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Little has changed in a month away from the daily journo-whoredom grind. This afternoon, La Finke is SCREECHING about Variety's Michael Fleming "scooping" her on the official closing of Fox Atomic... but she knew... she just didn't tell... because even though she runs true and false...
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It's an interesting discussion... Phil Spector was found guilty today. Vikram Jayanti made a wonderful documentary about Spector for BBC2 - The Agony & The Ecstasy of Phil Spector - that ran a week on the BBC2 website then was pulled down after a week. Spector gave Jayanti access to and allowed...
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I'm not sure what is more disturbing... David Edelstein using someone who has not seen the film as the standard for moral outrage over Observe & Report OR David Edelstein oversimplifying both the argument that the date rape in the film is offensive and the argument that it is acceptable as an...
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I wish the discussions of the future could be had without the hysteria. Jeff Jarvis went all drama queen after the New York Times did a story about the AP trying to find a legal way to regain control of their content . Thing is, this IS the discussion of the future. And the notion of AP or anyone else...
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"Fox News representatives and Roger Friedman met today and mutually agreed to part ways immediately. Fox News appreciates Mr. Friedman's ten years of contributions to building foxnews.com and wishes him success in his future endeavors. Mr. Friedman is grateful to his colleagues for their friendship...
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Okay... let's put opinion aside... let's just look at the facts.... Barnes writes ,"Pixar’s last two films, “Wall-E” and “Ratatouille,” have been the studio’s two worst performers" Here are the numbers... Rank - Title - Total - Domestic - Foreign - Year of Release 1 - Finding Nemo ...
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So on Sunday, Roger Friedman starting telling people that he had not yet been fired. This was after private and then public confirmation of the firing, spinning the alleged immediacy of it all.
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So now... Peter Bart gets kicked up and out. (Remember when The Hollywood Reporter did the same to Bob Dowling a few years back?) This was inevitable, but not quite a solution. Bart was in the way of the future. Bart is no longer in the way of the future. But Variety has not answered the same question...
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And so... Roger Friedman is dead at Fox... I wish I could say, "Long Live Roger Friedman," but he should fall into the void... but won't. I would expect a Crazy Nikki-esque standalone site before the month is out, likely financed (silently) by Harvey Weinstein. To be fair to Nikki, Roger...
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Not really good enough. The projectionist incident still stands as an example of how the company acts. And "taking it down" is definitely not a real answer. It's not the effect of the posting - as no one who is not in the business or in a demographic that would ever pay for a ticket to...
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Patrick Goldstein does this whole piece about a documentary called Naked Ambition having its trailer red-banded by CARA and takes the MPAA to task for this. But he links to this trailer aka "Last Looks" with Audio Mix - 01/30/09... which has a CARA green band and an R-rating on the front of...
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A colleague brought a gossip column from yesterday to my attention that suggests all kinds of completely legitimate issues. I was supportive of Fox's rage over an online review by a projectionist who watched Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer from the booth during an exhibitor's screening...
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The Wolverine leak story is pretty much over. Fox has pretty much done all of the internet containment there is to be done and the geeks who are reviewing are, I guess, mixed negative overall. But this is no Hulk or Batman & Robin, where the majority buzz - from the effects leak in the first case...
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The Wall Street Journal did a story today - behind the pay wall - about Hollywood squeezing above-the-title movie actors in light of the current economic system. My first reactions were that there was limited insight into how the various deal really work... and that we see this story every couple of...