Movie Tycoon: The Sixening

merrykieran2 · September 30, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="HRTVAndrew" data-cite="HRTVAndrew" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44112" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Understood, but he hasn't really done anything since "Iron Man 2" and "The Expendables" back in 2010. That was seven years ago, and my thinking was that that has to matter.</div></blockquote> Yeah I didn't factor that into it so I understand where you're coming from

Sco xY2Jx · September 30, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="merrykieran2" data-cite="merrykieran2" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44112" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I feel the 1 star rating for Mickey Rourke is a bit low. His performance in The Wrestler was sensational</div></blockquote> I would agree with HRTV for Rourke's rating. No doubt he was sensational in The Wrestler and should've won the Oscar, IMO, but he's not done much in the 7 or 8 years since. I mean if it was to go purely off of great performances, Cuba Gooding Jr. would be rated at like a 4 for winning an Oscar 20 years ago. I see the logic in your case but it wouldn't translate brilliantly. Everyone's numbers would need to be adjusted in that case. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Russelrules44" data-cite="Russelrules44" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44112" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If you don't get five stars for this, I will be stunned.</div></blockquote> I appreciate the impressive optimism, dude. I don't know if I'm expecting as lofty results as that but I'm hoping it does well whatever happens.

HRTVAndrew · October 1, 2017

Just to elaborate a bit on the Rourke discussion here: I put that rating in on the basis that there's a difference between "star power" and "acting quality." For instance, Marilyn Monroe was never going to win an Oscar, but her star power transcended that. Likewise, there are actors with tremendous bodies of work that didn't/don't necessarily have high star power, either because they haven't done much or for other reasons. John Cazale jumps to mind here; nobody ever thinks of him as an all-time great actor, but all five movies he was in were nominated for Best Picture!

Perhaps in future games we can discuss a model that weighs those two concepts. Dibs on NOT modding that, though, because that could get VERY tricky. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

I'll hopefully have negotiations for "American Idiot" up tonight. Just finished an 11-hour work day (my schedule's weird), and I'm in desperate need of some decompressing before I do that! Also, "Man to Man" is coming along OK, and I'm hoping to get that online by tomorrow night.

HRTVAndrew · October 1, 2017

<div style="text-align:center;">"American Idiot" Casting</div>

Director: David Fincher asks for $5 million. Spike Jonze asks for $2.5 million.

Johnny: John Gallagher Jr. asks for $750k.

Will: Aaron Taylor-Johnson asks for $3.5 million. Joseph Gordon-Levitt likes the role and asks for $4 million.

Tunny: Nicholas Hoult asks for $2.75 million. Daniel Radcliffe asks for $4.5 million.

St. Jimmy: Billie Joe Armstrong asks for $500k.

Whatshername: Vanessa Hudgens asks for $2.25 million, plus $250k for partial nudity. Anna Kendrick asks for $4 million, plus $500k for partial nudity.

Heather: Emmy Rossum asks for $2 million. Ellen Page asks for $2.5 million.

Extraordinary Girl: Hayden Panettiere likes the part and asks for $1.2 million. Amanda Seyfried asks for $3 million.

Cameo Roles: Each member of the band asks for $250k.

Sco xY2Jx · October 1, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="HRTVAndrew" data-cite="HRTVAndrew" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44112" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;">"American Idiot" Casting</div> Director: David Fincher asks for $5 million. Spike Jonze asks for $2.5 million. Johnny: John Gallagher Jr. asks for $750k. Will: Aaron Taylor-Johnson asks for $3.5 million. Joseph Gordon-Levitt likes the role and asks for $4 million. Tunny: Nicholas Hoult asks for $2.75 million. Daniel Radcliffe asks for $4.5 million. St. Jimmy: Billie Joe Armstrong asks for $500k. Whatshername: Vanessa Hudgens asks for $2.25 million, plus $250k for partial nudity. Anna Kendrick asks for $4 million, plus $500k for partial nudity. Heather: Emmy Rossum asks for $2 million. Ellen Page asks for $2.5 million. Extraordinary Girl: Hayden Panettiere likes the part and asks for $1.2 million. Amanda Seyfried asks for $3 million. Cameo Roles: Each member of the band asks for $250k.</div></blockquote> Director; The job goes to David Fincher for $5 million Johnny; The role, obviously, goes to John Gallacher Jr. for $750k Will; The role goes to Joseph Gordon Levitt for $4 million. Tunny; The role goes to Daniel Radcliffe for $4.5 million St. Jimmy; The role, obviously, goes to Billie Joe Armstrong for $500k. Whatsername; The role goes to Anna Kendrick for $4 million, plus an extra $500k for partial nudity Heather; The role goes to Ellen Page for $2.5 million. Extraordinary Girl; The role goes to Hayden Panettiere for $1.2 million Cameo Roles; All 3 members of the band will receive their $250k each. That takes the talent budget up to $23,7 million With that taken care of, the script is written and ready to go so the movie should be posted within the next couple of hours. I'm on holiday for 5 days as of tomorrow (Monday) so it'll definitely be up today.

merrykieran2 · October 1, 2017

I understand your whole reasoning, I just didn't realise how long ago the Wrestler was and how log it's been since he was in a movie

Sco xY2Jx · October 1, 2017

Lucky Underdog Pictures Presents

Film Title; American Idiot

Directed by; David Fincher

Starring; John Gallacher Jr. as Johnny (Lead)

Joseph Gordon Levitt as Will (Lead)

Daniel Radcliffe as Tunny (Lead)

Anna Kendrick as Whatsername (Major)

Billie Joe Armstrong as St. Jimmy (Major)

Ellen Page as Heather (Major)

Hayden Panettiere as Extraordinary Girl (Major)

Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool & Jason White as Injured Soldiers (Minor/Cameo)

Genre; Musical/Drama

Rating; R (Some scenes of a sexual nature and Drug use)

Plot;

Dozens of televisions announce random bits of news, gossip and commercials. Everyone is fixated on his or her own television. Fed up with the state of the union, we see people throwing their TV’s out of their windows in displays and explosions of anger at the state of their country and their generation. (“American Idiot”).

We find ourselves in a suburban wasteland called Jingletown, USA, at some point in the recent past. Trash everywhere. Homeless people living under bridges. Houses boarded up. Life is tense in this wasteland town as we meet JOHNNY. He’s almost 30 and has done nothing with his life and is fed up of his go-nowhere existence. He goes to commiserate with his friend WILL (“Jesus of Suburbia”). Their friend TUNNY shows up as they begin to throw a party and drink their troubles away. When the three run out of beer, they head to the local 7-11 where TUNNY exposes the do-nothing go-nowhere quicksand of their lives (“City of the Damned”). They get riled up and JOHNNY challenges his friends to engage and give a shit (“I Don’t Care”). HEATHER, WILL’s girlfriend, appears. She is pregnant but doesn’t know what to do about the situation (“Dearly Beloved”). Meanwhile, a decision is made. JOHNNY, WILL & TUNNY will head to the city to start a new life. At the last moment, HEATHER reveals to WILL that she is pregnant with his child. Initially torn about what to do, WILL decides he must do what is right, even if it means being stuck in a hell-hole, he chooses to stay home (“Tales from Another Broken Home”)

JOHNNY and TUNNY take a bus across the country. As expected, the America they find sickens them, and they redouble their commitment to forging their own path (“Holiday”) They arrive in The City and share a cheap room at a dive hotel. Days pass, much to the boys disdain, uneventfully. TUNNY sleeps, but JOHNNY walks out into the night to claim his connection to the city. He even sees a lonely girl in a window and flirts with her (“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”). Back in the hotel, TUNNY wakes up. Disillusioned with the city, he has a television-induced mystical revelation (“Favourite Son”). Mesmerising images of power and patriotism inspire TUNNY. He realises that his generation is so numbed and apathetic that nothing, not even the bright lights of the city, will excite him. He decides to enlist in the army (“Are We The Waiting”). JOHNNY returns to the hotel to find TUNNY gone. Alone and desperate, JOHNNY conjures an all-powerful alter ego, ST. JIMMY. Surrounded by disciples and jacked up on ST. JIMMY’s charisma and drugs, JOHNNY tracks down the girl in the window, WHATSERNAME, and makes his move (“St. Jimmy”)

His newfound courage thanks to ST. JIMMY and the drugs that he’s fuelled on allow JOHNNY to hook up with WHATSERNAME. Back in suburbia, WILL and HEATHER struggle to keep their relationship alive, but WILL’s inertia threatens to get the best of him as he continues to drink beer and beg for a release. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, we find TUNNY has been deployed to a war zone. He is on a special mission alongside 3 other soldiers. They’re ambushed in combat and all men go down wounded as a roadside bomb goes off in the nearby vicinity (“Give Me Novocaine”).

