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  1. @cookie @El Squibbonator @Ethan Hunt @Rorschach @YM! @MCKillswitch123 @tyson67roberts @Hiccup23 @lamamama @Reddroast @4815162342

     

    Hello;

     

    Some players have suggested adding the two-week extension for the Y10 deadline, which would end Part One on October 30th, which gives everyone the day before Halloween to get more stories posted. The poll is simple: are you in favor of this two-week delay or no? Majority rules.

  2. Jill Chamberlain on Tragedy…

     

    You’re gonna love this one:

     

    Jill Chamberlain wrote a book on screenwriting called The Nutshell Technique where she talks about the simple secret to success in screenwriting, which is really the “telling of a story.” She states that many beginners don’t find success out of the gate because they aren’t telling a story with a narrative (go figure). Not every movie that gets made “tells a story,” but many of the ones we love tells stories that stick with us for life. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to write screenplays.

     

    So her model for comedies is “protagonist’s journey from flaw to strength.” She fits Frozen into her model for comedy because Anna starts out as a selfish character and learns to become selfless over the course of the film, even sacrificing herself to save Elsa at the end. Then she references Silver Linings Playbook as well because the guy Bradley Cooper plays can’t control his emotions, and he learns to control his emotions over the course of the story.

     

    So by her model, in a tragedy (and I will use her The Social Network example), the character has a flaw (Mark’s hubris), and there’s a proposed strength that they *should be moving toward* (humility), and the character just doesn’t move toward that and worsens the flaw. So Mark gains the world when Facebook grows, but he fails to be humble and betrays Eduardo, so at the end, he’s a billionaire, but he’s trying to friend request the girl Rooney Mara played at the beginning, clicking refresh, and refresh, and refresh. Becoming a billionaire *should* be a happy ending, but what did Mark really gain? So I would also call The Favourite a tragedy for similar reasons. Abigail becomes the queen’s right hand woman, but was getting what she wanted really worth it? When the answer’s “it wasn’t worth it in the end,” that’s how you know the story’s tragic.

     

    Now everyone’s voting for The Social Network, sorry not sorry 😅 
     

    Also, Don’t Forget Film Noir.

     

    In the 40s and 50s, it was popular for the movies to say that a protagonist will not win if they’re caught up in a life of crime and of sin because crime doesn’t pay. And they made many movies where the characters fail to learn their lesson and they have a tragic downfall. I saw many of these in film school and they’re all great examples of tragedy. I will post posters of film noirs that I’ll vote for if I send a list:

     

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  3. @CayomMagazine

     

    Studio Groundswell is ready to release the main cast list for the animated film Pinched.

     

    Xolo Maridueña as Hector

    Aimee Carrero as Cordelia

    Marcello Hernandez as Primo

    Yoshi Sudarso as Joyo

    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as King Kani

    Robert Amaya as Reinaldo

    Ingrid Oliu as Valencia

    with Josh Andrés Rivera as Xoviar

    and Brandon Potter as King Tartarus

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  4. A GHOST TAIL

    Best Picture

    Best Director (Marielle Heller)

    Best Ensemble

    Best Actress (Beanie Feldstein)

    Best Supporting Actor (Skyler Gisondo)

    Best Supporting Actress (Erika Alexander)

    Best Original Screenplay

    Best Original Score (Nate Heller)

    Best Visual Effects
     

    KLONOA: DOOR TO PHANTOMILE

    Best Animated Feature

    Best Voice Actor/Actress in a Leading Role (Gregory Mann)

    Best Voice Actor/Actress in a Supporting Role (Keegan Hedley)

    Best Original Score (Austin Wintory)

     

    PROVIDENCE

    Best Picture

    Best Director (James Wan)

    Best Ensemble

    Best Actor (Paul Mescal)

    Best Supporting Actor (Charles Melton)

    Best Supporting Actress (Vera Farmiga)

    Best Supporting Actress (Taylor Russell)

    Best Adapted Screenplay

    Best Original Score (Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury)

