Are you a man-hater or a misogynist? You have your choice with these
two hot, hot, hot spec script purchases! You say it's too good to be
true? Well, bite into Dog Eat Dog, a romantic comedy about a
woman who hires a trainer for her dog and (get this!) her boyfriend.
Wacky! And it cost Disney only $250,000 against $500,000. (Do you know
what they call a great development exec? A Golden Retriever! Wacka-wacka!)
But what about the misogyny, you ask? It's Sony, paying big bucks to
Ben Ramsey and Michael McCant for their script, Waiting
For That Bitch To Leave. I wonder why they changed the title to
Natural Men. Must be the oppression of political correctness.
Couldn't be that the guys who wrote it would be seen as flaming a-holes
just for plastering that title on the front page of a script, could
it?
Looks like Tom and Nicole are finally set to make I Married A Witch
at Sony. My personal experience, albeit limited, with the big, red Nicole,
tells me that this shouldn't be seen as a "rhymes with" title. But on
titles alone, Tom's second movie as producer, partnered with Paula
Wagner, may fuel rumors that their marriage is a Mission: Impossible.
Meow.
Renny Harlin is almost set for Deep Blue Sea, which Warner
Bros has coined "Jurassic-shark." Bio-medical engineers manipulate genetics
to create a faster, smarter, more vicious shark so dumb rich guys can
hunt them. And of course, it goes wrong. So wrong! (Look for the scene
where the shark grows legs and walks past a video store with posters
for Cutthroat Island in the window!) The film is racing with
Disney's Megalodon about prehistoric sharks. Is prehistory anything
before 1977? That's when Jaws came out. The more things change
...
Email me. Talk to Uncle Dave
and tell him how you feel.
