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EW broke the lingering news today that it looks like Bill Condon’s long-gestating Richard Pryor movie is about to settle in at Fox Searchlight, after developing with The Weinstein Company and then having a brief dalliance with Paramount, where they sought to slice the price dramatically. Indeed, Eddie...
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Will have to wait until I see it next week. Yes, Virginia, I have been relegated by the very confident WB to seeing their mega-smash in what will surely be an overbooked all-media next week. When I spoke to the responsible on the film, not asking for a screening time, but actually trying to confirm a...
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I know this will raise the hackles of some of the peanut gallery, but after a chat with someone who saw the film recently, the following melody just stuck in my head... with apologies to Frank Churchill and Ann Ronell... Who's afraid of the big blue *** Big blue ***, big blue ***? Who's afraid...
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It's beyond description... here's a link
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I am terribly amused by all the "you shouldn't have f-ed with Ron Meyer... you won't like Ron Meyer when he gets angry" stuff that is being rolled out to the nattering nabobs and dutifully being repeated as The Gospel across the blogosphere today. If that's DreamWorks biggest problem...
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I said it before the nominations, but allow me to reiterate... 1) I have met a grand total of zero Oscar voters over 55 who LIKED The Dark Knight, much less would Top Five it. We weight guessers of Oscar convinced ourselves that cynical desperation for a false idea of a ratings benefit would cause a...
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Larry Gross writes in... "If you, like me, are anguished by events in Gaza, wracked with anxiety about the world's economic future, and disconcerted by the speedily imminent disappearance of print journalism (can printed books be far behind as the next casualty?), then you might be looking for...
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This is 100% blog commenter insider baseball, so I am puting the rest after the jump for those who are interested....
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I don't think an autopsy on John Travolta's son is any of our g.d. business... and I resent having it thrown in my face on the new wires as their top entertainment story. Anna Nicole was a sideshow and a horrible moment for journalism. But she and her son, at least, were on that idiotic TV show...
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The endlessly surprising Mark Wheaton (once known as "Smilin' Jack Ruby" to geeks everywhere) was kind enough to offer MCN the chance to give him the space to tell the story of the woman who is real person behind Cate Blanchett's Daisy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . Tremendous...
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As I just wandered into EW's attempt to knock off my video interview franchise (smart... and they spend more on production... which is lovely... and interestingly, have only seemed to have gotten the specific talent that I have not...), more sad was seeing Dave Karger's award blog called "Oscar...
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The judge has given a ruling ... nothing really new for me to say... the only thing I find interesting is that both side must have pushed him for a quick ruling as delaying until the end of January would surely have led to an injunction on the release of the film... settle soon.. Fox wants money and...
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'TWAS THE INDICTMENT BEFORE CHRISTMAS As Told To Inclement Bernie Madoff 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the town Not a creature was comfy, even Will Smith was down; The movies were sold with the studios’ care, In hopes that more money soon would be there; The execs were nestled...
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* $240,000 Mark Hamill's hero "Luke Skywalker" lightsaber from Star Wars and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back * $120,000 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi original "C-3PO" droid helmet worn by Anthony Daniels * $96,000 Second Draft Original Handwritten Manuscript of You...
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GIVE AWAY THE DAMNED RAZORS!!! – I am thrilled for WB and their big sales for The Dark Knight , on Blu-ray and off. But I would be really, really, really curious about where these alleged supermarkets selling the film on Blu-ray are. I haven’t found a single one in Los Angeles. (Maybe some of you have...