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Just For The Record... by The Hot Blog

I seem to have, somehow, set off a reaction around some parts of town with my " I Broke A Sweat Today " entry of a few days ago. MCN is going fine, thanks. I don’t know if this year will see the kind of revenue growth we have had every year...
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Tintin Drama by The Hot Blog

You know... this project has been sitting around for over 25 year in the Amblin back pocket. It hasn't just sat there because it was an obvious green light. Universal neither needs to make the gamble on Tintin. The studio is under threat of being...
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Deja Vu... All Over Again by The Hot Blog

What is THE ANSWER to the indie problem of the moment? The parade of "keynote" responses to Mark Gill's overstated bluster of this summer continues to grow, but the one that landed in the inbox this morning was Peter Broderick's... and...
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Who Was On Watch, Man? (Landed In LA) by The Hot Blog

I find the Watchmen situation very interesting. The first striking thing is that for all the claims that so many make to journalism in this town, once again we have a major story - studios actually suing other studios is a rare occurrence – that didn...
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A Little Clarity by The Hot Blog

I've said this before in different ways, but I had a slightly more clear thought and am sharing... The movie business does NOT track like the record business decline in the primary ways people think about what happened in the record business. The...
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Selling A Paramount Turnaround by The Hot Blog

The Variety headline reads, " Paramount films fuel Viacom - (sub-head) Revenues up 21% to $3.9 billion last quarter " How does one take the trade seriously when they don't offer the real facts, but the spin as a headline? The real deal from...
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Giving Me A Bat Headache Already by The Hot Blog

The same daily reports from Movietickets.com and Fandango that are driving the endless blog entries about The Dark Knight ’s box office expectations keep hitting my déjà vu button. So I finally went into my e-mail archive… The Day Before Release - ‘Sex...
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For The Record... Episode Two by The Hot Blog

5. Eddie Murphy has made thirteen movies since 2000. Only THREE have opened to less than $15 million. SEVEN have grossed over $100 million domestic and one more was at $96 million. FOUR were outright bombs... Showtime , The Adventures of Pulto Nash ,...
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Anthony DiClemente Is A Patso by The Hot Blog

You know, the economics of this industry as changing. A lot. But I am endlessly amazed at how analysts at major financial institutions don’t seem to be able to separate fact from fiction . The myth of the film and television industry being under the same...
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Hot Button - No, The Stars Are Getting Smaller by The Hot Blog

I feel a burning urge to respond to Anne Thompson’s “Fluke Zone” piece , but I am having a hard time nailing down what she is actually arguing. First, the idea of a “Fluke Zone” is demeaning to the efforts of the talent being discussed and misses the...
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Taxi To The Toilet by The Hot Blog

There was actually a very good film by the same title as this entry... Taxi Zum Klo ... apologies for the grab. But Alex Gibney continues to push ThinkFilm on his Oscar winner, Taxi To The Darkside , now claiming that Think was fraudulent in its handling...
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ThinkFilm Reloaded by The Hot Blog

So... after all the sturm und drang, money changes everything... again. Just as it seemed that ThinkFilm was about to be no more and many were accounting for the bills that would never get paid, here comes $150 million from overseas. Expect the company...
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Hot Button - Run Run Run A Runaway... by The Hot Blog

I am always frustrated by feeling an issue is crystal clear… yet talking about it makes me sound like a bad guy. But such is the nature of arguing that runaway production is, to a great extent, a non-issue when you look at the big picture. Southern California...
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Are Ticket Prices Soaring? by The Hot Blog

Crazy Nikki has been headlining "Movie Ticket Prices Are Soaring" for days now... which someone must have told her and which she clearly didn't bother to look into at all. The ticket increases, which seem to be limited to a small number...
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Hot Button - The Trouble With Trouble by The Hot Blog

There are two stories on the web today that may be 100% true… but also concern me deeply. It’s not about pulling back the curtain. That’s the job. But there is a kind of malignancy in the idea that what has always been gossip is now being published by...
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