly, I'll have to cut and paste my "pictures" back into the word processor to know how many words any of them were. I just write the words I need and let the stats tend to themselves.

Russelrules44 · May 5, 2017

It's time.

The Viper’s Den Present

A Ron Clements and Jon Musket Production

Colette

Starring

Britt McKillip

Idina Menzel

Introducing

Hayley Faith Negrin

Grant Palmer

Also Starring

Miranda Cosgrove

Jim Cummings

Steve Burns

Jess Harnell

Seth MacFarlane

Annick Obonsawin

Emilie Claire Barlow

Nathan Kress

Alex House

And The Music Icon Himself

Tom Jones

Title: Colette

› Genre: Animated Musical

› Duration: 105 mins

› Rating: PG (Relatively tame; comedic violence, some suggestive scenes, but nothing extreme)

› Plot: The movie opens with a scenic view of Paris, France. It is late at night, when the moon is starting to go down and the sun is almost ready to rise. The camera pans over to a tree where a bird (Miranda Cosgrove) is tending over to her nest when she checks the sky and sees the sun is just about ready to go up.

She scurries to the edge of a tree branch, clears her throat and sings a quick song to wake up the sun and the people of Paris. (“Good morning to the people, good morning joy and fun, good morning to all creatures, good morning to the sun!”)

To the tune of a whimsical orchestra, the sun arises from it’s slumber and heads up towards the sky. As the bird continues to chirp it’s song of good tidings, all around Paris; the people are beginning to wake up. The camera pans over to one house, until it reaches the top of a roof, there a skunk (Seth McFarlane) joyfully welcomes the viewers to Paris and it’s wonderful sights. (“Ah, Paris! Home to the Louvre, the Moulin Rouge and the world famous Eiffel Tower”)

“So many a great mind has come from the magnifique country we call France” The skunk announces, citing Da Vinci, Monet and Hugo as great minds. It is also where a brand new mind’s story will be- He looks at the audience and realizes his flaw. (“Pardon moi! I was so caught up in the excitement, I forgot to introduce myself!”) He introduces as LeTroi, a skunk who loves to tell stories about not legends, myths or fairy tales; but about ordinary people who do great things.

“And you my friend, are just in time!” LeTroi announces, pointing at the viewers. He tells them that as we speak, a story is about to be to begin with their very own eyes about an extraordinary young girl (around sixteen or seventeen he believes) who soared like the eagles, roared like a lion, sung like a choir of birds, more beautiful than- LeTroi realizes he is getting caught up again and apologizes. “Why don’t I just show you who it is instead of telling you, no? It will save us much time”

He gets a saxophone and looks at the audience, (“LT: Well, have you ever seen a skunk play a sax before?”) *then he plays a couple of verses of the French national anthem which segues into the first song of the movie. (Colette: Performed by Seth McFarlane and Britt McKillip) This song is a hybrid of Broadway and classical music in which introduce the audience to Colette, in the first part; LeTroi sings about how Colette is a sensation in the making in just about everything she does. She is as beautiful as a princess, as elegant as a swan who can sing with the best and knows all the latest chansons. All the women in her school look up to her, and even some men want to be with her. (But as he says, she has her sights on one man only)

In short, she is the most beautiful and talented girl in all of France. But LeTroi advises the audience not to take his word for it, why listen to a lowly skunk like he when they can hear it from the mademoiselle herself? (“LT: And here she is now!”) From her bedroom located at the second floor of her house, she opens the window to greet the world. The second part is all Colette’s as she pretty much confirms everything LeTroi said. But also adds more information to her, she’s an accomplished member of her school’s choir, she’s considered a genius by many scientists, a literary legend in waiting by writers, a model to look out for by fashion experts, but also as a saint by her friends.

The third part is where the duet of the song comes in and where the song starts to take a more big band approach. As Colette leaves for school, LeTroi joins her and the two engage in some scat singing. The two then repeat some lyrics from the first verse, then when they’re almost at the school and the two one up each other on words to describe until Colette opens the door to make her grand entrance. (And LeTroi’s grand final note. A ten second long G#4)

The song ends, and to just in time as the bell rings; ushering in the start of a new school day. LeTroi scurries off before anyone can notice him, Colette dusts herself off and heads off to her first class. Along the way, she sees the perky, smiling face of Audrey (Annick Obonsawin) as she compliments her introduction. Colette wonders where Ruby and Tiffany (Hayley Faith Negrin and Emile Claire Barlow) are. “Where do you think?” Audrey points to across the lockers where a platinum blonde girl with a rather stunning figure (in her own right) is trying to show someone wearing mostly pink how to take a selfie. It seems that Tiffany is the stylish one as her selfies seem to be on the flirty and alluring side while Ruby seems to be somewhat of a ditz, holding her phone the wrong way.

Colette and Audrey meet up with the two and they all excitedly gab on about the upcoming school dance. Tiffany declares that she has already found the perfect dress for the dance, Ruby queries that she thought no dress could be perfect. (“A: Not unless you’re Colette, she can make anything look good!”) Tiffany scoffs at the idea at first, but after hearing about the ‘Great Meat-cident’ in which she was forced to wear nothing but meat on a dare; she backs off.

Speaking of the dance, the girls wonder who Colette’s date will be. The consensus says that she will ask out her longtime crush, the mysterious Sylvan. (Steve Burns) Tiffany, Audrey and Ruby gush over Sylvan. (“A: He’s a hunk with a capital H!”) Colette blushes, knowing of her crush on him. But acknowledges that he is very shy and does not usually come to these events. Besides, any man would love to be her date. “I am the most beautiful girl am I not?”

Aubrey appears irritated by this statement, Ruby looks on rather confused, but Tiffany appears indifferent to this sort of talk, it’s clear that she is used to this sort of behavior. Ruby notes that Mr. Trubeau (Tom Jones) has a big surprise planned for the choir class, and wonders what it might be. Tiffany believes that it is a new student, as is usually the case whenever something ‘big’ happens. Audrey hopes that it is a boy, especially a cute boy. (“I can’t help that I have an obsession with men!”) Ruby realizes that whoever this new student is, she will need some help learning the basics. (“T: And we all know who he’ll choose to introduce her…”)

Colette finds it natural, seeing as she is clearly the best singer out of all of them. Tiffany is the first to judge this theory, as she claims that she has been complimented more than Colette has. Audrey points out that he gives compliments out to everyone, even Ruby; who is usually the weakest singer. (“A: No offense”, “R: Isn’t it for football?”) Colette also points out that he is honest when needed, for proof; she brings up last class, where Tiffany was -as quoted by Trubeau- ‘Reaching for notes that are too high to reach’. Ruby and Andrea snicker at Tiffany, she rolls her eyes and goes on her phone. Likely to delete old selfies she doesn’t like anymore.

But Colette isn’t finished yet as she tells Ruby that she was also checked on by Trubeau and was found to be ‘flat when it is sharp, sharp when it is flat, and natural when it is not at all’. Ruby smiles, calling it an improvement. Aubrey was also analyzed and while she was relatively consistent overall, she tended to ‘vibrate the Os a little too much’. In a monotone voice, Tiffany asks Colette how she was checked. Proudly, she tells the three that she was considered ‘perfect in virtually every single way’, as it should be. “I am the most beautiful, talented girl in all of France. Never have I once needed help, for I do not need it. That is why everyone in this school of ours love me the most, they know that I am perfect in every single way”

Annoyed, Audrey starts to say something; but Tiffany advises her to cool it. Whenever she gets into this mood, it is impossible to stop her. Because if there’s one thing she has above all else, it’s her sense of superiority. Which is also the title of the second song. (Sense of Superiority: Performed by Emile Claire Barlow, Hayley Faith Negrin, Annick Obonsawin and Britt McKillip) This song is flourishing and rather posh sounding. One by one, the three girls sing about an experience they’ve fed Colette’s enormous ego, or as they refer to it her ‘Sense of Superiority’. After one of their stories, Colette takes a verse to sing about how she is smarter and more educated than anyone else. (Though she advises us not to take it personally)

Tiffany recalls of a ‘fashion crisis’ she had when she had to choose between a black vest with a plaid skirt, or a green vest with a purple skirt. Colette had warned her not to choose the latter as she had a feeling it would rain and drain the color from them, she did not listen and wore it anyway. Naturally, it rained hard all day and her outfit ended up getting soaking wet, as for Colette? She ended up wearing a black vest, a plaid skirt and high heels.

Aubrey tells about the one time she had to choose between a nerd who had always had a crush on her, or a jock she had been having her eye on to the fair. She went to Colette to get her advice, she told her to choose the nerd because the jock had some rather big issues. She didn’t listen either, apparently having gone with the jock. He turned out to be a big jerk, cutting past lines for all the rides, being rude, talking with his mouth full of food, and just not being a good person. As for the nerd? He ended up going with Colette and they had a wonderful time.

Ruby remembers one time she couldn't find her pet rabbit Goulash, (Jess Harnell) and went on a wild goose chase to find him. She eventually wound up at Colette’s house, it turned out; he had gone out of his cage and started roaming around Paris, and had somehow found himself in her house. (Andrea is quick to point out that it was just a coincidence rather than a moment where Colette one uped them)

The bell rings again, the home period seems to be over. Now it is time for the actual first period of the day. Colette skips off to choir while the rest catch up to her, at the front of the door; just right next to it actually is a dark haired, dimly colored man listening from the door. This apparently seems to be Sylvan, judging by how Colette acts around him. (Blushing, smiling, bashfulness) Sylvan tells the girls that apparently something is going on inside Trubeau’s classroom. Tiffany volunteers to hear what is happening. She hears Trubeau seemingly conversing with what is now confirmed to be a new student, it seems that he is giving the new student a pep talk to calm her nerves.

Ruby takes this out of context and fears that he and a student are trapped by the ‘evil door’, and attempts to set them free by breaking it open. (Against the best wishes of the others) She takes a few steps back, then charges like a crazed warrior; only to bang her head on the door and fall onto the floor. The door opens, A concerned Trubeau asks if everything is alright. Ruby whines, “I think i’ve been concussed”

Sylvan offers to take her to the nurse's office much to the approval of everyone else. (And to the jealousy of Aubrey) Sylvan helps Ruby up and the two head off to the nurse’s. Tiffany comments on how Sylvan has all the women in the school on his feet, yet still hasn’t got a girlfriend. (“How someone can have all the luck with us girls and still not date anyone is a shock even to me”) Everyone enters into the classroom of Mr. Trubeau. It is a rather large and spacy room, complimented with a library of musical pieces of all shapes and sizes and a grand piano in the middle of it all. As they get settled in, Sylvan runs back in just in the nick of time. “Mighty quick, maybe a new record” Trubeau smirks, Sylvan shrugs and gives a charming smile. “Well, when Ruby goes, she goes” This earns some chuckles from the girls who stand in line. (In order: Colette, Tiffany and Aubrey) Sylvan takes his place next to Aubrey.

Mr. Trubeau then announces of a brand new student joining the choir. “I expect you to treat her with as much respect as I have for you, and for your friends”. A girl with auburn colored hair shyly walks up to the rest of the class. Trubeau introduces the new girl as Yvette LaPointe, and she waves her hand and saying a soft bonjour. Colette instantly takes to her and gives her a friendly smile. Trubeau asks if Colette and Tiffany can make room for Yvette, they oblige and she takes her spot. Colette whispers a bonjour to Yvette and tells her her name. She also introduces her to Tiffany, Audrey and Sylvan. Yvette says bonjour to all of them, they welcome her back.

With class now officially underway, Trubeau begins the lesson of the day. What makes a good singer great? “Anyone can sing, really. It’s about as simple as do, re, mi” What’s not as simple he says, is how they hope to make their mark. He’s seen many a singer go by in the distance, many others give up before realizing their true potential and still more who started off promising at first, but for one reason or another fell off the radar.

