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Nearly eight years after it called wrap, “Project Greenlight” is back! Newly named “Project Greenlight: New Generation,” the documentary series will premiere on Max this Thursday, July 13, 2023. Now under the producing power and tutelage of multihyphenate Issa Rae (“Insecure”), audiences will get a look at the filmmaking process as first-time filmmakers get a chance to bring their dreams to feature-length reality. “Project Greenlight: New Generation” will debut its eight-episode Season 1 on July 13. You can watch Project Greenlight: Season 1 with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max.

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Now produced by “Insecure” creator/star Issa Rae, the reboot of “Project Greenlit” will offer a window into the filmmaking process...

I love HBO’s Project Greenlight because it’s one of the few reality shows designed to document inevitable failure.

Sure, that’s not the spoken aspiration of the series, which launched on the names and star presence of producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Project Greenlight was created to give an opportunity for an unproven filmmaker to direct a low-budget feature with guaranteed distribution, and for viewers to learn about the filmmaking process through their behind-the-scenes misadventures. Those things, as audiences immediately learned, have absolutely nothing to do with making a good movie. Like the bear playing the violin, it’s entertaining enough that he’s doing it at all, and complaining about his bow posture is almost petty.

As Issa Rae, executive producer on Max’s new Project Greenlight reboot, diplomatically puts it, “The films of Project Greenlight past have… been Ok? You know? So we want to...

HBO Max and Issa Rae are bringing back docuseries “Project Greenlight,” which will see a new generation of female filmmakers compete for a chance to direct a feature-length film. So the men can sit this one out.

Rae will appear in every episode as an executive producer (on both the winning film and the TV competition itself).

The finished film will premiere on HBO Max.

“At HBO Max, we are committed to providing a platform for diverse, up-and-coming talent. Issa is uniquely skilled in this space, and we are thrilled to be partnering with her and Miramax as a promising group of filmmakers is inspired and challenged with their biggest opportunity yet,” Jennifer O’Connell, HBO Max executive vice president of nonfiction and live-action family programming, said in a statement on Tuesday.

“By relaunching the iconic ‘Project Greenlight’ with the brilliant Issa Rae and HBO Max, we continue our efforts to...

When "Project Greenlight" rose from the TV dead earlier this fall, the HBO reality series made headlines for an argument between one of its two celebrity producers in Matt Damon, and indie film veteran Effie Brown, who had been hired to line produce the latest "Greenlight" film. As the series' decision-makers put their heads together to pick this season's winning director, Brown — the only person of color in the room, and one of only two women — argued that they shouldn't be so quick to dismiss a filmmaking team featuring a white woman and a Vietnamese man, since their outsider perspectives could be very useful in rewriting the planned script, "Not Another Pretty Woman," where one of the main characters is a black female prostitute. Damon talked over Brown, insisted that you find diversity "in the casting of the movie, not the casting of the show," and in a later talking head,...

Stolen Summer, The Battle of Shaker Heights, Feast and, now, The Leisure Class. The ends never have justified the means on Project Greenlight, the HBO/Bravo reality series that details the production of a contest-selected feature film. Executive producers — and perpetual good-will hunters — Matt Damon and Ben Affleck may very well want to pay it forward by giving unproven artists a shot at Hollywood glory. What typically results, however, is more of a gawk-at-this freak show that reduces the varying bumps, triumphs and tedium of the creative process to a manufactured series of hyperdramatic high points. The

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The thing about bad movies (and bad TV shows, for that matter) is that almost all of them are the product of just as much sweat as the good ones. Few people set out to make a bad film, nor do most creative people (at least, those not involved with the "Entourage" franchise) decide to put in the minimal amount of effort to get it done. When you talk to writers and directors about their failures, they'll often tell you that they worked even harder on those than on the successes. In its original three seasons (two on HBO, one on Bravo) back in the early days of the century — and the reality TV boom that came with it — "Project Greenlight" was responsible for three bad movies. ("Feast," the horror film made for the Bravo season, has its defenders; the other two do not.) But in demonstrating how good intentions...

Project Greenlight

Remember Project Greenlight? Spear-headed by producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the concept of the show was simple, pitch a bunch of aspiring directors against each other over a series of challenges, with the winner taking home a lucrative production deal.

