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Screenwriter-producer-director | Sumbadhat Productions 9 feature films, 3 shorts | SAG projects in the works

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Joined May 2010
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The “I Play Rocky” trailer made me cry. Again. #writeyourspec
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One important note fell through the cracks: Cut the scene where the authorities inexplicably allow Ashley Judd to signal to Val Kilmer. It’s too unrealistic—even for a movie.
Michael Mann's notes to his editors after a screening of HEAT, just 3 months before the December 15, 1995 release. A peek into the process ⬇️
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Ryan’s Throng
Virginia Basketball. A different kind of beauty.
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Now De Ridder has 2 🤦🏻‍♂️
He also kicked his feet out on the 3. Could have 2 fouls, has 0.
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He also kicked his feet out on the 3. Could have 2 fouls, has 0.
Officials decide UVA is unsuccessful in their challenge for a flagrant foul. Miikka Muurinen looked to have a pretty clear hold of Johann Grünloh's ankle causing him to trip.
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Now listening to: “Vasoline” by Stone Temple Pilots. Still slaps.
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*should have run
That CBS number is incredible — and by incredible and I mean spectacularly and catastrophically awful. They should have ran a replay of Chiefs-Broncos.
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Butch Maier retweeted
I just attached to direct a really solid horror script. Hyper contained (3 actors, 1 location), tight script, very scary. Swings big at the end. My team probably won’t take it out till the top of the year but if any producers (ideally with financing) who follow me want a sneak, DM me.
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Don’t get overwhelmed by the enormity of whatever it is you want to do. Do the next thing. You will be one step closer to your dream. Then do the next thing. And the next.
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I don’t understand how he puts “The Master” ahead of “There Will Be Blood”
폴 토머스 앤더슨 감독이 사랑하는 영화들. 심지어 본인 영화도 있음. 1. 헤이트풀 8(2015)-쿠엔틴 타란티노 2. 블루 벨벳(1986)-데이비드 린치 3. 콜 미 바이 유어 네임(2017)-루카 구아다니노 4. 도그빌(2003)-라스 폰 트리에 5. 덩케르크(2017)-크리스토퍼 놀란 6. 겟 아웃(2017)-조던 필 7. 죠스(1975)-스티븐 스필버그 8. 재키 브라운(1997)-쿠엔틴 타란티노 9. 레이디 버드(2017)-그레타 거윅 10. 마스터(2012)-폴 토머스 앤더슨 11. 문라이트(2016)-배리 젠킨스 12. 더 포스트(2017)-스티븐 스필버그 13. 콰이어트 플레이스(2018)-존 크래신스키 14. 레인 맨(1988)-배리 레빈슨 15. 이창(1954)-앨프리드 히치콕 16. 셰이프 오브 워터(2017)-기예르모 델 토로 17. 양들의 침묵(1991)-조너선 드미 18. 길버트 그레이프(1993)-라세 할스트룀
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And with this, I will work on finishing my musical this week.
Lin-Manuel Miranda: “You have to live with the notion of, ‘If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.’” gointothestory.blcklst.com/o… #writing #screenwriting
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With my iPhone
I made a feature for $950 and sold it for $12,000.
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I made a feature for $950 and sold it for $12,000.
I find it entertaining an “emerging” writer-filmmaker claim they can’t make a feature for 25k or a short for 2.5k…….all they do is talk. Yet I did an animated short for under 1k and now a sketch comedy video under $500 both in a year time frame from each other. Be gone hack.
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You can give one athlete a completely injury-free career. Every injury they ever suffered is erased. You get to see how great they could’ve been. Who are you choosing?
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She's in TOMMY for a split second... the lives she's lead !!!!!!!
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THE AVERAGE AMERICAN HAS ONLY BEEN TO 4 OF THESE CITIES 1. Orlando 2. New York City 3. Las Vegas 4. San Francisco 5. Boston 6. Miami 7. Chicago 8. Washington D.C. 9. Los Angeles 10. New Orleans 11. San Diego 12. Denver 13. Seattle 14. Philadelphia 15. Phoenix 16. Dallas 17. Houston 18. Nashville 19. San Antonio 20. Honolulu
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Wasted half a mill. You can’t copyright a title.
Here’s a story for you. We started filming without owning the title and had to do alternates. Taft Broadcasting owned the title Ghostbusters as part of their half-hour sitcom starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker (F-Troop) and a gorilla chasing ghosts. I had never heard of it. They didn’t have proton packs or Bill Murray. Columbia paid $500,000 to buy the name, but they really should have paid Dean Martin, from whom I first heard the term. In the film Scared Stiff (1953), he and Jerry Lewis (check out his acrobatic stair descent) are in an old haunted castle, and Lizabeth Scott asks Dean: “Who are you guys?” And Dean answers: “You’ve heard of Trustbusters and Gangbusters, we’re Ghostbusters!” For my research writing the first movie, I watched every single ‘ghost’ comedy ever made. Bowery Boys, Hope and Crosby, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis all did such films. Happy Halloween 2026.
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A movie budget
What’s an expensive ($1K - $10k) luxury item that changed your life for the better?
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Sentences begin with a capital letter. Please, people, this was not an issue six years ago.
it’s “cast,” not “casted.” it’s “cost,” not “costed.” they are irregular verbs. please, people, this was not an issue six years ago. i am begging you to realize that you are being systematically dumbed down.
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