How the classics actually got made — the broken sharks, unwanted sequels, and mid-shoot recastings that accidentally produced masterpieces.
A broken mechanical shark forced a 27-year-old Spielberg to invent modern suspense. The best film school lesson ever taught by a malfunction.
Norm settles it with four decades of evidence: the range, the robberies, the broken ankle, and the man who dragged the movie theater itself back from the dead.
Norm's August pick: a Tom Cruise drama that burned through four directors, survived a writers' strike, and won Best Picture — precisely because Spielberg walked away.
Matt demanded equal column space after Norm's Cruise manifesto. He was given it. He used it on this. Norm's annotations have been preserved for the record.
The only document in this site's history signed by Matt, Norm, AND Management. A hungover McClane, a furious Zeus, a city-sized riddle — and the rare threequel that outruns its own franchise.
For the first time in ledger history, this office is going on record BEFORE a film's release: Tom Cruise, unrecognizable, in an Iñárritu black comedy, opening October 2. Norm has already signed the paperwork. He would like the Academy to start engraving.