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"Gentlemen Broncos" gets corralled.
Wed, Nov 4 2009 1:44 PM
Fox Searchlight has become to the '00s what Miramax was to the '90s: a company that gets known for putting out "niche" movies that aren't honestly the toughest of sells. With the trifecta of "Napoleon Dynamite," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Juno," they basically cracked open the window for the mainstreaming of... Read More...
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India, coming to a theater near you.
Tue, Oct 27 2009 5:01 PM
India's Reliance Entertainment doesn't just own a chunk of DreamWorks, they're also now the 25th-largest movie theater operator in the U.S. Welcome to the globalized future! In the last 18 months, Reliance has snapped up 18 cinemas across the country; they control 181 screens. Not all of the theaters are devoted to Bollywood movies; some mix them... Read More...
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Ghosts of Christmas movie "traditions."
Tue, Oct 27 2009 2:58 PM
"A Christmas Carol" arrives next Friday, and I'm actually a little excited, being a fan of the perversity of "Beowulf," Robert Zemeckis' last motion-capture experiment. But by now we're as overstocked on cinematic Scrooges as we are on Jane Eyre adaptations. No matter, Disney's betting $175 million on the film itself, and lord... Read More...
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The future's so bright, it deserves a letter grade.
Tue, Oct 13 2009 4:25 PM
It may be based in Vegas, but market research firm CinemaScore is one of the most feared organizations in Hollywood. Not feared in the style of a Harvey Weinstein or Nikki Finke -- feared because the company's proven frighteningly good at predicting accurate box-office grosses. Over at his "Big Picture" blog, Patrick Goldstein profiles Ed Mintz... Read More...
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How to get horror fans to do your work for you.
Mon, Oct 12 2009 12:37 PM
"Paranormal Activity" -- the low-budget heir apparent to "The Blair Witch Project," allegedly terrifying audiences into fleeing midway in fear, as opposed to the usual disgust -- has won itself a nationwide release this weekend. Paramount's marketing campaign had fanboys clicking on a petition to "demand" the movie be shown in... Read More...
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Queen of the closed loop of Hollywood news.
Mon, Oct 5 2009 3:55 PM
What makes Tad Friend's massive New Yorker piece on Nikki Finke a must-read is its angle of genial observation. Finke is the feared, acerbic queen of the hermetic world of Hollywood industry reporting and blogging, but Friend's sympathetic depiction levels the playing field, presenting her to a wider audience in the same way the magazine would profile... Read More...
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How to be good.
Mon, Sep 28 2009 3:45 PM
This past Friday, 60-odd representatives of indie film gathered at MoMA for a state of the nation meeting about what's going on in the world of indie film, whether there is a true crisis and how it can be fixed. Unlike earlier provocations like Mark Gill's "The Sky Is Falling" speech from last summer, the Indie Film Summit was a private gathering... Read More...
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Free range product placement.
Mon, Sep 28 2009 12:13 PM
Brett Ratner, modelizer, man about town and hack director responsible for such fare as "X3" and the "Rush Hour" movies, has always been best at marketing himself as the face of smooth Hollywood craftsmanship. So his talent as an adman is no surprise. Speaking Thursday at New York's Advertising Week on "consumer attention in a media... Read More...
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Why Wisconsin won't be the next Hollywood.
Wed, Sep 23 2009 11:15 AM
A few years ago, states were playing tax incentive chicken with each other to see who could offer the best deals to lure film and TV productions away from the familiar confines of California and Toronto to shoot in their neck of the woods. And now they're paying for it. As the Los Angeles Times reports, some of those states are starting to find that those... Read More...
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Monday morning massacre?
Mon, Sep 21 2009 12:45 PM
The recession is officially fading and box-office grosses are as strong as ever, but the entire film industry seems to contracting in pain today, from major to micro. Variety reports that Universal has frozen development for the rest of the year -- if your project wasn't already realistically getting made, there'll be no more cash for rewrites and meetings... Read More...
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3D rules, OK?
Thu, Sep 17 2009 3:20 PM
Turns out, Jeffrey Katzenberg was right all along. Two years ago, the Dreamworks Animation CEO was confidently predicting that they're be 12-18 full 3D movies in the year 2010. At the time, it seemed like a huge gamble. And now he wins: next year there will be something like 30 3D features. And that's going to be a problem. Because, as Variety reports... Read More...
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Disney loyalty in Tomorrowland.
Fri, Sep 11 2009 4:31 PM
Today is day two of the first ever D23 Expo, one of the weirdest flexings of corporate muscle I've ever seen. D23 is like Comic-Con for Disney fans. Adults are invited to pay $90 for a four-day pass or $30 for one (kids get in for $66/$22) to go listen to an extended sales-pitch. Well, some of the time: the schedule is vast and unwieldy, with something for... Read More...
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It takes a village to release a Zac Efron movie.
Thu, Sep 10 2009 9:54 AM
Richard Linklater's "Me And Orson Welles" -- which has been kicking around for a year since its premiere at Toronto 2008 -- finally has a distribution deal in place, and it's a doozy. The company that funded it -- Cinemanx, based on the Isle of Man -- has partnered with no less than four others to put the film out. Cinetic Media is managing... Read More...
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Walt Disney's covert mission in Latin America.
Tue, Sep 8 2009 10:00 AM
Last week's purchase of Marvel Entertainment signified the start of a new era at Disney, but the studio has quietly spent much of this year commemorating their past with a series of feature documentaries that have not only provided insight into the nooks and crannies behind the Mouse House, but have been among the year's most compelling docs, period.... Read More...
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Summer 2009: but what does it *mean*?
Mon, Aug 31 2009 11:31 PM
Clearly someone at Variety was crunching numbers every Sunday night and waiting for the moment they could announce that this was the highest-grossing summer EVER; late Monday afternoon, with all the box office estimates confirmed, it was time to drop the good news. Yes, this summer set records all over. $4.17 billion grossed over last summer's $4.16 billion... Read More...
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