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The director of over 30 feature films, he was born, or rather created, as a pseudonym in 1967 for the film death of a. Just before burn was released, hiller had his name removed from the credits, which resulted in the unintended irony of alan smithee. Jun 04, 2018 smithees more or less nonexistent reputation finally came crashing down with the 1997s an alan smithee film. A hollywood director steals his own film from the studio, and the race is on to get it back in. Burn, hollywood, burn 1997, an alleged comedy starring eric idle as a real filmmaker named alan smithee, who has a mental breakdown after he makes a terrible film and realizes that the only name he can affix to the credits is his own.
The film was critically panned, winning five awards including worst picture at the 1998 golden raspberry awards. Reportedly after screenwriter joe ezsterhas got to perform his own final cut on the film, the director, arthur hiller, asked for the name change after seeing the finished product. Its the wild story of a hollywood director, alan smithee eric idle monty python and the holy grail, who steals his own film from the studio. Director arthur hiller took his name off the picture and it really did become an alan smithee film. Avec ryan oneal, coolio, eric idle, jackie chan, sylvester stallone, whoopi goldberg. Soon everyone, including his powerhungry studio boss ryan oneal, is after him to get it back. Its plot, about a director attempting to disown a film, ironically described the films own production. An alan smithee podcast is an ongoing series of spirited and rambling discussions about movies held between two internet film critics, andrew wickliffe of. Vajna presentation, in association with joe eszterhas, of a cinergi production. Burn hollywood burn dvdrip hd 720p, an alan smithee film. When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name alan smithee realizes hes an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a bigbudget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal. Burn, hollywood, burn 1998, mighty ducks the movie.
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Coined in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the directors guild of america dga when a director, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that they had not been able to. Burn hollywood burn 1997 that it was no longer an effective alias. Alan smithee eric idle has just made the biggest hollywood picture ever starring jackie chan, whoopi goldberg, and sylvester stallone. Burn hollywood burn add to watchlist alan smithee is a director who is just making his way in hollywood, and he makes the frustrating discovery that. But burn hollywood burn is a self fulfilling prohecy. Burn hollywood burn 1997 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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