    Best Cinematography

    Best Film Editing

    Best Production Design

    Best Costume Design

    Best Sound Mixing

    Best Sound Editing

    Best Visual Effects

    Best Use of Action

     

    SSX TRICKY

    Best Visual Effects
    Best Use of Action
     

    THE UNSEEN

    Best Picture

    Best Director (Jayro Busyamante)

    Best Actress (Adriana Barraza)

    Best Supporting Actor (Arturo Castro)

    Best Original Screenplay

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    Studio Groundswell

    Director: Sebastian Schipper

    based on the Cruis'n video game franchise

    Genre: Sports

    Release Date: April 3rd

    Theater Count: 3,500

    MPAA Rating: PG-13 for Language and Violence

    Runtime: 1 hr 58 min

    Budget: $60 Million

     

    Kristen Stewart as Jessie

    O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Craig

    Adrien Brody as Phillip

    Laia Costa as Samantha

    Frank Grillo as Gus

    Ki Hong Lee as Kim

    and Patrick Wilson as The Announcer

     

    Franchise Grosses

    Cruis'n U.S.A. - $100,302,114 DOM/$255,051,167 WW

     

    Plot Summary

    The six racers from the last movie (Stewart, Jackson Jr., Brody, Costa, Grillo, and Hong Lee) all race around the world, with their colorful cars, in beautiful locations like Hawaii, China, Kenya, Germany, and, finally, the Moon—and they all get to know each other along the way!

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  6. @lamamama Actually, I want to recommend you a way to get your films on the forum:

     

    1) Go to where you wrote your films (whether Google Docs or Microsoft Word or wherever)

     

    2) Use the keyboard shortcut (crtl+A or command+A) to highlight the entire contents of the document

     

    3) Copy (right click, or crtl+C or command+C)

     

    4) click edit on your submission posts

     

    5) put in a spoiler box (the 👁️ next to the 🙂) under the film's information

     

    6) paste (right click, or crtl+V or command+V) the film into the spoiler box

     

    (I just learned about the crtl+A shortcut recently and my life is pretty much changed, oh my goodness)

  7. @CayomMagazine

     

    In a shocking reversal of decision, Studio Groundswell has decided to cancel the Ace Attorney film during the period where the cameras haven’t started rolling yet. “To start the franchise at the beginning would be to include Japanese mysticism, which in our opinion would go against the religious beliefs of the studio’s founder,” said a spokesperson. “For this reason, we will be releasing the rights to Ace Attorney. The scarecrow slasher It’s In The Corn will move up in the year to take the April 17th IMAX slot in Ace Attorney’s place. Groundswell thanks its fans for their understanding.”

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  8. @CayomMagazine

     

    Studio Groundswell is ready to reveal the major cast of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

     

    Logan Lerman as Phoenix Wright

    Nicholas Hoult as Miles Edgeworth

    Momona Tamada as Maya Fey

    LaKeith Stanfield as Dick Gumshoe

    Karen Fukuhara as Mia Fey

    Josh Peck as Larry Butz

    David Krumholtz as Marvin Grossberg

    Madeline Brewer as April May

    David Dastmalchian as Redd White

    Ayo Edebiri as Lotta Hart

    Tony Goldwyn as Robert Hammond

    Ralph Fiennes as Gregory Edgeworth

    Anthony Ramos as Yanni Yogi

    with Brian Cox as The Judge

    and Bill Nighy as Manfred Von Karma

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  9. @CayomMagazine

     

    Production has begun on Studio Groundswell’s next horror film called It’s In The Corn, the unconventional title serving to grab viral audience attention according to a spokesperson. The slasher film, directed by Ready or Not and Scream VI directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, follows residents of a small town in Iowa who react in different ways when a possessed scarecrow starts killing people.

