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EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: YOUR MONEY FOR NOTHING AND YOUR FILM FOR FREE

By | September 2004

I imagine that there are countless numbers of people out there who want to put together a movie, but just don’t know how to make everything fall into place. They see something like “White Chicks” and say, “I can do something better than that bullshit.” Then they realize their biggest obstacle: How?

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