Flackery Humiliates 'Buried' Screenwriter By Helping Him With Oscar Rule-Breaking

And here I thought only Los Angeles flackery mPRm's name was moronic. Turns out�this fish stinks at the head because�its co-founder and president Mark Pogachefsky�is now�blaming his own client for an Oscar rule-breaking situation that the PR firm should have prevented instead of aided and abetted. After a lot of Sundance hype because of its claustrophobic nightmare premise and star Ryan Reynolds, this�movie came and went�at the box office in record time after making only $1 million domestic. And not even distributor Lionsgate is campaigning�Buried for an Academy Award or anything else. So Buried has zero chance of any golden statuettes this season without its studio support. And yet�mPRm while repping�Buried let its screenwriter Chris Sparling�commit an Oscar�taboo even though he didn't know the rules, as Pogachefsky is admitting.�("Weirdly, I would not be surprised if this was not a setup just to get attention,"�Deadline's awards columnist Pete Hammond comments to me. "How else would he get any notice?")�Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger scoops that�Sparling�sent a personal�missive to members of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' writers branch�gushing about his screenplay -- "no film this year ? or ever ? has done so much with so little" -- and respectfully asking them to�read it in hopes that it would land on their ballot�for Best Original Screenplay.�Well, the return address belongs to mPRm. Still, this is hardly a repeat of last year's Nicolas Chartier�scandal because The ... Read More »

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/flackery-humiliates-buried-screenwriter-by-involving-him-in-oscar-rule-breaking-incident/

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