Room

2023 - 3 - 29

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One of the Writers Guild's Biggest Contract Negotiation Issues Is the ... (Variety)

What is a mini room, anyway? The Writers Guild contract negotiations are focusing on them, but there are many different kinds. Here's a primer.

“Maybe the mid-level writer who’s doing the mini room is doing it to get the work,” an exec says. “And to think that those are the weeks we get paid minimum, and maybe we don’t even get to go on with the show. In addition, writers will struggle to advance to showrunner if they don’t get the chance to be involved in the production and post-production process. That show is envisioned as a high fantasy/epic romance and would be a significant financial commitment — which means a pilot would be tough to amortize if the show didn’t go to series. While traditional writers’ rooms consist of seven or eight writers (or more, depending on the show, its budget and the level of experience on staff), a mini room is often “a miniaturized writers’ room,” one TV exec says. The model has been used for the development of such AMC series as “Mayfair Witches” and “Kevin Can F**k Himself.” A more recent example would be Hulu’s adaptation of the series “A Court of Thorns and Roses” from writers Ronald D.

Terrigal surf lifesaving club members shocked over 'no nudity' policy ... (ABC News)

The Terrigal surf lifesaving club asks members to shower in their "cossies" and get changed in a toilet cubicle when children are present, but some members ...

That's why we have change rooms." termination of your membership." "We're just asking our swimmers to have a shower in their cossies and then get changed with a towel around them or in the toilet cubicle," she said. The Surf Lifesaving Australia Policy on change rooms states members should "not shower or change at the same time as supervising groups of children." Nada Pantle regularly uses the change rooms at the Terrigal Surf Lifesaving Club to shower after an early morning ocean swim and before she goes to work. A row has erupted at a surf lifesaving club on the New South Wales Central Coast over its policy regarding nudity in its showers and change rooms.

The Room: Why Now Is the Time for a Prestige Remake (MovieWeb)

The Room has been heralded as the best worst film of all time, but that doesn't mean a genuinely good movie can't be made from it.

They would have the technology to make it as grounded or surreal as they wanted with a built-in audience. That could never happen with The Room because it is such a singular work of art. Just imagine sitting in a theater, or at home, and watching a well-crafted film based on one of the There is a good movie here, it just needs a team of masters to bring it out. Technology has made it easier for filmmakers to try new, innovative visuals, and the advent of streaming means more kinds of movies can be released and be seen by more people. It makes sense to mount new productions of well-known plays because the theater is a living artistic experience. While he says he gave it his all and “had a blast,” it was shot in front of a green screen, and one can’t help but wonder what would happen if a studio were to make a big-budget, prestige remake of The Room with an A-List cast, distinguished screenwriter, and a director both audiences and critics love? In 2023, it was announced that Bob Odenkirk would star in a remake of The Room for charity (via In order for something to be so bad that you are genuinely entertained by it, there needs to be evidence that the filmmakers were attempting to make a legitimate piece of art and were cursed with bad decisions. The kind of movie they’re trying to make is staring us right in the face, but Wood and crew simply didn’t have the skill or resources to accomplish the task. That reaction on a massive scale is what motivated so many fans of the cinematic debacle to refer to it as “The Best Bad Movie Ever Made.” The Room proves that he had the ambition, and he even had the resources, it’s just that he failed to comprehend what makes a film emotional, engaging, and cohesive.

Sydney man jailed for 34 years for murdering teen girl in hotel room (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Kristian Kovaleff bought a hand saw and large bag before the frenzied killing of a 17-year-old girl and the stabbing of her best friend in Parramatta in ...

The judge said Kovaleff had appeared upset after he stabbed the wounded victim, and told her he was “sick in the head”. “She didn’t make it out of that hotel.” that the offender does not suffer any psychosis.” Kovaleff, who had lived in Guildford at the time, left the hotel and called his father. When the deceased was alone, Kovaleff began stabbing her. Kovaleff knew both of the teenagers, but had only met the deceased once before.

Man who stabbed two teenage girls, killing one, in Sydney hotel ... (The Guardian)

Kristian Kovaleff feigned mental illness until realising he could not fool forensic psychologists, judge says.

The murdered girl’s sisters told the court in February of the impact the “heartless” murder has had on their family. Kovaleff eventually called for an ambulance, but hung up. He conceded his desire to have sex with the wounded girl and then kill her were “maybe not” unrelated urges in February. “The offender clarified he had wrapped the wounding victim with clothing and duct tape to keep her alive so as to have sex with her,” Rothman said on Thursday. Kovaleff’s public defender, Tony Evers, said the duct tape was brought “in part to silence any screams”, but the bandaging showed he was remorseful after stabbing the two girls. Kovaleff planned to kill one of the girls in a Campbelltown motel the week before but told the court he did not have the “guts” and knew he could “psych [himself] up by watching Ted Bundy”.

Sydney man with kill fantasies and fascination with Ted Bundy ... (7NEWS.com.au)

Kristian Kovaleff stabbed two teenage girls in a hotel room in a plan to kill them both.

After checking in, he hid a knife under the couch and had rope and duct tape with him in a bag. He told the court earlier: “I tried to distract myself and calm myself down”. One of the victim’s sisters added: “(Her) heartless murder will burn in our minds and soul for the rest of our lives,” she said. “How can we continue to live,” the victim’s parents said in a statement read to court. A suitcase and a handsaw were in the boot of his car at the time, the court heard. He then stabbed the second girl in the stomach, as she stood in a doorway. He went to check on the first victim and said she was “stone-cold dead”. After the attack, Kovaleff turned on a TV and played jazz music. On the day of the attack, Kovaleff picked the girls up after a school barbecue and drove them to the hotel room. Following the attack, Kovaleff feigned psychiatric illness in an attempt to secure a mental health defence, telling psychologists he was delusional and was hearing voices. In 2021, he said he thought he had an antenna in his head and said aliens were directing him to kill. “It gave me more time to really get the guts to do murder,” Kovaleff told the court during a sentencing hearing in February.