(or “My Communion with Jerry Maguire”)

The response to my last post about “The Change” has got me thinking.  I’ve realized that we’ve never actually explained one of the primary mandates we hold in this company.  This is a  ... [read more]

7:06 pm

Posted in Uncategorized · 61 Comments » ·  tags: character, character-driven, failures, film, freshness, genre-busting, genres, hollywood, innovation, mistakes, revolution

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately trying to figure out ways to keep MFG busy and thereby prevent us all from losing our minds while we slog through the achingly slow process that is film development.  My solution to this?  Develop another ... [read more]

10:54 pm

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This is an adventure.

Well, that’s not true.  Adventures have exciting sequences in which you are fighting for your life.  Those back-to-the-wall, ungracious, flailing, violent, completely wonderful brawls that so rarely really occur, that s ... [read more]

10:27 pm

Posted in Uncategorized, life, planning, script · 131 Comments »

Joaquin Phoenix is too…

I finally got some sleep and I wanted to write a follow-up to my last post.  I wanted to be clear that my lamentations were purely for dramatic effect (we have to make the mundane struggles seem interesting somehow ... [read more]

12:23 am

Posted in communications, life · 94 Comments » ·  tags: reanimated, rejuvenated, replenished, rested, revitalized, revived, sleep

Remember when I was all like, “I wanna make a Myst movie!”?  Remember that?  Yeah…What was I thinking?

It’s 12:30 pm and I’ve officially been up for 24 and 1/2 hours straight.  Why you ask?  Why?  I’ll te ... [read more]

12:36 pm

Posted in collaborators, communications · 40 Comments » ·  tags: dead, depleated, drained, empty, exhusted, gone, sleep, tired

Disappointing but not unexpected news…  We’ve had our first official pass on the project by a studio.  The call came late yesterday.

While there is always a tinge of hurt that comes with any rejection, we are not discouraged in the ... [read more]

4:01 pm

Posted in collaborators, communications, planning · 71 Comments » ·  tags: disappointment, not worried, pass, rejection, tricks

Back in good-old Indiana.  We walked in from the airport at 3:45 am yesterday morning.  It would have been nice to make a triumphant return - a ticker-tape parade and perhaps a few “Hail Caesar’s”, but sadly it was much less ceremon ... [read more]

5:07 pm

Posted in collaborators, communications, planning · 87 Comments » ·  tags: anna, conference room, confusion, Cory, executive, isaac, jason, lot, panic, Pitch, story, studio, work, Yale

Okay, so that title didn’t really pan out like I’d hoped it would.  Just doesn’t quite have the ring I was looking for.  Oh well.

Anyway,  I’m exhausted.  It’s currently 3:20 am LA time and I thought I’d w ... [read more]

5:44 am

Posted in collaborators, communications, life, planning · 110 Comments » ·  tags: caughee, coffee, exhausted, junior executive, koffee, no sleep, pich, Pitch, pytch, studio executive, talk, transcript of events

…A foreboding little phrase…

It is with considerable sadness that I write this post to announce Patrick’s departure from the “Myst: The Book of Ti’ana” film project.  I realize that this will come as quite a  ... [read more]

5:47 pm

Posted in collaborators, life · 70 Comments » ·  tags: departure, Loss, Patrick, sadness