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Todd McCarthy spoke to the issue of the current state of film criticism on Friday... and shockers, another Variety writer blames That Darn Web! He also takes on box office analysis, TV critics, and the newsweeklies. I disagree on some, less on others, and wildly on a few. I write: What publication instituted...
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ELLE: You are a powerful woman in Hollywood, Nikki. A lot of moguls there are scared of you. ELLE: How do the male executives treat you? Do they think of you as a woman? ELLE: Do you swear when you talk to them? ELLE: Moron. I've seen you call them morons. ELLE: When you write something incendiary...
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Another day, another half-ass version of the Indiana Jones IV sting in “Mainstream Media.” What is the problem? Well, part of the problem may well be that the studio and producers involved want to make the whole mess go away. And it surely will in time. Having been contained – for now, as there are a...
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The battle between the online world and Traditional Media often causes shoulder shrugs. What's the big deal? Some choose to misinterpret it as simply a turf war, but today, another case in which news may not be being reported by TM because it broke on the web. The case of the theft of materials from...
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LESSON POINTS 1. Ad Sales People Who Are Used To Selling At A High Price Point Are Not Going To Be Anxious To Sell Relatively Low Priced Internet Ads. 2. Many Site Owners Have A Grotesquely Exaggerated Notion Of What Their Ad Space Is Worth. 3. Blogs Are Lightening In A Bottle, Better When Brutal, And...
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What could be more thrilling than the latest gossip piece reported by a journalist of quality by a major newspaper ? Claudia Eller's "reporting" on the issues inside the Redstone family add nothing to the story that hasn't been reported, except to "report" from inside the...
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For weeks, said Mr. Ross, NBC producers and executives had declined to comment for his piece. Then, last Wednesday, NBC News president Steve Capus had publicly questioned Mr. Ross’ motives in an interview with USA Today. “I chalk this up to the usual network silly competitiveness, in a territory that...
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The funniest things about Peter Bart’s latest missive about bloggers are that, 1) He thinks he has “blogger friends” that somehow represent a deep truth about the internet, and 2) he is such a fan of throwing stones in his glass house. He writes, “The new lexicon of blogdom is all about traffic, not...
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The good folks at USA Today asked me and a bunch of other folks for their take on what is what at TIFF this season. A group piece ran on Monday, but the Friday piece didn't run, so I decided to run what I sent in here. A fest round-up is due on Friday for publication Monday... interesting how the...
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I don't want to dip too far into this, but I got more than a couple of disbelieving phone calls and e-mails about the e-mail of Jeffrey Wells' that Nikki Finke posted on her blog today. It's really simple. It's beyond any rationalization on either side of the equation. This kind of sentiment...
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Mark Caro of the Chicago Trib did a nice job reporting the details , as they are available, of the Ebert/Siskel thumbs vs Disney issue. Let me just add this... Disney TV Syndication is lying. The claim that the switch of the show's name - which I didn't know happened until I read this piece ...
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When I got a note from a friend who noticed that Ebert & Roeper had changed their internet address, plugged at the end of each show, from ebertandroeper.com (or whatever more detailed URL it was) to atthemoviestv.com, a variation on an old incarnation of the Siskel & Ebert show, I decided to...
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A nice get by a Hot Blog regular... here is the piece that goes with this cover art ...
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This is that brutal time of year when people get really stupid when they feel a need to pump something out into the news cycle... because there just isn't much legitimate news. This is when stupid forecast reports from companies who don't know the film industry from their rectal cavities start...
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Is this the single stupidest New York Times story on the film business in history? "At a time when the likes of Paramount and Warner Brothers are having trouble turning a profit on movies that gross $200 million at the box office..." Oh... you mean at a time when idiots greenlight movies with...