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first impressions
Hung and Nurse Jackie: Shows We'll Warily Watch
So who watched Hung last night? HBO's latest installment in its string of series depicting lives lived on the fringes of America is about a well-endowed gym teacher who becomes a gigolo to earn some extra cash. It was... good? More »
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Comment by Voyou_Charmant: Hung was not so good. I turned it off half way though. 1) Self loathing womanizer with a dry sarcastic wit.... 5 Responses | Other threads
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the cinema
Movie Deal for Staggeringly Wrong Political Journalist
He said Matt Drudge and Karl Rove held the key to the presidency. His last book was embarrassingly wrong. Barack Obama won by studiously ignoring his advice. Someone put Mark Halperin in pictures! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by econdave: But he's a middle-aged white guy! They're authoritative and right about everything! Just look at him! 1 Responses | Other threads
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excitement
Sopranos Genius Returns with Tale of Old Hollywood
David Chase, the creator/writer mastermind behind The Sopranos, is journeying back in time for his next HBO project. He's developing a miniseries about the early days of Hollywood, when the West was still sorta wild. More »
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Comment by antisocialite: Oh good, another period drama for HBO to get us all hooked on and then cancel after two seasons, leaving... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Eastbound & Down
Review: 'Eastbound & Down'
We usually leave the sports stuff for Deadspin, but HBO's new series Eastbound & Down has very little to do with sports, and even less to do with compassionate human interaction. We're cool with that. More » -
trade roundup
The Blart Pack
· Kevin James and Adam Sandler will join Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade in a Columbia comedy about "five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on July 4th weekend." More »
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By SethComment by Lulamaybelle: Oh great. Like The Big Chill with poop jokes. 1 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Universal Revisiting The 'Thing' Thing
· Universal's remaking The Thing, with Battlestar Galactica EP Ron Moore to write the script and commercials director Matthijs Van Heijningen set to direct. If you've forgotten how amazing John Carpenter's version was, watch this. More »
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By SethComment by everfade: The Thing was a fantastic movie that should've been left alone. This remake shit is getting out of hand. Now... 8 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
In Tonight's Performance, Jeremy Piven Will Look A Lot Like William H. Macy
· Broadway and Dan in Real Life star Norbert Leo Butz and William H. Macy have swooped in to save Speed-the-Plow, following Jeremy Piven's abrupt departure due to an acute case of eight-shows-a-week-is-really-putting-a-damper-on-my-skank-banging-schedule-itis. [Variety]
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By SethComment by Benny: I feel sorta bad for Pivs on this one. Mercury poisoning can occur and is serious, and Chinese herbs have... 1 Responses | Other threads
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hung
HBO Orders Series About Man Gifted With Gasp-Inducing Pant-Snake
Hung—HBO's titillating new comedy about an endowed high school football coach who uses his horse-geezer to his own advantage—has been picked up to series.
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By SethComment by I'm Waitin' for Dolemite: to go off topic of the "horse-geezer" (I mean _seriously_ Mr Abramovitch) Is it just me, or does anyone else see... 3 Responses | Other threads
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flight of the conchords
'Flight of the Conchords' Season 2: Right Here! Right Now!
With seemingly so little left to live for (or is that just us?), the second season of Flight of the Conchords, and all the "Foux de Fafa" frivolity that implies, seems like it can't arrive quickly enough. But wait! Put down that kebab skewer pressed to your temple! You needn't wait until the January 18th premiere to catch your Brett and Jemaine fix, nor do you even need to hold out until this Monday, when the first episode streams on HBO.com. That's because it's already streaming, at this very moment, courtesy of FunnyorDie.com. We'll see you in half an hour.
