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"Sentient Subway:" The Ultimate Hollywood Pitch

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2008-01-04 00:28:31 by John Brownlee in SciFi Scanner
...pitch? 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Speed meets Money Train . It's Sentient Subway , the best movie concept since Death Bed: The Bed That Eats People The pitch in more detail: Keanu Reeves plays Ethan, an ultra smart computer programmer who creates an artificial intelligence that goes inside the London Underground's newest super train....
 
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Cannes Film Festival: Duck Fight, Nonzee, Aditya make Thai Pitch

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2008-05-20 16:08:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...pitched it last year at the Tokyo Project Gathering This year he's joining three other Thai directors in Thai Pitch 2008, held on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Market Likely chief among them is Nonzee Nimibutr, who won US$15,000 in funds from the Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum (HAF) for his next project, Secret of the Butterfly , a...
 
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Del Toro Makes Another Potter Pitch

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2008-01-08 20:25:24 by Shawn Adler in MTV Movies Blog
...pitch to helm the series seventh installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Im definitely interested, he insisted, now that the movies have grown darker. They have a contrast between the gloomy existence of the kid and the world hes exposed to. They have evolved into a really nice universe The deathstick, a wand of destiny which makes...
 
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Elizabeth Banks Becomes a 'Pitch Perfect' Producer

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2008-05-16 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...Pitch Perfect , through her shingle, Brownstone Productions. Kay Cannon ( 30 Rock ) is going to adapt the film from Mickey Rapkin's nonfiction book An editor at GQ, Rapkin spent some time covering a cappella college competitions, focusing on teams from the University of Virginia, Tuft University, and the University of Oregon. Oh, but this...
 
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The elevator pitch of Internet video hopefuls

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2008-06-04 15:06:46 by Behind The Scenes TV in Behind The Scenes TV
...pitch here Tuesday at the Under the Radar Conference , a one-day confab for Web start-ups. Four video-related companies presented their business models in six minutes to judges including Lewis Henderson, head of digital at the William Morris Agency, and Joshua Newman from Twentieth Century Fox CNet
 
Tags: internet video, elevator pitch, start-ups, twentieth century fox, web start-ups, william morris agency, apples itunes, lewis henderson, radar conference
 
 
 
 
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2008-08-19 23:53:00 by -M in -M-TERTAINMENT
...pitch perfect performance as this girl forced to grow up way too fast and into a world that isnt pleasant Quid Pro Quo A film thats more interesting in idea than it is in execution, a sort of hybrid of Cronenbergs Crash and an aspect of Fight Club , looking at a subculture of people who wish they were handicapped. Seriously. Vera Farmiga is...
 
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Good reception in Bangkok, France for Wonderful Town

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2008-05-26 17:45:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Pitch at the Cannes Film Market, reports decent reception for Wonderful Town in Bangkok, where it has been screening for the past two weeks as the first film in the Director's Screen series. The film also opened for a commercial run last month in France, and has had great reception there. Aditya continues The reception for Wonderful Town in...
 
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The Allure of Evil in Horror

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2008-07-31 09:39:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...Pitch Black Here's my piece, but please check out all the contributions Why are modern audiences, and more specifically, genre aficionados, fascinated with Evil? There are likely as many reasons for this ongoing viewer attraction with The Dark Side as there are prominent examples of Alluring Evil populating our movie and TV screens Gazing...
 
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EW Reviews SF/F

2008-01-21 00:45:12 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...Pitch: Predator meets Camus' The Stranger Lowdown: Classic SF - a tense interspecies battle of wits and tangy atmospherics and a bleak lesson on the meaning of freedom Grade: A by Simon R. Green Movie Pitch: Sam Spade meets Sirius Black...in The Case of the Cosmic MacGuffin Lowdown: Green's crabby wit and inventively gruesome set pieces make...
 
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