December 2008 - Posts

BYO New Year's Eve Blog by The Hot Blog

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Watchman Legal Papers by The Hot Blog

Sorry this is late... and yet more Watchmen ... enough to choke on... but I finally got a look at the legal papers around the Christmas Eve finding by Judge Gary Allen Feess and it does speak specifically to a couple of the rumors that are being floated...
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Watchman EPK by The Hot Blog

Watchmen Exclusive It is funny that this is on MySpace, a News Corp business. But it is not remotely surprising. Trailer Park on MySpace has the younger traffic that Watchmen seeks. Marketing is marketing is marketing. Strange bedfellows and all that...
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Watchman Myopics by The Hot Blog

I will be brief, since I think I've been clear... It pains me to see smart people act like fools. If any of you lent a friend $10,000 to start a business they needed $200,000 to really start and you had the understanding that if they ever got their...
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BYOBirmingham by The Hot Blog

Heading back to The Great Big Freeway today... The year end seems less decisive this year... kinds rolling rather than just coming to a stop. Perhaps it's because I was at a bowl game yesterday, anticipating the college national championship in 9...
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Hollywood developing a slew of dog remakes by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikWith so many dog movies doing so well this season, there's been increased talk over the past few weeks among studio execs aboout remaking some of this year's more serious fall films as less serious pooch pics. Here... Read More...
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Birmingham News by The Hot Blog

In the big cities and in the media in general, we have a hard time avoiding media myopia. I write about studios that spend scores of millions every couple of weeks to release new films, media titans like the TribCo, NYT, and USA Today, and worry about...
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Weekend Estimates by Klady - December 28 by The Hot Blog

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The Per-Screen Scam by The Hot Blog

I am kinda sick of seeing screaming headlines/alerts about movies that are opening to "HUGE" per-screen averages at the end of the year... all the more absurd as studio-level wide release marketing budgets are leading to these HUGE exclusive...
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A Quick Touch Of Clarity by The Hot Blog

Yes, I know that I repeat a phrase in the Ly entry... Much as the ego stroke of everything at MCN being attributed as "David Poland's," this is a fallacy. I have not charter a single list this year (aside from forwarding those sent to me...

Why Ly'? by The Hot Blog

The LA Times did a hit piece on Ben Lyons today... Saturday... two days after Christmas... pretty much a burial... But what really struck me about the mostly cut-n-paste story was that there was not a single full-time critic quoted. Stu van Arsdale came...
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Mutts, Adam Sandler and the most curious movie weekend of the year by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Halfway through one of the most sprawling and crucial movie weekends of the year, we've learned a few things: Critics don't matter, and they matter a ton. Blockbusters come from unexpected places, and from the expected ones...
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Big stars, bigger mystery by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikWe get that it can be useful to promote the appearance of stars in specialized movies, even if it means sowing some confusion with filmgoers unaccustomed to that type of movie. (Random tidbit overheard outside a Michael Clayton... Read...
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Oscar Watch? by The Hot Blog

As I just wandered into EW's attempt to knock off my video interview franchise (smart... and they spend more on production... which is lovely... and interestingly, have only seemed to have gotten the specific talent that I have not...), more sad was...
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BYOB - After X by The Hot Blog

Still not ready to work, but here is some chat space... According to Steve Mason, the Christmas Day winner was Marley & Me, followed by Ben Button, followed by Bedtime Stories. Valkyrie did over $7 million for the day. I take Steve's premature...
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