     

    The cast includes:

    Vince Vaughn as a sheriff

    Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a deputy

    Charles Parnell as a police lieutenant

    Sophia Lillis as a high schooler

    David Mazouz as Lillis’s brother

    Niles Fitch as Parnell’s son

    Isabela Merced as Lillis’s friend

    America Ferrera as Merced’s Mom

    Angourie Rice as a high schooler

    Ty Simpkins as a high schooler

    Matthew Lillard as a high school teacher

    with Melissa McBride as the sheriff’s wife

    and Javier Botet as the scarecrow “Rowdy Remy”

     

    It’s In The Corn releases on October 23rd, Y10.

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    VACATION ON WUHU ISLAND

     

    Studio Groundswell

    Director: B.J. Novak

    based on the video game by Nintendo

    Genre: Family/Comedy

    Release Date: July 31st, Y10

    Theater Count: 3,125

    MPAA Rating: PG for Mild Humor

    Budget: $50 Million (due to location issues)

    Runtime: 1 hr 30 min

     

    Cast

    B.J. Novak as Dave

    Tika Sumpter as Laura

    Moises Arias as Miguel

    Jeremy Allen White as Table Tennis Master

    and Brad Pitt as The Pilot


    Plot Summary

    Spoiler

    Dave and Laura's marriage is on the fritz, so they bring their two children to Wuhu Island to enjoy sports in hopes that the vacation mends the rough patches in their relationship. But what they didn't expect is that the helicopter pilot tells them the only way to get down there is to skydive out of the helicopter. They briefly panic before getting themselves ready for a jump, and they jump out of the helicopter, fall for a while, and safely deploy their parachutes. It's an exciting start to an unforgettable vacation.

     

    When they land, Laura's mad that Dave didn't know in advance they'd have to jump out of a helicopter, and she makes him promise that the rest of the trip will be safe. "Of course, the rest of the trip will be safe good fun, don't worry about it." But Laura has every right to worry about it 😱, because things are getting more exciting from there.

     

    They decide to play basketball first, but Miguel and his trio of super-steppers are hogging the court, so Dave's family has a three-on-three match against Miguel's trio. There's getting smoked hard, but Dave's family somehow wins, but this makes Miguel angry so he's like, "let's settle this in a duel." Dave and Miguel then have to fight with fake swords on the basketball court, but Dave manages to beat Miguel in the duel. They shake hands and go their separate ways.

     

    They go to the beach and see that people are throwing frisbees for dogs to catch. "Daddy, I wanna do the frisbee thing," says the little girl. So they go to the frisbee event, and one of the dogs is super aggressive and rushes up to them barking at them, and Dave reaches into Laura's purse and throws Laura's wallet at the dog, and the dog rushes to the wallet and tears it up. Laura says, "that wasn't a chew toy, that was my wallet," and Dave makes a face like 😬. Then an announcer steps in and says, "that was a brilliant toss, you get a million points." The family celebrates, but Laura rolls her eyes.

     

    Then they decide to go wakeboarding, and we get humorous scenes of B.J. Novak wakeboarding behind the boat and going up in the air, and he almost crashes into rocks but manages to steer away from the rocks.

     

    Laura tells Dave, "you gotta pick a less dangerous activity," and Dave says, "well what about table tennis." So they go to the table tennis table, and there's a Table Tennis Master who plays so fast that his opponents sprain their ankles trying to reach the ball. "I'll play all four of you at once," says the Table Tennis Master. So the family plays table tennis against the Table Tennis Master, and they barely defeat the Table Tennis Master.

     

    "Can I pick the next activity," says Laura, and Dave allows it, so Laura says, "let's ride bikes around the island." So they ride bikes around the island, and they reach the part of the island with the ruins and stop to explore the ruins. The kids ask questions like "who built the ruins" and "what was this building," causing them to reminisce about history, and about how human beings have often found themselves in exciting situations, just like their situation. The kids see people playing archery and they say, "hey, we want to learn how to do that," and Laura starts to say no, but something about the encounter with the ruins convinces her to say yes.

     

    So they shoot arrows at targets all around the island, and they even play archery in the volcano. They have a fun time, and the kids say, "I want to come back to Wuhu Island someday." Dave and Laura exchange a look. Roll credits!

