Tom Schaefer: Author, director and producer.

I can't blame Hwd for putting on a show - that's what Hwd is great at. Patting themselves on the back, why not. Public seems to like it, but for me It's all perspective and taste.

As to the top 2 films shown in the Forbes article - my .02 is that Wicked was a great fantasy movie with a lot of great messaging.

Dune has become unwatchable for me, regardless of the effects. But the numbers show there is a market hunger for epic scifi, so even if the Dune franchise sucks to me, my .02 doesnt matter. :)

As to the future of going to a theater - big screen TVs are now ridiculously cheap, and it's cheaper to stay home and not have idiots on cell phones interrupting the movie, or people talking. I can have beer/wine/liquor, and gorge on my own gourmet dining, or snacks at a fraction of the cost of going to a theater, and not have to deal with even more idiots behind the counter selling me snacks at outrageous prices.

The theaters will need to come up with a way to beat the home theater, and I think things like the Sphere in Las Vegas are probably the future - where it's so more epic than at home, you get epic visuals and epic sound, crowd energy. You have to beat my home theater. Give us something to come to that is bigger than what we have at home.

Hollywood needs to change and change fast before they are replaced for sure Tom Schaefer

I have also noticed another trend, ghost posting. Some guy posted a couple of weeks ago, asking questions, we start engaging and then he fucking disappears. Then in another thread - people start engaging but the responses ignore the new responses and then it fizzles. Might be a platform weakness. The way the threads are laid out. You can’t really tell the proper thread. Responses to some comments show up way down on the bottom instead of next to the person they were responding to. This modern forum programs don’t properly layout the threads.

Welcome, Braggsy.

Pitch deck is flashy (nice looking website-ish presentation!) but the story is unclear.

What’s the ticking clock? What is Jason trying to accomplish before time runs out? I don’t know what his job is and what job he wants. How does the ex help or hurt his chances with that goal? What’s the conflict?

That is where the other log lines and synopsis came from. Gamma.

I totally agree with you Tom Schaefer , but you better have a good lawyer in your team.

Willem, Of course! But now I can enter the entire conversation as a smart artist.

Going from "hey I got a killer idea" to "I have a killer idea AND the numbers to show how it could be successful".

You can sit down now. "Stfu Donny".

I don't have writer's block. But I do have writer's avoidance. To get through that, I make myself THINK about what comes next in the story or what A (not THE) next point in a nonfiction piece can be. If I can't start writing or write down notes, I'll dictate my ideas into an app on my iphone.

Chatgpt helps me...

I force myself to sit down and write every day so don't have block. Sometimes I do research. Others I choose to write a poem or a blog post or a letter to a friend. But if you keep that muscle working daily, those times will be less and less.