“Now, I wasn’t always the man you see before you” Trubeau humbly admits, he talks about how he grew up poor and had to work hard every day just to ensure that there was still a roof over his head and something on the table. But if there was one thing he had going for him, it was a certain passion. That passion? To sing, of course. Eventually, one thing lead to another and he found himself making an album. Then, came the fame, the fortune, the glory. It was all so exciting to him. But deep down, he knew what he really wanted in life. He wanted to try and make the world a better place.

“And even as the years went by and I got older, I never did lose that passion inside me” Trubeau asks him that if there is anything they learn from him; to let it be this. “If you believe you have a passion, and you have the heart and the will to carry that passion into emotion, then you will be capable of doing amazing things”

He then asks them if they want to see a magic trick. They all nod, (except for Sylvan who is relatively indifferent) he tells them to close their eyes and imagine themselves in another world. A world of laughter, a world of joy, a world of song. He then tells them to open their eyes. And like magic, a song appears on their hands. Amazed, Yvette asks how he managed to do it. “He has his ways” Colette says. The song is revealed to be an old choir piece Trubeau once sang he was a little boy, it’s name? Call of the Wind, A melodic breathtaking piece celebrating the joys of spring and blessing it for bringing it peace and love. Before the song actually begins, Trubeau reminds Yvette that she is free to sit out since this is her first day. Yvette decides to go for the song, to see what happens.

The song itself (Song 3: Call of the Wind: Sung by: Britt McKillip, Idina Menzel, Emilie Claire Barlow, Annick Obonsawin, Steve Burns, Two Solo Verses and Final Verse: Tom Jones) is patterned like so, the choir takes two verses that call out and bless the wind for giving them peace and love; Trubeau then takes a verse playing the role of The Wind, blessing Spring for giving him the strength to do what he can. The chorus then has another verse blessing the wind for all it does, then Trubeau has a second verse. (Which really is his first solo verse, but with more power to show how the love he gets expands his power) The final verse is also really the first verse, but softer and this time including Trubeau. This piece exemplifies the high quality of Mr. Trubeau’s choir as the piece is well sung, melodically sound and expressive, it is also unique as it is the only song to be completely in acapella.

The song ends, Trubeau sighs happily. (“Beautiful is it not?”) Everyone agrees. Trubeau compliments them on a job well done, like he always does. But he especially praises Yvette, impressed how she was able to sing so beautifully to a song she had perhaps never sang before. Yvette admits that she has sung this many times before in her old school. This impresses Trubeau and the rest of the class, and praises her even further.

Before Trubeau can continue onward, Colette raises her hand and politely asks how she did. (Much to the subtle disgust of Aubrey) Trubeau’s demeanor changes to slightly nervous and worried as he tries hard to find the words to tell Colette, but to no avail. Colette tries to fill in the blank with words like ‘perfect’, ‘beautiful’ or ‘amazing’. Trubeau confesses that the word he was going to use was….

Flat.

The rest of the class (except for Yvette) appear shocked, visibly unnerved; Colette asks if he’s sure. “Only slightly” He responds, shocking the class even more and sending them into clamoring and concerned whispers. Trubeau calms them down and reminds them that everyone makes mistakes and that it’s important to use these mistakes to make you better than you already were. Colette goes into disbelief, not responding or hearing much of anything.

We cut to after class, Aubrey tries to ask Colette what happened. No response.

“Yes, as it would happen. Not even Colette was prone to failure.” LeTroi tells us that Colette would remain in this state of shock for the rest of the day. From reading, chemistry and even during lunch. “So imagine friends, Napoleon’s reaction when he had heard the news” LeTroi is shown inside Colette’s house playing a game of cards with a rabbit, apparently the same rabbit Ruby had and a cat with white and black fur and a noticeable ‘gut’ on his stomach. (Jim Cummings) It seems as they are playing a game of Go Fish as LeTroi asks Napoleon for a pair of fives.

“Go fish” He says, and LeTroi picks up a card from the pile. Not a match, so Napoleon is the next to have a turn. Napoleon tries to think, but his stomach's growling keeps getting in the way. Napoleon eventually gives up and declares that he cannot think on an empty stomach. (N: “I’m in need of something to eat!”) The rabbit volunteers himself proudly, but is shut down instantly. (N: “Just because your name is Goulash doesn’t mean I have the right to eat you”) Napoleon has plans of his own, today is Fish Friday and he is to have the biggest, juiciest fish in all of the land. He should know, Colette always gets them. Napoleon then wonders where she is, “It’s not like her to be this late” Goulash questions why he cannot get the fish himself. Napoleon bluntly states that he’d rather be spoiled than soiled. “I thought it was because you were lazy” Goulash snarks, drawing some chuckles from LeTroi. Napoleon backs down, humiliated by this confession.

All of a sudden, Goulash begins to hear footsteps. Colette is coming, everyone prepares for her arrival; LeTroi climbs out from the window, A panicking Goulash hides under the bed and Napoleon heads over to his cat bed to fake sleep. The door slams open, Colette still in a state of disbelief over her mistake walks over to her bed and plops herself down face first on the mattress. Napoleon walks over to her, concern on his face. She takes a deep breath...and lets out a scream that the entire town can hear, fearing for his life; Napoleon covers up his ears and starts to shake in horror. She sees Napoleon in fear and apologizes for her outburst, and proceeds to tell him about her ‘horrible’ day in overdramatic fashion. Mournfully, she tells Napoleon that she made a mistake. Her very first mistake. (She also mentions of a new student, but that’s not important) She begins to panic, thinking that because of her mistake; she will no longer be perfect. Napoleon calms her down by crawling up her arms and purring gently at him. “Oh, Napoleon. I know you’ll always think i’m perfect”

The same bird from earlier sees the scene from afar and awaits for the signal. Napoleon gives the thumbs up and the bird flies inside the room, she looks at Colette, clears her throat and begins to sing a lullaby. (Song 4: Sleep Tight, Little Coquet by Miranda Cosgrove) It is, to put it simply a sweet, enchanting lullaby telling Colette to dream of a better tomorrow where all the birdies are in a row, singing a happy song. Clocking in at a little over ninety seconds, this is the shortest song in the movie by far; as Colette drifts asleep; Goulash points his head out to get a sign. Napoleon silently gets out of Colette’s clutch and proceeds to open the door, motioning for Harmony and Goulash to head for the living room.

Harmony notes that she has never seen Colette this upset and asks what happened, Napoleon tells them that she made a mistake a school, her very first mistake. This horrifies Goulash, but Harmony is left skeptical. (H: “A mistake is just that. A mistake”) Napoleon isn’t worried about that though. What he’s more worried about is if it leads to a ‘chain reaction’. “I hate to be all doom and gloom,” He says, but he’s concerned that this mistake will soon snowball into a spell in which Colette begins to lose the confidence to do anything and begins to make more mistakes, and more, and more; chipping away at her aura of perfection until she is left with nothing.

But he also realizes that it is just a theory, and it will most likely blow over by tomorrow. But he advises both to be very watchful over the course of the next few days. Goulash also notes of a new student, but gave no other details otherwise. Napoleon wonders if the new student had anything to do with it, but his hunger strikes again. He asks Harmony if she can get him a fish, Like with Goulash, Harmony asks why he can’t do it himself. And again, Napoleon states that he would rather be spoiled than soiled. Instead of a response, Harmony smacks her beak on the top of his head and flies away; leaving him to tend to his wound.

LeTroi narrates that even though the wound was bad for his dignity, it felt much worse for him to know that his so called theory would actually be right. But not in the way he thought it would go. “Everything Colette did, Yvette managed to do better than her” A montage of events is shown of Yvette besting Colette at things she’s usually good at. Singing, art, dodgeball, and even when taking a test. Soon, she began to usurp Colette’s role as the most beautiful and talented girl in all of France. LeTroi gives Colette credit as she tried not to let it get to her, but it wasn’t easy.

“But one day,” He warns us. “Yvette did something that angered her so much, she could not stand for it any longer” It took place just before Trubeau’s class was finished for the day. He gives out his overall analysis to everyone, he compliments Aubrey for using less vibrato than usual. (A: “Well, I had a little coaching”) Sylvan is awarded kudos for good tone, even Ruby is given praise for stepping her game up. Yvette, naturally is awarded plaudits for her rich voice than can do seemingly everything, He then gets up to Colette, he finds it hard to say but he cannot seem to understand what has happened to her these last few days. “You really haven’t been at your best” He assures her that if there is something she needs help with or something that’s bothering her, that she can come to him. Colette claims that she doesn’t need any help and that she’s under a little stress. She promises to do better for him. The bell rings and the class heads off, saying their goodbyes to Trubeau.

Yvette asks Trubeau if she can talk to him a little bit. He obliges, and the two start a discussion. Yvette carefully words out her question, “Have you ever felt that maybe, you were a little better than someone else?” Trubeau, still in that warm, approachable way says that he’s never felt that way. In fact, he finds the idea of competition between two singers to be rather silly. “Why waste time trying to unfairly judge someone as better than another when you can focus on what makes both of them good in their own way?”

His tone becomes more solemn. He admits that he had seen a competition between two singers happen before. Twenty years ago in fact. In flashback, There were two very talented people, Marie de Toinette and Nicole Dupree. Marie was this fantastic singer who was proud of her status and could do almost anything and was loved by her class for it. Nicole on the other hand was in away, just like Yvette. She was the new girl, shy, small, a little awkward, but she had a voice like the angels above.

(T: “And the next thing you know, she became the talk of the entire school. Everyone loved her, and they loved her voice, even more than Marie’s”) Marie did not like this at all and began to grow insecure about her position, Nicole on the other hand was getting used to this newfound popularity and was starting to take it over her head. Eventually, one thing lead to another and the problem became too much of an issue for him not to notice. So he set up a contest between the two singers, the winner would stay in the choir; the loser would be forced to leave. Nicole sang a song he recorded for his album, “Shine, I believe it was” But not only that, she sang it completely in soprano. It proved to be too much and her voice gave out. Marie then sang a song completely dissing Nicole, “Never did I see such disrespect or anger in her” Regardless, her singing was so beautiful she was named the winner, in turn however Marie lost all the respect she once had and became the most hated singer in France. As for Nicole, she was never heard from again.

The flashback ends, but Yvette still has a question. What happened to Marie? “Last I heard she became a pop star and moved to California, a friend of mine checked a concert of her’s. Judging by his remarks, it doesn’t seem that time was kind to her” Yvette asks if it feels like history might be repeating itself. She explains that Colette was this really popular girl that could sing so well, just like Marie; and here she came, a shy girl plucked from out of nowhere, and seemingly blowing her out of the water. Since then, it feels like Colette hasn’t been or felt the same. Like she’s a completely different person. Suspicious, Trubeau questions if she believes Colette is jealous of her. Yvette denies this, “All i’m saying is that there’s something about Colette that’s eerily familiar to what happened to Marie and if something isn’t done about it; it could lead to disaster” Trubeau thinks about it, and decides to consider it.

Little does Yvette know, Colette was watching the entire thing unfold from outside the class; beside the locker, growing more angered and confused by the minute. Yvette exits Mr. Trubeau’s class to head off to her next class when she sees Colette blocking her path, arms crossed and glaring. Yvette asks how she’s doing, she brushes it off and says she’s doing fine. The same question and answer is given vice versa. Things are uncomfortable for a few seconds until Colette breaks the ice by questioning Yvette about her conversation *with Trubeau. Yvette tries to defend herself, saying that was concerned for her status and wanted to see if she could help her.

“So, who’s Marie de Toinette; And what does she have to do with me?” She asks, Yvette stammers on; trying to find an answer. She eventually gets one, and rapidly says that Marie was a singer with jealousy issues. “You think i’m jealous then?” Colette asks, Yvette tries again to deny this and says that she’s trying to be a friend. Colette is trying that as well, she’s tried to give her advice, tips, everything; but it looks like she doesn’t need them. She clearly knows what she’s doing.

