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I'm not really into sappy dreamer stories but I really feel that I should give a preface before we dive into this. So I am going to do this extremely quickly, one of my best friends and I decided in college that we were going to take over Hollywood. We would have conversations about it until three in the morning. He was always editing something and I was always writing something. Anyway, college ended, and I decided to go to law school to open a few doors because I wanted to produce.

He graduated a year after I did, and he went ahead and moved out to LA or Los Angeles as I like to call it. We made it our mission to write at least eight marketable screenplays before I graduated law school. We never got to eight, but we did sell two before I walked the line. Fair trade I guess. In negotiating, we had a bad ass agent (me) who negotiated a sick amount of back profits and got us on as executive producers. Our little 15 million dollar movie made 175 mil in the US and 325 worldwide. The next movie was written by me about one of my life experiences and he directed it. Add 25 to those previous numbers. If you want to see something cool, write a gut wrenching story based on things that only happened to you and watch millions around the world show their support by showing up to it. The best fucking therapy on earth. Friend and I took our money and pumped it into what we called a production company, which eventually became a studio. We are co-chairman and ceo's, and split everything equally. We have 32 employees now. How sick is that mom who told me to get a job at a big firm? Sorry.

Here we are today. Not every movie we've made has made its money back, but we've gotten close. For every three movies that make 200 mil you're allowed to make one bomb. By bomb, Hollywood means it made its money back but nothing more. Things have gotten very intense lately and Yoga, running, and aikido really aren't doing the trick anymore. My therapist told me that I should blog about my life and my problems because I trap everything inside and never express...you get the picture. So I talked to Friend, and he said his therapist told him the same thing. So we decided to do it together. This is probably not going to make any cohesive sense, and we've decided to just dive right in when something is on our minds. I hope that some of you out there can relate. I know that I have what some might call a dream life, but I'm telling you, we've all got our sets of problems. Please leave comments if you've been through the same thing or just want to drop in and say hi. We're really doing this for the benefit of us but would love to hear from some people out there. My best friend and I will name names when talking about Hollywood but we won't name each other's name...not to the general public anyway. We will refer to each other as Friend and the studio a Studio X. If you really need to know who we are, shoot us an email.

ld and aj