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This site is run by screenwriter John August. Mostly, he answers reader-submitted questions about the craft, but occasionally he goes on tangents that run far afield of writing and filmmaking. You'll also find info on past, present and future projects.
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January 6th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Nice! Spray paint the streets of Park City with “circle nine” to promote your screenings!
January 6th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Click it. Whole new thing.
January 7th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Are you sure it’s not an upside-down B, promoting the new Jerry Seinfeld animated film?
Nice new site, by the way.
January 7th, 2007 at 12:54 am
This has to be my favorite photo of the lot… though, I’m curious to know what you were actually discussing with her.
January 7th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Wait a minute. Is this a kind of “Drowning By Numbers” thing? Am I going to have to watch the movie twenty or thirty times to see all the numbers?
January 7th, 2007 at 11:22 am
There seems to be a small obsession with films & t.v shows about intertwining stories & the connections between strangers. I too have jumped on this bandwagon, so I look forward to this film. I noticed you have worked with Melissa McCarthy a lot in the past, any reason for this? She is always a great character in any films she does, no matter how small, like her role in GO, which I loved.
January 7th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Richard:
If I had my way, Melissa would be in everything I did. She’s a regular on Gilmore Girls now, so it’s hard to get her out of that to be in movies. We shot this on her summer hiatus.
January 7th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
okay. i’m hoping/praying/sacrificing that much more for The Nines to cross the pacific now.
January 7th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Not for nothing, but there’s a great pizza place in Ithaca, NY (in the college town section by Cornell) called The Nines. Best pizza in town. Think cross-promotion my friend…
January 7th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
By the way, is there a chance, that The Nines will be shown at the Berlinale Film Festival? If not in the official competition, then maybe in the European Film Market? That would make me a much more happier person than I already am!
January 8th, 2007 at 11:22 am
So should we expect it to come out May 4, 2007? That’s a Friday BTW.
Oh damn, this makes 10 replies. Sorry.
January 8th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Thanks, John — for the past few days on my daily walks, I’ve been looking for damn 9’s everywhere…
Is there a 9 on the lamp post? No. On the sidewalk? Nope…
On the neighbors cat?…
Sheeesh…