JOHNNY is smitten with WHATSERNAME and wants to celebrate but ST. JIMMY has other plans for them (“Last Of The American Girls / She’s A Rebel”). ST. JIMMY gives JOHNNY and WHATSERNAME some high-grade heroin as we see them shoot up before they engage in high fuelled and passionate sex. By this time, WILL and HEATHER’s baby has been born and WILL is increasingly oblivious as HEATHER tenderly commits herself to her baby’s future (“Last Night On Earth”). HEATHER has had enough of WILL’s pot-and-alcohol fuelled apathy and, despite WILL’s protestations and vows to change for the better, she takes the baby and walks out (“Too Much Too Soon”).

Around a similar time period we see TUNNY is in a military hospital in the Middle East alongside the three other injured soldiers he was with in combat (“Before The Lobotomy”). His left leg has been severely wounded. He has fallen victim to the hopelessness he has seen during wartime and, in a morphine-induced hallucination, a mysterious burqa-clad seductress appears to him from the sky. She pulls him into an ecstatic mid-air dance, seemingly freeing him from his hopeless hospital bed (“Extraordinary Girl”). He quickly falls in love with this vision but the mirage soon disappears and he is left with his fellow soldiers in agony (“Before The Lobotomy (Reprise)”).

In the city, JOHNNY reveals the depths of his love for WHATSERNAME as he sings her a beautiful love song that he has written for her while she sleeps (“When It’s Time”). This propels ST. JIMMY to action. Threatened by JOHNNY and WHATSERNAME’s intensifying connection, he retaliates by trying to separate them. JOHNNY’s need for drugs suddenly increases and he becomes increasingly erratic. As he ties off and shoots up, he pictures WILL in a hallucination and they reiterate their old credo as JOHNNY threatens WHATSERNAME with a knife in a drug-fuelled rage (“Know Your Enemy”).

In the military hospital, we see that TUNNY’s leg has been amputated. His nurse, the EXTRAORDINARY GIRL from his fantasy, gives him a sponge bath and comforts him. Back in Suburbia, WILL is alone and HEATHER is somewhere far away with their child as we see WILL continue to struggle with his desire to be clean vs fighting the mundane nature of his life. In the city, WHATSERNAME appeals to JOHNNY to control his behaviour, curb his drug abuse and clean up so he can get serious about his life and their relationship. All 3 of these events occur within a similar time frame accompanied by (“21 Guns”). JOHNNY can’t handle it and leaves under the continuing influence of ST. JIMMY. WHATSERNAME has had it and she leaves JOHNNY (“Letterbomb”). JOHNNY hits rock bottom and he longs for better days ahead. TUNNY longs for home and WILL longs for all the things he’s lost and given up on in his life (“Wake Me Up When September Ends”).

JOHNNY commits to getting clean. ST. JIMMY realises his days are numbered and makes one last attempt to get the attention of JOHNNY but it’s unsuccessful as that part of JOHNNY has died. We see the JOHNNY/ST. JIMMY matrix explode in the metaphorical suicide of ST. JIMMY (“The Death of St. Jimmy”). JOHNNY joins the workforce. He’s cleaned himself up and got a desk job but, unsurprisingly, he doesn’t like it and realises there is no place for him in the city. (“East 12th St.”). WILL, out of grass and all alone with his television, bemoans his outcast state (“Nobody Likes You”). He finally gets up off the couch when suddenly HEATHER appears on television with her new rock star boyfriend (“Rock and Roll Girlfriend”). WILL freaks out and heads to the 7-11 waiting for something to happen. As he arrives he happens upon JOHNNY who sold his guitar to raise the funds for a bus ticket home. TUNNY, now an amputee, appears on crutches. He has been dismissed from the army and also happens upon the 7-11 in a chance reunion for the boys. TUNNY introduces his EXTRAORDINARY GIRL, who returned with him. As days pass and the boys reminisce and discuss the events of their lives that led them back to the dump they call home, HEATHER and her rock and roll boyfriend arrive. In an uneasy truce, she allows WILL to show his kid to his two best friends. Other old friends show up too to greet the three guys who haven’t been seen in a year (“We’re Going Home”).

EPILOGUE – A year has gone by. JOHNNY reflects on the mistakes of his past and for the first time, he can live inside the struggle between rage and love that has defined his life. With this acceptance comes the possibility of hope (“Whatsername”).

Over the rolling credits at the end of the film we hear a melancholic, yet uplifting acoustic tune play through. (“Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”).

Running time – 2hr 5mins

Budget;

Actors & Director - $23,700,000

Production - $25,000,000

Marketing - $30,000,000

Total Budget - $78,700,000

This leaves me with $10,800,000 in the bank and we’ll pray that this movie is a box office smash hit or I could be back to where I started.

merrykieran2 · October 1, 2017

Let's Start A Riot cast:

Director: Patty Jenkins

Edgar Owens: Ben McKenzie

Avaline Owens: Zendaya

Summer Wilson: Camren Bicondova

Tom Frost: Ian McKellen

Jason Corns-John Boyega

Higher Power-Patrick Stewart

Harvey Hughes-Sean Pertwee

Unnamed wife of Jason Corns-100k extra

Genre: Action

Production 1.1 million

Marketing: 0.75 million

Rating: 16

HawkPro Inc. presents: Let's Start A Riot

The movie begins with a voice over from Edgar Owens (Ben McKenzie) and while we hear this we see various newspaper articles in the background related to what he is saying. He says "In the year 2040, England suffered the worst year of crime in its history. Crime rate was at the highest it's ever been, full villages burnt to the ground and the entire police force was under the payroll of a corrupt billionaire by the name of Joseph Ryley. While technology all over the world was reaching its finest hour, England was at its weakest and it needed a drastic change. It needed police who couldn't be bought, could take down the likes of Ryley without suffering major losses and it needed the government to take back control of a country that was once considered the greatest in the world. This is where it all began, the introduction of a whole new police force that was efficient while also being expendable: The Iron Battalion-A group of robot soldiers hired by the government to keep the streets safe. From 2042 onwards, crime rates reached their lowest each year while the number of criminals in prison also decreased. The likes of Joseph Ryley and other corrupt officials disappeared without a trace off the face of the earth and while many believed the lies of the media that they had taken their money and fled to Colombia or Brazil to live in fancy villas by the sea, but we knew otherwise. However, nobody seemed to question this because they were known criminals and every knew that even if they were killed then it meant the streets were cleaner and the nights were warmer. However, you'd think that people would start talking when innocent people disappeared off our streets as well. Nothing came of it. The media continued to talk about all-time low crime rates and cats that had been rescued from trees when you could see it in their faces that they were being told to conceal the truth from the unsuspecting public as they knew that this would cause disarray and chaos in the cities. I know this as I witnessed one of these innocent killings myself"

We flash back to ten years prior when a younger Edgar Owens is walking along with his father and making jokes when one of the robot police officers steps in front of them.

"Hey, we don't want no trouble. We're just passing by" Edgar's father says

"Are you Blake Owens"

"That would be me yes. Why, what's wrong?" He asked but before he got a response the robot shot him square in the chest once with his shotgun followed swiftly by another to the torso and he fell to the ground.

We cut away from this to one more newspaper article with the headline 'Blake Owens, a liar and a fraud' and Edgar starts to speak again "My father was the most honest man that I know, a businessman who was brutally gunned down with no explanation apart from the fake lies spread by the media that everybody just took as gospel. I became an outcast from society. My mother passed away from alcoholism just a few years later because of what had happened and at the age of 26 I was cast to the side by my friends and any other relatives that I had because they believed the bullshit that the media wrote daily about my father. Nobody believed my tale when I told them what happened and from then on, I was homeless, alone and with nobody to turn to. In the end however it would be a group that finally listened to my stories and took me in as one their own that would turn my life around. I joined a group that all had stories just like mine, that all had an aim of finding out what happened and what was happening. We call ourselves 'The Lion's Den'.

