January 2009 - Posts

DP/30 - Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon by The Hot Blog

Frost/Nixon director Ron Howard discusses the film. Interview video after the jump....
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Open It Up And Out Come The... by The Hot Blog

Getting stuff in the mail is fun... especially when it makes unexpected noise... I don't remember a champagne sponsor for The Oscars before, but Moet Chandon did send a bottle of bubbly to announce their sponsorship. Hopefully, there will not be a...
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Annie leaves Wall-E Orphaned by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik There was talk that Wall-E could have and should have been nominated for Oscar's best picture. Yet the industry-heavy Annies, given by animation group ASIFA-Hollywood to the best animated movies of the year, had a different point...

Eat, Pray Love becomes Buy, Turnaround, Acquire by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikThat sound you hear is the sound of women the world over rejoicing at the fact that a studio is getting going on "Eat, Pray, Love," Elizabeth Gilbert's story of post-breakup nirvana that was a legal obligation for... Read...
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This Year's Patrick Attack by The Hot Blog

I thought Patrick Goldstein had grown out of his personal rage at me and everyone else who knows more about the awards season than he does... but no. Today's late season attack on me and others was a surprise. I am going to reprint my response to...
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Tunnel of No Love: Why Springsteen was snubbed by the Academy by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikLots of noise -- not so much of the musical kind -- over why Bruce Springsteen didn't get nommed for an Oscar for best song for his eponymous contribution to "The Wrestler." Even some drivetime deejays were talking... Read...
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20 Weeks To Oscar: 3 Weeks To Go by The Hot Blog

D. It Is Written The great irony of this year’s Oscars is the constant battle between the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. The Devil says, “The year is boring… we know all the answers already… is a classic Hollywood fantasia set in a...
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DP/30 - Sundance Audience Winner: An Education by The Hot Blog

Two chats... With Sundance 2009 breakout star Carey Mulligan, who stars in An Education and co-stars in The Greatest (with her director coming in to talk a bit about 2/3 through the chat). And director Lone Scherfig of An Education and Italian for Beginners...
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Hmmm... by The Hot Blog

Why is Variety - in the form of two leading bloggers on the .com page - selling the absurd notion that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is chasing Slummy's tail closely? It is my considered opinion that both Frost/Nixon and Milk have much stronger...
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Razzing and the Razzies: A refreshing awards moment by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik A week ago, we were waking up for the Oscars, saluting the quality that is Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button and wondering what slot, exactly, "The Dark Knight belonged in. It's a debate about the best movies... Read...
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The (more interesting) chronicle of Narnia by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik C.S. Lewis and Chronicles of Narnia fans will have a chance to see a third installment made and released next year after all.Walden, as Borys Kit reports, takes "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" to its go-to partner... Read More...
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A Lara Croft that's back...but isn't Angelina by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Comments for our Lara Croft story -- in which we note that Warner Bros. has picked up the rights and is trying a reboot six years after the second Angelina Jolie pic flopped - have ranged from... Read More...
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Why a Slumdog backlash could kick in -- but still have no effect at the Oscars by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikOscar backlashes tend to happen the way Ernest Hemingway went broke: gradually at first, then all at once. it's hard to know, from the middle of the storm, if we're in that gradual phase right now, and if... Read More...
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Academy closes book on Reader producer question by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikAs we wrote about Saturday, the debate over the "Reader" producers had nothing to do with the sexy Scott Rudin angle; he walked off the picture in October and was not making any move to come back. The... Read More...
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Super Money by The Hot Blog

Someone asked about profitability in another entry, so I responded in - surprise! - excessive depth. Then someone sent me this link to an IGN video about Sam Jackson not doing Iron Man 2 over, he says, money. To quote the quoting of the video: "I...
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