Rather than waste time arguing with a friend and trying to unify our points of view, we decided amicably to let another composer score the film,

For us to win would rank as one of the great FA Cup upsets of all time.

They are complicated and will demand all of my time, because the second has to be better than the first and the third has to be the best of all.

He's trying to increase his leverage on Time Warner, trying to force them to do something a little more drastic than they appear willing to do.

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.