Can there be a really good, perhaps Oscars worthy movie about one of the worst movies ever? And can it be done by James Franco? This week on Cinema Royale I’ll be reviewing James Franco’s THE DISASTER ARTIST about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s bizarre, atrocious THE ROOM! And I’ll be saying “Oh hai Hannah Buchdahl” as the co-host of The Cinema Clash joins in on the fun.
Plus I’ll run down by five favorite “Movies About Movies”, and I’ll have news on Masters of the Universe, Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars future, and more!
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There’s something strange going on with Bryan Singer and his upcoming Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. Production on the film, which stars Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, has been shut down over what 20th Century Fox calls an “unexpected unavailability of Bryan Singer.”
Uh, okay?
A rep for Singer has issued a statement that says the director’s absence is over a “personal health matter concerning Bryan and his family.”
That may very well be true, but it has already brought up reminders of the allegations that have haunted Singer for years. With the wave of sexual misconduct allegations hitting Hollywood power players, many have expected Singer’s name to come up in association with them. In fact, Jessica Chastain, who is set to star in the Singer-produced X-Men: Dark Phoenix, reminded everyone about those claims just last month…
But Singer’s absences are apparently not a new thing. Production shut down because he failed to return on set after Thanksgiving, but he had routinely been showing up late or not at all in some cases. In one instance, shooting had to be picked up by the movie’s cinematographer because Singer no-showed. These are the same types of stunts Singer pulled during Superman Returns and X-Men: Apocalypse, which leads one to question why it’s been tolerated as long as it has been.
In any case, Malek and Fox have clearly grown frustrated by it, and we’ll just have to see where this goes from here. If and when Singer returns he might see his power on set severely reduced, or perhaps the studio will take a more hands on approach to overseeing things.
Bohemian Rhapsody is, for now, set to open next year on Christmas Day. [THR]
James Franco is currently enjoying the best reviews of his career, on either side of the camera, for The Disaster Artist and it may be enough to carry him through to the Oscars. Really. No more making fun of his questionable directorial choices (for now), it’s time to start taking him more seriously. And that means paying attention to what comes next. Right now that looks to be A Boy Named Shel, an adaptation of Lisa Rogak’s book about poet, songwriter, and “The Giving Tree” author Sheldon Silverstein. Franco will both direct and star. Here’s a synopsis for the book:
In A Boy Named Shel, Lisa Rogak tells the full story of a life as antic and adventurous as any of his creations. A man with an incurable case of wanderlust, Shel kept homes on both coasts and many places in between—and enjoyed regular stays in the Playboy Mansion. Everywhere he went he charmed neighbors, made countless friends, and romanced almost as many women with his unstoppable energy and never-ending wit.
His boundless creativity brought him fame and fortune—neither of which changed his down-to-earth way of life—and his children’s books sold millions of copies. But he was much more than “just” a children’s writer. He collaborated with anyone who crossed his path, and found success in a wider range of genres than most artists could ever hope to master. He penned hit songs like “A Boy Named Sue” and “The Unicorn.” He drew cartoons for Stars & Stripes and got his big break with Playboy. He wrote experimental plays and collaborated on scripts with David Mamet. With a seemingly unending stream of fresh ideas, he worked compulsively and enthusiastically on a wide array of projects up until his death, in 1999.
Shel lived an incredible life without boundaries, and those seem to be the kinds of people Franco is interested in making movies about right now. The script will be written by Chris Shafer and Paul Vickair, writers of the Chris Evans films Playing it Cool and Before We Go. [THR]
If you’re eagerly awaiting Quentin Tarantino’s 9th feature film, the one that will have Charles Manson as part of the plot, then you won’t have to wait much longer. Sony Pictures, which won a fierce bidding war for the rights, have set the release date for August 9th 2019. That date is a significant one for a couple of reasons.
First of all, that date marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of actress Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson Family. It’s still unclear how much Charles Manson will have to do with the story, but we know Tarantino has been wanting Margot Robbie to play Tate. Others being courted for the film are Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lawrence, and Samuel L. Jackson.