Following the opening credits, we come into a rooftop car park in darkness that is only illuminated by the moonlight. Harvey Hughes (Sean Pertwee) comes in on one side with a pistol in his hand and he cautiously moves through the car park when from behind he is grabbed by a masked assailant who throws him up against the nearest car. The masked man asks Harvey what he knows but Harvey says nothing and the man laughs before pointing the gun at the head of Harvey and once again asking him what he knows. Harvey just spits on the mask and laughs but instead of the masked man pulling the trigger he laughs once again and extends his hand to Hughes who takes it because he removes his mask and reveals himself to be Edgar Owens, the leader of ‘The Lion’s Den’. “Good to see you again Harv” Edgar says before telling him that he just had to make sure that Harvey wouldn’t sell them out. Edgar explains to Harvey that Avaline Owens (Zendaya) is close to a breakthrough and that they are just days away from bringing justice for everyone that they have lost along the way. Harvey then begins to talk about how this will be a monumental moment in history that we will see the people in charge get what they deserve but before he is able to finish, the door to the stairs is kicked down by a robot that immediately begins shooting at the two. They dive down behind the car but the robot continues to shoot at them and with the power of the gun, the hood of the car sets ablaze. Harvey screams at Edgar to run and pushes him towards the next car before grabbing a grenade from his coat and throwing it towards the still shooting robot. This blows up, blowing the robot up completely but as Harvey lets out an exasperated laugh, the car he is sitting next to blows up sending his screaming, burning body across the car park. Edgar already at the opposite side of the stairs goes to run towards him when on the other side of the car park 3 more robots come up the stairs and he only has the chance to take one last glance at his fallen comrade before he jumps from the top of the rooftop onto the next building and running away into the night while the robots shoot after him.

Following this we see 4 people inside a hotel room watching the news. These people are shown to be Edgar Owens, Avaline Owens, Summer Wilson (Camren Bicondova) and Tom Frost (Ian McKellen). The news reporter says “Yesterday, we saw what has been described as yet another terror attack when an unnamed friend of prime minister Jason Corns’ car was blown up by the man known as Harvey Hughes, a known terrorist as part of the Lion’s Den. Clearly his plan didn’t go as planned as Harvey was killed in the process…” The report is cut off as Edgar Owens turns it off before throwing the remote at the wall shattering it into pieces. Out of the corner of a room comes a small cleaning bot which picks up the pieces and puts it quickly back together before shuffling back over to a corner. Edgar goes on about how this is bullshit and that everything that happens these days is a lie from the mouth of Jason Corns (Jon Boyega), the corrupt prime minister. Avaline manages to calm him down before Tom speaks up and proposes that they must make their move soon or everyone in this room will be on that tv just like Harvey is right now. He proposes that they need to start making more drastic decisions to get justice for what has happened to all of them. We get a flashback to a younger Tom Frost opposing Jason Corns to become the Prime Minister and he has a lead that keeps on increasing after each debate. However, we see him at home in his library reading through something when from behind him Jason Corns flanked by two robot policemen and tells Frost that if he doesn’t pull out of the running then he will be found dead in the Thames and his son will be framed for the murder because of jealousy. The flashback ends with another Newspaper article headlined ‘Frost out, Corns in’.

We come back into real time to see a split screen view of two different people in a museum, one is Summer Wilson and the other is an unknown woman. The two walk around for a bit in the same room but not recognizing each other when the woman walks into the bathroom and Avaline follows her in just minutes later. The two make small talk while the woman does her makeup. However, when another woman in the stall leaves then Wilson grabs her and throws her into one locking the door behind her. She holds a knife to the throat of the women before saying “I know that you are the wife of Jason Corns, the prime minister and you’re going to tell me everything that you know about the police force.”

“Ok, Ok. Release the knife and I’ll tell you everything I know”. She explains that they know the police are taking out innocents but that she does not know why they are doing or who is instructing them to do this. She also explains that her husband keeps it quiet because crime rates are still at an all- time low and any mention of this could cause unrest within the country and he can’t have that damaging his reputation; she reminds her that the election is only 6 months away so he can’t lose the public vote now. Summer thanks her before knocking her out and heading to leave through the bathroom door but when she opens it she sees guards with guns on every door and others closing in on the bathroom. Having to think quickly she runs back into the bathroom and sees an open window which she can climb through and run away from the museum.

She runs through the city by jumping from rooftop to rooftop before settling on the roof of the largest newspaper firm in London. She sits for around 5 minutes when from the building comes Avaline Owens. She says that she doesn’t have long so they need to make this quick so Summer explains everything that she has learned before nodding her head and leaving via the rooftops once again.

Owens heads downstairs in the building to where she checks to see if anyone is looking before going into her boss’s office where she logs into his computer and looks through it. She quickly looks through his emails looking for any evidence of corruption and it’s only when she looks in the deleted emails when she finds one named ‘Payment 44 disclosed’. She opens it and there is an email from a sender whose name is just numbers but when she opens it, it reads: This is a confirmation that for your continued compliance and cooperation in the secrecy of what goes on behind the scenes inside parliament we hereby donate £5,000 to The London Major News company. We hope that this business agreement can continue in the near future. Avaline quickly forwards this email to both herself and to Edgar before turning off the computer and removing any evidence that she was there and leaves the office.

The Next day Edgar Owens is seen sitting on a bridge with his feet dangling over the edge admiring the view of the city in the distance. He is quickly joined by Summer Wilson who sits on the bridge with him. She says “So this is it huh? Either the final time we see the sunset as prisoners to the system or the final time that we see the sunset at all. You know when I ran away from home Edgar, you people promised me a new life where everyone before that had turned me away, you took me in like I was one of your own when the corrupt system had turned me away because I was homeless and American. I was told that I’ll never make a difference and that I will never be anybody but you and Avaline and Tom and me and everyone else, we’re making a difference, aren’t we?”

“We are changing the world! You ready?”

But before he can get an answer she jumps of the bridge onto the vehicle driving below and climbs inside. We see her hold a gun to the head of the driver before turning to the man in the back. She asks him if he is the man that the Prime Minister is seeing tonight and he confirms this so she tells the driver to continue to where they are heading. Meanwhile behind them we see another car this time with Avaline Owens and Tom Frost inside following behind this vehicle closely and finally we see Edgar Owens get on a motorbike on top of the bridge and start driving.

We come back to see that the car has reached the building where the man and the Prime Minister were meeting so Summer Wilson thanks both the driver and the man before knocking each of them out with her pistol. Tom and Avaline show up just minutes later and while they head inside, Summer begins to climb up the wall of the building leading up to the room where the PM is. Tom and Avaline head inside but are stopped from getting to the room by a lone robot who before asking questions begins to shoot at the two. They get behind cover but he begins to advance on them shooting at the two forcing them back the way they came; the stairs. However, what the robot doesn’t see is that from the other side of the hallway Edgar Owens had sneaked in and behind the robot’s back he enters the room. The robot continues to head towards the two going the downstairs and as it advances Avaline falls backwards and lands on her head, snapping her neck in the process and she slowly falls down the stairs already dead by the time she reaches the bottom. We see Tom scream out NO before charging at the robot and sinking his knife right into the chest of the robot which deactivates it temporarily and he walks away back towards the room before it activates again.

After this we cut back to Edgar entering the room where he expects the Prime Minister to be sitting but he is already up against the wall and Summer has a gun aimed at him. She says “You took your time Edgar” and laughs while still aiming the gun at Corns. Edgar gets up in the face of the Prime Minister who warns him that there are people on the way to them as they speak who will put an end to The Lion’s Den once and for all but Summer tells him to shut up or he will die now rather than later. Owens begins to question the Prime Minister on what is really happening and in reply Corns says “You should have done your research better. Then you would know that I’m not in charge here, that somebody else runs the strings and I am just the puppet who is on all the TV screens because I’m more marketable than he is.”

“Who’s in charge here then?”

“That would be me” says a voice from behind him and they turn around to see an older man (Patrick Stewart) standing behind them with Tom Frost in handcuffs.

“My name is Mason Ryley and the entirety of this country, the police force and even you belong to me.”

“Ryley? Like Joseph Ryley? You’ve been dead for 20 years”

“Exactly. Spurred on by the downfall of my father I knew that if someone got control of the government then that person would have control of the police so I went into hiding and took control under the nose of everyone. Doing that was easy enough but keeping people quiet was where things got fun. Tom here dug too deep one day and I realized that if he became prime minister then I would lose all control so we did the only thing we could do is remove that option entirely. In hindsight we should have killed him then but as it is…” and with that he grabs the machete from his belt and sinks it right into the skull of Tom Frost. “Well it’s always a shame to kill such a smart person but when they already know too much sacrifices do have to be made. So now which one of you do I kill first?”

Summer aims her gun at the prime minister and says “You make any move and we shoot the prime minister. We have all the evidence we need to bring your ass down and come tomorrow your face will be on the cover of every newspaper. We have someone who has access into every leading media outlet in London and when the smoke begins every newspaper from Newcastle to Hong Kong will know that you are alive and you are running Britain.”

