Not that i'm knocking it. I appreciate it - esp. now that i'm older and have a little more experience with relationships... but I was watching a bit of it on cable today and just trying to picture the pitch session. I don't see how anyone could convince the "money guys" or the "studio guys" that this was gonna make them any $$$$$.

I mean this can be said for a lot of films, but i'm just asking...

if it's on TV that means it probably made them at least a little money.

yeah, i'm sure it has made money by now. But, just thinking of the premise, as a pitch, before it got made.... it sounds so dry and tedious on paper....? how does someone buy into it, initially?

Were not the actors in it "hot" at the time?

A lot of these type movies are just vehicles to sell the actors with. They are just banking on: So many people will see ___insert title___ movie just because ___insert name___ is in it.

Actually, though the execution is quite dissapointing this was a neat idea for a quirky movie based on a Vanity Fair article. Wish it had turned out watchable.

simple really. some producer options the vanity fair article. maybe he has a deal at a studio, maybe not. he hires glen and les charles to write it (maybe they have a feature negotiated into a tv deal). mike newall is looking for a project and it works with his schedule. billy bob, angelina and john cusack are attached at some point. cate blanchette signs on, probably attracted by mike newall + billy bob. she's one year removed from being nominated for an oscar that she should have won. that's a green light right there.

they probably don't make their money back on domestic box office, but they have some great faces to throw on a dvd box, which is lucky for them given that they don't realize that protection is there in 1999. international, cable, and video probably break them even. add dvd sales and i'm sure they turned it around for a modest gain.

the first scene of them getting blown off the runway by the jet's engines made sitting thru the rest of the film worthwhile

I liked this movie. Saw it once with no strong desire to see it again, but I enjoyed it.

Funny, but it turned me off to the whole enterprise, when I had some hope for this thing. I do like it when they try to fuck with each other Billy Bob doesn't look at the road while driving.

NICE AVATAR BTW, TIMMY.

"Ethel, take yr. teeth out!"

i thought this was shelved for a bit?

KPH

i think if they could release angelina jolie rippin dorito farts on her couch in sweatpants right now watching "It's a Living", they'd do it.