An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (An Alan Smithee Film) (1997)

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" When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal. Critics didn’t think it was anything really great, and so did audiences. “A film about Alan Smithee directing a movie about Alan Smithee, directed by Alan Smithee. How advant garde.” Not even cameos by Bruce Willis, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chuck D could save the fi"

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 90’s (1884 movies items)

" When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal. Critics didn’t think it was anything really great, and so did audiences. “A film about Alan Smithee directing a movie about Alan Smithee, directed by Alan Smithee. How advant garde.” Not even cameos by Bruce Willis, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chuck D could save the fi"

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“Satires about the movie industry have existed since the Golden Age, with classics such as Blake Edwards’s S.O.B. to Robert Altman’s The Player. Unfortunately, one of the blackest sheeps of Hollywood parody is the mockumentary film Burn Hollywood Burn, one that attempts to realize Alan Smithee, a pseudonym for film directors who claim disownment of their projects. Here, Smithee (Eric Idle) is an English filmmaker who, tired of being the studio punchline, steals the reels for his $200 million motion picture “Trio” and threatens to burn them unless Hollywood agrees to release his original version. “Trio” is an action movie-within-a-movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Chan as three gun-wielding detectives. Various studio heads get interviewed from James E” read more

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