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PROJECT GREENLIGHT
September 13, 2015  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

 
SERIES RETURN: This illuminating reality series on creative filmmaking premiered in 2001, ran for a few seasons, then became dormant – until now, when HBO picked it up for a new run. In the original series, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were the big names attached to selecting filmmakers to make their first movies, with a documentary crew capturing the behind-the-scenes process, problems, and occasional solutions. A lot of the day-to-day producing work, overseeing the new talent, went to Chris Moore, who went on to head his own reality series about filmmaking, Starz’s The Chair. That series, by choosing the most insecure or too-secure filmmakers to follow, ended up being horrible to watch – as did their films. Let’s hope Project Greenlight, after more than a decade off, fares better.
 
 
 
 
 
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