“There are four flaws in that plan miss. The first one is that I run every newspaper in London; they’re all in my back pocket and I control everything that they post. If a cat gets stuck in a tree and I want a story within 20 minutes, I get a story within 20 minutes about the tragic tale of the cat in the tree. The second major flaw is that you are known wanted criminals with an agenda against the prime minister so people will eat that story up that you killed the prime minister in cold blood and then the next day I back a new guy, you guys go to jail and I can walk away happy. The third flaw is that I know exactly who your little mole in the Newspaper business is, where they live and who they’re married to (he looks right at Edgar).”

Edgar says with a shaky voice “What is the fourth point?”

“Your wife, Edgar, is lying dead with a snapped neck at the bottom of the stairs downstairs so how about we…” He is cut off as Edgar Owens charges at him and punches him in the face and continues to punch him straight in the face until he is pulled of the bloody body of Ryley by Summer. However, this distraction gives Jason Corns the chance to run but as he reaches the door he is shoot straight through the skull by Summer who immediately drops the gun, shocked at what she has just done and Edgar shouts “Holy Shit”. They go over to check on the body when from the door is broken open by the robot from earlier. Summer backs up to the window but the robot’s arm extends into a shotgun and immediately she is shot and her body is flown backwards through the window to where it lands on a car that was on the ground outside. The robot turns its attention towards Edgar immediately but he is already on the move and he climbs out of the open window towards the rooftop and he makes his escape.

After this we hear a monologue over the top of the montage of Edgar Owens getting ready for something. He says “Everybody I know is dead. My wife was killed, my father murdered, Summer died on the way to prison, Tom was murdered by a man everyone thinks is dead and Harvey was burned to a crisp and framed for a crime he didn’t commit. After the prime minister was found I was immediately blamed and my face was on the front of every newspaper and television in the world with a bounty on my back so I had to lie low and make sure when I’m ready, I could finish this job once and for all. I lost everything and after you lose everything then you have nothing left to lose so I did whatever it would take to bring him down and it broke me, drove me insane and I did things that I will always regret for the rest of my life. Things that no sane man ever could do. He had no children but his wife was found with a bullet in her skull, his cousin overdosed on painkillers after I burned his house to the ground with his boyfriend inside. These people were innocent bystanders but I couldn’t let them live because we let him live and because of that he came back for revenge. Anyone related to him was killed and taken care of and that meant there was nobody to mourn for him or look for revenge when I was finished. I got the guns I needed, the cars, the technology and anything that could help me take him down for good. Finally, after 7 months I finally had everything in position to get revenge. I’m not a good guy anymore and I know that I’m insane; I killed innocent people just to get to where I am but tonight I end this, tonight Rylen falls”.

After the montage has finished we come back to Edgar Owens outside of a small shed on the side of a dirt trail. He loads a large number of weapons into a bag that he places on his shoulder before heading into the shed and just minutes later a massive car bursts through the front of the shed and starts down the dirt trail. Following this his car pulls up to an expensive mansion with 3 robots outside who immediately shoot at him when he gets out of the car but he precisely takes out all 3 of them with a double barrel shotgun and then he shoots out the window of the mansion and heads in. Many people are inside as it seems there was a party going on and they all scream and begin to run outside but Edgar only had eyes for one man and that man was upstairs with a pistol aimed right at him. Edgar tells him that he’s only here to talk and that they should both lower their weapons and have a civilized conversation but both men keeps their guns aimed on each other.

“You killed everyone I’ve ever loved Edgar, I’ve killed everyone you’ve ever loved and that means we both have nothing to lose. So, let’s sit down, have a beer and then wait for the police to come and arrest us both”

They sit down at the table but they still have a gun aimed at each other. Edgar asks him why he killed his father and Mason replies with “Your father was the mechanic right? I liked him but he worked out who I was and what I was doing. Like many before him he had to die to keep our streets safe and under my control. He didn’t mean anything to me just like my family didn’t mean anything to you. You’re just as bad as I am Edgar and if I die things will just keep on getting worse for this country”

“You talk too much…” and he pulls his gun away from Rylen and aims it at the wall behind him, pulls the trigger and smiles as the whole house blows up around them which kills both of them.

The final scene sees a news report where everything is explained: who was behind the government this whole time, who took him down and what is next for the UK. However, what is focused upon is the final video recorded by Edgar Owens. He says “If you find this video then I have either succeeded or I have failed. If I have failed in what I was doing then I am sorry that you all must continue to live a lie but if I am successful then I want everybody to know that what I did was not for my own gain but instead for the gain of each and every one you. Everyone I ever loved gave their lives for you to be free from the lies of the government, the police force and the newspapers. Disclosed with this tapes are all the evidence you need to know what has happened and who is behind it and whether this is ever seen depends on my success or failure. I’ve planted bombs all over his house and if everything goes correctly then we will both be dead when you see this so I just want to say to anyone that ever got hurt by either myself or this man: I’m sorry!”

Cut to Credits

Russelrules44 · October 3, 2017

Ok, here's the deal with Backyard Baseball. This movie is so big; that I have to write out huge parts of the plot before I can get to anything else. That is a first for me.

So yeah, expect this movie to take a little while to finish.

merrykieran2 · October 3, 2017

It's kinda sad to see so many people who entered when this started not contributing anymore. This is a fantastic game and both mods do a great job but I can't help from thinking how much better it could be if a lot more people were involved

cappyboy · October 3, 2017

It's kinda sad to see so many people who entered when this started not contributing anymore. This is a fantastic game and both mods do a great job but I can't help from thinking how much better it could be if a lot more people were involved

There's always some of that. Folks jump in thinking it'll be easy and then learn the reality after they start trying. I'm still working my flick. Just taking longer than I expected. I've had more stuff in my head than time to do it in lately. None of it serious thankfully. But I'd rather plod along than try to rush it up. We saw how that worked for Russel thanks to Bars.

HRTVAndrew · October 3, 2017

Sorry for being AWOL the last few days. I had a couple friends in town being tourists, and they crashed at my place. I'm hoping to have both submitted movies reviewed this evening, so be on the lookout for that.

"Man to Man" is trudging along, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. That may go online tonight, but most likely tomorrow.

HRTVAndrew · October 4, 2017

<div style="text-align:center;">REVIEW: “American Idiot”</div>

Story Quality: 4.25/5 (This was a unique, strong story embedded in a certain mood that isn’t often seen in musicals. That hits you from the second the movie starts.)

Production Quality: 5/5 (One certainly cannot poke holes in the way the film was made! Everything looked fantastic.)

Acting Quality: 3.5/5 (For the most part, the cast turned in strong performances. Daniel Radcliffe’s performance did bring things down a bit, but the collective efforts of the rest of the actors/actresses ensured that things kept moving.)

Ending Quality: 4/5 (It wasn’t wholly satisfying to anyone looking for the standard happy ending, but it’s gritty, much like the music of the band that serves as the backdrop to the film.)

<div style="text-align:center;">MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION</div>

Billie Joe Armstrong stole the show at St. Jimmy and carried most scenes he was in. The same cannot be said of Daniel Radcliffe, whose performance, while not truly horrible, did drag down the movie in spots.

<div style="text-align:center;">PERFORMANCES</div>

David Fincher: 42

John Gallacher, Jr.: 35

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 31

Daniel Radcliffe: 14

Anna Kendrick: 30

Billie Joe Armstrong: 49

Ellen Page: 27

Hayden Panettiere: 36

Mike Dirnt: 30

Tre Cool: 21

Jason White: 39

<div style="text-align:center;">STAR POWER EFFECTS</div>

David Fincher: +1 (new SP for directing: 4.5)

John Gallacher, Jr.: +0.2 (new SP: 0.3)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: +0.3 (new SP: 3.8)

Daniel Radcliffe: -0.8 (new SP: 2.7)

Anna Kendrick: 0 (3.5)

Billie Joe Armstrong: +2 (new SP: 2.5)

Ellen Page: 0 (2)

Hayden Panettiere: +0.5 (new SP: 2)

Mike Dirnt: 0 (0.1)

True Cool: 0 (0.1)

Jason White: +0.5 (new SP: 0.6)

<div style="text-align:center;">FINAL NUMBERS</div>

Movie Rating: 4.2/5 (The same things that made “American Idiot” a hit on Broadway made it a very fun movie to watch. It’s not the traditional musical, in any sense, but that’s part of its appeal. Everyone has his or her struggles, and the plot, accompanied by music familiar to many, highlights several such battles engaged by relatable characters.)

Box Office: $132 million (Blockbuster)

Physical Copies/Soundtrack: $28 million

Profit/loss: +$81.3 million

Lucky Underdog Pictures now has $170.8 million.

