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...just say, 'Whoa, I can make my movie.'" On Manny, she says she took the $500,000 budget "way too much to heart. I cut scenes while we were shooting because I was nervous about the money." The 1996 critical hit got her lots of meetings and spec scripts, but this director really wanted to write. So she did: Committed is a $3 million road romance with Heather Graham and Casey Affleck. Krueger's advice to novices: "Let another person worry about the money. You worry about the movie...
...work of eight writers, including Chase, working from story arcs that he sketches each season. One of the writers, actor Michael Imperioli, not only is an accomplished screenwriter (Summer of Sam) but also plays a Soprano soldier who dreams of writing movies. Imperioli gave Chase a script on spec last season for the chance to write in "a writer's medium, rather than a director's... I felt like such a part of this world, writing for actors I knew." The team shares a gift for the fluid patter of Northeastern Italian Americans (like Chase, ancestral name DeCesare); Edie Falco...
...love for trashy horror flicks like Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs. Now jump-cut to 1990, when they sell an original comedy about a bad seed called Problem Child but become dejected by the unfunny film that is made. To cheer themselves up, they write a spec script about the worst auteur in cinema history, Ed Wood. Batman director Tim Burton reads it and signs on, and when the movie garners critical praise, the guys decide to stick with their new formula. "Most biopic pitches you hear in Hollywood are about 'The first person to blah-blah...
Niccol sold his spec script to the world's savviest producer, Scott Rudin (In & Out, Clueless, The First Wives Club), who took it straight to Carrey. "Jim had the kind of madness the project needed to ultimately get made," he says. "And his warmth was a hedge against a movie that could have been on the cold side and needed someone with audience sympathy...
...have bands playing in theQuadrangle, some of which are signed with labelsand others of which are student bands," SPEC chairSean Steinmarc says. "We also have `bouncyboxing,' where students bounce around in aninflated ring and box with oversized gloves...