Word to the wise: Guys, don't take "gross points" in the movie. Net points, net points, net points.

Uh, isn't it the other way around?

I think you've got it backwards -- gross points might mean something; net points are equivalent to bupkis.

uhhhh... yeah. My bad.

Did anybody ever see a story on The Truman Show?

A New York Public Library worker had written and produced a few off-off-off Broadway plays, and even invited some Hollywood producer to come see one (he was a friend of a friend, or somethig like that). He never knew if the Hollywood guy actually showed up or not.

Anyway, the gist of the zero-budget play was that a man had been adopted at birth for the purpose of being put on a TV show, but -- get this -- the guy didn't know he was on TV! His whole life was a TV show, and he didn't even know it!

The only original part of the Truman Show, apparently, was that in the play, the TV show was a loser, on the verge of being cancelled, but in the movie, it was the biggest hit.

If the writer of that play can't win an infringement suit, then the Clonus guy doesn't stand a chance.

There was even a ripoff of that movie..Ed TV or something like that

Man, I'm going to have to beak out my copy of the MST3K episode where they did "Parts: The Clonus Horror"!

Yes! Th MST3K of PArts: The Clonus Horror is one of their finer ones. "I am confused!"

Shouldn't the fact that a movie made it onto MST3K be a pretty good red flag against ripping it off? No wonder hollywood is in a slump - they keep crapping out material like this, loathe though I am to come down too hard on any movie with the lovely Ms. Johansson in it.

Ace.... you've got to stop working on ORIGINAL screenplays and start devoting some serious time to plagiarising work already done!

I've been trying to tell people this for weeks but so few of my acquaintances are appreciators of MST3K. If 'Parts: The Clonus Horror' were made with 10x the budget and some major sexy stars, there would have been no way to make 'The Island' without securing the rights to a semi-remake in advance.

So when do we see the big budget copy of 'Catalina Caper?'

The 'Logan's Run' similarity is extremely strained. The only aspect is that the people in both stories are misled to believe in a false hope of a future beyond this current lives. Both can be considered variants of Eloi & Morlocks relationship, so neither can really call dibs.

I'm just waiting for a remake of "Manos: The Hands of Fate."

Worst.