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Defamer Halloween Costume Ideas, Vol. V: The Maverick
It's your very own printable Grazerhead mask! Download the full-size version here. More »
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By SethComment by Forest4theTrees: I heard Walmart was carrying a very authentic Grazerhead mask with real porcupine quills this Halloween but had to pull... more » | Other threads
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homecomings
A Return To Grazerheads
According to a press release in the Defamer inbox, Hollywood superproducing entity and non-recovering idea-addict Brian Grazer will be the recipient of the Mary Pickford Foundation Award at the USC School of Cinematic Arts 2008 graduation tomorrow—an honorarium presented by Disney head Bob Iger, and awarded to "men and women of USC who have made an indelible impact on the entertainment industry." This is obviously exciting news indeed, and we encourage any proud parents in attendance to send along video of the mogul-rich milestone. But were that all, for what lifted this publicist-penned correspondence beyond the realm of the commencement-speech-announcement mundane was a file attachment, accompanied by eight little words that shot a volt of pure ecstasy through our spine: "Have also attached a photo for your use." Oh. My. God. Are they kidding us? Just this once: Grazerhead has come home. More »
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By SethComment by raincoaster: @heidiho: Agreed. Smells like ... Deadspin? Jezebel? one or the other in here. I remember the days when this was the... more » | Other threads
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defamer
In Search Of The Next Grazerhead
A helpful operative happened to notice a Banksyian homage to everyone's favorite cultural-attaché-seeking (or maybe seeking no longer? We'd love a hiring update!) superproducer-entity, Brian Grazer. They write in to explain: More »
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By SethComment by KateNonymous: Or maybe it's what Pacino's mugshot would look like today. more » | Other threads
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defamer
Knowledge Junkie Brian Grazer Seeking New Thought-Pusher
Brian Grazer has made little secret of his helplessness over his knowledge addiction: The superproducer's cravings have become so extreme, he can regularly be found shivering in the alley outside the Imagine offices awaiting his cultural attaché, who arrives bearing a bindle of high-grade Blue Insight for Grazer to cook up over a bare lightbulb and inject directly between his concept-hungry toes. But with his trusty idea-pusher having decided it was time to move on, the unusual job listing for his replacement has been making the Hollywood rounds. The New Yorker reports: More »
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By SethComment by TheSometimesWhy: I can't bear to look at Grazer ever since that day that I served him and Brandon Tartikoff lunch. ... more » | Other threads
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davinci code
Now that Imagine's Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have had blockbuster Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons put off indefinitely by the strike, we think we've identified a perfect fill-in project that could hit on many of the controversial religious themes that made Da Vinci such a huge success: The 13th Disciple, a planned "fantasy-adventure" film about Jesus Christ's reincarnated evil twin. We've already cast longtime Grazer muse Russell Crowe in the heretical leading role. [Reuters] -
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Brian Grazer Would Trade His Hollywood Kingdom For A 'People' Cover
Despite having earned untold millions from his incredibly successful superproducing career, won an Oscar for his shepherding of a buddy comedy (with heart!) about a math-loving schizophrenic and his favorite imaginary friend, and having recently dragged a troubled, $100 million passion project out of development hell and into a lucrative box office run all by himself, Imagine's Brian Grazer is still tormented by feelings of Hollywood inadequacy. In today's NY Times, Grazer, his signature hair-spikes seemingly wilting with each anguished word, laments that for all of his show business accomplishments, his name is still relatively unknown by the middle-American moviegoers to whom he delivers Russell Crowe-starring cinematic delights every couple of years: More »
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By MarkComment by SugartitsMcFirecrotch: @Sweet Panda Love: Hmmm, I think of him as more of a Potsie or Ralph Malph type myself. Although, with this... more » | Other threads
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trade roundup
In Denial About The Coming Labor Apocalypse, Hollywood Keeps Announcing New Projects Like Nothing's Wrong
· In a badly timed announcement of blockbuster-derived profits, Viacom crows about the "phenomenal success" of "new global brand Transformers" that helped lift their net income by 80 percent, forgetting to transfer the revenues to a balance-sheet loss column and publicly lament that "there's no money to be made in this dying business of ours." [Variety] More » -
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Possible Strike Quietly Rushing Ron Howard's Middlebrow Genius
· Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are frantically finalizing the shooting script of Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons before the Oct. 31st deadline, hoping that the mad rush towards production won't jeopardize the duo's ability to produce the kind of easily digestible, crowd-pleasing entertainment that always results from their lucrative collaborations. Meanwhile, star Tom Hanks has been presented with a hair-growing schedule that will barely provide the actor with enough time to reproduce his character's signature demi-mullet. Truly, no one is immune from the pressures of the looming™ strike. [Variety] More » -
