hello weekend

so i made it through the first week, which happened to only be thursday and friday. on thursday, i did some intern stuff like inputting titles, release dates, and street dates for upcoming film projects in an excel document. then i got to know the shredder for about two hours, destroying old paperwork and that kind of thing. then i watched a movie. that's right. i watched a movie. my boss was like, "ok, now, we need to get you something to watch." so i sat at his desk and watched an early cut of a film they bought called "DOA." it's based on a videogame or something. probably the most ridiculous movie i've ever seen. i can't remember what i did after that, but friday was a lot more fun.

i was assigned to this guy named Dave's office. and when i say office, i mean closet-like tape and dub room. this is the guy who everyone comes to for copies and titles of new trailers, tv spots, and rough cuts of new films. for the first part of the day, i did his grunt work, making copies of various dvds for people who requested them throughout the office. apparently, Dimension Films, a daughter company of Weinstein, is producing a remake of Porky's, and they needed about fifteen copies of the original. Dimension is the one responsible for most of the Scary Movie franchise and some of the new cheesy horror films. they're a genre studio, almost exclusively specializing in horror and gross comedy. what a blessing.

one of the scripts i read earlier in the week, the one without a title, is called Quebec. it's in the early stages of pre-production and the big man harvey weinstein wanted a taped read through of the script because he was concerned about the flow. enter dave, isaac the dvd extras main producer at weinstein, and ethan the lowly intern. none of the actors who were actually cast were able to make it for the read through, so they got subs to fill in and read through it. all of this was just so the big man harvey could hear how it flowed, so it didn't matter that they weren't cast.

so we set up a camera and boom mikes in one of the nice conference rooms and some of the actors started to show. most of them i swear i recognized but had no idea who they were. one of them was in super troopers. i realized it several minutes into the reading. he was one of the "bad cops" who has this hilarious scene where he taunts the girl at the desk, and she makes fun of him because he has toilet paper stuck to his shoe. it doesn't sound funny, but it was in the movie. i actually had to keep myself from laughing during the screening, 'cause i kept remembering that scene. the only one who i recognized AND knew their name was ginnifer goodwin. she was absolutely gorgeous. when she came into the room and introduced herself to everyone, i'm sure i looked like a stupid star-struck intern, which i was. for those who don't know her, she played johnny cash's first wife in Walk the Line, and she also plays bill paxton's youngest wife in the HBO show Big Love. she's really talented, not to mention amazingly beautiful. it was a fun hour and a half, watching the read through. i got off at 5 and Ben(my cousin) and I drove down to Santa Monica and had a burger and caught a late showing of The Davinci Code. I haven't read the book, and never really had much interest, but I thought I should atleast see the movie, so I can be more knowledgeable-it's so controversial and all. It was fine. It didn't hold my attention well enough to be three hours, though. Maybe if I'd read the book.

I also bought a complete collection of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, translated from Danish into English by a contemporary and friend of his. I needed some good reading, and couldn't find a cheap enough copy of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Maybe I'll get a library card or something.