And then she comes to an premonition; Yvette was attempting to steal Colette’s spot on choir. The two argue on for a little bit, Yvette trying to deny it and Colette chiding her about even considering to take her spot. This goes on until Ruby spots them and asks if something is wrong, Colette downplays everything and says that they’re just having a little discussion and tells Ruby to run along. When Ruby is gone, Colette quietly, but sternly warns her that she still has a lot to learn. The first rule? Do not mess with her reputation, it is her spot and no matter what happens; that will never change. Yvette nods, seemingly having learned her lesson. Colette walks off to the lunchroom. As she walks away, Yvette’s mood seems to change. Gone is the scared, frightened, nervous girl; in it’s place seems to be someone vicious and manipulative. “Yes, it is your spot. But for how long?” She smirks arrogantly as she watches Colette go from the distance.

At the lunchroom, Colette sits in the usual table where she and her friends sit. But they walk right by her and head off to another today. She gets up and comes to them, she asks if they wanted to sit with her. Uneasily, the three confide with each other. Ruby breaks the news that they will be sitting with Yvette tonight. Colette understands, (although there is a subtle hint of aggravation) before she leaves; she asks Tiffany if she’s still invited to come to her big prom dress reveal tomorrow.

Tiffany begins to panic and starts apologizing repeatedly. It turns out that she forgot to invite her. Frantically, she goes over to her phone and tries to find the email button. “No, that’s the photo gallery, that’s the wallpaper gallery, and that’s my gallery of swimsuits i’ve worn the last two years!” Colette coldly tells Tiffany to forget it, she knows when she’s not wanted and dejectedly heads back to her table. She sits alone, miserable until Sylvan comes in. He asks if the seats are taken, Colette lets him sit next to her. “They're not sitting with you?” Sylvan asks. Colette nods. She begins to ask Sylvan a question, before she can; she takes a look at her friends as Yvette arrives. They joyously greet her with hugs and even a surprise selfie by Tiffany. She turns to Sylvan and asks “Have you ever had the feeling that you’re being replaced?”

Sylvan recalls having this feeling multiple times. He calls it one of the reasons why he’s never had a girlfriend. Colette gets a fuzzy feeling inside and wonders whether or not she should tell him, when Sylvan asks her if she’s alright; she lies and says that everything’s fine. Colette works up the courage to ask Sylvan why he’s never dated. “It’s kind of a weird story, you probably wouldn't understand” After some seconds, Colette tells Sylvan that she’ll understand. Silently, Sylvan gets up and walk away, only to come back with a guitar in hand. Thus begins the fifth song, (Crossroads by Steve Burns) it is a rather depressing sounding jazz waltz with the guitar providing the main harmony. In this song, *He sings about the tough decisions and hard realities in life that every person will eventually have to face. One wrong move will end in disaster though, so they must be careful of what path they choose. This song also gives context as to why Sylvan doesn’t date. When he was younger, his father was attracted to this rebellious girl. She loved to break the laws and get in trouble, but for some reason he was very attached to her. So they hit it out, this lead to some bad decisions and then the next thing he knew; he was left broke, out of a job and with an endless amount of regret.

After Sylvan’s song, Colette feels really sorry for him. Sylvan says not to be, it was a bad decision that scarred him for life, and now; he must pay for it. Colette then works up the muster to ask another question. “Are you, at least slightly, considering about going to Tiffany’s dress reveal thing tomorrow” Sylvan reveals that he’s actually considering it, but it probably won’t lead to much else. The bell rings, signaling the end of lunch. Sylvan leaves, bidding Colette a fond farewell. Colette looks at her phone, and checks her calendar. She smiles.

That evening at Colette’s house, Napoleon sits at the porch looking forlorn. Harmony comes up to him, and feeling concern asks what is wrong. Napoleon sighs and queries that he’s looking at the stars above him. What for? “To ask for a do-over, one that will fix the mess i’ve made” He sighs, and laments on how he could have been right yet feel so wrong. Harmony comes close to him and puts a comforting wing beside his back.

CRASH! All of a sudden, a noise can be heard from inside. Frantically, they run in the kitchen to see where the noise came from. Sure enough, they find Goulash and Ruby trying to make some sort of drink to put in a punch bowl without much success. Goulash spots them and announces that Ruby was chosen to help with refreshments and she chose him to help. Napoleon looks on aghast at the state of affairs, Harmony however decides to check on the punch itself, he takes a short sip. Then spits it out in an over the top fashion, he tells Goulash that they put champagne in it. “Do you know what happens when you give teenagers alcohol?” Goulash comes up with the stupidest answer possible. (G: “You get them all happy for the party?”) Harmony facepalms at the answer and reveals to him that it will get them arrested. Goulash remains surprisingly calm throughout, when asked why, it’s revealed that they created a backup just in case this one was a flop, leaving Harmony and Napoleon in a state of confusion.

The next day comes, and everyone can be found inside Tiffany’s mansion. A grand place that according to Ruby seems to have a room for everything, (R: “There’s a room for kitties, there’s a room for yachts, there’s even a room dedicated to her crush on Marcell!”) Aubrey is quick to point that everyone knows she has a crush on him. (Nathan Kress) Ruby also points out that she has a major crush on ‘this Raymond weirdo’ (Alex House). Aubrey vehemently tries to deny this until the doorbell rings. Aubrey comes to get it, it’s Raymond. She begins to babble out of control, knees weak and an expression of love of her face as he saunters off to flirt with the ladies.

A rather stylish and handsome looking boy, around the same age as Tiffany’s also enters with another, slightly younger male who wears all purple. He apologizes profusely, but Jade (Grant Palmer) kept giving him the wrong directions. (J: “I swear, it was turn left at the first light!”) As the two keep bickering, Ruby decides to go check on Tiffany to see if she’s ready. She skips off to the dressing room, what happens next is off screen; but judging by the screams and sound effects added in, it doesn’t appear that she’s ready. Ruby limps back to the rest, scratches on her face and an expression of pain and confirms this. (R: “She’s not ready yet…”)

The doorbell rings again, Ruby hobbles over to get it. She opens the door, to her shock; Colette has come after all along with her cat Napoleon. Excited, she tells everyone that Colette is here and everyone clamors around her. Colette reveals she hasn’t come alone and Sylvan walks in to the surprise of the others. Raymond tries to deliver his best pickup line, but Colette pays no attention to them. The four best friends (minus of course Tiffany) chat for a little bit until Tiffany announces that she’s ready. She demands everyone form a nice, orderly line so they can- “Who cares about lines?” Ruby cries out, exploding with joy. “I want to see that dress!” She runs to the modeling room while everyone else plays catchup.

Once everyone arrives at the modeling room, (which is really just a model runway with a wall that changes color) a pre-recorded voice (Tiffany’s) announces the arrival of the ‘amazing, stunning, incomparable, one of a kind’ Tiffany in her all new, daring, sleek, state of the art prom dress. In she walks in, like a model on a runway, right hand placed on her hip, a confident smile on her face. The camera gives a clear view of her dress, a shiny, sparkling aqua-marine mermaid gown that highlights all of her body’s curves (torso, waist, hips) before dramatically flaring right at the knees. She struts a confident walk, stopping right at the edge and doing a model side-turn so they can get a better view of her curves. Everyone looks on in awe at the beauty of her dress, and then; she stuns them by doing a dramatic and seductive pose. “Impressed?” She asks. They all nod, enthusiastically. “Trick question, I knew you would!”

Aubrey admits that she went all out fancy this year, “It’s certainly better than last year’s”. Even Sylvan is rather impressed. Tiffany capitalizes by trying to flirt with Sylvan to convince him to go to the dance with her. Sylvan appreciates this gesture, but says he has other plans. With someone else, he turns over to Colette; and prepares himself. (S: “I never thought i’d say these words...”) He and Colette simultaneously ask the other the same question. “Will you go to prom with me?” Astonished by how they both asked it at the same time, he agrees to go much to the dreamy sighs of Ruby and Aubrey.

Tiffany decides to celebrate this moment with celebratory selfies for all. She rushes her way back to the get her phone, then joins the rest as they all take turns taking selfies with Tiffany. (One thing you’ll notice is that while everyone else is doing something relatively normal, Tiffany is doing a completely different and dramatic pose) The last person to take a selfie is Yvette, who is nowhere to be found. Aubrey claims that Yvette went to the bathroom just before Sylvie made his proposal, disappointing Ruby who wanted to see her reaction. Colette has also noticed that Napoleon has also wandered off for whatever reason. (A: “She did schedule it to be on a Friday, so…no surprise there”)

Napoleon is shown, exhausted, apparently trying to find the refrigerator on his own with no success. He sits down to catch a breather until he hears a voice gloating about something. Curious, Napoleon raises himself up and goes to find where the sound is. He doesn’t have far to walk as he nears the bathroom, he places an ear on the door to hear who is saying what.

Inside the bathroom, someone is doing their hair and their lipstick. She smiles, and begins to plot something down. It becomes more and more clear that this is not the Yvette we first saw, as she condescendingly refers to Colette as a ‘falling star’ and arrogantly plots her downfall. Now that she knows her weakness, she must use it to her advantage. But how can she do this without Mr. Trubeau catching her? When she isn’t looking, she’ll steal her diary and use the power of the internet to hack into Colette’s internet accounts to reveal her ‘darkest personal secrets.’ Once they find out, Trubeau will replace her with Yvette. She gloats about how brilliant she is and thus begins the sixth song. (My Show by Idina Menzel) The villain song of the movie, Yvette takes this opportunity to boast about how she is better than Colette in every way and will stop at nothing to get to the top. As Yvette says, it’s “my show, my rules, my people, my world, my stage” This song also takes the style of smooth but confident jazz.

Napoleon hears every word from outside, and appears unsettled by the revelation. Colette spots him and picks him up, telling him that it is time to go home. (LT: “That night, Napoleon; the lazy, yet lovable soldier that he is told his friends the entire tragic story, how Yvette was nothing more than a sham and the terrible plot she prepared for Colette”) Enraged, Harmony suggest they do something to stop her before it is too late. Napoleon seems to agree with her settlement, but appears nonchalant about it, when confronted about this; he says that he agrees that something must be done, “But as animals, what can we do?” Harmony proceeds to point out various movies about animals doing amazing things such as Beethoven the Dog, Oliver the Cat, ‘That bunny who conquered prejudice’ and Old Yeller. Napoleon gets the point and realizes that there must be a plan. But what? That is the topic of our seventh song. (Must Be Done by Miranda Cosgrove, Jim Cummings and Jess Harnell) It is a fast paced, dramatic sounding -yet comically lyricalized- song in which the three animals come up with different plans to stop Yvette.

Miranda’s plan is to gather all birds no matter what shape or size to come together, and hide Yvette’s phone. Then, whenever she looks for the phone in her drawers, desks or otherwise; a bird’s rear end will pop up and shoot out a smelly, white substance; better known as ‘bird poop’.

Napoleon’s plan is in his terms ‘a whole lot less disgusting’ as he simply plans to delete all of Colette’s internet accounts. Warbler? Gone! Pik Slip? Gone! Even YooToo? Gone as well!” While this plan seems well received, Goulash decides he wants to take it one step further.

Goulash’s plan is not just to delete all her internet accounts, but to lock her in her room for all eternity with no light, no air and no food to eat. She will stay in there until Yvette either moves out, graduates or ‘ends up in a graveyard’. This is found to be way too sadistic, even by the extremely low standards of Napoleon.

The song ends when they they come on an agreement; they will simply steal Yvette’s phone and sell it to a kindly old man. Everyone seems satisfied with the arrangement, just one question. Who would steal the phone? As Harmony and Goulash bicker about who should be the one to steal the phone, (or rather Harmony argues for her stealing the phone and Goulash rants about phone in general) Napoleon turns to camera and gives his two cents on the whole matter. “Garfield, if you’re watching this. I envy you”

The night of the dance arrives at the school, (or rather, the school’s gymnasium. Which has also been decked out with decorations just for this night) the camera pans through various students dancing, getting refreshments or simply having a good time. Trubeau is shown being the DJ of the night playing all the latest hits. Audrey tries to get a boy, any boy to dance with her to no avail, Ruby deadpans about there being a word for her behavior. Audrey responds, “If I wasn’t in a good mood, I would punch your face off” to which Ruby reveals how much of a success the punch is. Audrey and Ruby then spot Colette (who has been decked out with a glimmering black and blue ballgown) and Sylvan, (in possibly the nicest he’s ever looked. Even trimming his hair just for this) the four come together and gush about how beautiful they look. Sylvan reveals that Tiffany (who is shown taking selfies with Marcell) has been receiving compliments all night from her dress. (R: “Hey I thought she was all beautiful, not just the dress!”)