     

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  11. A Ghost Tail

     

    Studio Groundswell

    Director: Marielle Heller

    Genre: Dramedy

    Release Date: February 23rd, Y10

    Theater Count: 3,235

    MPAA Rating: PG-13 for Language and Disturbing Themes
    Budget: $10 Million

    Runtime: 1 hr 38 min

    Original Score Composer: Nate Heller

     

    Major Cast

    Beanie Feldstein as Maddie

    Megan Suri as Tara

    Skyler Gisondo as Gib

    Brianna Hildebrand as Lorelei

    Steve Zahn as Bob

    Ashley Judd as Patricia

    James Jordan as Mark

    Erika Alexander as Jeanine

    with Jessica Rothe as Rosalyn

    and Kristen Wiig as Beatrice

     

    Logline

    A jaded veterinarian finds compassion after a put-down dog with unfinished business haunts the clinic as a ghost.


    Plot Summary

    Spoiler

    Opening logos. Black. Car slamming on brakes. Thump. A dog yelps.

     

    Cut to a car speeding down a road. Inside, Bob (Zahn) drives, and Patricia (Judd) turns from the shotgun seat to ask if their 10-year-old daughter Maddie’s all right. Maddie, traumatized, nods; the head of an unconscious, barely-breathing brindle-fur labrador rests on her lap.

     

    They reach the animal hospital, in a series of cuts, get the dog checked in. They wait in the lobby until a veterinarian asks to talk with Bob somewhere private. Patricia tells Bob she’ll stay with Maddie. Bob goes, and Maddie tells Patricia that she wishes she didn’t throw the tennis ball into the road. “You threw it to the grass, baby,” says the mom. “It just rolled off, it wasn’t your fault.”

     

    Another series of shots show us that the veterinarian tells Bob bad news, that Bob relays the bad news to the family, and that Maddie doesn’t take kindly to it. “No, I don’t want her to go!” she says. To which Patricia replies, “we have to, baby. Ashie will suffer if we don’t.”

     

    Cut to the room where they put the needles in. The family huddles together on the couch. Ashie’s lying on a blanket, and they’re about to do the injection when Maddie shouts that she doesn’t want to watch, and the parents excuse her from the room. Maddie sits and waits in the lobby, where an empathetic employee named Rosalyn (Rothe) comforts her, telling her that all dogs get put down eventually. She cheers Maddie up by promising she’ll get to keep a copy of Ashie’s pawprint. She gives Maddie a hug and tells her never to lose her heart for those lower than her.

     

    Days later, the paw-print arrives in the mail. Maddie hangs it in her bedroom. (Eagle-eyed viewers will see Ashie’s tennis ball in a dish full of knick-knacks.) Fade to twenty years later as the camera pans to a late-20s Maddie (Feldstein) rolling in her childhood bed as an alarm clock blares. She picks it up, groans, hits ‘snooze’ and buries her face in the pillow.

     

    Cut to the kitchen as Patricia folds clothes and Bob comes back from work just as Maddie’s getting ready to leave. Patricia tells Maddie that she did some research on apartments, while Maddie tells her it’s too early to leave home; she knows getting a roommate would help her deal with rent, but she’d prefer not to deal with unsavory roommates. Patricia warns that if she waits too long, she might never get an opportunity. “You can always pay rent to us!” Bob jests. “Hey, you forgot your coffee!” says Patricia, who hands Maddie a to-go cup as she rushes to work.

     

    Cut to an exterior shot of an animal emergency hospital. It’s 11:00 PM with few customers there. Inside, we meet the sarcastic Tara (Suri) at the front desk typing away and checking customers in. Maddie talks with Tara about boys. Tara’s boyfriend gets on her nerves, but she still tolerates him. Maddie’s still looking for the right person. A higher-up pulls Maddie away for a task…

     

    Cut to a room where a hillbilly, Mark (Jordan), and his nerdy college-age cousin, Gib (Gisondo), sit on the couch; their old beagle lies beneath them on its side, unable to stand up. Maddie walks in and guides them through the payment process, since it’s better to have them pay before the dog is put down. (Gib solves a rubik’s cube to calm himself down as he’s sitting there.) Maddie recites the procedure like she’s done it a thousand times, almost like she doesn’t care about the fact a dog’s dying, or that she thinks she’s a little ‘above’ hillbillies like Mark. When she exits, Mark turns to Gib and says, “you know what they do out in the country? To put ‘em out of their misery? They just shoot ‘em!” Gib tells Mark to stop.

