tagged w/ Karyn Kusama
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Here's the way it used to be. You made an edgy, well-received independent film, one that showed your facility to tell a story and work with actors, and the smart Hollywood scripts — quality writing that required the touch of someone outside the system — would arrive in those expensively-printed agency binders. And that's the way it seemed to be playing out for Karyn Kusama, who made an excellent debut with her gritty, low-budget Girlfight, a female boxing movie that launched the movie career of Michelle Rodriguez. But then a couple of things happened. First, her follow-up, Aeon Flux, was an appropriately youth-centric picture produced by MTV Films... that morphed into a would-be studio tentpole movie. And then, Hollywood stopped making those smart Hollywood scripts that required an indie filmmaker's touch.
For the rest of the story: http://bit.ly/HbV8mHere's the way it used to be. You made an edgy, well-received independent film,... more
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