The music stops and Trubeau claps four times, he instructs everyone to get with a loved one for a very special number. Aubrey and Ruby begin to freak out as they don’t have a partner for this song, that is until Raymond and Jade come in, both asking Aubrey and Ruby to have this dance. Aubrey jumps onto Raymond like a monkey, and Ruby simply giggles and takes his hand, they leave Colette and Sylvan to themselves. “I guess this is it” They both realize that it’s now or never.

Trubeau then announces that he will be singing a song from an album he made ‘some long time ago’, a top 10 single called ‘Wings of Love’. (Naturally, the eighth song and sung by, Guess who? Tom Jones. Doing what he does best)

The song itself is a waltz/ballad that starts off relatively soft, light and pictures a romantic vibe then working it’s way up until it’s big finale. In this, Trubeau sings of a story of two young people ‘over the mountain tops plenty and near where the daffodils sway’ who amongst meeting for the very first time fall head over heels for each other, eventually asking the other to dance with him. And as they did, the animals (birds, crickets, frogs, bees) all formed a little orchestra to keep the dance going, thus forever putting them on the ‘wings of love’. It is patterned like so, first verse, second verse, bridge, third verse, instrumental spot, (in which Trubeau reveals that they would soon be wedded and eventually live together. And to this day, then repeat the second and third verses. (This time altered to be more grand)

This song accomplishes many things, it allows the animators to go all out with the animation with beauty, fluidity and creativity as the couples dance around the hall. This also gives Tom Jones a chance to show off his vocal pipes, and even does the feat of combining both the more heartfelt and restrained side he’s shown more of in recent years (as shown in the first half of the song and a little into the second verse’s reprise) and the passionate and expressive side that made him who he is. (Especially during the big finale, which is a connected C4, D4, F4, G#4 and G4. In contrast, the lowest note in the song is a G2)

The song ends, and two things happen. One, Trubeau receives applause for his incredible performance. He bows in appreciation and says to himself, “I still got it”. The second thing that happens is that Sylvan notices Colette still holding onto him, snuggled into his chest and not letting go. With no one watching, he smiles and gently kisses her on the head.

The next morning, Aubrey, Ruby and Yvette talk to each other about how the dance went. Ruby finds it unfortunate that Yvette was not able to come, but as she claims, she had ‘other things’ to take care of. In walks Tiffany, wearing the same dress she wore to the dance. She shows them a diamond encrusted tiara she won for ‘Best Dressed’, to which she has celebrated by deciding to wear it again today. (and if possible, the rest of the school year) She also notes that someone is selling leftover punch at the media center. It is ‘tre magnifique’, and makes her feel things she’s never felt before. Then, she squints her eyes and asks Aubrey how there are two of her. “Never mind, it is not important” She retracts the question and struts off to Mr. Trubeau’s class -abit with a little more sway in the hips than usual- Before Aubrey can pick up the pieces, A giggling Ruby reveals that she decided to trick Tiffany by selling the defective punch she originally made.

It is then Colette arrives on the scene, trying to start a conversation with Aubrey and Ruby. To her surprise, they don’t respond. They don’t even look at her like she is a friend, they see her as a stranger. They run off, much to her confusement. She walks to class, but everywhere she looks she either sees people whispering to others, others laughing and a few giving her some dirty glares. She finally enters the class and takes her place next to Yvette, Trubeau gets right down to business…”How was last night?” Everyone except for Yvette and Sylvan (who is mysteriously absent for some reason) say a different version of great. Tiffany asks Trubeau how he likes her dress, she twirls around to show everyone how dazzling she is; but ends up getting quite dizzy, uncharacteristic of her.

Trubeau gets into his second order of business and in a change of tone, reveals that he has discovered some ‘disturbing’ rumors for one of his classmates. He calls on Colette, to her surprise. She walks up to him, nervous. He expresses his concerns as he goes over a list of shocking things, including dating a lifeguard ten years old than her, declaring herself as beautiful as a supermodel, throwing a ‘diva’ meltdown at a second grade live performance and doing a ‘lap dance’ with a former gangbanger. He asks her if all of this is true, she denies it, not knowing of any of the events mentioned. She asks Trubeau where she got all of this, “I checked your Warbler account. Congratulations on a million followers by the way”

Colette checks on her phone to see what has been done with her Twitter page, and tries to enter her password for the account. Surprisingly, she finds that it doesn’t register. She begins to panic more with every try. Finally, she turns to Trubeau, nervous. “I think i’ve been hacked” Trubeau fully believes her, sighting that the punctuation is not of Colette’s normal use; and some of the words are misspelled. He looks at the rest of the class and demands a confession for whoever hacked Colette’s phone. No one responds. Trubeau gives a stern warning, trying to damage someone’s reputation to further yourself is not a joke. If he finds out who it is and it’s one of them, he will take serious action. He takes attendance and notices the absence of Sylvan. “Not like him to be absent…”

All day, LeTroi says; Colette tries to solve two mysteries, The mystery of her hacked phone and the absence of Sylvan. She searches everywhere, the cafeteria, the media center, even in the bathroom. “But when the bell rang for it’s final time, she knew that it was too late” She slinks away, defeated and embarrassed. Going past her perhaps ex-friends who ignore her and listen to Tiffany complain about her massive headache, how everyone has two heads and the serious decline in selfie quality.

But before she can leave the school, she hears someone talking to another. She seems to be boasting about something, she takes a peek to see who it is. It’s Yvette, with Sylvan. And the thing she’s talking about? How proud she is to have finally dethroned Colette as queen of the school. (Y: “Who knew that some hacking and a few good lies were enough to take someone down?”)

“You!” Colette storms over to Yvette and Sylvan, angered. “You hacked into my account!” Yvette attempts to play her act of being the nice girl, not knowing what she’s talking about. Sylvan looks especially uncomfortable with the whole situation. Eventually, Yvette finally cracks and confesses to hacking Colette’s account. But she did it for a good reason, this whole time, she had been pretending to be nice to her and her ‘obnoxious’ friends so that she could use Colette’s big flaw against her. Her ego. Colette argues this claim as more people start to watch the fight ensue, she even asks Ruby if she has an ego. Ruby thinks for a few seconds, before she can say anything; Colette shuts his mouth, proving that she has no ego. Ruby raises herself up to her tippy toes and admits to Colette that she does have a bit of an ego, to the agreement of others.

“Well, then; what’s HIS role in all of this?” Colette points to Sylvan, demanding answers. Yvette reveals to her that Sylvan is her boyfriend and that they’ve been secretly dating behind her back, shocked; she asks him if this is true. After a few seconds, a remorseful Sylvan nods and quietly admits his role. “But-but our dance together!” Colette exclaims, she asks if it meant anything to him; what about his father, what about the kiss he gave her or the crossroads he had? Sylvan confesses that all of it was a complete lie. His father was actually a former guitarist who played in a band called ‘Les Chansons’, he passed it down to him when he died. And that he only kissed her out of pity.

Colette begins to tear up, unwilling to believe any of this is true. Yvette verbally rips her to shreds; taking full credit for finding her faults, destroying her friendships, breaking her ‘Sense of Superiority’ and effectively ruining her reputation. She delivers one final blow to her, in seething anger. “You aren’t perfect...you’re pathetic!”

"Thank you for coming clean with the truth” A familiar voice calls out, it’s Mr. Trubeau; looking rather cross that she had duped him and everyone else into believing her lies. He looks at the damage, then proceeds to tell everyone to run along home. They oblige, leaving only Ruby, Aubrey, Tiffany, Yvette, Sylvan and Colette. Ruby, Audrey and Tiffany proceed to walk away, feeling a hint of regret. Sylvan walks off next, but not before taking one last miserable glance at Colette. Yvette is last to leave, but not before being warned by Trubeau that he’ll deal with her tomorrow.

Trubeau takes a fatherly look at Colette’s tear infested eyes and softly tells her how sorry he feels for her and if there is anything he can do to help, he will do so. But instead, she pushes him away and yells at him to leave her alone, taking him back. She realizes what she’s done, and apologizes. “I’m not perfect…” Colette tearfully admits, and comes out with the horrible truth. “I’m…i’m....pathetic!”

She breaks down, dropping to her knees and sobbing hard. Trubeau gets down to her level, and Colette hugs him tightly while he softly and gently comforts Colette. “It was the lowest point of her entire life,” A forlorn LeTroi laments the situation. “Here was once a girl who had everything, the perfect girl. That aura, was gone. Her sense of superiority destroyed. She had it all in her hands, and now; she had nothing”

The next day, LeTroi reports that Trubeau scheduled a meeting with Colette and Yvette to figure out what can be done. Also invited are Napoleon, Harmony and Goulash, all with different emotions. Trubeau tells Yvette in a low voice how disappointed he is in her, not just for trying to destroy someone’s reputation but for lying about it in the first place. (“You realize, your actions may have irreversibly damaged her life?”) Yvette nods, if only to prevent herself to get into anymore trouble. Trubeau informs the two that he is not fond of competition, but realizes that the two cannot co-exist. He’s been left with no other option, for the first time in twenty years; there is to be a ‘Singers Duel’. Tomorrow night, they will be given a chance to perform to Mr. Trubeau any song of their choosing. He will decide which singer is better, the singer that wins will stay with Trubeau’s choir; the loser will be forced to leave. “It breaks my heart to have to do this, but this is where we’ve come to” He dismissed both parties and they both exit. They stare at each other, not moving an inch; then go their separate ways.

Napoleon tries to restrain Harmony from vandalizing any of the equipment in the school, but it’s not easy. Goulash however has decided to use Colette’s phone so he can make a video for her YouTube channel. (G: “Keep it down guys! I’m trying to shoot a video”) They prepare to leave when all of a sudden, they hear a confrontation. Colette and the others decide to glance at what’s going on. It’s Sylvan, trying to reason with Yvette. Goulash decides to take a closer look and film the entire thing. Sylvan tells her that as egotistical and overbearing Colette can be and was, what she did was unforgivable. Yvette surprisingly agrees with this statement, admitting that all she wanted was to show her that she wasn’t the perfect girl that everyone said she was. (Y: “I didn’t think she’d go this far”) Sylvan says that she went too far as well and puts the blame on the entire situation on Yvette, (S: “And the fact you tried to bring me into this and feed me this bogus story about my dad is just shameful”) Yvette realizes this, but also notes that it was the only way to help make the truth more painful.

Sylvan has enough and ends the conversation by telling Yvette that their relationship is over. (S: “We’re done.”) He walks away, leaving Yvette upset; but not surprised. This leaves Colette stunned, and begins to wonder if Yvette had some regret in her actions. That night, Colette decides to look deeper into Yvette on her YooWho account. She comes across a video of her’s called ‘Sense of Superiority’, she clicks on it and begins to watch her video, taken in a montage.

In a white room, sitting in a chair is Yvette; expressionless. “My name is Yvette LaPointe” She introduces herself, “And when I was younger, I had a sense of superiority”

It turns out she didn’t want this to be the case; that’s just the way it ended up being, her parents always pushed her to be the best at everything she did. Art, dancing, singing, you name it. And whenever she failed to be number one, she would be punished. Severely. Eventually, this behavior started to rub off of her and she became a major egomaniac who would cry foul when even coming in second; she didn’t like what she was becoming, but it was too late. Her school had already grown sick of her poor sportsmanship and she had begun to shut herself out of the world, so much so her parents had no choice but to transfer her to another school. Colette’s school. She decided to start over with life, not wanting to make the same mistakes she made at her old school. So far, things have been better she says; her grades are doing good, she made so many good friends and she even met a really cute boy that she likes. But even today, she worries that her sense of superiority is still out there, waiting to strike at anytime.