The other signficance of that date is that it falls in the heart of blockbuster season, which is unusual for a Tarantino movie. But this one, which is said to cost $100M with a rumored $375M needed just to break even, will need to be one of the biggest hits of career. Sony dropping it in the middle of summer is there way of trying to bump up expectations and potential box office. Basically it needs to do triple the business of The Hateful Eight which barely cracked $150M worldwide.
Dan Stevens and Rebecca Hall, two stars who pop up in a ton of movies, are getting a chance to share the screen together. The duo headline the romantic comedy, Permission, which debuted at Tribeca earlier this year and has been pretty quiet ever since. But this trailer suggests this isn’t your typical rom-com to be seen and quickly forgotten.
Written and directed by Brian Crano, the film centers on a couple on the verge of marriage who are encouraged to explore other options, to make sure they are truly with “the one”. It’s an interesting premise, with Hall and Stevens always worth checking out. Here’s the synopsis:
Anna (Rebecca Hall) and Will (Dan Stevens), were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship – as a sexual experiment. Together, they venture out of the purely monogamous boundaries of their relationship and, along the way, evolve.
Most romantic comedies center on this notion of finding the perfect match, but rarely do we see it from the perspective of partners in a loving, established relationship. Color me interested in seeing where this goes. Also starring Gina Gershon, David Joseph Craig, Jason Sudeikis, Bridget Everett, and Morgan Spector, Permission opens February 9th 2018.
24 Hours To Live tells
the story of Travis Conrad (Ethan Hawke) – a retired hitman who is out of the
game and trying to live in peace. Travis’s wife and son have been dead for a
year and their deaths still haunt him. Travis resorts to drugs and alcohol to
try and cope with his loss. Out of the blue, a former colleague, Jim
(Paul Anderson), pays Travis a visit. Jim passes along a job that their old boss
Wetzler (Liam Cunningham) demands Travis accept. With the money being too good
to pass up, Travis decides it’s time to come out of retirement.
The target that Wetzler sends Travis to kill is a former assassin of the company named Keith (Tyrone Keogh). Keith has turned
against them, and will be testifying to the UN. This testimony can bring down
the whole organization and Wetzler can’t have that. Keith is somewhere in
Africa, and Travis must find him immediately to silence him. The only thing
standing in Travis’ way is Lin (Qing Xu) an Interpol agent with a particular
set of skills of her own. Travis ends up using Lin’s son and mother to track Lin
down and get Keith’s location. In a moment of weakness, brought upon by not
wanting to break up a family, Travis does not kill Lin and she ends up taking advantage
of this and kills Travis.
Travis wakes up on an operating table where Jim tells him
that the company used an experimental procedure to essentially bring him back from
the dead. Unfortunately this procedure is only a minor fix and the surgery leaves
Travis with only, you guessed it, 24 hours to live. Travis provides Jim and
Wentzler with the address of where Keith will be. Getting all the information
they needed from Travis, they decide that he is expendable and are going to…kill
him again. Travis escapes and realizes that his mission is to take down
Wentzler and he will stop at nothing until he does.
24 Hours To Live
can essentially be broken down into two acts. Act 1 is before Travis undergoes
this experimental surgery and Act 2 is the ridiculous ride that follows post-surgery.
Now the title, 24 Hours To Live, should
be taken as literally as possible. During the surgery, Travis is implanted with
a countdown timer in his forearm counting down from 24 hours. It comes off as silly, but throughout the film we see Travis glance at it to get an idea of how much time he has left. The
surgery also involves some negative side effects – mainly hallucinations of his
wife, and especially his son, that get more vivid as the timer ticks
away. Going up against an evil organization with endless means and trained
assassins is already quite the task, but doing so while dying and suffering
from hallucinations of his deceased wife and child really ups the ante.
Now when you think of a former hitman – who is of course the best at what he does –
that comes out of retirement to go on a murderous revenge rampage, does that sound familiar? 24 Hours To Live is a poor man’s John Wick, but where Wick has class and
elegance, 24 Hours To Live has
grittiness and grime – and not in a good way. 24 Hours To Live tries to play around with the idea of their protagonist
being on a countdown timer, thinking that this might distinguish it enough, but
this idea falls short. The film does have a lot of close up shots and shaky
cams that are successful in adding to the grit and style of the film, but that isn’t enough to set the film apart. In
the end 24 Hours To Live falls short.