     

    Maddie walks through the hallway to process the payment when she hears a clacking of paws against the floor behind her. She looks but doesn’t see anything. She decides to investigate in the back and steps in a puddle of dog urine that’s mysteriously there. She gets upset about her shoes.

     

    Cut to the front desk as Maddie storms up and rants about how she stepped in dog piss, and she asks if any dogs went down the hallway. Tara tells her that no dogs have gone down the hallway. Gib’s there, so Maddie accuses Gib’s old beagle of escaping the room and pissing in the hallway. “What do you mean, I literally just left the room because I didn’t want to watch him go to sleep!”

     

    The conversation escalates into a shouting match as Maddie becomes more sassy and vindictive, spouting that a whole puddle couldn’t just magically appear on the floor like that. They argue more, and then a glass jar of dog treats falls from the countertop and CRASHES to the floor. Maddie screams and jumps back from the crash. Tara stands up from her chair and says the jar fell on its own. “You mean Ms. Crazy Lady didn’t knock it off?” Gib quips. Suddenly, munchmunchmunch. They look down and watch as an invisible entity routes through the fallen treats and eats them! “Tell me I’m not the only one seeing this,” says Tara. Maddie stoops down to the wreckage, and they hear the clacking of paw as the entity hurries off. Their faces go pale.

     

    Maddie decides to follow the noise. She runs, despite protest from the others, and follows the clacking into a cramped storage room. “Maddie!” shouts Tara as she closes the door behind her. She grabs a blanket, one used for cloaking dogs while they’re getting the injections, and tosses it to the floor. The blanket on the ghost, revealing that the ghost is in the shape of a dog. The ghost dog whimpers as it wriggles under the blanket. Maddie backs away in shock; she collapses against a drawer and covers her mouth. The ghost dog sniffs the air and trots toward Maddie; we see from movements under the blanket that it’s wagging its tail. Maddie reaches out and pets it, telling it, “you’re okay, it’s all okay…”

     

    The dog perks to the door as Gib and Tara enter the room. Maddie looks back to the blanket, but the ghost beneath has vanished. “What’s with the blanket?” says Tara. Maddie stammers to explain, barely getting out the words “dog” and “ghost.” Gib quips again about Maddie being “Ms. Crazy Lady,” but when Maddie complains, he says, “relax. I’m only kidding. I believe you.” Maddie’s eyes light up while Tara chimes in, saying, “so do I. We all saw the jar go down.” They help Maddie to her feet.

     

    They step into the hallway to talk about what to do, but Mark whistles at Gib from afar, waving at him because “it’s time to get.” The three agree that they need time to process what happened, but they exchange information to keep in contact about the ghost. We cut to Maddie returning home from her shift and crashing into bed. Something about the experience gives her comfort (oddly enough), and she drifts off to sleep. And when the alarm clock blares the next morning, she turns off the alarm—no ‘snooze’—and starts getting ready for work. In the kitchen, Bob and Patricia briefly remark about Maddie’s new attitude—“you’re more chipper than usual,” and “you must have met a boy last night!”—before she grabs her coffee and skidaddles to work.

     

    Maddie returns to the hospital, where Tara jokingly calls her “Ms. Crazy Lady.” “Not you too!” says Maddie. Tara says, “it’s got a ring to it.” Suddenly, Maddie’s called into the boss’s office.

