PITCHING AN AUDIENCE
THE MORAL BULL SHIT THEY WANT TO HEAR!
TV Man 1: YOURE TALKING ABOUT ABANDONING EVERY HUMAN
CODE OF BEHAVIOUR, AND THERES A LOT OF US
WHO ARENT READY FOR THAT DOCTOR FOSTER...
10 A great cry of assent goes up from the studio floor. Doctor
Foster is flustered and frustrated. The stage hands and
cameramen are all screaming at him, swearing and ridiculing. We
notice Police guard
Many people have asked me what happened with Sandman, and to date Ive kept mum. But theres so much misinformation and rumor out there that I feel its now time to tell my side of the story:
Its simple. I was at Warner Brothers one day in 1996 chatting it up with Lorenzo DiBonaventura (aint that a mouthful). Good ol Lorenzo decided to whip through a bunch of titles that they had in development, cu
STAR WARS : EPISODE 1
THE PHANTOM MENACE
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."
A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the MAIN TITLE,
followed by a ROLL UP, which crawls up into infinity.
"EPISODE 1 THE PHANTOM MENACE"
"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of
trade routes to outlaying star systems is in dispute. Hoping
to resolve the matter with a blockad
The Abyss
AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BY
JAMES CAMERON
August 2, 1988
Directors Revision
THE ABYSS
OMITTED 1
OMITTED 2
TITLE: THE ABYSS -- ON BLACK, DISSOLVING TO COBALT BLUE
EXT. OCEAN/UNDERWATER -- DAY 3
Blue, deep and featureless, the twilight of five hundred feet down.
PROPELLER SOUND. Materializing out of the blue limbo is the enormous but
sleek form of an Ohio-class SSBN ballistic missile submar
The Empire Strikes Back
Story by George Lucas
Screenplay by Leigh Brackett
Lawrence Kasdan
Produced by Gary Kurtz
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Cast List:
Mark Hamill Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford Han Solo
Carrie Fisher Princess Leia Organa
Billy Dee Williams Lando Calrissian
Anthony Daniels See-Threepio (C-3PO)
David Prowse Lord Darth Vader
Peter Mayhew Chewbacca
Kenny Baker Artoo-Deetoo R2-D2
Fran
RUSH HOUR
Original Screenplay
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RUSH HOUR
FADE IN:
EXT. LOS ANGELES - DAY
The whole dysfunctional megalopolis, beige and blurry in the
summer smog. If this is the American Dream, do me a favor and
wake me up.
EXT. LAX - DAY
The traffic loop outside the terminals is gridlocked -- mostly
with stretch limousines.
INT. LAX
Return of the Jedi
Story by George Lucas
Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan
George Lucas
Produced by Howard Kazanjian
Robert Watts
Jim Bloom
Directed by Richard Marquand
Cast List:
Mark Hamill Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford Han Solo
Carrie Fisher Princess Leia Organa
Billy Dee Williams Lando Calrissian
Anthony Daniels See-Threepio (C-3PO)
Alec Guiness Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi
Frank Oz Yoda
James Earl Jones V
13 DAYS
DARKNESS. As the MAIN TITLES BEGIN, the theater thrums with
a subsonic HISS which mounts in all the rattling power of
THX, and we...
BURN IN, BRIGHT LIVING COLOR:
EXT. STRATOSPHERE - DAY
The glory of stratospheric dawn. The engines of a silver
Lockheed U-2F rasp upon the trace oxygen here at 72,500 feet.
Scattered cloud formations hang over the blue brilliance of
sea far, far below. In t
THE MUMMY
By Stephen Sommers
The UNIVERSAL PICTURES globe spins. Then comes to a stop on the African
continent. A golden papyrus MAP of ANCIENT EGYPT rises up. WE PUSH IN on
it, towards a CITY along the Nile, its name written in hierarchic. WE KEEP
PUSHING IN until the golden map turns to golden sand and we find ourselves
DESCENDING on this ancient Egyptian city. Only its not ancient.
SUPERIMPOSE