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Ever thought of shooting a film in Chicago?
People talk about doing it all the time. It's still cheaper to film there than it is in New York.
Fucking Canada, dude. With the unions and the taxes and everything, you’re either gonna go to Canada or stay home. It’s tough to put a film together there unless you're John Hughes or something. Are they shooting any films there right now?
We just did a story on "The Company", which was shot here. "Proof", with Gweneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gylenhall has been shooting at the U of C this year and Nicolas Cage is going to be shooting "The Weatherman"...
"The Weatherman", huh? I loved that script. I went after that one, but the guy who made the movie that made $300 million (Gore Verbinski on "Pirates of the Caribbean") got the picture, which is the way Hollywood works. The script is really up my alley. It's realistic but funny – it's inspired writing.
It's all about this weatherman who is famous and has recently split up with his wife. He has a lot of the good parts of fame but nobody really takes him seriously. People throw Frosties at this head and shit.
He can still get laid by beautiful women because he's famous and everything, but there's just no substance to his career.
What's neat about it is that it's Nicolas Cage – a guy who has gone through failed marriages and fame and he knows what it's all about. It's not like playing someone who got captured by the Viet Cong or something. It's gonna be a great movie.
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Dinner for Five is getting ready for a new season. What's it like working on a project like that as opposed to some of the larger budget work you've done?
The show is not necessarily something that will forward my career or make me a mint, but working with a small network like IFC, I get a lot of freedom creatively.
You don’t have a big audience and you're not dealing with sponsors or a big network payday, but it does give me the opportunity to do some small, more experimental stuff.
We're midway through the filming of the second season and we're releasing the entire first season on DVD through Netflix, which is nice because not everybody has the network. This is a pretty cheap way for the kind of people that would wanna watch the show to see it, which is great.
It's really a nice balance, I guess, a way for me to stay well-rounded and kind of keep it real. It's fun to do and it has a small, strong following.
I'm proud of Dinner for Five. It's a show that I would like to look at, that I would like to watch and they're very accommodating to my primary career, which is making movies.
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Written by Richard Sharp
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