For some reason it never really took. Whether it was the pre-digital expenses, middling viewership or lack of quality end product (winners went on to make films like Stolen Summer and Feast), the show eventually kicked. But now Affleck and Damon are bringing it back, citing that new cheaper forms of film-making mean technology has finally caught up with the concept.

A tease has landed for the upcoming season, which begins airing on HBO this summer. The show will follow first-timer Jason Mann as he attempts to direct an indie under the tutelage of Affleck and Damon. It looks like an intense gaze into the film-making process,...

Project Greenlight is coming back to HBO for a fourth season, and the cable network has released the first promo. It features Ben Affleck and Matt Damon introducing the new season and what they are looking to do with it. It's also fun to see them joke around about not having any better ideas over the past decade.

Project Greenlight was stared back in 2001, and it was developed as a way to help get first-time filmmakers the budget and promotion needed to make a feature film. The show was on HBO for two seasons where it spawned films such as Stolen Summer and The Battle of Shaker Heights. The show was then moved to Bravo in 2005, and thats where the movie Feast was developed.

I was a big supporter of the show while it was still on TV, and I think it's great that Project Greenlight is back to help more first-time filmmakers.

Ready to be judged by Batman and Jason Bourne? Now's your chance (again). HBO has announced that they're bringing back the talent competition "Project Greenlight," allowing aspiring filmmakers to submit for the chance to make a feature film -- under the watchful eye of producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and a crew of reality TV cameras.  A reality show born of the late-90s indie film boom, the first seasons of "Project Greenlight" produced a few underseen features -- "Stolen Summer," "The Battle of Shaker Heights" and "Feast" -- that did not launch any megastar careers (well, except for "Shaker Heights" actor Shia LeBeouf, that is). Of course, that was a pre-YouTube era, when cell phones weren't capable of shooting HD video. How that changes the playing field could be most interesting.  In the amusing and self-deprecating announcement video below, Affleck and Damon admit to not having had any new...

I wonder if any of you are too young to remember Project Greenlight. The competition reality show was a big deal when it began back in 2001 on HBO, the brainchild of pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon with producer Chris Moore, then known best for American Pie. And Harvey Weinstein was involved through Miramax, which had a stake all the way through distributing whatever movie was made out of the winning script. Project Greenlight would begin each season with the screenplay contest, which fed into a directors contest, which fed into a making-of docu-series where we watched the champion filmmaker complete his feature. After three seasons of what could better be called Project Greenhorn, it seemed as though those features weren’t worth the effort. Actually, most viewers knew after the unsuccessful release of the first, Stolen Summer, that it this idea didn’t work. But now Affleck and Damon, sans...

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's series Project Greenlight has been revived by HBO.

The series originally aired between 2001 and 2005, and followed budding filmmakers given the chance to work on their first feature.

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HBO's revived version of Project Greenlight will follow a similar format, but update the process to include digital filmmaking and online distribution.

Project Greenlight executive producers Affleck and Damon hailed the show's legacy and its impact on independent filmmaking in a statement announcing the show's return.

"Project Greenlight was ahead of its time," Affleck commented. "Now that technology has caught up to the concept, we thought it was a perfect time to bring it back.

"A whole new generation of filmmakers has grown up sharing everything, and the next big director could be just an upload away.

HBO is giving a second life to an acclaimed show that ended far too soon. On Wednesday, the network announced plans to revive documentary series Project Greenlight, more than a decade after the program's original run. Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the series involves the search for a first-time director and chronicles the behind-the-scenes process of turning a script into a feature film.

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"Project Greenlight was ahead of its time," said Affleck in a statement. "Now that technology has caught up to the concept, we...

"Hall pass"; with Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis and Jenna Fischer. Directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly.

By Craig Younkin - February 26, 2011

Could "Hall Pass" be the nail in the coffin for the Farrelly brothers' careers? A long time ago these guys used to be able to reach into the bottom of the barrel and pull out a real gag--now they just settle for cheap shocks. Their script, which they wrote with Pete Jones (anyone remembers "Stolen Summer," the film which he directed and which was an entry in the Ben Affleck- and Matt Damon-created Project Greenlight contest?) and Kevin Barnett, is a good idea that, put in more capable hands could have been a much better movie. Instead, it’s predictable and filled with clichés, dumb people, and lowest common denominator sight gags.

Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis play Rick and Fred, two typical sexless movie husbands...