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By SethComment by Huge Tracts of Land: Murray should host the Oscars. 5 Responses | Other threads
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deals
Oprah Finally Able to Put Nudity and Swearing Into Her TV Movies
Ever think that Oprah Winfrey's potent brand of self-actualization could use some more bare breasts? You're in luck! -
kevin smith
'Entourage' Dig At Cupcakeholic Kevin Smith Doesn't Bother Toilet-Shattering Director
Entourage last night offered a fairly brisk half-hour that balanced the science fiction of Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Turtle displaying palpable screen chemistry with a fairly easier-to-swallow story involving Vinnie getting fired by a Wolfgang Petersen-type on the set of the extremely timely Smoke Jumpers. As Ari desperately tries to get the director replaced, loyal assistant/stapler target Lloyd runs through a list of names, offering only commode-demolishing Zack and Miri director Kevin Smith as being available. The suggestion tees up another Ari sledgehammer—we won't give it away except to say Red Velvet gluttony is involved—which elicited this reaction from Smith on his message board: More »
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By SethComment by Midge: Forget Sprinkles, WTF is up with Piven's delivery? That clip has got to be an outtake. Right? 2 Responses | Other threads
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stupid human tricks
'True Blood' Shapeshifter Sam Lays Out The Shapeshifting Rules
Last night's True Blood finally gave us some hard answers as to why hunky, lovelorn bar owner Sam Merlotte occasionally will pause from restocking the beer case to scratch behind his ear with his foot: He's a shapeshifter! "Shut the fuck up," you're likely saying, much as vampire-sexing cocktail waitress Sookie did when she first beheld her boss's amazing trick. (She was equally blown away by his ability to balance a biscuit on his nose without eating it, and say something that sounds a lot like "Obama!") More » -
hbo
It's Not HBO Without Colin Callender. Colin Callendar, the president of HBO Original Movies since 1999, has announced he'll be stepping down from his post to "return to my entrepreneurial roots." After Carolyn Strauss, he's the second of the Chris Albrecht regime to resign since Albrecht himself was squeezed out following an embarrassing domestic assault arrest in Las Vegas. Callendar was the man behind HBO's prestige longform productions like Angels in America, Wit, Recount, and John Adams. He plans on forming his own production company next year, but has one swan song before he goes—the $200 million WWII drama The Pacific, from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. With his exit, however, so closes the chapter on the once untouchable cable network's golden era. It's all bottled blood substitute from here. [LAT]
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By SethComment by SkidooNevada: Considering what an embarrassment HBO has become, I'm surprise he waited this long. Albrecht's problems with women can't hold a... more » | Other threads
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True Blood
The Vampires Give Back. An operative deep undercover in Tampa writes us: "I am stymied as to why Sam Trammell and Rutina Wesley ("Sam" and "Tara") from HBO's True Blood are in my office's conference room giving out autographs and pictures with all 500 of the employees in my Tampa, FL cable company's office. Is it normal for a show to bring its actors on a tour of Florida suburbs to shake hands with call center employees, tech staff, etc.? Is this kind of grassroots PR work a good sign for the show, or a bad one?" Gee, we don't really know, though when we stop to think about it, the Austin Nichols and Luke Perry John From Cincinnati Visits A Surf Shop Near You! tour did come just weeks before its cancellation. Take from that what you will. [Defamer]
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By SethComment by K3y: Oh gods! Sam and Tara in the same place? Shaking hands and signing autographs? I hope they have flood insurance,... 3 Responses | Other threads
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do not try and bend the spoon
Tripping Balls With Ari Gold
What's to be done when you've exhausted every conceivable scenario in which to place your series's quartet of homoerotically bonded ne'er-do-wells? In Entourage's case, it means sending them to the desert with Eric "Abs of Steel" Roberts and a bag of magic mushrooms for a mind-expanding journey towards should-Vince-or-shouldn't-Vince-do-a-Benji-movie enlightenment. More »
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By SethComment by Reggie Cameron: I don't watch Entourage, so whenever I see Ari Gold in type (especially when followed by words like BALLS) I... more » | Other threads
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trade roundup
Nicole Kidman To Search For Mythical Fountain Of Botox In 'The Eighth Wonder'
· Nicole Kidman will star in The Eighth Wonder, an action-adventure whose goal "is to be to Raiders of the Lost Ark what the Bourne movies are to James Bond movies." Damn—comparisons were always our SAT Achilles' heel. We're just going to darken the oval next to Romancing the Stone and be done with it. [THR] More »
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By SethComment by Assistant/Atlas: Nicole Kidman will star in The Eighth Wonder, an action-adventure whose goal "is to be to Raiders of the Lost... 1 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Alan Ball's New HBO Show About People In Coffins Fails To Grab Viewers
· True Blood's premiere drew just 1.44 million viewers—about a half-million better than Tell Me You Love Me, but 2 million short of what John From Cincinnati managed to score in its slot following The Sopranos's series finale. We haven't watched it yet, because we find vampires annoying. Enough with the biting and the capes, already! [LAT] More »
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By SethComment by CakeAndDeath: wtch ths shw prly fr th plsr f wtchng Pqn's prfct dck-sckng lps mv. h, yh. 2 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
New 'Tarzan' To Have Biggest Vines Ever!