     

    Maddie enters the office, and Jeanine (Alexander), Maddie’s boss, tells her to take a seat. She shows Maddie security footage of the glass jar falling and accuses Maddie of knocking it over. Maddie tries to explain it was a ghost instead and that Tara’s a witness, but Jeanine thinks that’s ridiculous and that Maddie surely knocked it over (since it’s out of her frame of mind to consider the truth that it was a ghost, even though camera footage suggests otherwise). Jeanine says she’s considering firing Maddie—and Tara while she’s at it—because she can’t work with employees who knock over glass jars and proceed to deny it. Maddie pleads for a chance to prove that a ghost haunts the hospital, and Jeanine, out of courtesy, gives her a week to produce evidence, and that if any equipment is damaged or if any more trouble occurs, they’ll both be fired on the spot.

     

    Maddie storms over to the front desk, where Gib’s standing again because he left his rubik’s cube on the counter the day before. She relays the deal to Tara, who’s like, “I’m not about to be fired over this.” Gib tells them that he wants to help them get proof of the ghost dog; when asked why, he replies that it wouldn’t be right to leave them hanging knowing that they’re telling the truth.

     

    “Screw it,” says Tara. “I’m calling my friend about this. She’s a little weird, but she knows about these ghost things.” The three then meet back at the hospital during ghastly hours of night, and a black motorcycle roars into the lot and swerves into a space. The rider, Lorelei (Hildebrand), takes off her helmet and introduces herself as a college student who volunteers as a ghost hunter.

     

    They enter the clinic and find a throw pillow on the floor, with its stuffing torn out. “Someone’s been having a ball,” quips Tara. Lorelei pulls out a radar device to track the ghost. They tiptoe through the clinic as the beeping gets faster and faster. The beeping gets very fast as they hear clacking of paws—it’s running up to them! It tackles Maddie to the ground, and she’s like “ueuedhfgplfff.” Gib throws a sheet over it to capture it.  Maddie wipes saliva off her face, saying that it licked her. Tara takes out her phone and takes pictures—“this is totally going viral.”

     

    The dog breaks free and runs around the clinic, and they chase after it. Gib tries to use a lasso to catch it. “I don’t know, I’m from a country family, I thought this might work.” After some failed tosses, they just grab the dog and tie it up. “So we got the dog,” says Lorelei. “Now what?” Maddie says they should try taking it for a walk outside to prevent another puddle, so they try to take it outside, but an invisible force holds the dog back from exiting the clinic. “It’s stuck inside,” Gib muses.

     

    They stop for the night and have some small talk, with Maddie musing aloud about what dog breed the ghost might be. Tara says it’s either a retriever or a labrador. When asked why she thinks this, Tara admits that she looks through the files of recent euthanizations and that out of records from the past month, it’s not small enough or big enough to be anything else. “You know we’re not allowed to see the records,” says Maddie. “Rebellious, I like it,” says Lorelei. Gib then takes Maddie aside and asks her on a date. “I don’t do dates,” says Maddie. “Let’s not call it a date then,” says Gib. “Let’s call it a hang-out.” Gib also wants to take her out to make up for all the times he called her “Ms. Crazy Lady.” Maddie accepts the offer.

     

    The next day, Maddie presents the photos to Jeanine, who says she’s changing her terms and that she wants the ghost taken off the premises ASAP. Maddie tells her they tried taking it out of the clinic, but it couldn’t leave. “This is your responsibility as far as I’m concerned,” says Jeanine. “Either you get the ghost out of here by the end of the week, or you and Tara will be laid off.”

     

    Cut to Maddie storming into the hallway, calming herself down and processing Jeanine’s request. She tells Tara the news, and Tara’s no longer her usual quilt self, asking Maddie, “what are we gonna do?” Maddie doesn’t have an answer yet.

     

    Cut to a diner where Maddie and Gib sit in a booth, facing each other. They get to know each other (with sparks flying), and Gib gives Maddie advice, suggesting that most problems can be solved by asking for help. It’s just a matter of finding the right folks to ask. Gib tells an anecdote about Mark, saying that Mark studies so much about things like carpentry and masonry, so that he can be a person that others ask for help. Gib aspires to be like his cousin Mark and help others when needed. “If people lended their hands more often, the world would be one heck of a better place,” says Gib. Maddie ponders this.