It is a mindless action film that gets muddled and ridiculous at times. If you
want to turn your brain off and enjoy some action scenes and explosions, it’s
not a terrible option, but there are far better out there.
Season two hasn’t been out for that long, having premiered in October. The response has been wildly positive, just as it was for the first season, with no apparent sophomore slump. I still haven’t finished watching, but Khalil gave it a ridiculously high score in his review.
The Duffers have been vocal about their desire for the show not to overstay its welcome, but at the same time they’ve expressed that jumping right into a second season was tough. So we may see them take a bit of a longer break this time, or perhaps scale down the number of episodes. Check out their recent interview with ThePlaylist for more on that, but for now we don’t know how they plan to proceed. Chances are Netflix will want to keep things rolling quickly enough for season three to be ready by this time next year.
If you would have through an obscure show like Arrow would one day blossom to have their own coherent small screen universe (that many think is better than DC’s big-screen counterpart), way back in 2012, you might have been called crazy at the time. Now, though, this is the “age of superheroes” in our pop culture. You can’t help but blink and there will be a superhero film or TV show somewhere within mass media. The Arrowverse has been very successful on the CW as a result of literally bringing a comic book to life through shows like Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl. With each show under the CW’s umbrella, that leads to the possibility of a crossover.
Each year the crossover potential has continued to grow. The first try was when they introduced Barry Allen (The Flash) on Arrow, which led to his Barry getting his own spinoff show and expanding the Arrowverse. The second time was “The Flash vs Arrow.” The third time, the “Heroes Join Forces” even helped create the Legends of Tomorrow to create their own show. Last year’s “Invasion” crossover was a success as heroes from all four shows combined together to save the earth from the alien race of The Dominators. That crossover even was so successful, it’s a no-brainer that they would do another one. This year the powers that be decided to have the crossover be over 2 nights instead of four, combining the event on back to back (Supergirl/Arrow and The Flash/Legends of Tomorrow) shows during that time. The event consisted of the heroes uniting against the foes of Earth-X on “Crisis of Earth-X.”
We know that there are countless versions of Earth within the DC Multiverse. Within the Arrowverse, there are 52 different Earth (paying homage to DC’s “New 52”). Most of the earths we have seen so far are similar to the ones that already exist. Some things are a little different, but not too different. However, this week, we are introduced to a brand new earth, Earth-X, which is unlike any we have seen so far. In this reality, the Nazi’s won World War II and rule the planet with an iron fist. Because this earth is within the Arrowverse, we see doppelgangers of people we know. For example, the “Führer” is none other than the “Dark Archer” Oliver Queen, who rules the Nazi-occupied planet after Hitler’s death. He easily dispatches resistance fighters led by Supergirl’s James Olsen/Guardian.
Meanwhile, on Earth-1, everyone’s getting ready for the wedding of the century. All season Barry and Iris have been slowly moving towards their big day, and now it’s upon us. We see a brief montage of all the characters as they are dealing with bad guys, but also forgetting to plan or RSVP for the wedding. Barry is fighting King Shark (ARGUS prisons are just as bad as Arkham Asylum) while discussing last minute plans with Iris in Central City. Oliver is fighting ninjas in Star City while talking to Felicity about the wedding. The Legends are fighting in 1183 England while forgetting to RSVP. Supergirl is in Earth-38 fighting a Dominator who is “so last year” when she invites her sister Alex to be her plus one for Barry’s wedding. We get it, you superheroes are too busy to RSVP, but you still need to!
As everyone arrives to get ready for the wedding, a thousand mini-stories are going on at once. Both Oliver and Felicity talk about the possibility of the two of them getting married while they talk within their own circles (this plays a big, frustrating role later). Stein and Jax continue their discussions about breaking up Firestorm so Stein can leave the Legends and be with his family. While Caitlin and Cisco have developed a magical serum which will do it, Jax doesn’t seem too pleased about their upcoming breakup.
