MIAMI on the BIG SCREEN!!!

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by brickell

^ and of course Black Sunday, which also featured the Orange Bowl

And it also featured Chuck and Spellbound who were snubbed at the Oscars. Hollywood has gotten so political.

[BornInTheGrove]

Originally Posted by Hia-leah JDM

how about some newer ones guys?!

Reno 911!: Miami

and also the tv series Miami Ink

[FIDEL CASTRO]

New Movies in Miami:

Ace Ventura
Home Alone 2
The Disorderlies
The one where Ice Cube plays as a dentist in Miami Beach.

[RETROMANIA]

I havent seen them

[FIDEL CASTRO]

Originally Posted by FALTAN.LUNAS

I havent seen them

Yo have never seen Home Alone 2?

[spellbound]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

And it also featured Chuck and Spellbound who were snubbed at the Oscars. Hollywood has gotten so political.

Hollywood's darkest hour. Here you've got a thriller about the Goodyear blimp about to explode over the Orange Bowl and they hand out the awards to crappy, pedestrian tripe like "Taxi Driver" and "The Godfather Part 2." An outrage!

Chuck and I EARNED those damn Oscars!

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by spellbound

Hollywood's darkest hour. Here you've got a thriller about the Goodyear blimp about to explode over the Orange Bowl and they hand out the awards to crappy, pedestrian tripe like "Taxi Driver" and "The Godfather Part 2." An outrage!

Chuck and I EARNED those damn Oscars!

Your fans still love you, Spellbound! They know real talent when they see it in spite of Hollywood's political b.s!

[spellbound]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

Your fans still love you, Spellbound! They know real talent when they see it in spite of Hollywood's political b.s!

Thank you for your kind (and highly accurate) words, Quantum.

Now if I can just get those shortsighted Hollywood bastards to read my screenplay for "Raging Bull Meets Godzilla" starring Gary Coleman.

He plays both roles, btw.

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by spellbound

Thank you for your kind (and highly accurate) words, Quantum.

Now if I can just get those shortsighted Hollywood bastards to read my screenplay for "Raging Bull Meets Godzilla" starring Gary Coleman.

He plays both roles, btw.

What a visual effects extravaganza that would be!

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by spellbound

Thank you for your kind (and highly accurate) words, Quantum.

Now if I can just get those shortsighted Hollywood bastards to read my screenplay for "Raging Bull Meets Godzilla" starring Gary Coleman.

He plays both roles, btw.

You have to find an agent who shares your vision or else a producer won't look at it. I tried to unload a script on Jane Fonda at a political fund raiser in San Franscisco back in 1983, and she said legally she couldn't look it. It had to go through an agent.

[QuantumX]

Double post

[mileageman]

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[Hia-leah JDM]

Oh great. How original, not hating though, I'll probaly end up watching it if it comes to fruition.

[AddictedToSpace]

Needs to be filmed on location though with local sights and talent!

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by mileageman

HBO in talks with Michael Bay/Jerry Bruckheimer to create a series set in 1980's Miami based on the movie Cocaine Cowboys

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

Unfortunately, with this being a period piece, the new skyline will have to be digitally edited out, of course.

[thetallerthebetter]

I just don't see how you can do any better than the documentary with actual footage and images, it's just so powerful.

[Aceventura]

I talked to Mickey in November. He said he and John were in negotiations concerning the rights for this project. This will probably be big name actors, (if Bruck' has it ya know it will be). Rancotour has nothing to do this project from what he said. From all of Mickey's stories they probably could make a trilogy.
It probably won't match the doc.
Cocaine Cowboys is a DVD must buy.

[dave8721]

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/525299.html

FILM INDUSTRY
Cut! Filming in Florida just got less attractive

BY DOUGLAS HANKS
dhanks@MiamiHerald.com

Without $25 million in production subsidies, Florida will find it tough to lure movies and TV shows to shoot here.

A golden age of South Florida moviemaking is upon us, but experts don't expect it to last much longer. In fact, they give it about seven more weeks.

That's when dramatic cuts to Florida's film subsidies take effect, hollowing out a $25 million fund credited with making 2008 a banner year for both production work and celebrity sightings.

Broward and Miami-Dade counties report a record number of movie and television productions since 2007, double the decade's last high-water mark. Film offices point to about $50 million in local spending from the productions in both counties this year. But with only $5 million to dole out for projects shooting after July 1, local film offices are bracing for lean times.

