Jon Gutierrez wrote this one, I directed it, Nathan Russell shot and edited it, and Mike Costabile and I did the animation. But the real hero on this shoot was our producer Mackenzie Condon who called every theater in New York City to find us place to shoot after our first theater didn’t work out, and organized getting 16 extras for a 1 second joke at the end.
I wrote it, Matt Mayer directed it and Nathan Russell shot and edited it.
This was an easy concept to pitch but a really difficult one to write (It’s hard to find facts you can state in a single sentence that are depressing, but in context make the commercial’s point of view funny and not just depressing). I did a first draft that was all over the place in terms of tone and approach, and the rest of the team really helped me refine and organize the idea. Also, my favorite line (about marriage) comes courtesy of Crystal Delahanty.
Zack Phillips e-mailed us this idea fully formed and then within about 2 hours Nathan Russell (director) and Matt Mayer (editor) made it. I think it came out fantastic.
I wrote, directed and animated it. Matt Mayer did narration. Zack Phillips was also really helpful during the rewriting process, batting around ideas and forcing me to really figure out what I was going for. Hurray teamwork!
For movies, January and February are usually a boring time when the Hollywood studios, after blowing all their cash promoting year end oscar-baiting films, release sub-par movies no one cares about. But not this year! In the coming weeks, a battle of epic proportions will be waged in theaters across the country by Hollywood’s A-list talent. I’m speaking of course, about the Hollywood Walk-Off.
The battle begins January 22nd with the release of Extraordinary Measures.
Which tells the stirring story of Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, reprising their roles from Indiana Jones and The Mummy, as they walk through a hallway paved in brick, or some sort of indoor horse stable. Advanced buzz says Brendan Fraser’s performance is so good Harrison Ford generously gave him top billing.
The next week, Mel Gibson walks out from the Edge of Darkness.
Mel Gibson plays a married cop angrily walking around, looking for his gun holster. Word on the street is Mel intentionally starred in a bad studio film to prove the Jews in Hollywood are ruining America.
Soon after, John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers join the fray in From Paris With Love
Travolta plays a chemo patient who decides traditional treatment isn’t working and decides to walk to cancer’s front door and kill it once and for all. Rhys Meyers plays a straight laced cancer specialist who initially tries to stop Travolta, but then realizes gun battles are the only way to defeat such a terrible disease. Since this is based on a story by Luc Besson, the movie probably thinks it’s a lot better than it actually is.
And for those concerned this Walk-Off is a total sausage fest, comes Girl on the Train.
About a girl cursed to walk the earth surrounded by a radial blur that obliterates any person who tries to get physically or emotionally close to her.
I’m excited. I don’t think we’ve seen walking of this caliber since 1992’s Reservoir Dogs.
How exciting does Jackie Chan’s The Spy Next Door look?
This has the potential to make Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Kindergarten Cop look like Vin Diesel’s The Pacifier.
But The Spy Next Door won’t just revolutionize the “action star babysitting” genre. Look at what Jackie Chan’s neck can do.
That’s not Photoshop. Jackie Chan does all his own stunts, which means his neck is made of rubber.
For a spy movie, this changes EVERYTHING. If a villain tied James Bond to a chair, but left a knife dangling directly behind his head, Bond would be powerless to get the knife and cut himself free before the excruciatingly slow moving laser cut him in half. But with Jackie Chan, there is literally no trap he can’t get out of, provided the key to his escape is within his 360 degree biting radius.
Sorry super villians, your plans for world domination are no match against Jackie Chan’s Exorcist neck.
And if you’re still not excited about The Spy Next Door, check this out.
That’s right, it also features the creators of Miley Cyrus and Lopez Tonight. How they got the man responsible for some of most stupefyingly childish television of all time and Billy Ray Cyrus together, I’ll never know.
As you should remember, two weeks ago I took up Mike Ciaccio, master web marketer, on his offer of a reciprocal link exchange with a website that sells beer pong tables.
I was pretty disheartened when I didn’t get linked back immediately, so I began sending Mike a bunch of e-mails. Here’s one example.
From: Adam Sacks <adam.sacks@gmail.com>
To: Mike Ciaccio, master web marketer <linkmanager@mikeciaccio.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Hi Mike,
How was your Thanksgiving? Good, I hope. I’m e-mailing you because you still haven’t put my link on the EZ Beer Pong table, even after I’ve informed you multiple times of my link here http://adamthinks.com/beer-pong/
Is everything okay? I’m really looking forward to this link exchange. Please let me know as soon as the link is up.
Sincerely,
Adam
And what’s worse, Mike Ciaccio, master web marketer, never responded to me. I couldn’t help but wonder if I had been used. Can you not trust a man who gets paid 400 dollars a month to set up link exchanges with other websites? Are people inherently evil? Was the social contract written on a sheet of lies? When it thunders, is that not God bowling?
But Mike Ciaccio, master web marketer, works in mysterious ways. Just when I had lost all hope, I received the following:
From: Mike Ciaccio, master web marketer <linkmanager@mikeciaccio.com>
To: Adam Sacks <adam.sacks@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Advertising, The Brig, Video | Adam | 
February 24, 2010 11:44 am | 
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