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more about #defamer more comments → Benny: Not as bad as I thought it would be. There's a genuine 9 yr old's innocence to her 'performance' that I wasn't expecting. Yeah, the lyrics are sexual ... more » TheSometimesWhy: "We have met the enemy. And he is us..." This quote was from a time when a daily comic strip dispensed as much wisdom, insight, and humor as you cou... more » BxgrlJeri: Has the world gone mad? When did it become okay for any 9 year old to act like this? more » heywhat: Good lord. The Cyrus' are screwing up their kids in record time. The Spears have nothing on them. more » Airvault: You must also realize that these people are country. Haven't you seen Coal Miner's Daughter? Really no different. more » Poop Cooper: This little girl is going to be so fucking rich. more » Airvault: "Ponyo loves Akon!!" more » Steverino Begins: It's okay, we will forgive you. Just promise me one thing. Look at yourself in the mirror and say, "I will never ever ever review another movie withou... more » limber: "In some way, I'll figure out later, we can claim this was a moral victory. " Never give up! Never surrender! more » bess marvin, girl detective: well there's your problem. titantic as the worst film ever made? talk about non-funny hyperbole. more » Mike Jahn: I don't know if I can take one more SciFi iteration of the Hero's Quest. Didn't Joseph Campbell die? That said, I will probably embrace the movie for... more » phlox✔: Avatard!!!! more » drunkexpatwriter: I just saw a sneak preview of it and it is beyond amazing. I've never seen anything even visually close to it. The entire audience was silent during ... more » kithkin: I'm hoping 3 is Kristen Bell but Christina Applegate makes sense too. But really! Veronica Mars! more » manchops: Okay. So where's the apology for your item "Why do they keep putting Sandra Bullock in Movies?" you ran a few months ago? Ummm, because she's the hig... more » -
#newspapers
Unauthorized Alien Movie Promotion Will Save Newspapers
Struggling Alaskan newspapers have come up with a new revenue source that could well become a model for the whole industry: Being paid restitution by a Hollywood studio that used your paper's name without permission to advertise an alien movie. More » -
#thecinema
Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
The latest creation in the Ass-Covering Studio Excuses R&D Dept. is the "Twitter Effect." Movies aren't making money, you see, because too many people are learning, 140 characters at a time, how bad they are. More » -
#legalaffairs
How We Actually Sorta Sympathize with People Suing Brüno
So Brüno dropped a perilous 73% in ticket sales this weekend, basically meaning that America has forgotten about Sacha Baron Cohen's Austrian fashion reporter (who's gay!!!!) alter ego. Well, one American hasn't. That brain-damaged lady is still suing. More » -
#beautifulawards
Can Studios Salvage Next Year's Oscars?
Another year, another lackluster awards-season showing for Hollywood studios. And while their art-house affiliates more than picked up the slack, could 2009 be the year the majors finally reclaim the Oscars for themselves? More » -
#deals
Discuss: Universal Paid Seven Figures For Jonah Hill's New Script
No one will confirm it, and considering the secrecy around the project, Universal may never disclose the rumored seven-figure price tag accompanying its deal for Jonah Hill's new screenplay Adventurer's Handbook. Still — seven figures? More » -
#dreamworks
Ron Meyer's Pissed: A DreamWorks and Disney Wedding Album
Disney and DreamWorks today sent out official confirmation of their shotgun wedding, issuing a release around town raising more questions about its relationship than it answers. More » -
#dreamworks
BREAKING: Universal Just Not That Into DreamWorks
Remember all those questions we had last year about how DreamWorks and Universal might bridge the financing gap in their tenuous new relationship? The answer's simpler than anyone thought: They won't. More » -
#traderoundup
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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#deals
Universal Quickly Fulfills 2009 Resolution to Flee the Crap-Movie Business
After several months of negotiations, Universal has closed its deal to sell genre-mill Rogue Pictures to the studio's close financing partners at Relativity Media. -
#deals
DreamWorks Bell-Ringers Lagging on $750 Mil Holiday Goal
Variety today offers a disturbing memo to anyone who had "DreamWorks' resurgence FTW" in their forecast of industry predictions for 2009: Maybe next year.
