March 2009 - Posts

With 'Atlas Shrugged,' Hollywood may have its first anti-bailout movie by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist. After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand’s capitalism-minded “Atlas Shrugged” is taking new steps toward the big screen — with one of the film world’s most prominent money men potentially...
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Wiseman @AFI Dallas by The Hot Blog

One doesn't expect "Domestic Violence, Pt 1" to be so refreshing. But Frederick Wiseman's 2001 six and a half hour document of a shelter in Tampa, FL is so square that it's spectacularly hip in this era of the Look At Me doc. No...
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Anil Kapoor gives his final answer by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik That persistent, grating voice asking who wants to be a milluh-naire in the gameshow sequences of "Slumdog Millionaire" may soon ring out in U.S. productions. ICM has signed Anil Kapoor -- the star of dozens of Bollywood....
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MPAA draws curtain on movie production and marketing budgets data by Company Town

Reversing a longstanding practice, the Motion Picture Association of America won't disclose the average amount of money that studios spent on making and marketing movies last year. For years, the MPAA has included detailed statistics and analysis...
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How to be...in the Rob Pattinson business by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Now even locking up your daughters won't work. IFC confirmed today that it had acquired rights to the first post-Twlight Rob Pattinson movie -- the indie dramedy "How to Be" -- and will release it via its... Read More...
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Coltish behavior by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Good sports movies are a dime a dozen, but good sports-fan movies you can count pretty much on one foam finger. We're talking not comeback stories or sports biopics or underdog triumph-of-the-spiriters or coaches-who-care tearfests...
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Bruno's NC-17: Like a really inexpensive trailer by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

Is there any doubt that the NC-17 rating which "Bruno" has been given on its first go-round with the MPAA won't be used as a marketing tool by Universal? Not since Harvey Weinstein put out, well, any Michael Moore movie... Read More...
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What Is Niche?: 2009 Edition by The Hot Blog

The spark started in yesterday's box office conversation, based on the notion that the worst five performances against openings of more than $50m were "niche" films... this based on what seems to be the fact that Watchmen will be the worst...
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Netflix to raise prices for Blu-ray movie rentals by Company Town

Netflix today said it would raise prices by about 20% for subscribers who rent Blu-ray movie discs, saying the premium would allow the movies-by-mail service to stock more copies of the high-definition discs to keep pace with demand. Subscribers who....
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The Day The Movies Died by The Hot Blog

Wow... that's called burying the lead! Dawn C. Chmielewski at the LA Times did a story today that is, perhaps, the most important story to the film industry in the last two years. Stop obsessing on frickin' 3D and the overhyped box office boom...
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BYOB - Dallas by The Hot Blog

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A new dimension for 3D? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik We've had some secific theories about the big earners of this young year. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" worked because, for all its silliness, it felt relatable to the many ticket-buyers who see movies (and were no doubt... Read...
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Flirting with the beginning? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik We know David O. Russell is most heralded for "Flirting with Disaster" and "Three Kings." And they're plenty good. But for our money his best work is his first work, "Spanking the Monkey," that at once...
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Former AOL chief to join News Corp. by Company Town

Former America Online Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is expected to join News Corp. in the newly-created position overseeing digital strategy, according to a person familiar with the situation. Miller is a well known figure in digital media, whose name...
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LA Press Club's 2nd Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards by The Hot Blog

I just got a note than Shawn Edwards and have Russ Simmons won Best TV Film Critic, the second year in the row the the pair have been honored as Best TV Film Critics. This is the only winner I know of, as the awards winners, given out last night, have...
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