The video ends, and Colette sits; stunned at the revelations. She looks at a piece of paper and realizes what she must do now. The night of the big Singers Duel arrives, and all of the characters seen have come to watch the two battle it out to see who the superior singer is. (LeTroi is shown trying to flirt with Harmony, with no major success) The curtain rises as Mr. Trubeau welcomes everyone to the second annual Singers Duel and gets everyone excited for the show. There is also a sign of reluctance for Trubeau as he rambles on about his own personal singing career, deliberately trying to hold back the contest. (T: “At one point in my life, I was asked to do a duet with a fine man by the name of Tom Jones. Very popular guy in Wales, called him The Voice”) But the demands for the show to start are too much, so he calls for Yvette and Colette to enter the stage. He goes over the rules with them one last time and then gets out a quarter. He asks for them to choose either heads or tails, whoever is right will go first. Yvette chooses head, Colette chooses tails; it is reveals to be heads, so Yvette gets the first song.

Trubeau goes to sit down and get his notepad, Colette heads backstage while Yvette gets ready for her performance. She announces that she will be singing a song that Mr. Trubeau should be very familiar with. Part of his top ten album, comes the ninth song of the movie. (Shine, performed by Idina Menzel) But there is a catch. Instead of the intended tenor, she will cover the entire song in the tone of a soprano, drawing nervous glares from some of the people in the audience. The song itself plays like a powerful aria from the 60s when crooning was a very popular form of music. (And in a way still is) The lyrics are very basic enough, saying that no one is going to stop them from reaching the top, she will break the glass ceilings and she will shine like a star in the sky. She sings the song with a major gusto, using some impressive vocals to wow Mr. Trubeau, but as the song continues; he begins to worry that Yvette is growing too overconfident.

The big finish of the song comes around, she attempts to sing the climatic wind up to the big finish; hitting a long F5. Though it is noted that Yvette had to strain hard to reach that note, she tries to finish the song; but her voice cannot handle the pressure and cracks as she attempts the G#5. She begins to worry, and tries desperately to sing the note. But the damage is done, by the end; all that is left of her is a wild look of devastation, anger and a sore throat. Trubeau motions for everyone to clap for Yvette, which they do. (only to be polite) Trubeau then introduces Colette to the stage.

Yvette starts to leave, but Colette tells her to stay. Because she has something very important to say to her. “We’ve been through a lot these last couple of weeks, and I think now would be the perfect time for me to tell you how I personally feel about you” Trubeau seems to prepare for the worst, Colette looks at Yvette straight in the eye and tells her straight to her face…

“Merci...Merci for everything you have done to me, merci for the words you said, and merci especially for showing me the truth about perfection”

This surprises everyone, but Colette asks them to hear her out. He asks Trubeau to come up and join her. He does so, and is handed a sheet of music. He gets on a piano and awaits the signal, thus begins the tenth and final song of this movie. (Merci by Britt McKillip) This is a rock ballad in which Colette reveals the moral of this entire movie, being perfect is fine and dandy, but it can lead to your ego getting too big. She thanks Yvette for showing her this and from stopping her from becoming someone she would regret being. During the second verse of the song, Sylvan gets up from his seat and begins to play his guitar.

The song comes to an end, and Yvette appears touched by the whole thing. She asks Colette why she decided to dedicate a song to her after everything she put her through. Colette reveals that she watched her video and it made her realize that what she wanted wasn’t an enemy, what she really needed was a friend. “There’s still time. What do you say?” She extends her hand, as an offer of friendship. Yvette begins to reach out her hand, then begins to hesitate…

Only to decide with tears rolling down her cheeks to shake her hand and have the two become friends, Yvette and Colette embrace as she apologizes profusely for everything. Slightly choked up himself, Trubeau announces he has made his decision…”Forget the Singers Duel. You both have proven to me that you are capable singers that are willing to learn from your mistakes, ready to forgive each other for their past faults and excited for the future roads across the path”

Everyone cheers the two new friends.

Sylvan comes up and says that he has an announcement to make. He looks at Yvette, she smiles and nods, as if to give out her endorsement. He tells Colette how grateful he is to have gotten to have known her, not just as a singer, but as a great friend. He gets down onto one knee and pulls out from his pocket, a ring. He asks her to be his girlfriend, excited; she nods yes rapidly. She puts the ring on her finger and the two embrace.

Tiffany declares that to celebrate, she will give everyone their own personal selfie! As she gets everyone ready, LeTroi is shown one last time outside the school; saxophone in his hand and a smile on his face. “Ah, what a happy ending no?” LeTroi gushes. He leaves the viewers with one simple message, “The movie may be over, but her story has only begun. What happens next, is entirely up to you” He sings a short reprise of Colette, with the lyrics altered to fit the mood and as he sings that last note one final time; the camera pans up to the sky, and the stars in the sky join together as they write the word ‘Fin’.

Post Credits Scene: Colette and Sylvan are shown still in that kiss, Mr. Trubeau is befuddled as to how two people can kiss each other for this long. But decides not to bother interfering. “After all, it’s not unusual to be in love with anyone.” Trubeau finds the words catchy and whilst walking off tries to come up with a catchy tune to fit said lyrics, the camera simply then fades to black.

EXTRA INFO:

This movie had been a developing idea for the Viper’s Den for several months up to this point. This isn’t even it’s first incarnation, the original version was somewhat different. (Colette was a snob with a double life and British, there were no animals involved, instead of a choir there was a school band, the teacher had a much shorter fuse, Colette got suspended at one point and in this whole shebang was a Bon Jovi like rock star that would have been crucial to the plot.) Surprising, with all these alterations the story itself has stayed relatively the same.

Every week a different member of the cast was assigned to do an AMA on Reddit. One week, it was Britt McKillip, another brought in Steve Burns, one week had Idina Menzel and one more had Hayley Faith Negrin. Even the directors got into the action. This was a relatively successful endeavor and a fun way to help promote the movie.

It should be noted that the owner of Viper’s Den is a big fan of Tom Jones and his work, he’s also pretty well-liked amongst the cast. What can we say? He's a legend in the music industry, he's done virtually everything there is to do. (We can now add acapella to the ever growing list of things Tom has done) Basically, the entire cast thinks of him as a god and they respect him for all his work. Tom himself has stated in an interview that doing this movie was a ‘unique experience’ and that he had a lot of fun doing this movie.

In fact, and this is a true story; this man managed to nail the ending to Wings of Love...on the very first try. That just goes to show you how good is still is after all these years.

Warbler, Pik Slip and YooToo are all parodies of Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube respectively.

As quoted by the owner in a press conference, Colette was an experiment to see if a Mary Sue like character could be made and still come out as a well written and developed character. Such an experiment has never been done, and likely won’t be done again for a long time. Whether or not it turns to be successful, is entirely up to the reviewer.

FlameSnoopy · May 5, 2017

<div style="text-align:center;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">COLETTE (STUDIO: THE VIPER'S DEN)</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

The Viper's Den are back in what they do best, animated musicals. Colette is a story about a girl, Colette (Britt McKillip), who seemingly has it all; from good friends to a pet to a celestial gift of music. The perceived perfection in her life has turned her into somewhat of a female version of Narcissus (from Greek mythology). All of this perfection begins to gradually crack and spiral, as a new girl, Yvette (Idina Menzel), arrives and starts to slowly replace Colette in practically everything. The two girls engage in a bitter rivalry not without effects to their personal and public lives.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

The studio spared no expense in getting the distinguished pair of Ron Clements and John Musker to direct, while arguably saving funds on the rest of the casting. This was a well calculated risk that paid off, as Clements and Musker are superb. Their efforts truly made the film come off well composed. However, to give them all of the credit would be a huge overstatement, the writing is exquisite from top to bottom. Perhaps the more inexperienced director would have had a chance to butcher the plot, but thankfully that does not happen, not even once. The plot takes the viewer — no matter their age — through a rollercoaster of emotions: laughter, sadness, relief. You name it, chances are Colette managed to elicit a response.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

The rest of the cast is mostly stellar; both McKillip & Menzel are solid as the leads. Miranda Cosgrove finally manages to achieve the expectations set for her, while Jim Cummings exceeds those of his. On the flip side, Tom Jones is completely unconvincing outside of the musical scenes and Steve Burns should have never been in a production this caliber, he was all-around awful.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

Anything creative done with youthful audiences in mind has to be accomplished with extreme tact. There has to be a moral and character growth, which is easier said than done. In the end, The Viper's Den manage to convey both of those in a realistic fashion. The two leading girls go through a lot, seemingly growing before the viewer's eyes. Ultimately, everything works out for the best — as it should in a movie such as this — yet it does not leave one feeling cheated or wanting for more. Which in itself is a testament to the caliber of writing displayed in Colette.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

</div><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">3.4</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

[CRITICAL RATING]</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

TOTAL BUDGET: $16.5M</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

TOTAL BOX OFFICE REVENUE: $14.9M</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

TOTAL FROM PHYSICAL COPIES: $3.3M</div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

THE VIPER'S DEN made a profit of $1.7M, your total balance now stands at $18.2M.</div></div><div style="margin-left:25px;"> </div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

TALENT NOTES:</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Jess Harnell and Alex House now have a Friendly relationship after spending a lot of time together on set. The two will happily work in productions with a reduced price tag.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Britt McKillip has seen her Star Power go from 1.0 to 1.1.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Idina Menzel has seen her Star Power go from 1.0 to 1.1.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Jim Cummings pulled a good performance. His Star Power has gone from 0.5 to 0.7.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Tom Jones was weak. His Star Power has gone from 0.5 to 0.4.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Steve Burns was awful. His Star Power has gone from 0.5 to 0.3.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Hayley Faith Negrin was better than expected. Her Star Power has gone from 0.1 to 0.2.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› John Musker is confused as to how his name was misspelled as "Jon Musket". However, he does think it would be a cooler name than that of his own.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

› Miranda Cosgrove feels the studio's patience with her is commendable. She agrees with the critics in that she achieved expectations this time around. Cosgrove now has a Good relationship with The Viper's Den. She will take this into account every time your studio is in negotations with her. Miranda Cosgrove still has one promised movie role left with The Viper's Den.</div><div style="margin-left:25px;">

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Russelrules44 · May 5, 2017

Inside my head, i'm doing a very happy dance. Pharrell Williams levels of happy. The movie's a success, thank god.

I've been wanting to make a movie like this for several months now and i'm grateful to have finally given that opportunity. And I want to thank the entire cast for coming together and working to make sure that Colette went far in the business.

Tom Jones: Hey, you may not have been the best actor; but you didn't need to be; the fact that you slayed it on the music proves how much of a legend you really are. Do me a favor and stay in touch, we might be seeing you again.

Miranda Cosgrove: It's been an honor working with you, throughout the highs and lows, i've gotten to know how persistent you can really be and that level of determination is commendable.

Jess Harnell and Alex House: If I get the opportunity, i'll be happy to pair the two of you up. Could make for some nice laughs.

Also, Colette being like Narcissus...I never thought of it like that.

Now, Seth. You've wanted to know what the next project you'll be directing will be. I think now it's time you knew.

› Title: Bars

› Genre: Comedy

› Brief Summary Of The Plot: After a misunderstanding, ordinary guy Herman Seeley is arrested for ‘attempted terrorism’ and enters Lion County Prison. The most sadistic, brutal, violent prison in all the world. There, he makes a friend out of a long time prisoner; learns the meaning of dropping the soap and faces against a man who refers himself as ‘Hitler for Dummies’

› Rating: PG-13

› Production Cost:

› Marketing Cost:

TALENT CASTING

› Director: Seth MacFarlane, this is your chance to shine my friend. Do well for me, and I will award you for your efforts. (Would you consider making a movie on Family Guy sometime in the future?)