<div style="text-align:center;">REVIEW: “Let’s Start a Riot”</div>

Story Quality: 3/5 (This is a decent “man vs. the machine” plot, complete with the machine adding to its body count before the man has had enough. The over-reliance on robots was a bit of a problem, especially given the low production quality, but it was fine.)

Production Quality: 2/5 (The production budget wasn’t non-existent, but it was certainly a bit low given the action genre, and that affected several of the scenes that served as the movie’s high points.)

Acting Quality: 2.5/5 (Ian McKellen and John Boyega saved this aspect of the movie. Both men were tremendous. Zendaya, on the other hand, was dreadful in an important role, and director Patty Jenkins was bad, too.)

Ending Quality: 3/5 (I suppose it made sense for everyone to die in a movie with such a grim story, but it was a real bummer to anyone seeking a happy ending.)

<div style="text-align:center;">MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION</div>

Patty Jenkins and Zendaya were both horrible in this film. However, Sir Ian McKellen and John Boyega took turns stealing scenes, and the rest of the cast was more than acceptable.

<div style="text-align:center;">PERFORMANCES</div>

Patty Jenkins: 9

Ben McKenzie: 26

Zendaya: 9

Camren Bicondova: 26

Ian McKellen: 45

John Boyega: 47

Patrick Stewart: 30

Sean Pertwee: 27

Extra: 3

<div style="text-align:center;">STAR POWER EFFECTS</div>

Patty Jenkins: -0.9 (new SP for directing: 0.6)

Ben McKenzie: 0 (1)

Zendaya: -0.9 (new SP: 0.1)

Camren Bicondova: 0 (0.5)

Ian McKellen: +2 (new SP: 4.5)

John Boyega: +2 (new SP: 2.5)

Patrick Stewart: 0 (2.5)

Sean Pertwee: 0 (0.1)

<div style="text-align:center;">FINAL NUMBERS</div>

Movie rating: 2.6/5 (The movie was watchable, but the low production values hurt, as did the two aforementioned poor performances.)

Box Office: $6 million

Physical Copies: $2 million

Profit/loss: -$2.5 million

HawkPro Inc. now has $10 million.

merrykieran2 · October 4, 2017

That's quite disappointing but I knew that I should have waited for a larger budget before going for such an ambitious movie. Luckily my next movie is a smaller cast and it's a bit of a different direction from all of the movies I've made so far, And with that I present my next movie:

MOVIE DETAILS

› Title: Love is blind

› Genre: Romance/Drama

› Brief Summary Of The Plot: Following a messy break-up with his long-time girlfriend, Lewis Jones is looking to find ‘the one’ for him. However, this is made much more difficult when in an accident at work he is permanently blinded but with the help of newfound friend Emma he will try to come to terms with his new life.

› Rating:15

› Production Cost:

› Marketing Cost:

TALENT CASTING

› Director: Bill Condon, Judd Apatow and Josh Boone

› Lead Role:

Lewis Jones is a hopeless romantic so when he finds himself single following his long-time girlfriend leaving him for another man and then just one week later being blinded in a work accident then he wonders if he’ll ever be able to find love again. We would like to contact Ansel Egort, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a man that has already excelled at portraying a blind man in Daredevil Charlie Cox

› Major:

Emma Joseph is a nurse who helps Lewis Jones to try and get back to full confidence and learn in his new life. What starts as just a friendship though soon becomes a blossoming love interest. We would like to contact Shailene Woodley, Lily James and Margot Robbie

› Minor Role:

Marilyn Moore is the ex-girlfriend of Lewis Jones who cheated on him for months before eventually leaving him for her co-worker. However, when that doesn’t work out she tries to worm her way back into Jones’ life. We would like to contact Nina Dobrev, Emily VanCamp and Alexandra Daddario

Ed Sheeran as himself-We would also like to include his songs Perfect and Thinking Out Loud

HRTVAndrew · October 5, 2017

As a heads-up, I just realized I made a slight miscalculation. The numbers for "American Idiot" don't take into account Green Day's 15% cut of all revenue. That total is $24 million. Therefore, $146.8 million is Lucky Underdog Pictures's actual total. My mistake!

HRTVAndrew · October 5, 2017

Proud to say that Tompkins Square Studios's latest production, "Man to Man," is ready to go! The script took several twists and turns that I wasn't necessarily expecting, but I'm happy with how it turned out, and I hope you are, too.

- - - - -

MOVIE DETAILS

Title: “Man to Man”

Genre: Comedy, with some action and drama thrown in

Duration: 1 hour, 38 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (language, intense situations)

Plot: We open on a college gymnasium in Cleveland, Ohio, five minutes before tipoff. The gym is packed as the teams go through their pre-game warmups, but our cameras are focused on NBA scout Mason Simmons, who goes to his assigned seat just behind one of the baskets. He begins setting up for his assignment, but his phone rings its somewhat-embarrassing tone of “Call Me Maybe,” by Carly Rae Jepsen. The voice on the other end belongs to his father, Percy, who goes back and forth as half-doting father, half-chop-buster. Mason chuckles and hangs up as the teams come back onto the court for the game.

At the first stoppage of play, a voice rings out from behind Mason, who is visibly affected by the development. He turns around to a man identifying himself as Bob Briggs, and Mason, trying to keep his composure, remarks that he’d never forget what his ex-father-in-law sounded like. Bob attempts to engage Mason in conversation, but Mason, working, says he’ll chat with him at halftime.

Halftime comes around, and Mason takes a deep breath before going up into the stands. The two make awkward chit-chat for a moment before heading to the snack bar, but are stopped by two men in leather jackets. Bob introduces them as Bob and John Delmonico, but the pair is in no mood for small talk. They demand to know where their money is, and they imply they snuck weapons past security, but a guard overhears them and chases them out of the building. Mason and Bob take the opportunity to run wildly in the other direction, with the former wondering aloud what his former father-in-law got himself into and the latter promising to explain in the car. Meanwhile, the two Delmonicos come face-to-face with their father, Dave, outside. He’s been waiting for Briggs, and is, as usual, disappointed in the efforts of his sons. He commands them to follow their target, and is not concerned that Mason has become, for all intents and purposes, an unwitting hostage.

The two arrive at Bob’s minivan, and they quickly depart the parking garage. Mason asks if Bob and John are related to Dave Delmonico, the local crime boss. Bob confirms, and explains that several investments of his went bust. Dave was in on some of them, and rather than eat the loss, he’s chasing Bob for reimbursement. Mason points out how illegal that is, but as they arrive at Bob’s house, Bob reminds them that Dave has the entire police force on his payroll. Meanwhile, Mason asks why Bob couldn’t have just dropped him off at his father’s house. Bob attempts to back up and go in that direction, but the two notice Bob and John wheeling around the block on matching motorcycles. The two get inside, but are trapped.

Things go from bad to worse when the two get inside, as Bob’s daughter, Hannah, is home. Hannah and Mason have not spoken since being divorced six months prior, and they’re in no hurry to start now. Bob explains the situation and that the younger Delmonico's are going around the neighborhood, estimating that they each get to the house every five minutes. As they wonder aloud what they’re going to do, Mason’s phone rings (still “Call Me Maybe”), and it’s Percy again. This time, he’s wondering what Mason thinks of the game, as the local team’s star player has put up 46 points. Mason quickly dispatches his father and hangs up as Hannah rolls her eyes and Bob paces around the room.

Mason surmises that their best bet is any enclosed area, such as a basement, where they can’t be seen. Hannah, surprisingly, agrees, but Bob is reluctant. The two ex-lovers go downstairs, suddenly discovering a restored 1963 Chevrolet Corvette in a renovated garage. Bob tries to cover when his daughter snaps at him, explaining that not even her mother knows that car exists, while Mason surmises, “So you’re telling me those two goons are looking for us in a minivan, AND YOU’VE HAD ANOTHER CAR HERE ALL ALONG?!?!?!” Sheepishly seeing the error of his ways, Bob offers to drive them to some safe spot. Mason agrees, chiding Hannah for not immediately taking her father up on his offer. She eventually obliges, though, and Mason is forced to curl up into a ball behind the two seats.

Sure enough, the car, and its tinted windows, provide enough security for the two to sneak past the two youngest Delmonicos. However, we cut back to the house, where the phone rings twice in succession and goes to voicemail both times. One of the messages is from Bob’s wife/Hannah’s mother, Mary, revealing she’s at the oyster bar for drinks with her friends and will be home in a little while. The second message is from a man identifying himself as Harrison, who asks for Hannah. He’s outside the same bar and says he’s waiting for her so they can proceed with their date. He hangs up and goes inside, presumably to reserve a table.

