The Good New Days

The Good New Days was a movie in Year 20.

Plot

A man named Edward Dinaopoli (Carl Rainier) had made a very successful TV show in 1956, Battle of the Family’s now it is in 1992 and the game show has gotten very low ratings he is called on the phone to meet CBS’ chairmen David Blueth (James Caam) who says his show has been cancelled. In 1997 Edward makes 6 new TV shows all of them bomb on the charts so Edward decides to retire. Now it is in 2003 Edward who is growing very old he has retired and is living in New York. Then one day his old friend’s son comes over named Robert Wood (Steve Carroll) he tells him that he is the son of Chris Wood who was the friend of Edward. Robert convinces Edward to come back in the TV business since Robert is also a TV producer for FOX. Edward comes up with a new TV idea All You Know a TV show about couples that are married that try to see if they know a lot about their counterpart and win cash every time they are right. But at first the TV show is great but then the all the producers screw the show so Edward quits. Then Edward decides to make a sitcom which he sells to FOX again with Wood but the casting is very tough and then they get a new producer named David Rith (Will Smith) who almost turns the show upsidedown but then David Girth (John Litgow) the owner of FOX steps in and saves the show. Finnally they get a cast of 3 men Michael Rost (Will Ferrell), David Gordan ( Ben Stiller) and Jake Gordon( Vince Vaughn) are the new people. The show will go through hilarious stuff and finally get on air but the first episodes will not get ratings but then in a bold advertisement many start to watch the show. All though the show will never hit No.1 in 16 seasons it will win 21 emies unfortunately in its last season Edward is voted to win a lifetime achivment award but he dies one day before the award ceremony.

Cast

Edward Dinaopoli                            Carl Rainier David Blueth                                James Caan

Robert Wood                                 Steve Carroll David Rith                                  Will Smith

David Girth                                 John Litgow

Micheal Rost                                Will Ferrell

David Gordon                                Ben Gordon

Reception The movie was praised as a great insight into the buisness of tv. The movie was also given mostly posotive reviews and people thought of it as a good mix of drama and comedy unlike most films in the genre. The movie did pretty good at the box office opening to No.5 with though and stiff competition it opened to $19,153,459. The movie tallied $64,093,567.