Project Greenlight 2 (The Complete Second Series Plus Film The Battle of Shaker Heights)
starring: Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart, Billy Kay (II), Kathleen Quinlan
directed by: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin, Sam Bozzo
directed by: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin, Sam Bozzo
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936238471
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Running Time: 454 minutes
Sales Rank: 33131
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Miramax Home Entertainment along with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Moore present PROJECT GREENLIGHT ... a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood filmmaking process that documents all the hurdles and pitfalls encountered by first-time filmmakers as they bring their labor of love to the big screen! This special three-disc collection includes the complete second season of the acclaimed HBO series, extensive bonus material, and the finished theatrically released project THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS -- starring Shia LaBeouf and Amy Smart.
Amazon.com:
Anyone contemplating a career as a screenwriter or film director--or anyone who simply wonders how movies get made--would do well to watch Project Greenlight 2 from beginning to end. The second season of the HBO reality series, co-created by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and producer Alex Keledjian, follows the creation of Miramax feature The Battle of Shaker Heights from unknown screenplay through various levels of Greenlight competition to first-run theatrical feature with a big, Hollywood premiere. The road to completion, however, runs through hell many times over. Shaker Heights writer Erica Beeney, having survived Greenlight's script contest and intimidating meetings with Affleck, Damon, and various producers and executives from Miramax and elsewhere, is matched with the directing team of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin, who have undergone similar trials. With little time to celebrate, the winners moves into production offices in Los Angeles and confront a stark reality: A lot of people are involved in getting a movie made, and very often a writer or director is just one voice among many.
The most interesting backstage dramas in the series take place during pre-production for Shaker Heights, when casting proves to be a nightmare, time runs short, and Miramax starts insisting that Potelle and Rankin take the actors they're told to take. Part of the problem is that the team, new to the big leagues, often look like startled deer. They don't know how to talk to stars or make decisions quickly, they question the need for vital crew members, and they don't understand that in the absence of leadership a panicked studio will take over. Still, everyone gets through intact, and after a couple of episodes detailing Shaker Heights' actual shoot (with stars Shia LaBeouf, Kathleen Quinlan, William Sadler, and Amy Smart), the editing and marketing processes become a new kind of misery, threatening to destroy the film and end careers. It's all very engrossing, and its good to have a DVD of the highly enjoyable The Battle of Shaker Heights (which comes with this set and offers a 'jump-to' feature linking select scenes to Project Greenlight background info) to prove, in the end, that all that matters are results. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
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- Green Light gives new insight into Hollywood makes movies, the movie? well....First let me say I was disappointed in the show which was project Greenlight 1, but liked the movie ... Read More
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- NICE SERIES FOR A [...] MOVIE. As with the first PROJECT GREENLIGHT the series is great but the movie produced by the series is ... Read More
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- Project Greenlight 2I must say that the second season of Project Greenlight was some of the most engrossing viewing I've enjoyed ... Read More
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- I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!Here's why:
1)From the beginning, they set up the filmmakers to fail by allotting a comparitively ... Read More
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- Better than the series but not true to the winnersThe time and budgets are shortened and the stress levels are high on all of the winners of the PGL contest. But ... Read More
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