Max Botkin is an American

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and producer. Botkin's original script for '' What Happened to Monday?'' was featured on the 2010 Blacklist for best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.

Career

He began writing for TV with '' Wolverine and the X-Men''. ''What Happened to Monday?'' was filmed by Tommy Wirkola and starred

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, and

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. The film was released theatrically in Europe and Asia and

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bought the streaming rights to the film for the

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as well as the U.K. and Latin America. He also wrote '' Robosapien: Rebooted'' (originally scheduled to be released in 2009, the film was released in the US on May 28, 2013) and '' Opposite Day''. In 2015, Max solid his original screenplay ''Ponce'' to Lionsgate/Pantelion and is executive producing, with Eugenio Derbez attached to star, produce and direct. In April 2017, Botkin inked a deal with award-winning multimedia company 1stAvenueMachine to produce films with them through a first of its kind directors incubator. In 2016, he co-wrote ''

Show Dogs ''Show Dogs'' is a 2018 American buddy cop comedy film directed by Raja Gosnell and written by Max Botkin and Marc Hyman. It stars Will Arnett, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Natasha Lyonne, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O'Neal, Omar ...

''. The film was released in the United States on May 18, 2018, directed by

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''Show Dogs'' controversy

The film ''Show Dogs'' was criticized for plot themes which involve humans fondling the genitals of the main character, a dog, against his will. In the film, other characters "teach" him not to think about it and to go to his "zen place" whenever that happens. Prior to release, an online magazine ''Macaroni Kid'' reviewed a

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for the film. Spurred on by this review, other professional reviewers agreed that the child-grooming implications were "disturbing and serious". Botkin says he did not write those scenes, that the original script was "heavily rewritten by 13 other writers", and strongly condemned the themes in question. In response, Global Road Entertainment, the film's distributor, announced they were re-cutting the film and resubmitting it to theaters in time for its second weekend. The company said:

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