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The term cutting room floor is used in the film industry as a figure of speech referring to unused footage not included in the finished film. In fact offcuts of film are retained in a special cutting room bin and numbered during the editing process in case they are required later. The phrase 'bin ends' is an alternative term.
Although the omission of filmed material happens to some extent for every actor ever filmed, many famous actors' entire appearance in a particular project have ended up on the 'cutting room floor' at one stage or another throughout their careers, including Charlie Chaplin (when he accidentally walked onto the set of a "Keystone Cops" upon first arriving to Hollywood), Eric Stoltz's entire performance as Marty McFly in Back to the Future (when director Robert Zemeckis decided to recast Michael J. Fox halfway through filming because Stoltz's performance was not light-hearted enough), and Johnny Depp's performance in Platoon (Oliver Stone felt Depp's storyline distracted from the core of the story). Other examples are Kevin Costner (as the friend whose funeral is attended in The Big Chill), John Lithgow (as super-agent Harry Zell in L.A. Story), and Phyllis Diller (as a cranky neighbor in Juno).
The Cutting Room is a music venue in New York City that opened in late 1999 for music of all varieties.
It has been co-owned since its founding by actor Chris Noth and Berklee College of Music alumnus Steve Walter.
Among those who have performed at The Cutting Room are Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kid Rock, Vanessa Carlton, Lady Gaga, Sandra Bernhard, Mini-Kiss, and The Shells.
Noth met his girlfriend Tara Wilson while she was working at The Cutting Room; the two had a boy (Orion Christopher Noth) in January 2008.
Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. Her film work includes The House of Mirth (2000), The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), and two X-Files films, The X-Files (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).
Anderson is of English and Irish descent, and was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rosemary Anderson (née Lane), a computer analyst, and Edward Anderson, who owned a film post-production company. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months; she then lived for five years in Roseberry Gardens, London N4, and finally for 15 months in Albany Road, London N4, so that her father could attend the London Film School. When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan. She attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities; she graduated in 1986.
A film within a film within a film within a film. Jordan has just finished filming his first horror flick (which takes place on the set of a adult film). On the loose is a killer who is killing all of the crew-which are really actors playing the crew in Jordan's film. But there's a catch. The killer is really a snuff-film-maker who makes his captives kill each other on film. But all of this is not really reality. Or is it? This is all, apparently, just the work of Jordan. The real story, as it unfolds within the film-within-a-film, is about Edit, his editor. The special effects all look so horribly cheesy that they all think the film is doomed. That is until Edit, and her right hand man Andy, (who happen to both be seasoned serial killers) decide to start killing the actors on-set, in re-shoots of the original footage. All for the good of the film and for the sake of art. The freshly shot fresh kills are spliced into Jordan's footage to make the most horrific and realistic horror film of all time.
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