The red carpet has been hoovered, host Billy Crystal is finessing his script, dust-sheets are being peeled from oversized Oscar statuettes guarding the entrance to the venue.
Within weeks of the footage appearing online, Miller was back in production, with the script dusted off and Reynolds reattached.
In Ahmadinejad's first term, books, music albums, and scripts gathered dust at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, before being rejected in their entirety or cut with broad, destructive strokes.
NOW that the reception for "Jesus' Son" has changed her luck, Ms. Maclean has been able to begin her next project, "Iris," the third of the scripts gathering dust at home.
You dust off the script you've been writing and try to get back to work, but your mind drifts and you begin counting just how many academy members you know personally.
I think he supported me -- he supported many other filmmakers and artists -- and I had met him at a film festival and he said, "I'd really like to produce a film for you," which was extraordinary to me because I'm a huge admirer of his, and I immediately thought of Splice, which was a script that had been gathering dust.
Industry insiders say its success has led the BBC to dust off the scripts for Once Upon a Time in Peckham, with a view to commissioning it later this year.
Warner Bros. will have the honor with a film tentatively called "Confessions of a Nazi Spy," and M-G-M have dusted off the script "It Can't Happen Here".
I've never forgotten his friendliness, his capacity to drink large brandies in the heat of an Italian afternoon and his love of words: I remember him telling me that he was drawn to Mr Chips because the character, in Terence Rattigan's movie-script, was "full of chalk dust and reflections".
The Kings and St . LouisBlues reached back into the 2012 archives, dusted off the script and produced one of their oldies.
He has never been the kind of film-maker who can just take a script out of his bottom drawer, dust it down and start shooting.
