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Project Redlight
by Molly McCall
Fri, November 23, 2007, 3:00 am PST

Consider these movie pitches: "Jerry Maguire" in a wheelchair. "I Am Sam" meets "The Goonies." "Like Friends, except everybody's homeless." Think they're outlandishly, undeniably awful? We agree. But that didn't stop some sorry sap from lobbing them through the air of a Hollywood meeting room. What Radar magazine wants to know is: "Could you do worse?"

To find out, the pop culture source has thrown out a challenge: Come up with your own appalling cinematic proposal. Submit it by the end of the year. Whoever wins will "get the elusive reward sought by all budding screenwriters—a personal response from (Harvey) Weinstein, along with a stack of DVDs that he produced." It will be like God suddenly turned and, for a brief moment in time, took notice of you poor peon of a scribe. The real Hollywood treatment!

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How It Should Have Ended
by Molly McCall
Mon, September 10, 2007, 8:00 am PDT

We've all been there, hunkered in the movie theater, plowing through the popcorn, and happily engrossed in the big screen. But then, the flick winds its way to a close—and the movie flops. We're left with a lousy finish.

It doesn't have to end that way. For a couple of years now, the talented crew at How It Should Have Ended have been crafting their own conclusions to some of their favorite (or not so favorite) films. When we checked in with producer Tina Alexander, she told us how they were inspired to create animated alternatives to some of Hollywood's classic fare...

Hey, Tina! Most movie-goers just gripe when a flick ends badly. What made you all take it to the next level?

We are a small crew of independent live-action film makers and have completed three shorts. It would be an understatement to say we are really into movies, so we probably talk about how movies should have ended a lot.

Daniel (our director for the live action shorts) is also an artist and animator and decided one day to animate a new ending to the final "Matrix" movie because we were collectively disappointed. After I saw how good it was, I thought there might be an audience on the Internet for this kind of thing, and www.howitshouldhaveended.com was born. That was July 2005.  Read the full profile...

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The Trailer Mash
by Gordon Hurd
Thu, September 07, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

Is nothing sacred? First they ruined a perfectly decent religious movie by mashing it up with the work of that devilish Tarantino fellow. That caused quite an uproarious response from the heathens on the Internet. Then some joker turned a psycho thriller into a romantic comedy. After that the floodgates opened. Every Philistine with a copy of iMovie decided it was his turn to do a trailer mashup. Nothing is sacred indeed. But go ahead. Make Jaws a cute little fishy. Sure, let Scarface get his groove back. We laughed, we cried, and —dammit —we loved it all.
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BombayTV
by Gordon Hurd
Fri, June 23, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

If we hadn't ended up with this sweet gig at Yahoo!, we might have been great Hollywood directors. Getting kicked out of film school didn't help either. Ah, but now, we have a chance to pursue our greatest dream and keep our day job, with the help of the fine folks at Graphéine, a French design studio. Their web-based salon for wanna-be auteurs du cinéma helps us grind Ingmar Bergman's oeuvre into the dust with Classik TV and kick Satyajit Ray to the curb with Bombay TV and Bombay TV 2. The concept is deceptively simple: Arrange the provided clips in your own inspired mise en scène, create your own subtitles, and, voilà! Our postmodern montages of black-and-white European dramas and Bollywood blockbusters were so moving that we're seriously thinking about Sundance next year.
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The Movie Timeline
by Jon Brooks
Wed, April 12, 2006, 3:00 am PDT

School kids since 1067 have been bored by the knowledge that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066. 1215, Magna Carta; 1588, Spanish Armada defeated—snooze. But let's just say for a moment that every historical event, even if it's fictitious, is real, provided it has been depicted or referred to in a movie. Hey, now you're talkin'! Pay attention, kids, these may be on the final:
  • 2897 BC: Predators arrive on Earth to feast on humans (as depicted in "Alien vs. Predator").
  • 932 AD: King Arthur and knights search for Holy Grail ("Monty Python & The Holy Grail").
  • 1933: Giant ape ravages New York City ("King Kong").
  • 1996: Genetic superman Khan leaves Earth ("Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan").
  • 2022: Soylent Green is people! ("Soylent Green")
  • 40,000 Barbarella roams galaxy in skimpy outfit ("Barbarella").
Study groups now forming at the concession stand.
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