Matt Czuchry - I hope they serve beer in hell (Spoilers) #3 - Jail, strippers, alcohol...it's going to be hoooooot! - Page 6

**autumnღfairytale** · 11-12-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by shinystar (View Post)

If you have to do reshoots then they're not happy with the 1st attempts

I just want a trailer

and a release date!

Well didn't Tucker mention in one of his latest blogs that they were unsure about a few things? So a re-shoot could happen.

**Eternal Flame** · 11-12-2008, 11:58 AM

Perhaps it might happen, but would that fit into the budget?!

**autumnღfairytale** · 11-12-2008, 12:05 PM

Not sure but I think movie productions need to save some money if they see later a scene works not that well or they need to change something a bit.

Tucker

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This past week, everyone has been busy integrating all the notes after seeing the first cut, and we are having another big screening on Thursday, this one with more people, some of whom are really smart and accomplished Hollywood people whose opinions I trust. I will have a report on Friday with my thoughts (and theirs) on the newest version. But in the meantime, I have a mildly amusing Hollywood story for you:

**Eternal Flame** · 11-12-2008, 12:07 PM

but they already have a pretty slim budget I think since its an indie film. I guess we'll have to wait and see....

Sounds cool that he has screenings already...

He has a fun story?

**autumnღfairytale** · 11-12-2008, 12:37 PM

About his girlfriend and that a guy from holyywood hit on her.

**Eternal Flame** · 11-13-2008, 02:08 PM

yeah I just read it. That was Aiden from SatC

**autumnღfairytale** · 11-13-2008, 02:13 PM

I know.

Well if that would happen to me and it would be Matt I'm not sure how I would be able to react even with a boyriend in my mind.

**Eternal Flame** · 11-13-2008, 02:49 PM

She should have responded. 'But what about Carrie!?'

**autumnღfairytale** · 11-13-2008, 02:52 PM

Can't wait for the friday blog, I want opinions.

**Eternal Flame** · 11-13-2008, 03:27 PM

I think its more like saturday our timezone..

captnerin · 11-14-2008, 07:15 PM

sounds like the screening was a success..

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Looks like we are on the right track - November 14, 2008 02:40 PM

After I saw the first rough cut, I was just not sure about the movie. It's not that I thought it sucked, it's that it was just so rough and so different than what I had imagined it would be, I wasn't sure if we hit the mark, or we missed completely. I was so immersed in the details I couldn't see the big picture. I talked about it in this piece:

"I don't know. I really don't know. This thing could be an amazing, genre-defining comedy that is even better than I think, or it could just totally miss the mark. I don't know...I think what we need to do now is make all the scene fixes, and then I want to show it to people I know and trust, and see how they react. Because right now, I need some honest outside perspective."

So we did just that. We spent two weeks making as many fixes as we could, and then last night we did a viewing.

I'll be honest; I was really ****ing nervous last night. Nils and I have worked for over two years on this, we have all our chips on the table. And the movie isn't anywhere near where it should be; when we are finished editing it, it will be substantially better than it is now. But the fact is, even though it will get much better, right now it resembles what the final product will be enough that we can get a good indication of whether or not we're on the right track.

Getting help from Greg and a few other people, we found 50+ people to see it. This audience was very representative of what an average audience who would see this movie would be; almost all of them were 18-25, a good mix of male and female, people who liked comedies but who don't know me and are not associated with me or the movie or even big fans of mine (some of them had heard of me though, and a few had read the book, but a minority). If these people didn't like the movie, it would mean very very bad things for us.

I came in late to the screening because I didn't want any of the audience to know I was there (in case it would influence their rating). I sat next to my girlfriend and couldn't enjoy the movie at all, because all I could see were the problems and mistakes and things we still needed to fix. I know there was a ton of laughter from the audience, but I couldn't enjoy it because of my anxiety over the mistakes. I hate it when my close friends read rough drafts of my written stories--having 50+ strangers watch a very rough draft of my movie was almost unbearable.

As soon as it was over, I slipped back out and waited for the audience to fill out their questionnaires. Now, in a typical questionnaire, at the end the audience is asked to rate the movie on a 1-10 scale, and that score, averaged across 100 people, is considering the movie's "rating." Since this is still only the second cut and very rough, we did not ask for a 1-10 rating, we only asked a bunch of short answer questions like, "Who was your favorite character and why," "What was your favorite scene and why?" etc, etc. But there was one question more important than the rest:

"Would you recommend this movie to your friends? [ ] Yes [ ] No"

It was the only binary answer question, and that was the score we were most focused on for this, our first screening to a real audience. If a movie scores 80% or more on the recommendation question, that is considered a huge number and studios **** themselves over the movie.

We got a 95%.

That's higher than Superbad or Juno got on that question. That's really good news. But there is more.

The guy who helped Nils and I really learn how to write a script and understand screenplay format is a co-producer on the movie, David Zuckerman. David is one of the biggest A-List comedy showrunners in Hollywood; he was one of the original writers on King of the Hill, he is the guy who developed Seth McFarlane's characters and jokes into Family Guy, and he is the current showrunner for American Dad. He was in the screening (he didn't fill out a survey) and was seeing it fresh, having not seen the movie, the dailies or anything.

He had a bunch of notes about things that could be improved (we all did), but these were the two big things he said:

1. "You got a million dollar cast. They were amazing. I am surprised at how good the acting was. All of them were just awesome."

2. "It was really good, and once you work out the issues we discussed, I think this is going to be great. I think you guys have a hit movie on your hands."

David's not the type to blow sunshine up my ass. He's a straight shooter, and his words meant the world to me. I have never made a movie before so my instincts on this process are still being developed, and to hear him, a man who has succeeded multiple times doing what I am trying to do, give that kind of praise to the movie...it's nice.

Look, I know this is only one screening, and I know that it might be a bit stacked in our favor because at least some of the people had heard of me and read my book, and I know even David is probably a bit biased because he helped us learn how to write a script and has consulted at various points throughout the process and likes me and Nils, and I know we still have A LOT of work to do, but still...I feel really ****ing good right now.

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

maybe now that tucker has positive feedback about the movie so far, perhaps we'll get more posts from him..

**autumnღfairytale** · 11-15-2008, 03:51 AM

Yeah seemed like it did really well.

I of course loved the quote about the cast the most.

Full Throttle · 11-15-2008, 06:01 PM

Thanks for brining that over. Its good to read/hear that the screening was successful and it had high praise.

**Eternal Flame** · 11-17-2008, 08:52 AM

that's a nice post to read... and 965% is a really nice percentage!

That makes me a bit more hopeful about the movie again..

I hope Tucker find a distributor soon so we can get a release date!

**autumnღfairytale** · 11-17-2008, 09:32 AM

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and 965% is a really nice percentage!

that one is really nice.

Oh I'm mean today.

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I hope Tucker find a distributor soon so we can get a release date!

I hate that the release date is still somewhere between april and october.