Project Greenlight (Complete Series Plus Film Stolen Summer)
starring: Brian Dennehy, Kent Kubena, Steve Dontanville, Brendan Murphy (IV), Marie Frick
directed by: Pete Jones
directed by: Pete Jones
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936198942
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 453 minutes
Sales Rank: 19385
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 02, 2001
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Miramax Home Entertainment's Project Greenlight is a 4-Disc collector's series that includes the 12-part HBO hit documentary series, the unveiling of the movie Stolen Summer and more than 6-hours of bonus materials. Project Greenlight began as an Internet competition (staged by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Moore) held to find a script to produce. Out of more than 10,000 entries, former insurance salesman Pete Jones was selected. Jones not only got to direct the film, but was also given a $1 million budget from Miramax Films and a guaranteed theatrical release. The series chronicled how Jones, a first-time director, had to manage the difficulties involved in making his movie.
Amazon.com:
For all of its controversial manipulations of reality, Project Greenlight offers a revealing, pragmatic look at the pressure cooker of film production. Originally broadcast during the HBO 2001 to 2002 season, this 12- part series chronicles the premiere contest--conceived by coproducers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Chris Moore--that resulted in 30-year-old Pete Jones being plucked from obscurity, out of 10,000 contestants, to direct his winning screenplay, Stolen Summer, as a professionally crewed feature film distributed by Miramax Films (included in this set; see separate review). The series gained notoriety for emphasizing the negative (backstabbing, budgetary battles, onset crises, etc.), but it's also a definitive nuts-and-bolts exposé of the filmmaking process--stripped of glamour, emotionally intense, and daunting to anyone without a steel-plated constitution.
Key personnel emerge as admirably tenacious in their given roles, from the commanding presence of Chris Moore; the frictional yet ultimately cooperative dynamic between executive producer Pat Peach and coproducer Jeff Balis; the rally-the-troops efficiency of 1st Assistant Director Bruce Terris; and many other crucial crew members. Through it all, Jones shows his inexperience but rises to the occasion, earning the respect of those who could easily have dismissed him as a lucky amateur. The series' editorial weaknesses are readily apparent, and the postproduction process (especially the creation of a musical score) is woefully underrepresented, but Project Greenlight is a riveting and altogether encouraging primer for anyone who shares Pete Jones's dream. --Jeff Shannon
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- Great for Movie Business Enthusiasts/Aspiring DirectorsThis is a worthy series for aspiring movie directors/screenwriters, it shows the in and outs of the ... Read More
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- Project Greenlight 1I saw season two before I saw this one.The movie "Stolen Summer" is actually a superior film to that ... Read More
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