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Hot Button - It Was 11 Years Ago Today... by The Hot Blog

Happy Button birthday to me. I usually write some sort of heavy perspective column at this time of the year, but... nah. The column was inspired by the lack of daily commentary from anyone but Army Archerd. I was online because of the late, great Andy...
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Hot Button - The Indie Thing by The Hot Blog

There have been very good – and very repetitive – pieces on The Indie Meltdown of 2008. I am not of the belief that we are at the end of indies, but that we are at the end of a certain kind of cycle, particularly regarding theatrical distribution. I am...
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Hot Button - Deja Vantage by The Hot Blog

John Lesher’s 28 month tenure at Paramount Vantage (nee’ Classics), then the move to “Big” Paramount is remarkably similar to Tom Rothman’s move from Searchlight to “Big” Fox (and then, to sharing Bill Mechanic‘s job with Jim Gianopulos). Lesher’s first...
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Hot Button: Whose Scoop Is It OR Why Does My Shoe Smell? by The Hot Blog

I have great empathy for Latino Review and Collider , both of which stuck their neck out this week – and took the kind of tone that allows Traditional Media to marginalize them internally – and complained about specific cases of The Trades running news...
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Hot Button - Separating The Blogs From The News by The Hot Blog

Here is the problem for the TMers ... the spirit of blogging, exposing who they really are and how they really feel is nasty, dangerous stuff for them. You have to wonder whether they can ever go back now that the genie is out of the bottle. Not every...
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Thanks by The Hot Blog

I am still thankful for the work of filmmakers. That is the redemption of This Thing We Do. So long as Julian Schnabel is out there making art films in French that Miramax is thrilled to be selling, I am thankful. So long as a script like Nancy Oliver...
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THB - Wandering Into HD by The Hot Blog

Here is the column I wrote for today ... But I wanted to add something for your consumption. I go into this aware that someone (or two) will make this into an issue of my sense of entitlement. All I can do is to assure you that my interest is, for the...
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Hot Button - You Are What You Emulate by The Hot Blog

Truly original films are a rare commodity. They always were. But upon passing its hundredth birthday, the film industry is evolving in the way all the other arts have. There are plenty of remakes, but more interestingly, there are now more and more films...
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10 by The Hot Blog

Even on that first day, there were the questions: 1. Did I need a column if I had a blog, and 2. Would the blog get in the way of the column? I have always argued that the answer to 1 is "yes" and 2 is "no."; But that argument has...
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Boyz (Not) 2 Men by The Hot Blog

From The Hot Button... I am certainly not the first person to point out that this is the state of machismo in Hollywood these days. The top five movies of this year are male leads by Tobey Maguire, Mike Myers, Johnny Depp, Shia LeBouff, and Daniel Radcliffe...
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