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Brian Grazer Hits The Beach
We at Defamer realize that a layout issue in our recent redesign has somewhat reduced our ability to shock you with the unexpected deployment of Brian Grazer's official headshot (the Grazerhead™ to regular visitors), and so in the interest of putting you back on edge, we're bringing out the nukes: this screenshot of a shirtless Grazer, who was cornered by a TMZ video camera this weekend at the Polaroid Malibu Beach House after presumably trying to superproduce an anonymous blonde's phone number by casually mentioning that she'd be perfect for the Splash sequel he's been wanting to do for twenty years. More »
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By MarkComment by I-heart-Rien: he looks like every sad 45 year old gay man at a circuit party trying desparately to pass for 39.... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by I-heart-Rien: Can we get a SGH making cumshot face? it would be so repulsive you would have to look. ... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by wrongsideofthefox: Geez, I just realized I missed the party. I was mesmerized by the Grazerhead. more » | Other threads
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trade roundup
Brian Grazer To Play Cowboys N' Aliens
· Imagine's Brian Grazer will superproduce an adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys and Aliens for DreamWorks and Universal, a project the spikey-haired seeker described as the "perfect realization of all the cowboys-meeting-aliens-related ideas I've been quietly developing since I was a hyperactive six years old locked in my bedroom with a chest full of toys." [Variety] More » -
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Dude: Space Chimps
· Ladies and gentleman, we give you the next Snakes on a Plane. Coming soon from director Barry Sonnenfeld: Space Chimps. We'll say it again: Space Chimps. One more time? OK, if we must: Space Chimps. Begin erecting your unauthorized fan sites...now. (And make sure to tell the studio it's only going to work if they make it a live action film.) [Variety] More » -
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Judd Apatow Steadily Consolidating Means Of Comedy Production
· Local comedy monopolist Judd Apatow continues to integrate the industry's mirth-making entities into his rapidly expanding humor-producing conglomerate, collaborating with Jack Black, Knocked Up's Harold Ramis, Superbad's Michael Cera, and an Office writing team on Year One for Columbia. [Variety] More » -
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'SNL' Art Department Obviously Didn't Get That 'Change The Door Stencil' Memo From Legal
Because our secret publicity contract with frighteningly handsome, genius-level superproducer Brian Grazer mandates that we draw attention to his every appearance across a variety of media, we note a curious sketch from this weekend's SNL season finale, in which host Zach Braff is harassed by the obsessed assistant (whom, we fear, might be a dude) of one "Brian Gold," a powerful and spikey-haired Hollywood executive. For reasons that are left unexplained in the skit, "Gold" is subletting Grazer's Imagine Entertainment office space, possibly to help defray the cost of the company's exorbitant Beverly Hills rent while the intellectually voracious executive criss-crosses the globe in search of minds to plunder with his creepy powers. After the jump, NBC's official YouTube clip of the sketch, curiously described as "Melissa and Zach Braff make a connection in Brian Grazer's office." More » -
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Imagine Gets Into The Frank Langella Business For 'Frost/Nixon'
· Frank Langella will reprise his stage role as Nixon for Imagine's big screen version of Peter Morgan's celebrated play, Frost/Nixon. The casting suggests director Ron Howard will remain true to the source material, though that doesn't completely rule out Akiva Goldsman being brought in for an eleventh-hour rewrite that incorporates several make-believe characters that exist only in the disgraced President's paranoid imagination. [Variety] More »
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By SethComment by mrstanseloy: @SugartitsMcFirecrotch: shhhh. don't give them ideas.... more » | Other threads
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Hollywood GrazerWatch: Unleashing The Colossus
When last we encountered superproducer Brian Grazer. he was at the center of a media maelstrom resulting from his selfless desire to unscrew the top of his singularly coiffed head and share with the world an unobstructed view of the constantly churning works within through an ill-fated guest-editing stint on the LA Times Sunday Current section, but today's Var brings news that Grazer has quickly shaken off the scandal and gotten back to what he does best: finding material for Imagine Entertainment partner Ron Howard to chew up and regurgitate into a form easily digestible by the moviegoing masses. The just-announced project is a remake of 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project, the tale of the government supercomputer controlling America's nuclear arsenal achieving malevolent sentience and plunging the world into chaos (think Wargames meets, um, Wargames), which Grazer plans to reimagine as a somewhat more personal narrative: His Colossus: The Spring Street Project will be the story of a revenge-obsessed Hollywood producer's cybernetically enhanced brain hacking into the mainframe of a major metropolitan newspaper and erasing its entire archives as payback for its refusal to publish some essays he solicited from some intellectual friends. More »