At the rehearsal dinner, a few interesting things happen. Alex, fresh off her breakup with Maggie talks with Sara, which we all know what’s gonna happen next. After a few shots, the two of them quietly leave the dinner while smooching all over outside of Jitters. After Joe delivers a toast to his two children and his love and happiness for the both of them, Oliver gets the brave idea of proposing to Felicity. It did not go as planned. Felicity is not interested in “a piece of paper” and as the two quietly argue about the idea of marriage Felicity screams out “I DON’T WANT TO MARRY YOU!” for everyone else to hear.
The next day is the big event. Everyone arrives at the church. Barry, like any groom, is nervous. He is offered a refreshment by one of the ushers. She seems just a little too excited to be at the wedding for a normal usher. The usher is played by actress Jessica Parker Kennedy (Black Sails, Colony), who looks like a perfect blend of Barry and Iris in real life. Her looks and the fact that the character is too excited for the wedding to lead me to think that she’s Barry’s daughter from the future: Dawn Allen, one of the “Tornado Twins” from the comics.
The ceremony begins with Kara singing a great rendition of “Run to You,” reminding us that Barry sang that to Iris during last year’s musical crossover on The Flash/Supergirl crossover “Duet” and that actress Melissa Benoist can carry a tune. As the vows are ready to be exchanged the priest ask anyone to speak now, or forever hold their peace, and he immediately gets vaporized by heat ray vision. In comes the Nazis from Earth-X. With so many heroes in one place, they spring into action. Oliver just happened to have a bow and arrow to bring to a wedding. Caitlin turns to Killer Frost. Even Wally helps. Supergirl faces off against her Earth-X counterpart. Oliver faces off against his. Alex and Sara team up and face off against Earth-X’s version of Prometheus. Kara manages to defeat her counterpart and Oliver’s retreats. They manage to take X-Prometheus into custody at Star Labs. Thanks to the Legends memory wiping device, no one knows all their secret identities. Rory says it best, “Best Wedding Ever” as he enjoys a celebratory snack. Later on, the Earth-X villains regroup and take off their masks, revealing that Oliver, Kara, and Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne are the Earth-X bad guys.
As they unmask “Prometheus,” he’s revealed to be none other than Earth-X’s Tommy Merlyn, Oliver’s best friend and Thea’s half-brother who died way back in season 1 of Arrow. Oliver is a little blindsided and tries to speak to this Tommy as though he’s his old friend. That quickly stops as he tells Oliver that this version is weak compared to the Führer, and he quickly takes a cyanide pill to kill himself. While it was nice to have actor Colin Donnell back, this was the briefest of brief cameos and didn’t serve much of a point. But it was at least better than the CGI Tommy from last year’s crossover episode.
Of course, there’s more Oliver and Felicity drama. Just when you think the two of them are done making unnecessary self-inflicting drama against each other, they tell you to “hold their beer.” After everything dies down, Oliver tries to talk with Felicity about wanting to be married. She tells him that they have a “great” thing and she doesn’t want to mess it up. That’s kinds the same impasse that Alex and Maggie had concerning to want to have children that can forever ruin a relationship. Later on, she reveals to Iris that her reasoning is because the last time they were going to get married, she got shot. An explanation, but a dumb one.
Meanwhile, Stein reveals to Jax a formula he made that will give him superpowers after they separate from each other as Firestorm. The powers will give him the ability to be adhesive towards surfaces, basically Spiderman without the strength and webbing. Jax still isn’t pleased. As he and Stein talk, Jax reveals to him that the separation of Firestorm is the separation of their relationship. He doesn’t care if he doesn’t have superpowers, he wants his adoptive father figure, who will be leaving him forever.
The team thinks that they know where the Earth-X folks will be and launch a surprise attack. Oliver, Kara, and Barry meet up with Reverse Flash and X-Supergirl. Meanwhile, X-Oliver has gone to STAR Labs. There, he takes on Rory and Caitlin as well as all of Team Arrow (who finally showed up just to get beat down). During the rest of the heroes to the docks, the Earth-X folks take down the rest of them as they have their own version of Metallo. They take all the heroes and put on collars to block their powers, except Kara as they need to take her heart out and give it to the X-Kara.