Meanwhile, back in the Corvette, the mood is deathly quiet. Mason breaks the silence, deducing they may not live if the Delmonicos get their hands on them, and asks Hannah why, specifically, she left six months prior. Hannah spouts off several small reasons, and Bob’s eyebrows go further up his forehead. Finally, he chimes in, surprised that Mason doesn’t know the truth. As it turns out, Bob’s debts came to light in an argument he and Mary had six months ago, and Mary was considering a divorce. Hannah went to support her mother, and could not stomach the thought of being happy in a relationship while her parents were miserable. Mason chirps that that’s the dumbest thing he’s ever heard, and Hannah counters that running to Croatia for four months on a questionable assignment while her folks reconciled is at least as dumb. She says that it’s never smart to run away from problems, to which Mason responds, “THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING NOW?!?!”

Back at the house, Bob and John have lost patience and break in, expecting to find their targets. The home is, of course, empty, but they play the messages and deduce that they can get to Briggs and Mason through the people that called them. They call their father, who urges them to flee so as to avoid trespassing charges. When asked if he wants them to go to the oyster bar, Dave says, “No. I’ll handle this,” and hangs up before going to the wall, getting his gun, and hiding it under his suit.

The oyster bar sees an impatient Harrison opening a bottle of wine. He’s already at least a glass in and sees Mary alone at the bar for a moment, her friends having gone to the restroom. He walks up, and the two begin to talk. Harrison is clearly flirting with her despite her wedding ring, while Mary is too far removed from the rigors of the dating game to pick up on the younger man’s signals, leading to several strong double-entendres that go misunderstood by both parties.

Suddenly, though, Dave Delmonico sidles up to the hostess, asking if anyone named Mary or Harrison has stopped in. She points them both out, and Dave goes up to the bar, shows both his gun, and says they’d be wise to leave with him. Naturally, held without much of a choice, the two scurry along, with Delmonico’s firearm continually poking them in the back.

Moments later, Mason, Bob, and Hannah pull up at the oyster bar. The host informs them that Mary and Harrison both left with an older man in a fancy suit, and Bob instantly knows that it’s Dave Delmonico’s doing. Right on cue, Bob’s cell phone rings. It’s Dave, and he urges them to meet him at the waterfront in half an hour with the money he’s owed, or else several people will die. Dave’s sons are heard in the background gloating, but John takes it too far, and we hear him get hit with the butt of his dad’s gun. Bob hangs up…and fittingly, Mason’s phone rings for a third time. On this instance, though, he doesn’t answer, instead letting it play most of the embarrassing chorus before his father goes to voicemail.

Without much choice, and without much money, the trio gets back into the Corvette. Feeling the guilt from not telling Mason the whole story, Hannah apologizes, and Bob apologizes for roping him into this whole thing. He says all he wanted to do when he saw Mason was ask how he was doing and make sure he was OK, since he knew his situation with Mary was what caused Hannah to walk out. In truth, he remarks, all he wanted was to watch a basketball game, apologize, and go home. Mason’s eyes instantly light up, and he says he’s got a plan, albeit one that may or may not work.

Mason, Bob, and Hannah get out of the car near the waterfront in pitch-black darkness. They’re met by Dave, who’s wearing a cocky grin on his face while flanked by his goons/offspring. John once again mouths off, this time flirting with Hannah. Despite his broken heart, Mason uncorks a left hook that knocks John down. Bob Delmonico reaches for his gun, but Dave stops him, saying it’s time John learned something and that this guy (whoever it was) was inclined to have one free shot. John gets up and goes back to his father amidst a cry of, “I knew you liked Bob more than me,” but Dave’s sole focus is on $40,000 he says he’s owed. This time, after a pause, he does not stop his eldest son from pulling his sidearm.

Mason introduces himself, says he was not involved in any of this, and demands to know if Dave’s hostages are okay. Dave nods, and John produces Mary and Harrison from a nearby car. Hannah instantly cries out for her mother, and Harrison is horrified, now knowing he’s hit on his girlfriend’s mom. Hannah uses his full name, Harrison Williams, and Dave stops her, asking if Harrison is Don Williams’s son. Harrison nods, and Dave looks at his boys, asking why they kidnapped his lawyer’s kid. Instantly, Harrison is freed, but upon hearing about his behavior, Hannah wants nothing to do with him, slapping him across the face before storming off.

Harrison trudges the other direction, leaving Mason and Bob on one side and the Delmonico’s and Mary on the other. Dave demands the $40,000, this moment, or else both Briggses and Mason will die and never be seen again. Suddenly, though, a luxury car pulls up alongside the confrontation, and out walks LeBron James. Smiling, Mason points out that he works for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and that LeBron is a personal friend of his. James rolls his eyes, but asks what the problem is. Dave is suddenly starstruck and reveals he’s been a luxury suite holder with the team for years. LeBron, though, goes on to say he’s made his fair share of poor business decisions, but that he never once was a sore loser about it. He’s giving Briggs a personal reprieve, and has $20,000 in his pocket for what he deems a “rainy day” and what Bob quips “is more like a typhoon.”

Mason then asks Dave if he likes classic cars. His sons trip all over themselves answering an emphatic “yes,” and Mason points out the Corvette in the driveway. Dave demands the keys from Briggs, who quickly tosses them over in exchange for the safety of his wife. Nodding, Dave urges his sons to hand her over. He exits in the Corvette, while Bob and John settle for the nondescript black van. LeBron attempts to exit, but Mason tries to make plans for after the season. Stammering, LeBron says he might not be in town when the season ends, and he speeds off to avoid more awkward conversation.

Mary is stunned, first asking Mason why he’s back in town and then asking Bob about the car. Bob stumbles over his words, but Mason’s lips curl into a smile. Knowing the answer by how she's acting, Mason asks Mary if she previously knew about the secret car, and she confirms that she has, for quite some time, and was moved that Bob would part with such a prized possession to ensure her safety. The two older Briggses hug as Hannah returns, having officially dumped Harrison. Hannah asks how Mary could forgive Bob so easily after the turmoil that they’ve endured. Mary responds that you do powerful things for those you love, and that certain stuff just isn't that important at the end of the day. Hannah asks her father how he’s so sure Dave won’t come back, and Mason says he has that covered. Sure enough, it turns out he’s reported the Corvette as stolen, and state police (not the local cops on his payroll) pull Dave over, arresting him for grand theft auto and weapons possession (along with questioning why he has $20,000 cash on him).

The next day is Christmas Eve, and we see Mason assisting his father with dinner preparations. The doorbell rings, and it’s Hannah. She explains that she thought her parents deserved some time alone, and that she needed to apologize for how she dealt with the situation. She says she understands if Mason can’t forgive her, but that she wants to at least try to get along to see if they can get back together. Mason is unsure of the situation…and his phone rings. Sure enough, it’s Percy calling from the other room, and he tells his son, in no uncertain terms, to not leave the woman he still cares about out in the cold. Mason asks how his dad knows he cares, and Percy informs him that Mary called and informed him about the whole thing once the dust settled. Percy adds that if he didn't care about her, he'd have never talked to Bob at the game in the first place. Mason hangs up, smiling, and holds the door as Hannah walks inside. Christmas carols begin to play as we fade to the end credits.

TALENT

Director: Paul Feig

Mason Simmons (lead): Kevin Hart

Bob Briggs (lead): Adam Sandler

Dave Delmonico (major): Al Pacino

Hannah Briggs (major): Gal Gadot

Mary Briggs (minor): Catherine Zeta-Jones

Bob Delmonico (minor): Josh Hartnett

John Delmonico (minor): Andy Samberg

Percy Simmons (minor): Laurence Fishburne

Harrison Williams (minor): Robert Pattinson

LeBron James (cameo): LeBron James

BUDGET

Talent Budget: $16,520,000

Production Budget: $10,000,000

Marketing Budget: $10,000,000

Happy Madison Investment: $10,000,000 ($5 million each in production and marketing)

Total Budget: $46,520,000 ($36,520,000 from Tompkins Square Studios, $10 million from Happy Madison)

Goliath764 · October 5, 2017

It's kinda sad to see so many people who entered when this started not contributing anymore. This is a fantastic game and both mods do a great job but I can't help from thinking how much better it could be if a lot more people were involved

The first few editions are more rapid. The longer writeup(not like it's a must though) in the latter editions probably intimidate people into not even trying. Then, you have players like cappyboy who you know(at least I know) is around but he produces a movie once in a while, sort of like Tarantino. Like I am still around but I am just too busy writing other stuffs to do the movie in the past few weeks.