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By MarkComment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: I just want Scarlett Johannsen doing the Susan Clark part in a Forbin Project remake! Especially the nude scene, which in... more » | Other threads
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ebay
Today In Second-Hand Office Furnishings Once Touched By Lovable Famous People
Because even the most utilitarian of office furniture becomes highly desirable when you're told it once belonged to a former child star turned helmer of blandly palatable Hollywood blockbusters, we offer for your online bidding consideration this blocky, brown specimen, which, an eBay seller tells us, once sat in The DaVinci Code director Ron Howard's Imagine offices. More »
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By SethComment by Cutting Makes You Sexy: Just because Brian Grazer's ass sanctified the polyester on that very couch does not necessarily mean I want it for... more » | Other threads
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Brian Grazer: In His Own, Publicist-Supplied Words
Late yesterday afternoon, Imagine philosopher-king Brian Grazer's introduction to his ill-fated Current section was saved from the oblivion to which it was dispatched by the LAT's cautious publisher, whose decision to kill the stunt-edit called down from the media heavens a shitstorm arguably equal in filthy intensity to the one he was trying to avoid in the first place. Today, Grazer's statement on the matter is circulating in reports about the controversy (words probably lovingly composed by the same publicists who got him into this mess), hinting at the delights the intellectually voracious superproducer of easily digestible populist entertainments had planned for the Times' readership this Sunday morning. From THR: More »
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By MarkComment by gwendemarco: Paul Ekman developed the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), the most popular standard currently used to systematically categorize the physical... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Trade Round-Up: Russell Crowe Set To Go Mad With Directorial Power
· Famously temperamental thespian Russell Crowe will make his directorial debut on a feature adaptation of the documentary Bra Boys, about three brothers who started an underground surf movement in Sydney, during which the novice helmer will learn precisely how much damage a hurled megaphone can do to a mouthy PA's skull. Imagine's Brian Grazer to superproduce. [Ed.note—Since an update to this morning's Grazergate story is possible at some point today, we're forced to spare you the headshot at this time due to image bandwidth issues that could arise from its repeated posting.] [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by raincoaster: Tell me he bowed out and Stephen Chow is in and I'm there. more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by NotReadyForPrimeTime: This picture reminds me of something. There is a car dealership on the 405 near the Orange County line.... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Brian Grazer And Spike Lee Have Their James Brown Movie Ending
While porcupine-becoiffed superproducer Brian Grazer (don't worry—we won't use the headshot) has long been developing a big screen treatment of James Brown's life story with the cooperation of the legend himself, just two days after the singer's death comes a report that Spike Lee has signed on to direct. And although Grazer wasn't necessarily looking for a Hollywood ending, something about Brown hip-gyrating off this mortal coil on Christmas Day makes for a satisfyingly spectacular conclusion to the life of a Soul Messiah: More »
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By SethComment by gwendemarco: "...it's somehow not surprising that he died on Christmas Day. He was the ultimate showman, all the way to the... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by invalid-username: Only when the face is actually larger than life size will we have truly been "Grazed." more » | Other threads
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By SethComment by raincoaster: September 23, 2006. But I'm over that now... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by raincoaster: You know that photo of the little baby hominid that they reconstructed? I thought it looked familiar, but stupid me... more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by el smrtmnky: ooh, a Whataburger reference by F*&k, Be Nice! i miss that place. more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: Sure, Ron Howard has red hair...but "pretty"? C'mon. more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by raincoaster: I think I had that doll when I was little, but his hair came to a point on top and... more » | Other threads
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sony
Sony And Imagine Disagree About How To Exploit 'Da Vinci' Outrage
Hoping to postpone Vatican-ordered multiplex burnings and mass excommunications until after The Da Vinci Code has raked in its opening weekend millions, Sony has eschewed the practice of pre-screening their inevitable blockbuster for influencers, choosing to give up any advance buzz based on the actual product until a critics' showing tonight and Wednesday's premiere at Cannes. But Sony and the producers at Imagine didn't always agree on this strategy, according to to the NY Times' Sharon Waxman: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Fox And Imagine Launch Money Into Space