Barry, Oliver, Alex, Stein, Sara, and Jax wake up in a Nazi prison camp on Earth-X, complete with “star” prisoner uniforms as well for other people on Earth-X. One prisoner Ray Terrill (guest starring Russell Tovey) is imprisoned for being gay and not fitting the Nazi’s Aryan ideals. One of the Nazi commanders is the Earth-X version of Quentin Lance who recognizes Sara as looking similar to his own daughter, who he killed for being bisexual. As he’s getting ready to execute them by firing squad, in comes Captain Cold! Wentworth Miller returns for his CW role, even though the Earth-1 Captain Cold died in the first season of Legends of Tomorrow (and thanks to the time-traveling nature of the show, managed to guest star a few times), but his Earth-X counterpart is part of the resistance. After he removes Ray’s collar, it’s revealed he’s a metahuman as well, who can fly and blast energy, very Firestorm-esque. Ray reveals that he is from Earth-1 originally, but he also is Captain Cold’s boyfriend in this universe. Wentworth Miller in real life is gay and finally got to play a character as such in the Arrowverse.
Afterward, the team head to the resistance headquarters at Earth-X’s STAR Labs led by the Earth-X version of Winn, General Schott. This version of Winn is not as nice and easy-going as he is on Earth-38. This one is hardened by generational war. They realize that the only way back to Earth-1 is through a gateway at a Nazi facility, however, Winn wants to destroy it. Even after pleads from Alex, he won’t budge. Captain Cold (“Leo” in this universe) pleads with his superior, who allows them a one hour head start) before sending Earth-X’s version of Red Tornado to destroy the facility.
With it being a heavily armed facility, there’s no way the heroes could take it head on. Lucky for them, Oliver happens to have the same face as the leader of the Nazi party. Captain Cold donning a uniform escorts Oliver through the gate. Everyone else waits for him to turn down the power dampening field. Oliver is found out soon enough by Quinten Lance who requests he shoot the Earth-X version of Felicity and he can’t bring himself to do it. He does, however, overpower just about all the Nazi’s in the control room, allowing the rest of the heroes to enter and fight their way through.
Back on Earth-1, Eobard Thawne is preparing Kara’s surgery by saturating her with red solar radiation. All the other heroes have been rounded up and placed into metahuman cells, except Felicity and Iris, who sneak around unnoticed. Felicity writes a computer program to turn off the power just as the surgery is about to start. Eobard tried to find them but Metallo beats him to it. Felicity stands her ground in not revealing the codes. Thawne tells her that he’s from the future, and there’s no record of her, so he has no problem with killing her as his hands vibrate. Kara tells her to give the code as she will not be responsible for Felicity’s death. The power’s then restored.
On Earth-X, as the heroes are trying to storm the facility, X-Winn decided he’s given them enough time and launches Red Tornado to take the building down. Barry and Ray try to fight the unstoppable robot while everyone else is fighting Nazis. Jax and Stein needed to separate as Firestorm to turn on the portal. Unfortunately, that’s when the Nazis start shooting all over the place. Stein tries to pull the lever but gets shot in the back.
Now it’s no secret that actor Victor Garber was leaving the DC CW to act on Broadway (hence the reason for separating Firestorm), but for him to get shot was still tough, especially with all the talk about going back to his family. He manages to pull the lever and get shot again. Jax then has the two of them merge as Firestorm to help heal them with the hope that he can be repaired on The Wave Rider. All the heroes escape through the portal and head back to Earth-1.
Back on Earth-1, Kara is back under the knife, getting ready to get her heart taken out. Just as Thawne is about to stick the knife into her, he can’t push any further. Zoom in and we see Ray Palmer in Atom form holding back the knife. The rest of the Legends have arrived to help save the day. They destroy Metallo and everything seems OK. Unfortunately, X-Oliver is holding Felicity hostage, leading Oliver to do the same with X-Kara, X-Oliver’s wife. Thawne speeds in and removes the two of them out of the equation.
On the Wave Rider, Caitlin is tending to Stein. However, Jax starts coughing up blood as well. Because of their Firestorm connection, Jax is the only thing keeping Stein alive. The longer he tries, the more he is likely to die as a result. Caitlin doesn’t have the heart to tell Jax, but knows this won’t end well. Stein realizes this and tells Jax that he will have to die to save the two of them. He tells Jax that he loves him like a son. He takes the serum to separate the two of them and dies peacefully next to a tearful Jax. This causes all the heroes to feel sorry for him. It hits many of the Legends in different ways, but really hits home for Sara (the team leader) and Jax of course.