Kijar · October 6, 2017

The first few editions are more rapid. The longer writeup(not like it's a must though) in the latter editions probably intimidate people into not even trying. Then, you have players like cappyboy who you know(at least I know) is around but he produces a movie once in a while, sort of like Tarantino. Like I am still around but I am just too busy writing other stuffs to do the movie in the past few weeks.

Same here. Getting too attached to films is a problem, as I can't seem to get them the exact way I want.

Sco xY2Jx · October 6, 2017

REVIEW: “American Idiot”

Story Quality: 4.25/5 (This was a unique, strong story embedded in a certain mood that isn’t often seen in musicals. That hits you from the second the movie starts.)

Production Quality: 5/5 (One certainly cannot poke holes in the way the film was made! Everything looked fantastic.)

Acting Quality: 3.5/5 (For the most part, the cast turned in strong performances. Daniel Radcliffe’s performance did bring things down a bit, but the collective efforts of the rest of the actors/actresses ensured that things kept moving.)

Ending Quality: 4/5 (It wasn’t wholly satisfying to anyone looking for the standard happy ending, but it’s gritty, much like the music of the band that serves as the backdrop to the film.)

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Billie Joe Armstrong stole the show at St. Jimmy and carried most scenes he was in. The same cannot be said of Daniel Radcliffe, whose performance, while not truly horrible, did drag down the movie in spots.

PERFORMANCES

David Fincher: 42

John Gallacher, Jr.: 35
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 31
Daniel Radcliffe: 14

Anna Kendrick: 30
Billie Joe Armstrong: 49
Ellen Page: 27
Hayden Panettiere: 36

Mike Dirnt: 30
Tre Cool: 21
Jason White: 39

STAR POWER EFFECTS

David Fincher: +1 (new SP for directing: 4.5)
John Gallacher, Jr.: +0.2 (new SP: 0.3)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: +0.3 (new SP: 3.8)
Daniel Radcliffe: -0.8 (new SP: 2.7)
Anna Kendrick: 0 (3.5)
Billie Joe Armstrong: +2 (new SP: 2.5)
Ellen Page: 0 (2)
Hayden Panettiere: +0.5 (new SP: 2)
Mike Dirnt: 0 (0.1)
True Cool: 0 (0.1)
Jason White: +0.5 (new SP: 0.6)

FINAL NUMBERS

Movie Rating: 4.2/5 (The same things that made “American Idiot” a hit on Broadway made it a very fun movie to watch. It’s not the traditional musical, in any sense, but that’s part of its appeal. Everyone has his or her struggles, and the plot, accompanied by music familiar to many, highlights several such battles engaged by relatable characters.)

Box Office: $132 million (Blockbuster)

Physical Copies/Soundtrack: $28 million

Profit/loss: +$81.3 million

Lucky Underdog Pictures now has $170.8 million.

Came back from my brief break away with the family to a pleasant surprise. Took a bit of a gamble ploughing almost all my money into one big production but it has paid off with my first Blockbuster and a solid review!

Excellent stuff. No idea what my next film is going to be but it'll need to be a doozy to top this!

Rayelek · October 6, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="merrykieran2" data-cite="merrykieran2" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44112" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It's kinda sad to see so many people who entered when this started not contributing anymore. This is a fantastic game and both mods do a great job but I can't help from thinking how much better it could be if a lot more people were involved</div></blockquote> I'm still around. My wife went back to work with the school year and suddenly my free time took a dive without her to keep the dog off my back for an hour or so of free time when I get off work. I'm hoping to finish up Fatekissed tonight, it's about half written, maybe a little more. EDIT: Just moved the work into Word from Notepad for a word count and I'm just over 1,500 as I start the third act. No wonder it's taking so long...

HRTVAndrew · October 6, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="merrykieran2" data-cite="merrykieran2" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44112" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That's quite disappointing but I knew that I should have waited for a larger budget before going for such an ambitious movie. Luckily my next movie is a smaller cast and it's a bit of a different direction from all of the movies I've made so far, And with that I present my next movie: MOVIE DETAILS › Title: Love is blind › Genre: Romance/Drama › Brief Summary Of The Plot: Following a messy break-up with his long-time girlfriend, Lewis Jones is looking to find ‘the one’ for him. However, this is made much more difficult when in an accident at work he is permanently blinded but with the help of newfound friend Emma he will try to come to terms with his new life. › Rating:15 › Production Cost: › Marketing Cost: TALENT CASTING › Director: Bill Condon, Judd Apatow and Josh Boone › Lead Role: Lewis Jones is a hopeless romantic so when he finds himself single following his long-time girlfriend leaving him for another man and then just one week later being blinded in a work accident then he wonders if he’ll ever be able to find love again. We would like to contact Ansel Egort, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a man that has already excelled at portraying a blind man in Daredevil Charlie Cox › Major: Emma Joseph is a nurse who helps Lewis Jones to try and get back to full confidence and learn in his new life. What starts as just a friendship though soon becomes a blossoming love interest. We would like to contact Shailene Woodley, Lily James and Margot Robbie › Minor Role: Marilyn Moore is the ex-girlfriend of Lewis Jones who cheated on him for months before eventually leaving him for her co-worker. However, when that doesn’t work out she tries to worm her way back into Jones’ life. We would like to contact Nina Dobrev, Emily VanCamp and Alexandra Daddario Ed Sheeran as himself-We would also like to include his songs Perfect and Thinking Out Loud</div></blockquote> Hoping to have negotiations started for this tonight!

Rayelek · October 7, 2017

Drakestooth Studios presents…..Fatekissed!

Directed By: Dan Harmon

Starring: Eddie Redmayne as Raye Ralek (Lead)

Aidan Gillan as Jasper Drake (Major)

Nathan Filliion as Vance Graystone (Major)

Christina Hendricks as Elle (Minor)

Stu Sanders as Hammer (Minor)

Vinnie Jones as Anvil (Minor)

Genre: Fantasy/Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Financials

Cast: $7,300,000

Production: $1,700,000

Marketing: $500,000

Total: $9,500,000

Plot

The opening scene finds Raye Ralek (Eddie Redmayne), our protagonist, in his favorite bar, The Devil & The Demon (a shout out to an old Dungeons & Dragons campaign of mine). Raye is gambling with a few generic ne'er do wells and seems to be doing well, though the camera is privy to examples of him cheating. In the corner, sits Jasper Drake (Aidan Gillen), who watches the game with a glint in his eye. The shot cuts back to Raye winning a big hand. Back to Jasper who nods at someone off screen. Two large men (Hammer & Anvil (Stu Sanders & Vinnie Jones)) get up from a nearby table and approach Raye, first exposing his cheating, then threatening him. Hammer does all the talking, Anvil stands by looking menacing, nodding, etc. The rest of the tavern soon joins in and Raye is chased out by the mob. Standing on the street, he sighs heavily, then begins to walk down the road. A different tavern catches his eye, and he strides inside. The camera pans up to catch the name, The Lady's Kiss.

Inside the bar, Raye orders an ale from the bartender, but reaches into his pocket and realizes aloud that all of his coin was on the table at The Devil & The Demon, and he rushed out with no money. A smirking, stylish, beautiful woman (Christina Hendricks) offers to cover his drink, and he obliges. She introduces herself as Elle, and the two make small talk while he drinks his drink. During the conversation, it is revealed that she owns the bar. The two flirt and wind up in her office behind the bar where things get steamy. The scene ends with some clarity on what's about to happen, but doesn't go too far.

Raye wakes up in an inn room with little recollection of the night before. It seems his memory cuts out shortly after the scene did, revealed via flashbacks as he visibly tries to remember how he got here. He walks out of the room and down to the front desk where he is informed by the clerk that he's paid in full and there's breakfast waiting for him in the common room. In a haze, Raye wanders over to the common room and finds a table set with his name on it. He sits down, eats a little food, and shrugs at his "fortune."

The shot next picks up with an older man (Vance Graystone (Nathan Fillion)) sitting in a chair, while Raye's voice says, "And then I figured I'd come here and see what you knew." Vance ponders for a moment, and then leads with his first question: "So you're saying you slept with the woman who owns The Lady's Kiss?" Raye answers in the affirmative, and Vance asks if Raye knows who that is, not giving a chance to answer before bursting out that people say she's Lady Luck herself. Raye's face drifts into thought as Vance starts running to shelves and grabbing books and stacking them on the table. He states that he's going to do some research, but Raye needs to find the woman again and make sure that what he recalls happening is what happened because this would be legendary.

