As for my stripper movie, I started prep a year ago (around festival time), so where I am now with it is WAY ahead compared to anything else I worked on in the past.  I had an insight into how to fix the ending, and I have to fill in some spots, then I think it's ready for some friend review.  It's tricky because I want to make sure guys love it, but I also really want to make sure girls love it, and not just b/c a lot of script readers ARE female, but something that they'd get together and watch, like I think Flashdance was, Dirty Dancing was...

I sent the first 25 pages to my friend Natalie to get a read on what she thinks, it's probably the darkest and most off-putting stuff, so if that works, then I just gotta nail the ending beats.  Then I think I'll be open to some feedback.