GREAT GUY SCENES SELECTED AS FINALIST!

GREAT GUY SCENES FROM GREAT GUY MOVIES is a romantic comedy that has been selected as a finalist at the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival and also for the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, Houston Comedy Film Festival, Oregon Short Film Festival and the Portland Comedy Film Festival.

The Logline for GREAT GUY SCENES FROM GREAT GUY MOVIES is, "Life rocked as a teenager for a Hollywood producer nearing 40 reviewing films with his buds on their cable show in Iowa so he brings them to LA for a remake."

The synopsis for GREAT GUY SCENES FROM GREAT GUY MOVIES: Life is good in Hollywood at the production company where JAY JONES works for owner DOUG JOHNSON as his head of content with the demand for programs soaring. But the quality of offerings has not. Tossing away another horrible script, producer JAY JONES thinks back to the great times he had when he was young and stupid with his buds and their girlfriends in their Iowa hometown putting on a local cable show that reviewed films, GREAT GUY SCENES FROM GREAT GUY MOVIES. At dinner in a trendy West Hollywood restaurant, about as far from small own Iowa as possible in both culture and geography in America, JAY JONES listens to a bunch of millennials talk about the great scenes from some new movies and quote extensively from old movies. Realizing that the basic human instinct to talk and quote from movies is time immemorial (especially for guys), JAY JONES decides to head back home to small town America and return with his fellow cable show hosts from the past to relive the magic and hit the big time with a remake of GREAT GUY SCENES FROM GREAT GUY MOVIES! Despite the obvious appeal, there are still many who have to be convinced. There is, of course, the head of the production company, DOUG JOHNSON. He wants to put out the next big comedy in Hollywood (who doesn't?), filling the void left by BIG BANG THEORY. SELL "GREAT GUY SCENES FROM GREAT GUY MOVIES" as a romantic comedy that brings the best from "Friends," "How I Met Your Mother" and "Wayne's World."

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Jonathan Yates is the host of, "The Culture of Sports", a show that focuses on its business, community, economic, educational, philosophical, and political features.

He has degrees from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Georgetown University Law Center; and has also matriculated at the U.S. Naval War College and The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Much of his career was spent working for Members of Congress and state legislators in positions such as Chief of Staff, General Counsel, Legislative Director, Press Secretary, and Legislative Assistant. Twice he was granted "Top Secret" clearance in accordance with his duties on Capitol Hill. In the private sector, he was General Counsel for a publicly traded corporation and Assistant Washington Counsel for a major trade association. He has taught courses on government, business-government relations, and national security policy.

Thousands of his interviews and pieces under his byline on politics, sports and other topics have appeared in media outlets such as CNBC, NPR, American Politics, Atlantic Community Quarterly, Baltimore magazine, Baltimore Sun, Boston Herald, Buffalo News, Charlotte Observer, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, CollegeAD, Des Moines Register, Detroit News, Foreign Policy, Fuels & Lubes, The Gazette, Hartford Courant, Houston Chronicle, Investor's Business Daily, Legal Times, Michigan Law Weekly, New York Times, News American, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sports History Weekly, Tallahassee Democrat, Toronto Daily Mail, USA Today, and The Washington Post, among others.

Five of his scripts have been selected as finalists with 12 overall making it in major contests.

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