· Noted shlockteur Stephen Sommers will write and direct Warner Bros.'s splashy Tarzan remake, set to push the flimsy-loincloth envelope further than any version to come before. [Variety] More »
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By SethComment by clevername: Actually, that "Lost in the 80's" pilot is more like "Life Goes On" meets a-railroad-spike-through-the-eye.... Take the domestic scenes... more » | Other threads
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entourage
Ari And Lloyd: A Love Story
With just a little over a week until the new season of Entourage begins, we thought we'd take a moment to salute the most complex and rewarding of all relationships in that ongoing industry sausage fest: that of Ari and Lloyd. And no better examples of their glorious co-dependency exist than in those moments when everyone's favorite double-banger-securing Zeus completely loses his shit on his fiercely loyal Gaysian henchman. Defamer videographer Molly McAleer combed through the Entourage archives to find the greatest of all spittle-flecked Ari-Lloyed exchanges—though call us biased, our favorite one didn't make the cut. More »
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By SethComment by Assistant/Atlas: Seriously, can we have a spinoff called "30 Minutes of Ari On the Phone" so I don't have to watch... more » | Other threads
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trade roundup
Marvin The Martian To Destroy Hollywood For A Better View Of Venus
· Oh, goody! Eight-ball-faced (literally, not in the Andy Dick sense) Looney Tunes character Marvin The Martian will get his own Warner Bros. feature, in which he shall finally be reunited with his beloved eludium pu36 explosive space modulator. [Variety] More » -
defamer
'Heidi Fleiss' Doc Directors Recall Her Joys, Pleasures and the Pitfalls of Bird-Love
One of the most stirringly batshit films we've seen this year, Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal debuts on HBO tonight after a successful premiere run at last month's Los Angeles Film Festival. We've tipped you previously to some of the harrowing dynamics herein: Ex-madam Heidi Fleiss nabs a land deal in Pahrump, Nev., where she'll attempt to make her comeback with an all-male brothel for women. Civic outrage, meth relapses and an inheritance of tropical birds conspire to scuttle her dream. Hilarity decidedly does not ensue. More »
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By STVComment by NotReadyForPrimeTime: I liked the part where she compared herself to Alexander the Great, then corrected herself, and declared she was BETTER... more » | Other threads
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twilight
'Twilight' Star's Hairy Chest Frightens The Tweens As Alan Ball Preps Hotter, Cooler Vampire Series
Like it or not, it’s time to let go of any qualms you may have about welcoming a successor to Harry Potter’s tween-bewitching throne and embrace what will surely become the zeitgeisty-est franchise of the decade. Twilight is here, it’s a little bit queer, and don’t even try ignoring it. The dewy, sexy, hickey-adorned film version of the hugely successful books centered around hot teenage vampires has begun garnering its first feature stories in the glossies, and the millions of “fan girls” obsessed with the tales are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. The new issue of EW features the film’s two newbie stars on its cover, and the odd photo is setting message boards and fan sites ablaze with criticism from the series’ longtime devotees. And angry fans aren’t the only obstacle Twilight faces — too-cool-for-school Alan Ball has a vampire show premiering on HBO later this year and, unlike “powdered donut” Edward and “plain” Bella, his blood-suckers sit at the cool kids’ table... More »
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Comment by raincoaster: That is seriously bad hair. Vampires never have fried hair in real life. Uh, nevermind. Ignore me. I'll go back to... more » | Other threads
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david simon
'Wire' Creator Proud of New HBO Miniseries, No Matter Who Wrote it
From the creator of The Wire! Sort of! The Iraq miniseries Generation Kill premieres this weekend on HBO, with do-no-wrong David Simon linked as co-writer/executive producer of the seven-part event. The LA Times had a look and seems to have liked it fine, despite the fingerprints of journalist and source author Evan Wright having smudged some of the central characters' "expository dialogue." More » -
defamer
Secrets Of The Prosthetic Member: 'Tell Me' Star Tells All
As the official site describes it, HBO's Tell Me You Love Me offers "an unfiltered look at three couples as they navigate critical periods in their lives." By "unfiltered," of course what they mean is, "boldly ushering slapping balls into the premium cable landscape." And no one's slapping balls were more closely scrutinized than actor Adam Scott, whose Cruiseian good looks made up one-half of the couple you would have most eagerly TiVoed through the boring stuff to see knock prosthetic uglies. Talking to BlackBook, Scott reveals what went into making the "banging for real" illusion come alive: More »
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By SethComment by Cultmember: How appropriate, a prosthetic schwanstuker attached to an animatronic actor. more » | Other threads
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dan klores
Way Smart Ex-PR Guru To Make Crazy Movie Version Of Crazy Documentary
Dan Klores is the smartest man in PR. That's because he's not in PR any more. He founded his eponymous agency, which made (and still makes) him a ton of money, and then decided, "You know what? Fuck this shit. I'm gonna make movies." Now he spends all his time making (actually good!) documentaries and hosting soirees for various power brokers, without ever having to deal with the actual PR industry much. And he's about to move further up the entertainment industry food chain, because HBO has signed him to direct a movie version of his Believe-it-or-not psycho documentary Crazy Love. This, I will watch. More »
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Comment by queensissy: @TillieHarper: I'm with you 100%. She got back together with him after he blinded her because she was lonely?!? Get... more » | Other threads
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tom hanks
'Camp Rock' The New, Annoying Thing Your Kid Is Obsessed With
· Disney may have another "bankable tyke-and-tween franchise" (why does that phrase sound vaguely offensive and child-pornish?) in Camp Rock, says Variety, with 8.9 million viewers tuning in to watch the Jonas Brothers sing their newest hit, "(Yuck!) There's A Mosquito in My S'mores." [Variety] More » -
heidi fleiss
Heidi Fleiss to Documentary Filmmakers: "Don't Mess with My Birds!"