Nearly 20 years and a dozen films have passed since Peter and Bobby Farrelly made their debut with Dumb & Dumber . With the release of this Friday's Hall Pass , the duo aims to prove that, while their characters may technically be more mature, not a whole lot has changed regarding their over-the-top look at the world. Based on an original idea and script from Pete Jones, the writer/director behind the "Project Greenlight" film Stolen Summer , Hall Pass inspired the Farrellys to begin with a "real world" approach to a high concept idea: two best friends, played by Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis, are given by their wives (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) a one-week "hall pass": permission to see other women as a hopeful cure for the...

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Tentpoles are letting us down ('Tron' ... meh) and big budget comedies are suddenly bombing ('The Dilemma'), so maybe it's time to put a small fraction of the business back in the hands of amateurs.

The always-riveting 'Project Greenlight' was gone too soon from TV. Sure, it didn't produce any Oscar winners, but it did give talent a leg up (wasn't That the point?).

A little-known actor named Shia LeBeouf stole the show in season 2 with his precocious professionalism in the face to 'Project Greenlight's' usual chaos. And on Feb. 25, the Farrelly Brothers' 'Hall Pass' opens wide; the naughty premise was brought to us by indefatigable screenwriter Pete Jones -- yes, that Pete Jones, the first to get 'Greenlight's greenlight, for the twee 'Stolen Summer' (oy, that title).

 

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Who didn't love Good Will Hunting? The story of a guy who was good at math and history and liked asking people if they certain types of fruit was a big breakout hit for newcomers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.But after that movie, the two never followed things up with another big pairing, unless you count Dogma. It looks as if that's going to change as the two stars are negotiating a deal over at Warner Brothers:More from THR:Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are stirring up some good will over at Warner Bros. The actors, longtime friends who won the original screenplay Oscar for "Good Will Hunting" in 1997, are negotiating to close a first-look producing deal at WB. Details are yet unknown on the new company's name or the length of the agreement, but the pact is likely to close within days. Damon has worked with Warner Bros.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are stirring up some good will over at Warner Bros.

The actors, longtime friends who won the original screenplay Oscar for "Good Will Hunting" in 1997, are negotiating to close a first-look producing deal at WB. Details are yet unknown on the new company's name or the length of the agreement, but the pact is likely to close within days.

Damon has worked with Warner Bros. often in recent years, starring in "Invictus," "The Informant!," "The Departed," "Syriana" and the "Ocean's" trilogy for the studio over the last decade. Affleck co-wrote, directed and stars in his latest film, "The Town," for WB, which is releasing the crime thriller in September.

The two actors created and ran LivePlanet, which had a deal at Disney until 2007, a decade ago with Chris Moore and Sean Bailey, Disney's new production chief. But it's unclear whether Affleck and Damon will try...

Pete Jones, who wrote and directed Miramax Films' Stolen Summer as part of his win in last year's Project Greenlight competition, is readying his follow-up project. Jones will direct the indie feature Doubting Riley, which he wrote and will star in and produce. The project goes into production this week in Chicago, with Nathan Fillion (Angel) and Michael McDonald (Mad TV) starring alongside Jones. The project is about an Irish Catholic family who learns that one of their siblings is gay. Jones will play the lead role of Bobby, the blue-collar youngest brother in the family who attempts to profess his homosexuality to his doubting brothers. Fillion plays one of the brothers. McDonald is playing Bobby's best friend. Riley is budgeted at about $1 million, with financing coming from independent investors in Chicago. The film is being produced by Patrick Peach and Judd Nissen. Jones is repped by 3 Arts Entertainment and attorney Jared Levine.

Movie pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's reality TV show Project Greenlight has become such a hit, bosses at cable channel HBO are planning to make another. The stars set up Project Greenlight in a bid to turn a hopeful film-maker into a real director - and received hundreds of screenplays when they set up the online competition in 2000. HBO programmers were so taken by the idea they opted to film hopeful Pete Jones's transition from moviemaking virgin to talk show regular and directing dynamo. Stolen Summer, the movie Jones made with the help of Affleck, Damon and movie studio Miramax, was received well at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this month. And the hour-long Sunday night programm, which follows Jones' struggles as he attempts to make his film under budget and on time is a hit. Programming chief Chris Albrecht says, "It has exceeded our expectations in every way. The audience has really got involved with the characters."...