February 2009 - Posts

Remember The WGAlamo by The Hot Blog

You know... I hate the idea of rubbing a soft success in the WGA's face, I think that the Strike Committee did what they sincerely felt they HAD to do. I think that most of them continue to believe that the deal they got wouldn't have happened...
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Saturday's Poll by The Hot Blog

( The story where these quotes and many other idiocies can be read. ) Results after the jump...
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Friday Estimates by Klady, 22809 by The Hot Blog

Is there really anything to say? The Jonas Bros. generated a strong number, which was overhyped going into the weekend. The last Madea was off 57% in Weekend Two, 67% Friday-to-Friday.. Slumdog is getting a boost - not as all Oscar winners do, but as...
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Trying A Tweet Poll - Watchmen by The Hot Blog

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Next 'Friday the 13th' in the works by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Jason's coming back.The villain who's defied death more often than Evil Knievel is making another appearance on the big screen. Sources saying that New Line and Platinum Dunes are moving forward on a new “Friday the 13th"...

Eddie's Oscar? by The Hot Blog

EW broke the lingering news today that it looks like Bill Condon’s long-gestating Richard Pryor movie is about to settle in at Fox Searchlight, after developing with The Weinstein Company and then having a brief dalliance with Paramount, where they sought...
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Finally, a chance to watch the Watchmen by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik We caught "Watchmen" tonight at the first wide-scale media screening in the U.S., and while our take is more generous than Kirk Honeycutt's quickly but elegantly composed THR review (he calls it, candidly, "nonsense...
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Review - Watchmen by The Hot Blog

Will have to wait until I see it next week. Yes, Virginia, I have been relegated by the very confident WB to seeing their mega-smash in what will surely be an overbooked all-media next week. When I spoke to the responsible on the film, not asking for...
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by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikHere's one to wrap your brain around: The NeverEnding Story” might keep going.Warner Bros. and a pair of top-tier production banners are in the early stages of a reboot of the 1980s children’s fantasy classic. The Kennedy/Marshall...
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The sound and the Fury by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven ZeitchikHere's one reminscent of Dr. Evil's demand for one million dollars.Samuel Jackson has just signed a nine-picture deal, a nine...picture...deal -- no, not a misprint -- to star in a host of Marvel pictures. Jackson, who works...

The French Connection in Blu by The Hot Blog

Wow. The French Connection on Blu-ray is one of the great additions to the highest shelf of my Blu-ray library, up there with The Godfather , the Kubrick films, and Pixar’s stuff. (I am soon to throw Raging Bull and The Last Emperor into the PS3 to see...
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Return To The Dark Knight by The Hot Blog

One of the blog commenters can't seem to separate why Slumdog won from why The Dark Knight was not nominated. In response, I found myself explaining my TDK issues – which are not nearly as severe as he constantly claims – in yet another way… so I...
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BYOB - Catching Up... by The Hot Blog

The days after the Oscar season end feel a bit like the first days getting back to school after months of summer vacation... waking up on a different schedule... new people, many familiar, but different... work to do but somehow, not as quick to get out...
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It's always Twilight just before the dawn by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik If Fitzgerald was wrong and there are indeed second acts in American life, then they frequently come with a good backend package.Several players who seemed to be done with the projects/entities they'd once been associated with are...
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Yearnin' for Chernin (or at least just happy to throw more buzz out there) by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik There's been lots of talk in movie circles -- not to mention squares, triangles and parallelograms -- over how the Peter Chernin departure will affect Fox.Some we've talked to have pointed out that Chernin was the key... Read...
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