If you're a diva with an image problem (like, say, Monica Lewinsky or Hitler), there's no friendlier filmmaking duo than Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. In fact, the World of Wonder partners have such a reverence for tarnished camp that they once began an interview with your guest blogger by pointing to a half-drank Evian and solemnly intoning, "That? Was Nicole Richie's." However, former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss didn't quite see eye-to-eye with the pair, despite their attempts to flatter her in the new HBO doc Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal. Says Page Six: More »
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Comment by Little Mintz Sunshine: @WGARefugee: I'm sure some ladies would pay extra for you to "recite" the formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media.... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Crankhead Bird Fetishist and Doc Subject Heidi Fleiss Puts the 'Mad' in Madam
We're not sure if Variety editor Peter Bart has simply found his stride as a blogger after years of loathing the medium or if his recent dispatch about the new HBO documentary Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal simply shilled a little too hard to make it as a print story. BUT! Either way, we are more than a little intrigued by Fleiss's latest predicament, the latest in what HBO Docs boss Sheila Nevins calls the "opera" that is the former madam's life: More » -
jeremy piven
Jeremy Piven Takes It Upon Himself To Cast New 'Entourage' Star After One Too Many Fruitinis In First Class
Jeremy Piven is important, he will have you know. He can pick up girls in a hooptie. He can cut Stephen Dorff in bathroom lines. He can tell Billy Bush to fuck off on the red carpet and his own mother to fuck off over brunch. And, as Janet Charlton reports today, he can also cast wildly eccentric and ill-suited stars in cameos on Entourage based solely on fun chatter he has with them on airplanes. As the piece claims: More » -
time warner
NBC Time Warner Still A Faraway, Corporate Media Monolith Dream
Time Warner is in many ways a self-sustaining media ecosystem: Their intermittently functioning cable networks and motion pictures wing create celebrities and cultural trends, which then wind up on the covers of their top-tier glossies, migrate online via their internet porthole AOL, and eventually float amidst the other sewage runoff filtered by bad-seed web-holding, TMZ, at which point the entire cycle begins anew. The only pie Time Warner has yet to stick a chubby little finger into is the business of network TV, and recent rumors have indeed suggested that they were hungrily circling NBC Universal. Addressing a media conference yesterday, CEO Jeff Bewkes issued a standard non-denial denial: More » -
Fame Games
VH1 Rolls The Dice With New Unknown Actress Reality Show, But Does The 'I Wanna Be A Big Stah!' Format Work Anymore?
