Songs On Screen: All week HitFix will be featuring tributes by writers to their favorite musical moments from TV and film. Check out all the entries in the series here. I saw this movie about ten thousand times when I was a teenager. Maybe more. "Lost Boys" is a classic for we of a certain age. It’s vampire movie where comic books and witty banter play a sizable role, which sounds like all movies now but was an aberration in 1987. This movie has it all. Chinese Food. Cranky Grandpas. Music by Inxs. Long before the dulcet tones of Kiefer Sutherland’s velvety voice made us swoon with “Who are you working for!” he regaled us with, “They’re only noodles, Michael.” The time I had this movie committed to memory has passed, but I will never forget when the Emerson brothers, new arrivals to the sleepy coastal town of Santa Carla,...
- 6/25/2015
- by Jonathan L. Davis
- Hitfix
For five seasons now, war has raged over which Game of Thrones character will ultimately sit on the Iron Throne and save the seven kingdoms from endless war and long walking journeys to find people. While the folk of Westeros may be able to put up with this state of affairs, we here at Hifix have decided enough is enough. And so with the power vested in us by the untied Recappers Society of the Galaxy, we are taking matters into our own hands and turning the decision over to you. As contrary as it might be to the land of dragons, we’re bringing democracy to the Game of Thrones. We have gathered nine of the most gifted orators in the known world to make statements defending the various claimants to the Iron Throne. Read their statements, and the rebuttals below, and then cast your ballot at the end of the arguments.
- 4/9/2015
- by Richard Rushfield
- Hitfix
A few years ago, when I was a fledgling screenwriter, I pitched a TV show. It was an idea cooked up with legendary producer Warren Littlefield, so I had the opportunity to tour the networks and cable channels with our project. The show was called Coup. The idea was simple: a young Los Angeles club promoter gets in over his head when he decides to overthrow a foreign country in order to save his mother, who had been captured by that country. Okay, it wasn’t that simple. It was quite complicated, in fact, and I wrote a precise outline that I had memorized and could say in about 8 minutes if my nerves remained steady and I didn’t throw up all over myself. As part of the outline, I had a list of 12 things a person would need in order to overthrow a country, (an army, an inside man,...
- 3/22/2015
- by Jonathan L. Davis
- Hitfix
Screenwriter Jonathan Davis has been hired to rewrite Eli Roth's Scavenger Hunt for Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Universal Pictures. Roth, who wrote the first draft of the screenplay, will direct the feature, which is inspired by his experiences from his school days and follows a group of overachieving students on a scavenger hunt. Universal vice chairman of worldwide production Mary Parent and vp production Dylan Clark will oversee for the studio. Davis wrote the first draft of Dukes of Hazzard at Warners Bros. Pictures, where he has a two-picture deal. Di Bonaventura's other projects include Derailed for Miramax Films, Confessions of a Super Freak, Detour and Bad Girls for Paramount Pictures and Unborn for Sony Pictures. Roth's previous features include The Box, The Rotten Fruit and Cabin Fever. Davis is repped by ICM and attorney Jeff Frankel of Colden, Frankel and McKuin.
- 7/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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