 Complete the following phrase:  Director Michael Ritchie was first inspired to make a movie about the film industry after visiting the Venice Film Festival in 1972 during the promotion of his film The Candidate. Upon learning of George Lucass own experiences while in Cannes for the screening of THX 1138, Ritchie enlisted Don Petersen to help write a screenplay that captured the giddy euphoria of a young director attending an international film festival for the first time. As he later divulged to the New York Times, he chose to make the film small-scale and low budget so that he could persuade Paramount to let him assume the right to script approval and control over the final cut as a quid pro quo. Once a basic outline of the films story was complete, Ritchie travelled to the 