Here we go again! VH1 (who else?) has just greenlit Scream Queens, a reality show in which 10 unknown actresses desperate to be the next Jamie Lee Curtis or Janet Leigh will compete for a starring role in an upcoming “major” Lionsgate film. And boy are they excited — one Lionsgate rep tells THR that “discovering new talent is always exciting,” while another chimes in by teaching us that “VH1 has had a tremendous track record in launching alternative programming that captures viewers' imaginations.” Yes, yes it does! Our brains have been expanded by Viacom's ongoing carnival featuring women degrading themselves in hot tubs and music execs attempting to Make A Band, Any Band Will Do quarter after quarter. But with a reputable horror studio behind Scream Queens and the fact that scary movies have launched more than a few major careers, this one may put its You’re The One That I Want and It Factor predecessors to shame. We look back at five recent Next Big Thing reality shows in an effort to place our bets: More »
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Comment by brilliantmistake: The It Factor also featured Jeremy Renner (SWAT, 28 Days Later), and Lisa Raye. A bunch of the other cast... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Alexander Payne, HBO Chase the 'Large-Penised' Demo With New Series
In a continuing creative victory for horse-geezered men around the world, HBO has brought Alexander Payne on board as the director of its new series Hung. Picked up by the network less than a month ago, the dark comedy is about "a well-endowed man ... who was once a high school sports legend, but is now plodding along in middle age as a struggling father and high school basketball coach. His luck begins to change, however, when he figures out a way to use his best asset." Or, as we hear creators Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin pitched it, "Kind of like Sideways, but with a huge dick where the pinot noir goes." More »
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By STVComment by Stephanies: Ignore my gutter bound mind, but how does our writer STV know that Alexander Payne is "generously beschlonged."?! On second thought,... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Roman Polanski's Victim Apparently a Fan of 'Roman Polanski' Documentary
The curious path of the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired took another bizarre turn this week when HBO hosted an actual red-carpet "premiere" for the film in New York — the same city where it had attempted to secretly screen the doc for a week-long Oscar-qualifying run last month. Then, as Vulture noted today, things got even weirder when Polanski's 1977 statutory rape victim, the then-13 Samantha Geimer, showed up as one of the guests: More »
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By STVComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: @FlangeSqueal: Jesus, Chelsea. Take a pill. Or twelve. more » | Other threads
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defamer
It's Not TV. It's Bruckheimer/Bay Blow-Shit-Up O-Vision.
A stunning development could herald the return of one of the greatest way-above-the-title pairings in Hollywood history: that of superproducing entity Jerry Bruckheimer and überdirecting force Michael Bay, the former the explosion-loving ying to the latter's blowing-shit-up-obsessed yang. The pair's creative partnership resulted, of course, in some of the most beloved, absolutely-terrible blockbusters of the mid 1990s—but what project could satisfy their shared need for one mushroom-cloud-detonation per page and a stream of ham-fisted catchphrases that can only be fully appreciated when delivered by Nicolas Cage? More » -
defamer
Distributor Rescues Roman Polanski Doc From Theatrical Siberia, Preps For Oscar
ThinkFilm today announced its acquisition of theatrical and DVD rights to the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which made as many headlines recently for its acclaimed Sundance run as for being dumped in New York and Pasadena for a week by its Oscar-craving original buyers at HBO. The cable network retains the broadcast rights, planning a June 9 premiere ahead of ThinkFilm's July 11 theatrical release. We know what you're thinking — a TV premiere before theatrical? But it's not that unusual, and it can only help in the awards push sure to come. More » -
between the one-sheets
The Top Three Reasons Why The Official 'SATC' Movie Poster Sucks
For what seems like an entire century, ladies and ladyboys have been anxiously awaiting the release of the ultimate "chick flick," Sex And The City: The Movie (have we mentioned how godawful that title is by the way?). In any case, yesterday we had the privilege of seeing the final one-sheet for the film which is set to open next month. And almost immediately, we began griping about it (annoyingly, just the way Carrie Bradshaw whined over her column's bus ad during the first season). After the jump, we discuss all the various problems with this image, from that dress to that font to, well, almost everything, boiled down into three primary points: More »
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trade roundup
Spike TV Unveils Their All Cong-Gutting 'Rambo' Schedule
· "What's our name?!" "Spike TV!" "And who do we serve?" "Men!" "And what do men like?" "Rambo!" "So what do we do?" "Air all the Rambos! Aarrghghhhh!!!!" [Variety] More » -
defamer
Outlandish Oscar Rules Force Film Arguing For Polanski's Exoneration To Wait for Cable TV
We'll call this Confounding Oscar Reality #259: A tipster tells us today that the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which painstakingly makes the case that Polanski's conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor was a travesty, has opened theatrically after leaving Sundance in January with a $1 million dollar deal and loads of acclaim. But wait — why are we hearing this from a tipster? Where is the marketing? Where are the reviews? Where is the heated discussion about the Polanski case? Thanks to Academy Award rules and a fickle distributor, that might have to wait. Follow the jump to find out why. More »
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By STVComment by jackass penguin: For Jessiedir. I am very familiar with the case, long before someone decided to make a film about it...where do... more » | Other threads
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