› Lead Roles:

Herman Seeley: Poor Herman Seeley. He’s your normal average guy who can never seem to catch a break. Whenever he tries to do the right thing, or things seem to be going his way; it all comes crashing down. Even making a fireworks display to celebrate the 4th of July ends up getting him arrested for some less than complimentary things about America. Can Herman survive in the Lion’s Den, or is he destined to lose his head? (Contact: Logan Lerman, Wayne Brady and (why not?) Adam Sandler for the role, you get a fight scene with Jahn Eisenhower.)

Jahn Eisenhower: Long time resident of Lion’s Den Prison, he knows his way around the place and how to tick off all the big guys. Jahn is the resident welcoming committee for ‘jail babies’ and will take pride in softening them up to get them ready for prison. That being said, he's got a heart of gold and will stand up for Herman when needed.

Contact: Dean Ambrose, Sean Connery and Quinton Jackson. Gets a fight scene with Herman Seeley.

Chief Ruff M. Ufp: The lead police chief in the prison, he takes his job in stride and loves to torture people for a living. Self proclaimed to be ‘Hitler for Dummies’, he is extremely authoritarian and watches their every move. If they try to mess with him under his watch, he will take them to a ‘happier place’. (Which is revealed to be a chamber in which a prisoner is locked tightly on a hard chair and forced to suffer to blistering hot temperatures until the fifteen minutes are up or at least the prisoner dies, whichever comes first)

Contact: Jim Carrey, Jerry Trainor and Gordon Ramsay.

Major Roles:

Alisha Thompson: The only female to ever be in Lion’s Den, she was once a relatively famous MMA fighter until an attempted murder got her locked up. Intimidating even by the prison’s standards, she's a vicious pit bull thar nobody wants to mess with or get on her bad side.

Contact: Well Miranda, it's been a pretty wild ride for you. You've been a roller coaster, a wife to a ganger, a bird with temper issues and now, you're an MMA fighter. In turn, I ask of you to train with Rounda Rousey to sharpen up these skills.

Mr. Hump: The sanitary guru, he can appear out of nowhere when they least expect it. He is a guardian of soap and likes to give out weekly lectures to new prisoners and warns them of what happens when they drop the soap. (To which he gyrates back and forth while taking his clothes off. Yes, it’s as disturbing as it sounds) No one likes him all that much, but he doesn’t mind. Contact: Fithy Frank of YouTube fame, Val Venis and Dwayne Hill. Yeah, your shirt will come out during his introduction scene...and that scene only.

Minor Roles:

Police Cadet Rover: One of Ruff M. Upf’s lackeys, he is the ‘golden boy’ of the policemen on the force and is the only lackey who seems like he wants to be here. He's very proud of his role and uses it to boss the others around.

Contact: Seth MacFarlane, i've heard you've acted in your own movies before, so...want in?

Police Cadet Jewel: Another one of Ruff M. Upf’s lackeys, She's the expert fighter and will be happy to take down any prisoner without regret; but she backs that up with a comedic side that takes no worries about her life.

Contact: Samantha Bee. Admit it, you've wanted to see her in a movie. Well, you now have that chance. Promote this movie as much as you want,

Police Cadet Heehaw: The third and most intimidating of the lackeys, Heehaw is simply put, a jackass. He hates just about everything and everyone. Especially Police Cadet Rover and his boss. The only reason he even took this guy was that there was a football field just a few minutes away from here. He does however have a soft spot for Jewel.

Contact: Roman Reigns, Dave Batista and Sycho Sid.

FlameSnoopy · May 5, 2017

Bars (Studio: The Viper's Den)

» (for the role of the director) Seth MacFarlane asks for $2.2M. He doesn't want to attempt to a Family Guy movie, he has been there and (NOT) done that.

» (for the role of Herman Seeley) Logan Lerman asks for $4.9M. Wayne Brady asks for $750K. Adam Sandler asks for $5.7M.

» (for the role of Jahn Eisenhower) Jonathan Good (Dean Ambrose) asks for $900K. Sean Connery believes he has achieved everything possible in the industry and would like to stay retired. Quinton Jackson asks for $950K.

» (for the role of Chief Ruff M. Up) Jim Carrey asks for $5.5M. Jerry Trainor asks for $630K. Gordon Ramsay asks for $620K.

» (for the role of Alisha Thompson) Miranda Cosgrove asks for $975K.

» (for the role of Mr. Hump) Filthy Frank asks for $440K. Sean Morley (Val Venis) asks for $80K. Dwayne Hill asks for $400K.

» (for the role of PC Rover) Seth MacFarlane will do it for free if you cast him as the director.

» (for the role of PC Jewel) Samantha Bee asks for $140K.

» (for the role of PC Heehaw) Joe Anoa'i (Roman Reigns) asks for $120K. Dave Bautista asks for $130K. Sid Eudy (Sycho Sid) asks for $65K.

Russelrules44 · May 5, 2017

Seth MacFarlane: Deal for both offers.

Adam Sandler: For the hell of it, I'm gonna say deal. I can already imagine the ads for the movie, Seth and Adam; together for the first time in their careers!

Jonathan Good: Deal. Can't wait to see what type of Dirty Deeds you bring for this movie.

Gordon Ramsay: Service please...that's kitchen talk for deal.

Miranda Cosgrove: Deal.

Dwayne Hill: Deal. Let the fan dis-service begin.

Samantha Bee: Deal.

Joe Anoa'i: Deal, with luck; this ends up being the moment fans begin to take a liking for you again.

That leaves me with a little under half my budget still intact.

Production: $1,750,000: This is meant to be a slightly smaller, more comedic movie rather than this big epic production. I want to have fun damn it, not suffer!

Marketing: $3,000,000: This marks the first time Adam Sandler and Seth MacFarlane have ever teamed up for a movie. So this needs to have some massive marketing prowess behind it. Interviews on talk shows are a guarantee.

jack ryder · May 5, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="FlameSnoopy" data-cite="FlameSnoopy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Standing Back (Studio: Hot Freezy Studio) » (for the role of the director) Boaz Yakin asks for $1.7M. Adam McKay doesn't want to co-direct with someone the caliber of Chris Evans. Adam McKay asks for $4.2M to do it solo. Chris Evans asks for $550K. » (for the role of Dean Harthwick) John Krasinski asks for $2.6M. He is also willing to direct the movie for an additional $400K. Chris Evans asks for $5.5M. If you cast Evans as both the director and lead, in total he wants $5.8M. » (for the role of Joe Healy) Vinnie Jones likes the script after he discovered it was indeed not about American football. He asks for $400K. » (for the role of Sarah Harthwick) Emily Blunt asks for $2.2M. Jenny Slate asks for $350K. » (for the role of Roderick Snow) Matt Smith asks for $475K. » (for the role of Jean Healy) Judi Dench asks for $650K. » (for the role of Liam Sooth) Brandon Mychal Smith asks for $100K. » (for the role of Tray Jazz) Trevor Jackson asks for $115K. » (for the role of Jay Wong) Ki Hong Lee asks for $100K. » (for the role of James Folder) Ryan Guzman asks for $100K. » (for the role of Dr. Linda) Katherine Heigl asks for $100K. » (for the role of Dr. Smith) Patrick Dempsey asks for $50K. » (for the role of Dr. James) Neil Patrick Harris asks for $50K. </div></blockquote> Damn we got them Cheap, Last time. If anybody wants to see last time <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2185380&postcount=284" rel="external nofollow">This</a> From Brandon Mychal Smith to NPH Deal. Vinnie Jones $300k? Judi Dench $500k Also approach Olivia Newton John and Penelope Wilton. Matt Smith $200k This is your favorite sport Matty? Approach Clive Standen, Tom Hopper, Tom Hiddlestone and Ben Barnes for Dean Harthwick. Approach Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurlenko, Talula Riley and Beth Pheonix for Sarah. Approach Mark Duplass and Taika Waititi to direct Are they any real life chemistry bonus? Was hoping for MLS 5M deal like last time. Tough luck need to harden the budget.

Russelrules44 · May 6, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="jack ryder" data-cite="jack ryder" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43564" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Damn we got them Cheap, Last time. If anybody wants to see last time <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2185380&postcount=284" rel="external nofollow">This</a> From Brandon Mychal Smith to NPH Deal. Vinnie Jones $300k? Judi Dench $500k Also approach Olivia Newton John and Penelope Wilton. Matt Smith $200k This is your favorite sport Matty? Approach Clive Standen, Tom Hopper, Tom Hiddlestone and Ben Barnes for Dean Harthwick. Approach Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurlenko, Talula Riley and Beth Pheonix for Sarah. Approach Mark Duplass and Taika Waititi to direct Are they any real life chemistry bonus? Was hoping for MLS 5M deal like last time. Tough luck need to harden the budget.</div></blockquote> Cheap is usually pretty good for a first project incase your wondering. UPDATE: Bars is going to be a little shorter than most of my other movies, and this time; i'm not including any quotes. I'm doing this because I want to have a breather from Colette.

Kijar · May 6, 2017

Trifecta

A

Kaged Cinema

Production

In Association With

Apatow Productions

Directed by

Judd Apatow

Starring

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Miles Teller

Jesse Eisenberg

Featuring

Hailee Steinfeld

Emmy Rossum

› Title: Trifecta

› Genre: Comedy/Drama

› Duration: 79 mins

› Rating: R (Strong Language, Drug Use, Some Adult Material)

› Plot: We open with an establishing shot of a building that reads “West End Technical Institute.” We are treated to three different short arcs that branch together. The first sees Vince (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) enter an auditorium as an instructor stands on stage speaking. His far-from-subtle entrance receives scoffs and eyerolls from those already seated in the auditorium. “Aye, sorry I’m late,” he explains. The eccentric instructor is surprised to hear a lack of excuse, and very much insists that he comes back in and at least make something up. Never to back down from a challenge, Vince jumps up out of his seat and enters once more, instantly stumbling back into the auditorium and nearly falling down the stairs. “Sorry---” he sells his ‘injuries’ “I just got hit by a -expletive- car! Which is all the more surprising considering I live across the -expletive- street!” He does not spare the theatrics, and his colleagues feature a mixed reaction ranging from continued eyerolls at his immaturity, to a struggle to contain their laughter.

We cut to a music hall. Calm-and-collected drummer Ryan (Miles Teller) is the center of attention when a bassist, guitarist, and female singer join him to rehearse a song. After showcasing Ryan’s abilities, we jump forward a few minutes to him exiting the music hall, drumsticks in hand. Equally put-together Audrey (Hailee Steinfeld), the singer from moments ago, approaches him, and the two exchange small talk following the jam session. After a good bit of flirting, Audrey asks Ryan if he’d like to go out for food later that night. Ryan happily agrees, and the two exchange a hug filled of all the sexual tension you could possibly imagine.

The third scenery change is out of left field, bringing us to an apparent apartment living room. Slacker Zitty (Jesse Eisenberg) hears a phone ringing in the next room, forcing him to put down his headset and wipe his chip-stained fingers on a paper towel to his right. He grabs the phone, identifies the caller on the screen, and is instantly overcome with visible nerves. He takes a deep breath and then answers the phone. The soft meow of a cat is heard in the distance. “Sarah… what’s up?” The one-sided conversation the audience is treated to reveals only that Zitty is to meet up with whomever Sarah is later that evening.

Heading back to the school, Vince hurriedly catches Ryan in the hallway. Vince loudly explains the physical appearance of one of his classmates, and Ryan seems to shrug him off. “What’s happenin’, baby?” his voice is reminiscent of Vince Vaughn in swingers. “On the way home can we grab a bite? I’m -expletive- starving already..” Remembering his dinner plans, Ryan grows silent. “If you want,” Ryan replies.

“If I want? What kinda friend would I be if I let you drive me to get food and you didn’t even get any?”

