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What made "Sammy" stop running and other never-were adaptations.
Tue, Sep 1 2009 1:12 AM

In what's easily the best thing he's done since, uh, guest star on "Undeclared," Ben Stiller took time out from mugging, shrieking and frittering away his talent to pay affectionate tribute to the late Budd Schulberg, who died August 5th. For the past few years, Stiller's evident frustration with Hollywood has been erupting in odd ways ... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Terry Gilliam, Barry Sonnenfeld, Scott Rudin, Ben Stiller, Neil Gaiman, Harold Pinter, Budd Schulberg, List, White Noise, Don DeLillo, Michael Chabon

The "Marc Pease" predicament.
Tue, Aug 11 2009 3:10 PM

As someone who spends plenty of time trolling the coming soon calendar for our seasonal previews, I'll see many films that look intriguing, but are pulled at the last minute by their distributor. Or worse -- they end up like "The Marc Pease Experience," a Ben Stiller-Jason Schwartzman comedy that has seen release dates come and go and that'll... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Biz, Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick, Jessica Biel, Tenderness, Margaret, Russell Crowe, Maiden Heist, David O. Russell, Nailed, Matt Damon, Todd Louiso, Jason Schwartzman, Kenneth Lonergan, Christopher Walken, Marc Pease Experience

We Todd Did.
Thu, Aug 14 2008 11:51 AM

While the folks behind "Tropic Thunder" had obviously soldiered up in advance for -- and were probably counting on -- controversy surrounding Robert Downey Jr.'s (totally hilarious) turn as a method actor in surgically applied blackface, the vehement protests surrounding the film's frequent, gleeful use of the work "retarded" seem... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Tropic Thunder, Justin Theroux, Special Olympics, semantics, Timothy Shriver, Versus, Ben Stiller, New Outrageousness