Raye leaves Vance's cabin in the middle of the woods, and starts heading down a path, presumably towards town. Along the way he finds a trail of coins, and muses to himself that someone must have a hole in his coin pouch. There are about 10 quick shots of him picking up coins (with the implication that more happen as well) before it cuts to town, where he finds a few more, but the trail is sparser. Still he follows it to an inn, where an angry gentleman is arguing about being able to pay for a room, but his coin purse had a hole and he just needs to get to a friend to get the currency. The innkeeper refuses to hold a room for the gentleman, but Raye offers to pay for it, and the man thanks him and offers to repay him later, which Raye accepts, since he presumably just used the man's own money.

After getting his own room, Raye purchases a meal, and, as he walks into the crowded common room, he finds a man leaving his table just as he passes, giving Raye a perfect opportunity for an open table. His food is brought out, and Raye exclaims that the meal being served everyone is his favorite dish. The barmaid smirks and says, "It must be your lucky day," and a smirk crosses Raye's face.

The scene cuts to Raye entering what appears to be a gambling house. He takes the coins he has left and places them on a roulette board, all on the 00. The gentleman manning the table gives Raye a curious, sideways glance, but the ball lands true and Raye is a winner, his money multiplying. The scene goes to a montage of Raye winning more and more money as he gambles (without cheating), Raye being courted by attractive young women, and Raye enjoying himself with food and drink.

Back at The Devil & The Demon, Jasper Drake sits in his booth in the corner. Hammer & Anvil approach him and Hammer tells Jasper that Raye is back in town and seems to be having himself a good time. Jasper rolls his eyes as if something stupid was said, and tells Hammer to just expose his cheating and chase him out again. Hammer states that they watched, but couldn't find out how he was cheating. Anvil speaks up and says, "He's just getting really, really lucky." Jasper snarls and states that no one gets that lucky around here. He stands from his booth and declares his intention to go see Raye.

Back at the gambling house, Raye is on his way out the door and runs into Vance, who seems to be in a panic. Vance asks Raye what he's doing, and Raye exclaims, "It's my lucky day!" "Day?!" Vance replies, "It's going to be your lucky day every day. They say that Lady Luck's kiss can last for weeks. And you-" "Didn't just kiss her," Raye cuts him off. "So, you're saying I should go back in?" Vance expresses his advice that maybe Raye shouldn't draw too much attention to his newfound fortune.

As if on cue (wordplay intended), Hammer & Anvil approach the pair outside the gambling house. "So, what's your new cheat this time, Raye?" asks Hammer. "No cheat, just my lucky day, boys." Hammer and Anvil continue to menace Raye and Vance, before Raye has a thought and throws a punch at Hammer, who just takes it and chuckles. A fight ensues, but Raye seems to slip, duck and twist in such a way that Hammer and Anvil beat each other up, as Vance stands aside. Occasionally the shot cuts to surprised shots of his face during the fight.

With a glance at Hammer & Anvil on the ground, Raye and Vance dash off into the night. Vance turns to Raye and asks where he learned to fight like that. Raye responds that he didn't, he just lucked into it. In some disbelief, Vance exclaims to Raye, "You could accomplish anything. You have no idea what you've lucked into." Vance starts listing activities that Raye could luck his way through, including politics (running for Mayor), combat (fight anyone), and finally "rule the world." Raye shrugs and offers Vance to share his room at the inn, as it's getting late, which Vance accepts.

Upon entering the inn, Jasper is sitting behind the desk. He tells the pair that he bought the inn and their reservation has been voided. With a smirk, he offers to refund Raye's money, but Raye declines and says he'll take his business elsewhere, shaking a full coin purse to indicate that he can afford it. Jasper laughs and says that he now owns every inn in the city and Raye isn't welcome anywhere. Raye shrugs and says he'll find a place. Infuriated at Raye's nonchalance, Jasper reaches across the front desk of the inn and grabs Raye by the collar. "I don't know what you've done or what has gotten into you but know this. I will find it. I will take it. Everything you have, everything you value, I will have it, and I. Will. Ruin. You." Calmly, Raye brushes Jasper's hands off himself and simply retorts, "Good luck."

Raye awakens in the bed of a cute young woman. Quietly, he ducks out the door and into the street and greets the morning sun. Down the street, he sees a sign for The Lady's Kiss and steps into the building, where he sees Elle cleaning the top of the bar. She smiles and comments, "I wondered when I'd see you again." Raye coyly smiles. She continues, "So, you know who they say I am?” Raye simply nods. She smiles gently. “And what do you think? You’ve met me, we’ve drank, danced…kissed. Do you think I am who they say I am?” Raye smiles. “Well, ever since I woke up, it has been my lucky day. I think that speaks for itself, don’t you?” Elle looks sad as she hears this. “And does that change what we may or may not have had?” Raye shrugs. “I don’t even remember the night past the kiss.”

At this moment, Jasper bursts through the door. “Ah ha! Lady Luck’s kiss?! That’s what you had? And I’ve been following your every move trying to figure it out.” Hammer and Anvil step into the bar through the door that Jasper used. “Boys, I think I could use a little good fortune in my life,” Jasper says, venom in his voice. “Go grab the woman, and let’s make sure I get a nice kiss every morning. And don’t think about trying anything, Ralek,” he snarls, as he gestures to Anvil, who reaches out the door and pulls in a bloody Vance Graystone. “Your friend wouldn’t appreciate it, and I’m sure the beautiful lady’s kiss has worn off by now. Just a day, isn’t that the story, Vance?” Vance sputters out affirmation of the claim, and, after Jasper turns back towards Raye & Elle, winks at Raye.

Raye pauses and turns back toward the bar as he waves his hand, seemingly dejected. Jasper takes this as his victory and moves to grab Elle. Raye’s point of view sees his eyes flash across a deck of cards. In a single motion, he grabs the deck and begins throwing cards, each one flying true. The camera follows the first card curving across Jasper’s cheek, leaving a cut. The second gets the palm of Jasper’s hand, and he cries out in pain. The next two each catch Hammer and Anvil in an eye. Jasper hesitates, then screams for Hammer and Anvil to “Get him!”

The fight scene continues with Raye ducking, diving, dodging with simple instinct and fortune as Hammer and Anvil struggle to get a hand on him. Jasper grabs Elle and attempts to force a kiss on her, but gets a slap instead, and she breaks away and begins to run. He attempts to run after her, but steps in a cleaning bucket, then trips over a tipped-over bar stool, and falls hard. At the door to the office of the bar, Elle smiles and looks back, the camera seeing what she sees, Hammer and Anvil throwing punches that knock each other out as Raye ducks between them.

Raye runs to tend to Vance, who indicates that he’s fine. He asks where Elle went, and Raye turns towards the office door, but she is gone, the door swinging open. Raye runs to the door, but no one is in the office, nor does there seem to be another way out. A piece of paper on the table catches Raye’s eye and he picks it up and skims it over. Vance makes his way to the door. “Where’d she go?” Raye looks over the paper and turns to Vance, who has been scouring the room. “What is it?” Vance asks. Raye simply grins. “This is the deed. It’s got my name on it. I now own the bar.”

Words on the screen indicate that a few weeks have passed as the camera begins with a familiar building, though the sign now says, “The Fox’s Den” rather than “The Lady’s Kiss”. Raye is behind the bar as Vance sits in a corner. The two have clearly been talking for a while. “So, nothing?” asks Vance. “Nothing,” says Raye. “She might as well have never existed.” The two men toast to the story, and the camera fades out.

jack ryder · October 7, 2017

I follow the thread regularly, it's just I don't login Everytime and comment as I have said many times previously the forum software gives me headaches. I read all the movies and reviews and comments( I am at the moment in backlog as I have to read movies from "Let's start a riot").

On the progress of my movie " The Journey", I haven't typed a single word nor I have calculated the costs of the stars as things of higher priority we're taking all my time but when I finally got time my PC flatlined and it's nearly 10 days since my PC crashed, got it today but the repair guy overlooked one more error that my harddisk is also blown up and now the PC will go back to repair and I don't know for how much time but the time has helped me in planning my next movies and their sequels(too ambitious of me).

merrykieran2 · October 7, 2017

I really enjoyed fatekissed. Sounds like a movie I would love to watch and it was well worth the the wait. Well done Rayelek

Rayelek · October 7, 2017

I really enjoyed fatekissed. Sounds like a movie I would love to watch and it was well worth the the wait. Well done Rayelek

Thanks. I was honestly really worried that with all the dialogue that snuck in, that it was gonna seem like too short for a feature film.

Sign In

Movie Tycoon: The Sixening

Recommended Posts

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Archived