     

    After her date with Gib, Maddie sits in her car, and Tara calls, telling her to meet her in the clinic’s parking lot. “It’s early,” she says. “Just hurry up!” Tara replies. Maddie arrives, and Tara tells her more about the records, telling her she researched things and found a potential link to the ghost. She finds files regarding a payment from a woman named Beatrice (Wiig), who apparently brought a dog named Max that wasn’t sick to the clinic, and she had Max put down. “Why would someone do that?” she says. “That’s what I wanna know,” says Tara. They reach the conclusion that the ghost is the dog put down by Beatrice (even the breed, ‘labrador,’ matches).

     

    So with a clear lead, they track down Beatrice’s address, which is a crummy-looking trailer, and they ring the doorbell to confront her. Beatrice opens the door, wobbly with drunkenness, and when the girls question her, she denies putting Max down and tells them to come back with a warrant. As Beatrice closes the door, Maddie peers in and notices a green tennis ball tucked away on the kitchen counter. Maddie and Tara sit in the car in defeat since it’s technically not a crime to put down a healthy dog. Is it a crime to steal a dog, in the case she stole it? Probably, but they would have to prove she wasn’t the owner. Maddie sighs; they’ve reached a dead end.

     

    So we get the next meeting with Maddie and Jeanine, where Maddie tells them that the ghost is connected to a client named Beatrice and that investigating the link between Max and Beatrice would lead to the ghost dog leaving the clinic. “And will this process take longer than a week,” Jeanine asks, “because that’s all I care about.” Maddie slowly shakes her head, so Jeanine stares at her, then writes something down and says, “you can continue this ghost hunt if you want, but you’ll have to do it off my payroll.” When Maddie protests, Jeanine explains that she needs her vets focused on the job, and devoting all her time to a ghost hunt is the clear opposite of focused. Maddie asks Jeanine if she even cares at all that a ghost dog’s roaming her walls. “Girl, we get ten animals coming through here every night. Of course we have one of ‘em haunting the place. You think one ghost dog matters when there’s clients to serve and there’s bills to pay? I suggest you get your priorities straight.” But Maddie storms to her feet and says, “It’s clear now what I care about. Clearer now than it’s been for a long time.” She slams down her badge and walks out.

     

    She storms down the hallway and turns around as Max whimpers at her. Maddie tells Max she has to leave. The invisible dog scampers up to her and jumps on her. Maddie tries to shove her down, saying, “I can’t pet you, I can’t play with you, I have to go,” and she gets more emotional the more Max persists. Gib and Tara rush in, help Maddie, and walk out with her.

     

    Outside the clinic, the friends sit next to Maddie as she finishes crying. Maddie asks Gib why he’s here. Gib shows her a box, revealing he came back for the box of ashes, adding, “it’s funny how God works.” Then Tara asks, “so are we both out of a job?” Maddie wipes away her tears and says, “if we were doing this to keep our jobs, we weren’t doing this for the right reasons.” After a moment, Tara says, “Lorelai says she knows a way to get the ghost out of the clinic.” The girls realize that if they can get the ghost dog past the forcefield around the clinic, they can bring it to Beatrice’s house and settle the matter once and for all. Maddie turns to Gib and asks, “will you help me?” Gib of course replies, “it’d be mighty foolish of me not to help Ms. Crazy Lady.” They all share a good laugh, then huddle in and commit to their plan.

     

    The four of them wait until a night when the clinic’s closed, then break in to find that Max has absolutely trashed the inside of the clinic—papers and trash everywhere, picture-frames fallen, shattered glass, and puddles of dog-piss in the lobby. The place is a karma-induced wreck. They chase the dog around the hallways and throw a blanket over it, then Lorelai explains that they need to entice the dog to break past the forcefield on its own with something that it wants—in this case, something that it loved in its past life. “Well, what could a dog want?” asks Tara.

     

    They walk outside and set treats out, trying to entice Max to break past the forcefield. But Max, who’s still covered by the blanket, doesn’t want any of the treats, so he stays put. Then Maddie remembers the tennis ball she saw on Beatrice’s kitchen counter might be a clue, as Max might remember the green tennis ball and break through for the tennis ball.