But we still have some Nazi to deal with. X-Kara is starting to succumb to her radiation and will explode, taking all of Earth-1 along with her. She threatens the planet under the condition that Kara goes with her. Oliver, who last year didn’t like Kara tells X-Kara that he won’t abandon her. They then take the fight to the Nazis. During the battle, everyone gets a chance to shine as we get another heroes montage as they fight their Earth-X counterparts. The battle ends with X-Kara going supernova and Kara taking her into the stratosphere to stop the planet from exploding. X-Oliver devastated tries to kill Oliver, who strikes him with an arrow through the chest. Barry doesn’t bring himself to kill Thawne who he lets go, promising to return once again, with a different face.
Jax goes to Stein’s home to tell his wife and daughter the terrible news as they all have a group hug. Jax delivers a eulogy for him. Each member has something to say to the departed Stein, even Rory has “allergies.” Kara and Alex head back to Earth-38.
However, Barry and Iris still have a wedding they want. Instead of something extravagant, they just want it done quick and easy. Oliver knows someone who’s ordained: Diggle (who was missing all this week), and Barry speeds him back to them. After throwing up (as he hates being zipped everywhere by Barry), Diggle agrees to perform a marriage for Barry and Iris. Just before he can start the “ceremony,” Felicity decides that she is also ready to take the plunge with Oliver and asks Diggle to marry the two of them as well.
If there are two things we know about DC Films in the midst of their continuing post-Justice League turmoil, it’s that everybody loves Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and that everybody loves Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn. The latter was a wacky scene-stealer in Suicide Squad for her maniacal portrayal, and Warner Bros. was smart to set up more projects featuring the character. The problem is that we don’t know if any of these things are happening, not Gotham City Sirens or that standalone Joker movie with Jared Leto. The only one that seems certain is Suicide Squad 2. For now.
Well, you may be able to add one more. Speaking with MTV, Robbie revealed that she’s working on a “totally separate” Harley Quinn movie. Oh. Alright then. Yeah, she makes sure to emphasize that it isn’t Gotham City Sirens, although it kinda sounds like it because she mentions Harley “needs other girls around”.
Either way, Warner Bros. is going all in on more of the demented baddie. Still this just seems sorta random, doesn’t it? If DC Films needs anything it’s one guy who announces these sorts of things. A big reason why everything seems so chaotic is that you have people dropping announcements like this whenever they feel like it.
Robert Rodriguez may be known now for his studio movies like Sin City and Spy Kids, but his debut was completely different. His 1992 debut, El Mariachi, is an indie classic, having been produced for a meager $7000. No, I didn’t forget a couple of zeros. Take THAT Indie Spirit Awards! The film was a smash, breaking the Guinness World Record as the cheapest film to ever gross $1M. It also launched semi-sequel, Desperado, which starred Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. It did not cost $7000.
Now Rodriguez is going back to his low-budget roots. For his upcoming unscripted series Rebel Without a Crew, Rodriguez is challenging five directors; Scarlet Moreno, Alejandro Montoya Marin, Bola Ogun, Bonnie-Kathleen Ryan, and Josh Stifter, to complete a feature film just as he did with only $7000. No crew, either.
Guess who will be joining them? Rodriguez himself. He’ll try to recapture that El Mariachi magic with his own movie, playing by the same rules as his competitors. Each director will have two weeks to shoot and wrap their film. The series will air on Rodriguez’s El Rey Network (If your cable network doesn’t have it, you must rectify that!) and on Verizon’s go90.
This seems like a mismatch, doesn’t it? Not only does Rodriguez have more experience than everyone else, but he’s got specific experience under these rules. And while he’s made plenty of expensive studio movies, he’s done a respectable job of working fast and keeping budgets tight, especially with his Machete movies.
I’m willing to bet Rodriguez will include some kind of viewer voting system to see which movie is best, and then air the completed project on El Rey. Or perhaps he’ll consider a theatrical release of some kind? I mean, at only $7000 there should be some easy profit to be made, right? [IndieWire]
