Help Name the New Social Networking Thriller
Filed under: Thrillers, Deals, The Weinstein Co., Movie Marketing
O great Cinematical readership, we call upon you to exercise your remarkable intellect, imagination, and wit, so you can help name a new social networking thriller. (Especially those of you who know that there's a difference between Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.) According to The Hollywood Reporter, none other than Dimension Films plans to make a teen thriller ripping off resembling Ten Little Indians, only "with a Web 2.0 twist."
Social networking may become a hot topic for movies. You might remember that plans were announced last year for Aaron Sorkin to write a movie about Facebook for producer Scott Rudin. The official Facebook group page for the project has logged more than 3,800 messages, and Sorkin has been responding with surprising frequency. In a post yesterday, for example, he appeared to indicate that the script has not been written yet.
So maybe Dimension Films can beat them to the punch. Dimension's Bob Weinstein is quoted by THR as saying: "Online social networking is a widespread phenomenon that interests me greatly. Combining it with a suspense thriller is a new and fresh way to explore this new trend." (By the way, his name was just claimed on Twitter with the message: "I just joined the 21st century," though it could be someone else.) Will they create a new, entirely fictional social network, or team up with one that already exists?
The flick is currently untitled, which is where you come in. What should the thriller be called? To get you started, James Rocchi suggested, via Twitter, the tagline: "You're Unfollowed!" followed by a pickaxe smash. Tell us your suggested titles in the comments section.
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2-12-2009 @ 2:28PM
Batzarro said...
Mylist?
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2-12-2009 @ 2:36PM
NP said...
The Face(book)s of Death
I Know Who You Friended Last Summer
He Knows When You're Alone and Logged into Myspace
A Nightmare on Myspace
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2-12-2009 @ 2:45PM
SOS said...
Ten 'Till None
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2-12-2009 @ 3:00PM
Taylor said...
Unfriending the Undead
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2-12-2009 @ 3:03PM
Deadpan said...
Let's see... it can't be entirely clever, if present names like 'one missed call' and 'untracable' are good indicators.
Um.... Web of Murder? Web of Lies?
Or.. Murder 2.0!
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2-12-2009 @ 3:14PM
writersblock1230 said...
Poke! of death.
My dead space
I know who you poked last summer.
or
I know what you tweeted last summer.
Dead men tweet no more.
The Texas youtube massacre.
Tweets from beyond.
I find it really hard to come up with something that doesn't sound like a completely retarded idea. Maybe that's a clue that the studios just shouldn't do this.
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2-12-2009 @ 3:37PM
Milan said...
A "thriller" - I presume 2 web-friends will meet and havoc will ensue, hence I suggest IRL (In Real Life)...
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2-12-2009 @ 3:47PM
Ivory said...
Geeking Out, at least that's the title of the film I'm producing about nerds, love, and twitter.
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2-12-2009 @ 3:50PM
StewMeat said...
My Crawl Space
Tweet of Death
I got nothing..
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2-12-2009 @ 4:17PM
toiman said...
How bout-
"Dead Twit"
it could star Paris Hilton
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2-12-2009 @ 4:18PM
Kurt said...
10.2 Little Indians?
No, perhaps not.
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2-12-2009 @ 4:20PM
Alex said...
Silent Tweets (In cyberspace, no one can hear you type out help.)
DoomTube (Update/remake of Cronenberg's Videodrome.)
AIM for the Head (Think Dawn of the Dead meets The Matrix.)
URHell
BloodSpace (When he hacks your account, you're deleted.)
Thanks for the Add... to Your Body Count!
I would like to take this time to say that I refuse to see this film, whatever it's called, until they offer some sort of technology that posts text messages from the audience onto the screen in real time:
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2-12-2009 @ 4:27PM
davek said...
Top 8.
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2-12-2009 @ 4:49PM
Travis Tidmore said...
1. 10 Little Bloggers
2. And Tehn teHre Were n0ne
3. My God This Movie Sucks!
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2-12-2009 @ 4:59PM
Kaeli said...
haha, good stuff here :D
On MySpace, no one can hear you scream!
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2-12-2009 @ 5:17PM
Jericho said...
Facefucked
Twittering in the Dark
FacePoke
Invitation......To DIE!!
KillPal
DeathLink
CrawlSpace
MyVictim
DeathSpace
Friendsnuff
Is it obvious I only know the big 3? Stupid technophobia.
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2-12-2009 @ 8:25PM
Bradford Oman said...
Super Poke of Death
YOU'RE WELCOME WEINSTEINS!
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2-13-2009 @ 1:07PM
Jaffakree said...
Killr !
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3-03-2009 @ 1:16PM
Chupacabra The XIth said...
How about www.SocNETthrillER.net or liveidsave.net or chronorun.net or 5todie.com or 1toliealltofry.com ???
It'll be a blast - I bet that it'll be something like so:
each day 5/all registered users will have to solve a really hard puzlle-like mystery by following clues on the Web and using every possible opportunity the Internet offers to crack the case in order to stop a time bomb from deleting their profiles, thus getting "till they were none" if he fails... Isn't that a great idea for a social network based around 5 people trying to save their online personality and all other users trying either to help these 5 save themselves or misinform/annoy/irritate/try to mislead them. Of course, each week, new 5 victims are selected and are given a new mystery clue-tracing-panic-unleashing online c(h)ase to crack or go kaboom. And to top it all, if all users fail to save their profiles, the website closes.
Other ideas:
1) paranormal investigation social network that actually works, as in to actually get people to go seek the truths that are out there and risk their lives to know it.
2) mysteryhistory.net --- users give cash prices/collectable antiques and put a bounty on information regarding a dark and unknown moment of human history. The ones who pick it up try to get together and investigate deeper than for a pack of history junkies and end up with a public report on their findings. If it suits the one who put it up, they get the aforementioned cash price/antique.
3) conspiracytheory.com - chat about your really fictional crap stories... :D
P.S. If these ideas are ever incorporated in a real social network, I demand a share or at least a permanent honorable mention! :D
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