     

    So Maddie drives home, trying not to wake up the parents, and she gets Ashie’s old tennis ball from her collection of knick-knacks. She tiptoes out, but Bob and Patricia flip on a light switch and ask her to let them in on what’s going on. Maddie admits everything to the parents, and while they say they don’t understand what’s going on, they hug her, remind her that she’s loved no matter life’s struggles, and encourage her to set things right.

     

    Maddie returns to the clinic with Ashie’s tennis ball. Gib rips the blanket off of Max, and Max sees the tennis ball and darts past the forcefield to get to the ball. When Max reaches the ball, Maddie pets her and says, “good boy.” Then the four of them look out and smile as the sunrise paints the sky orange. “Let’s end this,” says Maddie.

     

    They get the dog in the car and drive together to Beatrice’s house. They ring the doorbell, and when a groggy Beatrice opens it, the invisible Max tackles her down. “What’s licking me!” Beatrice screams. Tara chastises her, telling her that it’s the dog she didn’t need to put down. Beatrice immediately emits a deep sense of regret, and she invites all of them inside.

     

    They come in and sit around Beatrice, who tells them she’s been a massive screw-up for years, suffering from divorce, an inability to transcend low-income work, and her own alcoholism. Financial straits hit her hard, and though she loved Max, she just could not afford him, and so she felt she had no choice but to put him down. And she’s been drinking a whole lot more ever since. Max scampers up to Beatrice with its heart of unconditional love, whimpering and licking her, and Beatrice pets the dog and cries, and she tells Max she’s sorry and that she should’ve never put him down. Then light spills from the cracks of Beatrice’s front door until the whole door becomes a rectangle of white light, and Max rushes through the door. There’s other dogs running around in the light, and Maddie gasps and Ashie stares back at her from the other side. The dogs run off into the light, and the light disappears.

     

    With the ghost dog passed on, everything goes back to normal, with Maddie and Tara quickly landing back on their feet with new jobs. Maddie goes to an animal shelter and adopts a labrador, and takes it for a walk in the neighborhood. Gib surprises Maddie, as Mark’s driving him around Maddie’s neighborhood on a Massimo. They talk about the new dog, and Maddie says, “let’s do more hang-outs, and let’s call them dates now. I want to see where this goes.” And Gib replies, “yeah, me too.” Mark and Gib ride away, and Maddie says to the dog, “Come on, let’s go home.” Credits roll on a crane shot dollying out as Maddie walks the dog back home.

     

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  12. P R O V I D E N C E

     

    Studio Groundswell

    Director: James Wan

    based on the novel by Max Barry

    Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller

    Release Date: September 4th, Y10 in IMAX

    Theater Count: 3,761

    MPAA Rating: R for Language, Violence, Blood/Gore, Disturbing Imagery, and Peril Throughout

    Budget: $100 Million

    Runtime: 2 hr 20 min

    Original Score: Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

     

    Cast

    Paul Mescal as Gilly

    Taylor Russell as Beanfield

    Charles Melton as Anders

    Vera Farmiga as Jackson

    Cooper Andrews as Len

     

    Plot Summary

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aGUhxZKVwxddORPvqnYnpu1t0MC2n7f-zt0Q60jhKaY/edit?usp=sharing

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    - Empty space in Picture

    - Empty space in Director

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    - Empty space in Cinematography

    - Empty space in Film Editing

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  14. This is a great day to make a thread for Screenplay.

     

    My predictions:

     

    Original

    Air

    Anatomy of a Fall

    The Holdovers

    Past Lives

    Saltburn

     

    Adapted

    Barbie

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    Oppenheimer

    Poor Things

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

     

    ^ Everything other than Poor Things has been looking like a sure bet in Adapted for a while now. You know what else looked like a sure bet? Dune Part Two. And now that Warner Bros. moved it to 2024, there's a brand new spot left open for something like Poor Things to sneak in.

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