“Maybe the kinda friend who wouldn’t make a big deal out of it. I drive you everywhere anyway,”

“Whatevs, let’s just go. Zitty’s probably already stopped jackin’ it in anticipation of our arrival,” Vince jokes. Ryan lets out a chuckle as they exit the school and head toward Ryan’s car. The second they sit and shut the doors, Vince unzips his bag and pulls out a glass pipe-visibly filled with marijuana-and lights it. Ryan insults him, looking in the rear view mirror, proceeding to grab the pipe, and put it in the glove box. A man walks up to the driver side window, causing Ryan to roll it down. Ryan sits through a great deal of talking, but the audience is instead treated to the sight of Vince staring intently at the glove box in a sort of trance, as the man’s voice drowns out in the background.

When the conversation ends, Ryan rolls up the window, and Vince opens the glove box. Ryan shuts it instantly as they start to venture home.

“No. -Expletive- you. I cover for you, let you smoke in my car, don’t even ask why you have a packed bowl just sitting in your bag, I go through all that talkity-talkity, blah, blah bull-expletive- and for what? You can’t keep your mind off the grass for one second?”

The short rant ends, and

“Chill, sexy… what are you the weed police?” Vince retorts.

“No, the police are the weed police.”

“You right, you right. I forget how illegal the -expletive- is sometimes. Besides, I don’t want to get you mad before we, uh, take Bandit to the vet tonight.”

There is a long pause. Ryan, realizing he has double-booked himself for this evening, and Vince, who still can’t keep his eyes off the glove box.

“-Expletive-, you’re already mad, aren’t you? -Expletive- hell, expletive- it, I -expletive- it up already.”

“I’m not mad. Just go smoke that silly stuff in your room, not my car… next to my professor… at the school we both attend. You were smart once.”

“Still one smart-expletive- mother effer… Probably the smartest guy in the car, even! Just not as good at rememberin’ -expletive- these days.” They both laugh as Ryan parks the car. Once in the apartment (the same one seen in Zitty’s introduction), the light meowing heard for a moment earlier increases in speed, duration, and volume when Vince arrives, engaged in conversation with Ryan. He heads to the next room exclaiming “Bandito! Where you at!” and exchanging a unique handshake with Zitty as he passes by.

We are then shown the title sequence, paired with a montage. This chronicles the friendship of the three young men introduced previously. After many stereotypical non-athletic male activities are displayed featuring just the three of them, there is a the subtle addition of a kitten’s pawprints on the floor in each sequence. The kind of subtle that would make this nearly impossible to notice on a first-time viewing. Trifecta appears on the screen before we return to our previous setting, right where we left off.

Ryan plops down on the couch next to Zitty.

“Guess what I forgot,” Ryan says calmly and quietly.

“Don’t make me guess things,” Zitty replies at normal volume.

“That cat’s trip to the vet tonight,” Ryan continues the quiet dialogue.

“Tonight?” Zitty’s voice drops as well.

“Apparent-expletive-ly, but it must’ve slipped my -expletive- brain when Audrey asked me if I wanted to get dinner tonight,”

“Nice dude! You gonna pee in her butt?”

“I feel like when I say that, it doesn’t come out so weird.”

“What comes out weird? The pee? Out of your peen?” They both laugh.

“-Expletive- We are getting sidetracked,” Ryan returns his voice to a dull roar.

“Yeah, I was avoiding it, considering I also had a brain-expletive-. Sarah wants me to help her get her -expletive- from her ex’s house tonight.” Zitty explains, full of regret.

“No way, the high school cheerleader-turned model-turned drug addict-turned recovering drug addict-turned slightly less psycho and therefore gorgeous, Sarah?”

“That’s the one! And if she gets all fired up when we go get her -expletive-, I’m thinking it’s about time---damn, we keep forgetting about that-” he realizes how loud he is becoming, so the next word two words are simply mouthed “-expletive- cat.”

“You’d think for how loud that mother-expletive- pussy is, it would’ve been impossible to forget about him, ever,”

“We still talkin’ ‘bout the cat?” Zitty jokes. “Fingers crossed Bandit makes his final trip to the vet tonight?” Zitty says with a joking tone, but also with a slight sincerity that is conveyed by a look exchanged between the two characters.

“In all seriousness, there won’t even be a trip to the vet-ski, if both of us bail,” Ryan retorts.

“Is it bailing if it's for women?” Zitty asks, not realizing Vince has re-entered the room. The cat remains off-screen.

“No sir!” Vince exclaims. Ryan and Zitty share a terrified look.

“I don’t know the context, didn’t hear a -expletive- word you said, but I assume the answer is no.” Vince continues, giving the other guys a huge sigh of relief. “What the -expletive- is up!? Forget it, don’t care. Feeling a little weird, so I’m gonna smoke this bad boy...” Vince gestures to the bowl he lit earlier that is in his hands, “outside. Then I’ma come back, grab some snackage, and make sure Bandit is all set for his surgery tonight. Oh -expletive- before I do, could someone shut that cupboard, you know I can’t stand open drawers and -expletive-.”

The second Vince shuts the door behind him, Zitty quickly stands up and begins pacing.

“I know those steps,” says Ryan “either you want to pour your heart out, or we should think of a quick, short-term solution,”

“I can’t pour my -expletive- heart out right now, I’m saving that for Sarah later,”

“Pour your heart out, she’ll let you pound her guts out,” Ryan laughs.

“That visual…”

“I’m hard.” Ryan jokes with a straight face. A meow in the distance can be heard, still out of sight.

“-Expletive-, the -expletive- cat.” Zitty groans, refocusing his attention.

“Two questions: Your mom’s dance studio is open tonight, right? And what time are you meeting up with Sar-UH?” Ryan lets out a sexual moan in place of the end of Sarah’s name. Ryan and Zitty discuss their ‘dates’ set for the evening over the next several minutes, and conclude with a simple yet harsh decision to… tell him. We cut to Vince making his way up the stairs, pointlessly skipping every other step. He opens the door to see Ryan and Zitty sitting in sofa chairs aimed toward the front door.

Resembling whatever the opposite of rationality is, Vince comes in with a resounding: “-Expletive- you stupid -expletives-, I don’t need an intervention. -Expletive- off, both of you, I gotta get my cat ready for a surgical procedure! -Expletive-holes.”

Vince heads into his room, slamming the door behind him. The camera focuses on the door, which has a piece of notebook paper scotch taped in its center, that reads “CHILLTOWN”, and we hear Vince have an entire conversation with… Bandit.

“Jesus,” Zitty starts as the camera returns to feature them, “its like Rocket talking to Groot, except Vince has no -expletive- clue what that dumb cat is saying.”

“What the duck is a Groot?” Ryan questions.

“Same.” Zitty replies. They listen to Vince converse with a cat another minute before Zitty blurts out “well, we were going to tell him…”

“We really were.” Ryan says. They joke around like normal, but before long, Zitty simply grabs his keys and leaves. Ryan leaves not long after.

We return to the three branching arcs format, this time starting with where we ended. The camera follows Zitty in his car as he pulls up to a two-level brown house. The house is, alarmingly, missing a good portion of siding, despite a seemingly normal appearance at first glance. A young woman (Emmy Rossum) wearing shorts that stop parallel with her crotch, and a top-half tank top that exposes the bottom of her bra with its length, hurriedly exits the brown house with a backpack over each shoulder. She yells back “Eat -expletive- and die, you small-wanged mother -expletive-. She hurriedly approaches Zitty’s car and he awkwardly leans over to open it for her. It is here the viewer can be certain this is Sarah from Zitty’s previous phone conversation.

“So… that went well, yeah?” Zitty asks upon Sarah’s entry to his vehicle. We look at him and he does not speak, but we hear him say “You got in my car, time for me to get in your… ‘car’…”

“Zach, you know hate waiting,” Sarah flirtatiously echoes.

“Its a good thing I didn’t make you wait. But if you needed me to pick you up, how the -expletive- did you get here?” Zitty asks aloud.

“Uber. But if I’m being honest, I’d rather just pay you to drive me around,” her tone remains the same.

“I’m not your chauffeur, alright? I’m your friend. What’s so hard to get about that?”

“Calm down, sweetheart, did you just friend zone me?”

Zitty is speechless. We hear him think “-Expletive- have you seen yourself? Ahh-Ooooo-Gaaah!”

“Quit being so dense, you know what this is. I don’t ask my friends to pick me up from my ex’s place.”

“Why the hell not?” Zitty wonders aloud.

“They’d… read into it too much,” she fires back, a surefire signal.

“Alright, enough. Why me?” Zitty remains oblivious

“Zach, no more questions. You. Know. What. This. Is.” It finally clicks, and we hear him think “Holy -expletive-!” Sarah then hears him say, in the exact same tone, the exact same thing.

“I honestly wouldn’t ask just a friend to pick me up at my ex’s house. I wanna -expletive- something, and a friend can’t fill that hole without opening their own existential, metaphorical hole.” Sarah smiles, as if what she said was completely normal.

“You’d be surprised how many women feel the complete opposite way…”

“Doubtful. I know I’m special. Your place or mine?” Sarah seducing Zitty with these four words, but he is reminded of his current predicament. Just then, his pocket vibrates aggressively, repeatedly. Sarah smirks, “just for me!?”

We cut to Ryan who has, by this point, nearly finished his meal with Audrey. His phone starts to ring, and Audrey insists he should take the call. Ryan seems more concerned that the ringtone may have interrupted his lovely time than if, say, he intentionally bailed on another obligation to a close friend. So, as a result, he shuts off his phone without even glancing at it.

An inner monologue begins, as Ryan points out a lovely necklace around Audrey’s neck, only for her to spend the next ten or so minutes telling a story of her grandpa, whom for all we know is named Vince. We see Ryan have a sort of revelation that is, again, completely unprovoked. He has an inner monologue, but funny enough, unlike Zitty’s pointless babble earlier, we don’t hear a word of Ryan’s thoughts. Instead, we are treated to him putting on a face akin to the Thinking Man statue, and he suddenly jumps out of his chair, throws cash on the table, and asks Audrey if she wants to go somewhere and sing to him.

Though he interrupted her story, Audrey seems flattered by the one takeaway she seemed to get from his outburst. He, as she thought, wants to hear her sing.

We cut to another change in scenery, this time back to the familiar third-floor, three bedroom apartment. A flustered Vince sits in the living room, in the same sofa chair that Ryan sat for his alleged intervention. In the chair Zitty sat, we see a small pet-containing travel bag. The front of the bag faces the back of the chair, preventing us from seeing the cat once again.

“I don’t get it, man. I don’t -expletive- get it. I go out for one bowl, and suddenly they turn their backs on me?”

A few meows follow.

“So I’m the stubborn one for storming out of an intervention?”

Bandit continues to ‘respond.’

“I disagree, respectfully of course. I think your judgment is clouded because you’re about to go to the vet. Which you don’t want to do. You’d love nothing more than for them to never come back with a ride to your surgery!”

More meows.

“I smoke weed err’day. Why would they do this today? When I need them… When we need them,”

A long batch of meows.

“I’m already stoned, you go smoke another bowl! Don’t you know what this is!? They left you here to die!”

Bandit does not respond this time around. Zero meows. Vince, choking back tears, gets up to walk away. He continues, quietly (assumingly so that Bandit cannot hear)

“What a second… They don’t give a -expletive- that I smoke.” Vince exclaims.

We cut back to Zitty as he sits up in a bed, drenched in sweat and out of breath. While uncontrollably laughing, she kicks Zitty in the back playfully. He must have not gotten the ‘playfully’ hint, as he falls facefirst off the bed, bumping his forehead on the hard wood floor. He begins laughing now, but this laughter subsides when he sees his pants to his left, and the phone starts vibrating again. He stands up, phone in hand.

“Sarah, I gotta take this,”

“What? Shutup, come take this again,” She turns around and looks back at him, seductively. “Weird choice of words...” Zitty says as he drops the phone without hesitation, and jumps back toward the bed. The camera follows, instead, the phone as it hits the floor.

