It means she signed a deal to do the film with the details to be worked out later. It’s pretty common with the expectation that you’ll sign the final agreement eventually. A lot of times productions start without a full budget or a firm distribution deal locked down. A participate might get $X if the film goes to…

Ok. Now explain how rehearsing with other people present instead would “grind production to a halt”.

I mean if her only condition was she didn’t want to do that alone, how hard would it be to get a PA to sit in with them or something. Or just film the scenes without the rehearsal if that is what was needed to close the production.

Not totally true. King’s endorsement made the Evil Dead franchise what it was. And his distaste for The Shining was entirely based on Kubrick choosing to remove the main character’s arc. I love the movie for its severe style and memorable scenes, but I can also totally understand why the author of the source material…

“We plan to demonstrate in court, undeniably and irrefutably, that bitches be whack.”

Actors get together without anyone else from production present to run lines all the time

Per her wiki:

I can’t understand why they would use it in the year 2023. Like 1960s, and 70s, and ok all the way up to this decade. Sure it was effective.

Yeah it’s very weird. When would they ever have to be alone together and why would making sure they were never alone together be costly?

That they used the term “hysterical” says so much, good lord.

Here’s how we know the producers are lying:

Batman (1989) made a shitload of money, but WB claimed that it never made a profit due to Hollywood bookkeeping. I guess that lack of profit is why they made three more movies in the series.

I could possibly have this wrong but from what I remember after they tried to pull the whole Forrest Gump lost money thing, when it came to the sequel, the author of the book (Winston Groom) said something like in all good conscience, he couldn’t do that to them and let them lose money again by selling them the rights.…

I remember reading an interview with PTA in which Warren Beatty took him to dinner, after the success of “Boogie Nights,” and as a partial apology for turning down the role of Jack Horner. The restaurant was in Beverly Hills, and was a “see and be seen” kind of place. One of their fellow diners was Francis Ford…

Inherent Vice is one of those movies that sets up an incredible world but the story itself is just there. The first 30-45 minutes may be my favorite of everything PTA’s done but then it kind of devolves into a boring slog.

Getting Tom Cruise to act as Tom Cruise is close to brilliant. It’s always funny when filmmakers get a famous personality to act in a role that is only a thinly disguised version of themselves. Gaga in A Star is Born is another one. She obviously isn’t aware that the movie is stating many times that she is nothing but …

I’m going to go with brilliant. There are scenes from this movie that pop into my head on a regular basis and just take my breath away. Philip Seymour Hoffman asking for help on the phone is up there with some of the best bits of craft I’ve ever seen committed to film. Also, Jason Robards’ death scene. It’s hard to do…

Given the combination of the following: Doakes already hating Dexter, working out he was a serial killer, being ex-military I believe, a decent distance between him and Dexter and having his gun already drawn and pointing at Dexter (and did I mention he already hated him), I refuse to believe he wouldn’t have shot…

Killing off Doakes was essentially what killed the show. With Doakes dead (not killed by Dexter himself) as well as pinning Dexter’s known murders on him removed all tension Dexter had working his day job. And sure, they tried to replace the Doakes role with that other guy but that barely lasted. And keeping Dexter…