· We are very, very afraid: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment is joining up with evil Fox reality TV presence Mike Darnell to produce X Quest, in which "ordinary folks" (i.e., struggling actors) are locked into incredibly expensive space simulators. The simulators will be so realistic (i.e. did we mention incredibly expensive?) that "every button, display and videoscreen actually serv[es] a purpose. Press the wrong button and bad things may happen." Example: 30-year old model/bartender Bryce mistakenly presses the "airlock release," and viewers in the 18-49 demo all over America immediately tune out. If the show doesn't debut to huge numbers, look for the network to cut costs by relocating the show to the Star Tours ride at Disneyland. [Variety] More » -
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Trade Round-Up: WB Kills The Frog
· The WB puts Michigan J. Frog in the blender, liberating itself from the tyranny of its kid-friendly mascot in an attempt to shed its perception as the place where viewers kill time while waiting for their pubes to sprout. To show how serious he was about killing the frog and separating from the past, WB head Garth Ancier even made a cutting-edge reference to one of the country's hottest news stories: "The frog was on life support for a long time and then we got permission from a federal court to removed the feeding tube." [Variety] More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Ratner Winds Up In Middle Of Rock-Murphy Sandwich
· Given that Imagine Entertainment has signed fauxteur Brett Ratner to direct a heist flick/buddy comedy with Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock, thus insuring that his extra-Rush Hour box office losing streak will be snapped, we are forced to conclude that Ratner has very, very incriminating photographs of Imagine's Ron Howard and Brian Grazer sexually humiliating prisoners at Guantanamo (i.e. hosting a screening of A Beautiful Mind), or some high-def video of the duo poisoning the water supply of half the San Fernando Valley. These are the only possible explanations for his hire. We're still trying to figure out what blackmail material Ratner found to land the X3 gig. [Variety] More » -
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The Slump: The 'Cinderella Man' Money-Back Guarantee
As The Slump deepens, theaters are trying desperation tactics (discounts, lame "all Smiths and Herbies get in free!" promotions, etc etc) to lure the public's indifferent heinies into their stadium seats. The WSJ reports that theater chain AMC is so exasperated with the underperformance of the once Oscar-baiting, now bonafide flop Cinderella Man that they're offering a refund to anyone who doesn't like the treacly cinematic stylings of Ron Howard: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Casting Directors Go Teamster
· DVDs of TV shows did $2.8 million in sales in 2004; at least $2 billion of that came from viewers who don't realize that Friends and Seinfeld reruns play on free TV roughly fourteen times a day. [Variety] More » -
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'Cinderella Man' Fails, Universal Scrambles For Answers
The NYT reports that the braintrust behind Cinderella Man met on Tuesday to try and make some sense of the movie's failure at the box office. (Of course, Russell Crowe's ill-timed bludgeoning of a hotel clerk didn't help, but wasn't seen as the deal-breaker.) Let the wringing of the hands, the gnashing of the teeth, and the wailing to a Creator who's cruelly indifferent to period boxing movies commence! More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Clive Owen Has Sex, Fires Guns At Same Time
· Clive Owen is finalizing the details to star in Shoot-Em-Up for New Line, an "ultraviolent" flick with scenes that include "a shootout during a sex scene and another in the midst of a freefall." We don't want to fall prey to the hype machine, but this may turn out to be the greatest movie ever made. [Variety] More » -
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Inside The Throne Room: Brian Grazer's Guest Bathroom
In what we hope will come to be a recurring feature, Defamer is proud to present the first installment of Inside the Throne Room, a penetrating look inside the water closets of Hollywood's hottest power players. Our opening offering spotlights what appears to be a guest bathroom from Brian Grazer's Pacific Palisades manse, snapped during the recent book release party for the wife of Imagine partner Ron Howard. Judging from this cameraphone shot (click it for a larger version), yes, it's a little small, but cozy enough in its muted tones that we can picture quixotic superproducer Grazer occasionally seeking refuge there from the opulence of his master bathroom; perhaps it's even the place where he gets the kind of thinking done that results in Russell Crowe having "real" imaginary friends in A Beautiful Mind, an inspired filmic shorthand that frustrated schizophrenia sufferers but carried the pic to multiple Oscar wins. More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Ed Burns Still Working
· The Agent Dance Mini: CAA agent Michael Wimer is getting ready to bolt to form a production company with Roland Emmerich at Columbia, where the two will attempt to make movies where lots of shit blows up; to maintain a proper agent-equilibrium, Endeavor's Spencer Baumgarten fills a spot a CAA. [Variety, Variety ] More » -
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Breaking! Another Boot Found On Fox Lot!
The terror that had gripped the Fox lot during the height of the "Fox Leg" mystery hasn't yet subsided. An operative fears that yet another boot-related incident may again trouble Rupert Murdoch's already worried minions: "I found this boot on the Fox lot next to the old NYPD Blue Stages this morning. Considering recent events surrounding boots and the Fox lot, I'm a bit concerned for my well-being. I didn't see a severed leg in this one, but I'm on the look-out." More »
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