''The studios and even the big independents can't ignore the incentives they can get elsewhere,'' said Elizabeth Wentworth, who recruits productions for the Broward Alliance, the county's economic development arm. ``Next year all of our figures are going to be way down. We can count on not getting anything major.''

That would be a big switch from the current crop of A-Listers in town to film.

Miami became a major paparazzi battleground two weeks ago when singer John Mayer arrived for a romantic weekend with Jennifer Aniston. She settled into an extended Miami stay for her starring role in Marley & Me, a movie set in South Florida and slated to receive $1.6 million in state subsidies in exchange for spending nearly $11 million locally.

Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger also were spotted killing time in South Beach between location shoots in South Florida this spring.

Their movies (I Love You Phillip Morris and Chilled in Miami) were based elsewhere, but cash incentives helped lure producers to shoot some scenes in South Florida, said Jeff Peel, director of Miami-Dade's film office.

''Jim Carrey would not be here without an incentive,'' Peel said. ``That's the way these things are done.''

LATE TO THE GAME

Florida entered the film subsidy wars late, offering producers nothing as recently as five years ago. Other states, notably Louisiana, New Mexico and South Carolina, have been helping pay production costs as a way to lure both big-budget features and television shows their way.

This week, the Los Angeles Times reported ABC was moving its hit Ugly Betty show from Los Angeles to the Big Apple to take advantage of New York's beefed-up $65 million incentive program.

A top executive at Burn Notice, a drama set in Miami awarded about $4.2 million in state subsidies, said the cable show would have filmed elsewhere if not for the cash.

''That is unequivocal,'' said Bob Lemchen, vice president of scripted programming for Fox Television Studios, which produces the show for the USA cable network. ``You'll notice the other two shows on television set in Miami -- CSI: Miami and Dexter -- don't shoot in Miami.''

SUBSIDIES PUSHED JUMP

Florida's program launched in 2004 with a meager $2.4 million fund, and by 2006 it had grown to $20 million.

The $25 million budget for the current fiscal year -- which ends June 30 -- coincided with a surge in South Florida productions: Miami-Dade said 46 movies requested permits in that time, up from 21 in 2005 and four in 2003.

But lawmakers, facing a $4 billion budget shortfall amid a statewide real estate meltdown, pulled back the subsidies amid widespread cost cutting.

Though Florida's film office contends productions generate spending worth seven times their subsidy amounts, ''it's kind of tough to be up there lobbying when the person in front of you is trying to secure money for their Meals on Wheels,'' said Robert Parente, head of Miami's film office. ``You feel sheepish.''

Florida will reimburse 15 percent of the money movies and television shows spend in Florida, with a 5 percent bonus available for productions filming during hurricane season. Family-friendly projects (no swearing, no sex and no smoking) also qualify for another 2 percent rebate.

The region seemed to have little problem attracting production work before the state subsidy program. Movies linked to Miami -- The Birdcage, Scarface, There'sSomething About Mary -- paid their own way, as did the Miami Vice television series and 2005 film.

But the spread of film incentives this decade will leave Florida at a disadvantage in what state film commissioner Lucia Fishburne called a ``commodities game.''

''Of course, people are going to go where it can make the biggest difference in their bottom lines,'' she said.

As the only major Florida show returning for a second season, Burn Notice gets first priority for next year's $5 million fund and considers its subsidies secure. But should there be no government money for the second half of 2009, agent Michael Westen may find himself leaving his Coconut Grove environs for elsewhere.

''Our worry is Season Three,'' Lemchen said. ``This is a very bad thing for us.''

[pengh]

The Substitute Oh and Ace Ventura

[thetallerthebetter]

You guys are not going to believe this! It's such a coincidence. Guess who I just met at the bank and chatted with on the walk up line like five minutes ago??? Mickey Munday, The redneck pilot from Cocaine Cowboys!!! He looks the same and was wearing a cowboy hat (I shit you not) and still has a long ass pony tail! He told me a fact that never made it into the movie is that he never had a pilot license and he actually taught himself how to fly!!!! He also said that he heard that Mark Wahlberg was cast as Jon while DiCaprio might be playing him, he said this with a smile on his face like he thought the whole thing was hilarious.

He says he gets recognized all the time now and really seems to get a kick out it!

I shook his hand and told him I envied his life!!! I even whispered to the teller... Do you know who that is? And she was like "yeah it's really him he comes in all the time, he's a really cool guy"

Anyway I was blown away cause I was just talking about this movie yesterday!