The screen clearly reads:

1 New Voicemail

6:34PM

While the clock above it reads:

6:34PM

We cut back to Ryan. He and Audrey are now in what appears to be a dance studio storage room, littered with random instruments. No dialogue here, for a change, aside from the vocals of Audrey. Ryan slowly taps a cymbal with one drumstick as Audrey sings each note. This sequence sees the two get closer and closer together until they share a kiss, that Ryan accents with his far hand on the cymbal simultaneously. They pull away from each other and gaze into each other’s eyes whilst both displaying a look of pure joy, which Audrey interrupts by playfully-and lightly-smashing the cymbal into Ryan’s face.

We now cut back to the apartment, where a tracking shot leads us through the place in a snake-like fashion. In the background, a distraught Vince can be heard making unintelligible audibles. The shot slowly unveils the cause to the distraught Vince’s effect. First, we see the pet travel bag on the floor in front of the chair it previously sat. Inside it, nothing but cat vomit and cat hair. The shot continues to move around the apartment, next showing the kitchen, where a cupboard is seen open, and then we appear to get closer to the sound of Vince’s voice. More vomit and cat hair becomes visible as we make our way to Vince, but no sound of a meow. This makes the reveal of a panicked Vince resuscitating Bandit all the more meaningful. That is, if we could see what was happening. In a spot of comedic effect, keeping the cat out of sight ONCE MORE, our view is of Vince’s back as he leans over the seemingly helpless animal. Vince leans further over the animal as the camera pans in a 360. The sobbing actor is now completely covering his pet, now not only in tears, but also with his body, obstructing view yet again!

We cut back to Zitty who is now, once again, shown driving in his car, alone. Now only half-dressed, as it seems, Zitty appears to be carelessly driving in a frenzy. He sets his phone on the center of the steering wheel and holds it with both hands, in a crazy attempt of the oxymoron ‘safe texting-and-driving.’ We zoom in on the phone to see that he is saving an audio clip from his voicemail to his phone. We then see him send the audio clip in a multimedia message to Ryan.

This leads to us cutting away from Zitty’s phone, and to Ryan. He leads Audrey to a car and shuts the door, taking his time, and unintentionally building suspense for a situation he is not yet aware of. Finally, after the car drives off, we see Ryan reach into his pocket, and take out his phone. He takes a long, drawn-out deep breath, before turning his phone back on. We zoom in on Ryan’s phone now, and watch a silly tracfone start-up graphic, complete with a lame tune, and as it loads up, and his service loads in, he is not-so-surprised to see 2 Missed Calls from Vince, and two texts from Zitty. He swipes the missed calls aside, and opens his text conversation with Zitty.

The first text reads:

LISTEN TO THIS, MOTHER -expletive-

The second text contains, obviously, the aforementioned audio file. Ryan presses play and puts the phone to his ear.

We hear Vince’s voice, choked up:

“I was wrong. It is bailing if it's for women.”

Afterward, a long, sad, and drawn out sound that only a cat in a horrible amount of pain could make. Ryan rushes to his car, and we cut back to Vince. Vince is now standing outside of the apartment, on the wooden balcony outside their sliding glass door. He looks out to a small lake of cars in the parking lot below, looking like a metaphorical short bus just hit all of his emotions head-first. The shot stays focused on Vince for awhile longer, before two cars whip into the parking lot simultaneously. Vince, in a spat of rage, turns around and runs right into the sliding glass door. Luckily, Ryan and Zitty had to take time in order to park, giving him time to correct this mistake, and march right down the stairs and out to the parking lot, sustaining the previously noted rage.

Zitty approaches Vince, clearly enraged, with no hesitation, while Ryan continues to take his time, even when approaching Vince.

“Come on, broski, let’s get Bandit to the vet.” Zitty’s attempt at humor is lost on Vince.

“Though I’m sure you were too busy stuffing whatever whore bat her eyes at you this week to notice, but its---”

Before Vince can finish his sentence, Zitty punches him in the face.

Physically and mentally taken aback, Vince softly says “but it’s too late for that…” Zitty realizes Vince means that Bandit is already gone, and (in a somewhat ridiculous fashion) falls backwards into a sitting position, with his face in his hands. Ryan, completely oblivious and with a sudden lack of empathy, to what Vince had just conveyed to Zitty, asserts himself vocally.

“You shouldn’t be our responsibility, for -expletive-’s sake!” Ryan yells, inching closer.

“Your responsibility? I’m a chore now? Being my friend is a chore?” Vince cries out.

“Your friend, or your caretaker? And here you go, playing the victim again.”

“The victim? How can I play the victim when you always treat me like the -expletive- bad guy?”

“You make yourself the bad guy, mother -expletive-!”

“How? Sometimes I just… I count on you guys, just like you’d count on me.” Vince is sure of himself here.

“Count on you? You?” Ryan starts to sound ruthless, “Count on you for what? Making every trip to the store a risky -expletive- venture, ‘cause you’re holding? Making the apartment smell like dank kush and cat piss...”

There is a long pause, Vince fights back tears before opening his mouth once more.

“I ask for -expletive- all the time, I get that, I can work on it.. Today was different... -expletive- me, right? All I do is play the victim, ask for -expletive- from you, criticize both of your constant needs to feel loved by some poor girl. For -expletive-’s sake, if you two TRULY don’t feel loved, I really have served no -expletive- purpose, huh?” Vince walks off screen, into the building.

Zitty slowly gets to his feet, and gets in Ryan’s face before speaking. “Stop thinking whatever the -expletive- you’re thinking.”

“You gonna hit me now too?” Ryan asks in a bit of disgust.

“I regret that already. And even worse… those words you two just exchanged… My punch is a tap on the shoulder in the middle of a -expletive- math test asking “what’d ya get for ‘Name’?! That kid… That -expletive- stoner that we’ve been driving around for ages, he’s special.”

Ryan scoffs.

“Stop! The three of us. Hell, even just the two of us, not Vince, me and you, we don’t mean much at all to the world. We---We don’t mean much to our families anymore, either, and we both know that we don’t mean a -expletive- thing to ourselves. But the thing that has kept the three of us together is one simple thing. We mean -expletive- to each other. Maybe more than you and I will ever admit. But not that kid. He will tell you he loves you every second of every day, and mean it, every mother -expletive- time. He’s cocky, he’s loud, he’s stoned, he’s an -expletive-hole, but NOBODY that I’ve ever met gives a -expletive- about me like that kid does. Not even you, clearly, because you’d wipe that stupid -expletive- look off your face and agree with me, if you did.”

Ryan’s demeanor changes when Zitty’s words begin to make sense.

“We -expletive- up today. We did. Not a single pitch from Audrey’s ‘perfect’ voice or a drop of sweat from Sarah dripping on my body can be a liable -expletive- excuse for that. Because that kid wears his heart on his sleeve, in the good moments and the bad, and loves us more than we deserve. Even right now. So, man the -expletive- up by shedding a tear for a cat that caused us not much more than a -expletive- headache, because here’s the hard truth. A truth he sure as hell knows, a truth that prevents him from chasing women the way he jokes about, the way we do. THE ONLY THING that has EVER loved him back in the same way has been that cat. And before today, he probably would’ve said we love him that way too... but because we live sad, -expletive-up lives we wanted to chase two -expletive- girls we barely -expletive- know! While the most important part of his equally sad life left him. Forever. And we could’ve prevented it. -Expletive-, Ry, we could’ve just dropped them off at the -expletive- vet...”

Both men look equally pissed to have not thought of this simple solution earlier. Just then, Vince emerges from the sliding glass door of their 3rd floor apartment onto the wooden balcony. Ryan and Zitty look up at him as he slowly climbs over the balcony ledge, but holding onto the railing, with both hands, behind himself. He appears he is refusing to look down so as not to psyche himself out, but if he had, he may have realized that the third floor, while being the highest floor in the building, is not very far from the ground at all. He lets go with his left hand, pointing at Zitty and Ryan, before the camera pans in on just his right hand, clutching the railing. We cut to Ryan’s face, as he sets into a state of panic. Cut again, to Zitty’s face, where tears are shown pouring down. Cut back to Vince’s right hand, which we see release its grip! Fade to black.

TALENT

› Director: Judd Apatow

› Lead: Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Vince), Miles Teller (Ryan), Jesse Eisenberg (Zitty)

› Minor Role: Hailee Steinfeld (Audrey), Emmy Rossum (Sarah)

BUDGET

› Talent Cost: $8,800,000

› Production Cost: $500,000

› Marketing Cost: $700,000

Valkyria · May 6, 2017

Hello there, i am watching this for a few days now and i decided to finally join in. So I would like to announce the grand opening of Bourbon Street Productions.

CASTING & PRE-PRODUCTION FORM

MOVIE DETAILS

› Title: Hell Yeah!

› Genre: Comedy/Drama

› Brief Summary Of The Plot: The married Car Salesman Jim Patrick and the Investment Banker Sandy Henderson (who’s living the playboy lifestyle) are best friends since they were kids. Every Year they make a trip to Las Vegas for a Week of partying, drinking and gambling. Unfortunately, this year, on their Way to Vegas, they have a car accident and die. Jim and Sandy both end up in Hell. But everything could be worse, because hell actually isn’t that bad.

› Rating: R

› Production Cost: (I would need help with that one)

› Marketing Cost: (I would need help with that one too)

TALENT CASTING

› Director: Offers go out to Paul Feig and Matthew Vaughn

› Lead Role: Jim Patrick – He is more the “down to earth” kind of Guy. Since his Father left him and his Mother when he was 7 years old, Family is very important for him. He went to hell because he follows the wrong religion. At first he likes hell, but soon starts to miss his wife and does everything to get back to earth. Offer goes to out to Adam Sandler

Sandy “Bash” Henderson - Even back in school he was kind of a heartbreaker. Since he thinks his first name is kind of girly, he always introduces himself as Bash and gets angry when someone calls him Sandy. He soon beginns to like his new life in hell and even starts a three way relationship with the female demons Alyssa and Jackie. He was sent to heel because of his promiscious behaviour. Offer goes to out to Ewan McGregor

› Major Role: Tobey, the Devil – He manages hell since forever and thinks that suffering and torture won’t do it anymore. About 60 Years ago he ended the Idea of Hell as we know it and thought that, if they spending the rest of eternity here, he should rather make a good time out of it. He has a love for dark humor but also has a soft side when he sees somebody is having a bad mood. Offer goes to out to Taylor Lautner

Sarah Patrick – Housewife and married with Jim for nearly 19 Years. When she finds out that Jim is dead, she is shocked and falls into a depression, but manages to keep her life on track for her kids. Offers go to out to Kate Beckinsale als Elisabeth Banks

Victoria Patrick – 17 year old Daughter of Jim and Sarah. She really misses her father since she and her dad was both die hard fans of the San Francisco 49ers. She reacts to the death of her father with rebellion and aggression. Offer goes to out to Isabelle Fuhrman (not on the List)

Vanessa Patrick – 14 year old Daughter of Jim and Sarah. She was always Jims little princess and spends every free minute at her fathers grave. She has the hardest time of dealing with the Passing of her father. Offer goes to out to Cree Chicchino (not on the List)

› Minor Role:

Alyssa – Female Demon of Lust. She is even more promiscuous than Sandy and could have Sex 24/7. Despite of her innocent appearance she exactly knows what she wants and how to get it. Offer goes to out to Amanda Seyfried

Jackie – Female Demon of Gluttony. She wants to eat and drink every time, especially with alcoholic beverages and drugs, there is no limit for her. Offer goes to out to Ellen Page

Also I would like to know if TV-Show Host Conan O`Brien (not on the List) and former Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin would like to make a little Cameo appearance.

3 People (Conan O’Brien, Isabelle Fuhrman and Cree Cicchino) are not on the List. I hope that this isn’t a problem.

Russelrules44 · May 6, 2017

Kudos to Kiljar for his debut movie in Trifecta, looks really good; can't wait to see what the review is!

Also, we here at the Viper's Den would like to welcome Bourbon Street Productions to the game. We would also like to point out that it should be no problem to ask for new people in this game, The magical Flame of Movies is watching over all of our progress and will be happy to deliver us new people if requested or mentioned.

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