Shia LaBeouf, the actor who came to fame on Project Greenlight‘s second season, is in an elevator at Oxford for the next 24 hours, live streaming his conversations with two other performance artists and strangers. It’s a live feed that rivals Big Brother‘s, taking place in an enclosed space with not much going on—though the conversations I’ve heard so far …
Chris Moore: it’s “a total lie” that the series is just about controversy. Project Greenlight 2 and The Battle of Shaker Heights producer Chris Moore says the suggestion that the series is all about controversy is “a total lie,” and says the suggestion that the directors were chosen just to make a good TV show …
Battle of Shaker Heights averages $10.4K on each of five screens. The Battle of Shaker Heights earned an estimated $52,000 on a total of five screens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, averaging $10,400 per screen. By comparison, Freddy vs. Jason, the week’s number one movie, averaged $4,462 on each of its 3,014 …
Battle of Shaker Heights opens in NY, LA; Project Greenlight 2 finale Sunday. The Battle of Shaker Heights opens today in New York and Los Angeles, after having its production chronicled on Project Greenlight 2, which concludes Sunday evening. As the film’s trailer shows, the final edit definitely apparently centers on the more comedic material, …
critic: Greenlight “devalues filmmaking.” Project Greenlight 2 “devalues filmmaking itself, treating it, in a roundabout, subtle way, as an afterthought to hype–as the end product of what amounts to a multiweek infomercial,” New York Press film critic Matt Zoller Seitz argues. He says the “the system is rigged against these filmmakers” but says the show …
Erica Beeney says HBO cameras “did compromise some of my reactions.” Erica Beeney, the writer of “The Battle of Shaker Heights” and one of the stars of Project Greenlight 2, says “the series is a ‘fair but exaggerated depiction’” of the production process. “All of the events that you see did occur, and certainly we …
Project Greenlight 2 debuts tonight. Project Greenlight 2 debuts tonight at 10:30 p.m. on HBO, following the sixth season premiere of Sex and the City and an episode of The Wire. The one-hour premiere follows the narrowing of scripts and directors down to the final two winners. This weekend and next, two back-to-back half-hour episodes …