July 2008 - Posts

Bat Haiku by The Hot Blog

You know, I love it when a commenter has a stroke of genius... or in some cases, just a stroke. But seriously, folks... The idea of the BAT HAIKU came up and, heck, why not give it a try? Nolan up to Bat So much more than a comic But a comic still The...
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More Great News For Paramount by The Hot Blog

They landed Brett Ratner ... WOOO HOOO! Take a breath.... Ratner has good taste. He can make $100 million look like the most beautiful $75 million you've ever seen on screen. So what is Paramount getting itself into? Well, the relationship seems mostly...
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Selling A Paramount Turnaround by The Hot Blog

The Variety headline reads, " Paramount films fuel Viacom - (sub-head) Revenues up 21% to $3.9 billion last quarter " How does one take the trade seriously when they don't offer the real facts, but the spin as a headline? The real deal from...
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Is it time for superhero movies to come out of their Bat Cave? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik One day deep in the future, after Sasha Obama is sworn in to her second term and the AMPTP and SAG finally work out a new labor agreement, people will look back at this era of superhero... Read More...
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Matson Is All Thumbs by The Hot Blog

The cartoon...
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Hot Button - Circles Of Lies by The Hot Blog

Oy... this is what I get for watching The View. The ladies spent 5 minutes discussing how the Western Wall prayer that was taken out of the wall and published in Israel was, according to the paper that published the presumably private document, Ma'ariv...
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The Swing Vote Campaign That You Should Have Seen by The Hot Blog

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George Bush: Not just for cable news anymore by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

Article Templatehttp://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1119669402http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=769341148 After all the casting announcements, Drudge links and general Oliver Stone-ish handwringing, there's finally some footage...
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BYOEarthquake by The Hot Blog

If an earthquake hits Hollywood in late July, does anyone actually feel it?
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Hot Button - Batting Around Titanic Numbers by The Hot Blog

Is it anything less than a dereliction of duty, whether it be Horn's choice or his editors' choice, to not even mention the worldwide box office success of Titanic, which really is what makes the box office landmark the equal of what “Joe DiMaggio's...
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El Mummy Tres Sucks And Sucks Hard by The Hot Blog

Just when you thought it might be safe to go back to a Rob Cohen movie… The Uwe Boll of studio film. A man who makes Brett Ratner look like a cinematic intellectual. He brought you Stealth , easily the worst summer movie of 2005… and now, they gave him...
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Comic-Con: The dogs, the robots, the whimsy by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Of all the notable things at a whirlwind few days spent at Comic-Con-- even more notable than the Star Troopers giving out free hugs -- was just how widely divergent the film fare on offer was. There... Read More...
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P-n-P Blog Factory by The Hot Blog

I was planning on holding an update on The Pete-n-Pat Blog Show for a while. After all, we’re still waiting for either one of them to do something close to the “blogging” that led me to start an actual blog in addition to my once-daily-then-thrice-weekly...
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BYOB - Manic Monday by The Hot Blog

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Hot Button Review - Tropic Thunder by The Hot Blog

Tropic Thunder strikes me as the ultimate example of Stars Gone Wild. Let’s put aside that the commercial viability of movies about movies has always been iffy, no matter how good the movie. (See: Bowfinger . Really. See it now! See it again!) The premise...
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