Redstone said:

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It's been a fun ride guys. Appreciate the love, whatever the handle!

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Anyone else claim TCTTS is "a friend of mine that works in Hollywood" when talking about movies to friends and family?

mazag08 said:

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Big Al 1992 said:

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Anyone else claim TCTTS is "a friend of mine that works in Hollywood" when talking about movies to friends and family?

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Can't we all just disagree politically and still be friends?

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That's all well and good, but can't we just leave politics off of THIS board completely? We have a completely different cesspool board for that stuff!

Thanks for the rundown!

Man, that thread brings back some memories. This board not only beta tested the crap out of the site, but literally saved it from a potential train wreck or two just before launch. And yeah, the Reddit thing was just insane. I owe so much to TexAgs for all the support, both before launch and after.

As for the new site, this July will somehow mark TWO YEARS of being in development. We currently have seven full-time programmers working on it, who I'm overseeing, and I never in a million years thought it'd be this much of a challenge, but we're doing everything we can to launch before that two-year mark. June would be ideal, and that's what we're aiming for, but we'll see.

And really, I know I've said this a dozen times already, but it's going to be a MASSIVE platform. Every movie, TV show, and book ever made/written, organized and displayed better than anyone else on the internet. Plus an entire news and database team who is already hard at work and will be breaking/tracking news on everything from when a book or pitch is bought by a studio to casting news to release dates to analytics and beyond. I'm working on the trailer page as we speak, and there is absolutely nothing like it anywhere. You'll be able to apply for industry jobs through our site, make some of the most comprehensive and cool-looking lists of films, people, or companies, keep a personal calendar of movies and shows, and even enter screenplay and manuscript contest through the site, which will be read by some of the top agents and companies in town.

We've been working on this thing for so long that I almost forgot what it was like to actually have something out there in the wild, and I cannot wait to show you guys, along with the rest of the world. And once again, we're going to need TexAgs' help when it comes to beta testing, which should hopefully begin in the next couple months or so. That, and we're making it on the front page of reddit again, no question. Will definitely keep you guys posted...

I just reread the thread. Awesome memories, and the perfect example of why the Entertainment Board is the absolute best on TexAgs.

Who says I haven't already planted one?

The Easter egg should be a section called Redstone's Picks for the most obscure and worthless movie knowledge and how he is better than you because he knows it.

Things can really get hectic at times, but you guys (and gals!) have really made it all worth it.

The jig is up. I actually live in a mobile home off Highway 6.

I'd love to help test! I am a pro at breaking software. My IT support knows if there is a bug I will find it and break the software we use. I really don't do it on purpose or anything, it just happens. I only broke it once this week and they patched it yesterday.

Sex Panther said:

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TC hardly needs me to defend him but I actually know him in real life and absolutely consider him a friend

He's a great dude

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He's very popular. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, ****s, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, ********s - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.

Ha, wow, I totally forgot about this thread.

Here's the somewhat abbreviated version, which I've chronicled a couple times before, but want to type out just so I can reference this from now on, since people still ask...

- I launched The Projection List in January 2015. That March, the head of an existing industry site asked to meet, based on my work on TPL.

- We hit it off / had similar visions for a newer, better version of IMDb, one that was more industry friendly. Many industry professionals aren't huge IMDb fans and want something better / not as geared toward fans. We felt we could build something that serviced both while also doing so much more.

- We secured funding that May, hired a core team in June, and opened our new business that July, with the plan to launch a year later, summer 2016.

- Due to the workload overseeing the build of the new site, I could no longer devote the necessary time to updating TPL. Seeing as I (stupidly) thought the new iteration was just around the corner, I took TPL offline that summer ('15), despite its growing popularity. That was mistake #1.

- A summer 2016 launch soon became a summer 2017 launch and we slowly but surely began to realize that we bit off more than we could chew. Instead of launching the new site piece by piece, feature by feature, we felt we had to make a big splash and release it all at once in order to compete, and trying to spin so many plates at once proved too much to handle in the long run. That was mistake #2.

- Mistake #3 was the biggest of all and that was going into business with someone I didn't know as well as I should have. When it came time to do our first year's taxes, I discovered that my business partner hadn't paid taxes - not his nor his business - in nearly a decade. Never in a million years would I have thought to ask the successful owner of a business if he had paid his taxes, but this ultimately became the crippling blow. Despite mistake #2, we had a legit shot at righting the ship had the IRS/financial woes that came from my business partner's tax issues never occurred. Basically, forming the new company put him on the radar like never before and the IRS came after him/us hard, and we finally closed up shop May '18 (though I'm still having to deal with random residual issues every month or so it seems like).

- I also should have found a way to keep TPL going during all of this and then I could have at least had that to "fall back on" and continue. That said, now having been over a year removed from that whole debacle (really, that was the low point of my life and drove me to therapy for the first time ever, if I'm being completely honest), the thought of being a slave to the news cycle at this point makes me nauseous. I'm so incredibly glad to be doing what I'm doing now, which is writing and running the production company I also started in January 2015. I don't know when I'm going to be able to announce everything we've got going, but it's wild what's happening right now. Definitely a 180 from where I was a year ago...

TC's business partner?

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