November 2008 - Posts

Gurus o Gold - Darkhorses by The Hot Blog

The full charts...
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Bagger Goes (A Little) Native by The Hot Blog

My favorite person to read during Oscar season is David Carr. Too tired of it all to press his nose up against the glass, he sees the dirt in the corner of the panes and keeps it all in perspective. And then, his first two Hollywood missives of the season...
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You Have A $150 Million Movie... Now What? by The Hot Blog

Only eight movies before Twilight have cracked $100 million domestic from distributors that were not studio-affiliated. And the only company in that group that are still seriously in the distribution business is Lionsgate. And they got their one movie...
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DP/30 - Kristin Scott Thomas by The Hot Blog

The star of I've Loved You So Long
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DP/30 - Michelle Williams by The Hot Blog

The star of Wendy & Lucy
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Black Friday, but there will be light for Fox? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Australia's numbers so far prove a curious mix of things. Epic westerns with heartthrobs don't match up to teen-vampire movies with heartthrobs. Older people, with whom the movie appears to be doing well, will still go for....
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A Ben Button Quickie by The Hot Blog

I want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button again before really digging into it. (Idiots who think that "yay" or "nay" is the same as a review deserve the shallow level of thought they embody.) That said, what is intensely striking...
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King of documentaries and king of comedies switch places by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Fiction, nonfiction, what's the difference? Filmmakers with surprisingly different backgrounds are moving fluidly between the two this holiday weekend. One of the holiday hopefuls to bring shine a torch in the eyes of Twilight these...
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Mourning and uncertainty in the capital of Bollywood by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

There are certainly many more serious and tragic implications to the terror attacks in India Wednesday than its effect on the film business. But it's testament to the scope of the event that Bollywood did not escape unscathed. The main... Read More...
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Review - The Trouble With AUSTRALIA by The Hot Blog

I love Luhrmann. I do. I think he is one of those directors who has incredibly good taste, loves to walk on the tightrope without a net (his logo at the top of Australia includes the line – paraphrased – “A Life Live Without Risk Is A Life Only Half Lived...
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Documentary Short List by The Hot Blog

I was away when the list of 15 was released by The Academy… “At the Death House Door” “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” “Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” “Encounters at the End of the World” “Fuel” “The Garden” “Glass: A Portrait of...
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Thankful '08 by The Hot Blog

It has been a year of much turmoil in this country and in both industries of filmed entertainment and journalism. So much so that a list of my film pleasure thanks seems insanely indulgent. And unfortunately, in this year, far too limited. But it has...

Were Benjamin Button and Forrest Gump separated at birth? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Paramount's Benjamn Button is one of the most original and poignant movies to come out of big-budget Hollywood in a long time. But elements of the movie about reverse aging are unmistakably like another Paramount movie that... Read...
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Say goodbye to Hollywood...and hello to Bollywood? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Indie directors have long found endlessly inventive way to get movies made. There was dad's credit-card approach. There was cast-you-friends-and-family approach. There was, more recently, find-some-Wall-Street-sucker approach. But...
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BYOB - Return to L.A. (again) by The Hot Blog

I'll be out of circulation for the next 20 hours or so... everyone play nice... have some conversations that are smarter than The Hot Blog deserves!
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