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Why MPAA Blinked On Reporting Costs by The Hot Blog

I am fascinated that Dan Glickman, in giving his annual State of The Union report to reporters and then exhibitors at ShoWest, did NOT give a number for costs of production and marketing. His excuse - which is not unreasonable on its face - was that there...
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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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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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Why Does The NYT Keep Missing The Story? by The Hot Blog

Over the weekend, a Brooks Barnes story – “ Who Threw the DVD From the Train? ” – ran in the NY Times… and it keeps me wondering… where are the editors at the Paper of Record? Firstly, that headline is not representative of the story. But that is the...
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Will They Stop With The 3D Claims Already? by The Hot Blog

Uh... no. Here is the latest WSj story on the 3-D Crazy . (Note also that it puts a modest $175,00 price tag on the BofA promo for Monsters vs Aliens ... a new fact from real reporters that is unlike to get any play on Drudge or the gossip columnists...
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Sly Fox by The Hot Blog

It’s one of the ego games of Hollywood that movies are held in some higher esteem than broadcast… even though broadcast has been a bigger business for many years now. It is another oddity that we tend to think of movie executives as exclusively movie...
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Show & Business... AGAIN. by The Hot Blog

Tomorrow, I will have seen this film and will have an opinion about the work, not just the business. And that will be whatever it is. In the meanwhile, please understand, I want Watchmen to be great. I love the graphic novel like so many others... not...
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Watching The Watchmen Bottom Line by The Hot Blog

The question has been floating around for a while... Once we got past the very real drama of Fox’s claims against Watchmen , the question of what kind of drama the movie would turn out to be. My fear has been that Zack Snyder, who showed a lot of promise...
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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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Couldn't Be Happier... by The Hot Blog

I just got a press release - which I cannot cut & paste on the iPhone - that Overture and the folks who brought you Little Miss Sunshine, Big Beach, committed to make the feature of Jack Goes Boating, a LAByrinth Theater Co production, that I loved...
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Sometimes A Great Letter by The Hot Blog

There are moments, a few times a year, that clear more up than expected. The EXCLUSIVE letter from Lloyd Levin , producer of Watchmen , one producer for Drew of the new HitFlix, is one of these moments. Let me state from the top… the letter’s argument...
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A Tale of Two 008s by The Hot Blog

Yes, it is a cliché, but 2008 truly was the best of times and the worst of times. The box office broke new records, including a brand new #2 domestic film of all-time increasing the standard by more than 15%, yet New Line – as constituted from Day One...
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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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Mamma Mia Latest "Record Breaking" DVD by The Hot Blog

This comes right on the heels of Mamma Mia! passing Titanic as the highest grossing film in UK history. The Dark Knight reported 3 million units on its first day of release, though like opening day box office, the numbers for both of these films are skewed...
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TribCo Ch 11 by The Hot Blog

The irony is that the NYT story... is on a blog ... and one that understands the web well enough to link to the actual filing . Most would say this is no surprise. Some clung to Barry Diller's notion that the film business - and thus, somehow, analogous...
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