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Posted on February 5, 2010
Indie films have become the lost children of Hollywood in recent years. Author Edward Jay Epstein explains why Hollywood is abandoning the indie movie business in favor of merchandisable CGI spectacles like Avatar.
If you are a producer of indie movies, the great sucking sound you may be hearing is Avatar draining money from your future [...]
Posted on January 31, 2010
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stepped out together last night for the Directors Guild Awards in LA, which after skipping all of award season so far seems like a response to all the recent breakup rumors. While he didn’t quite fulfill your wishes to shave, Brad trimmed his beard and Angelina opted for color in [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 27, 2010
ABC finally euthanize Ugly Betty. It used to be one of the best shows on TV, but the network system’s intractable greed and antiquated system ruined it. Can’t we have term limits for TV series?
Scooplet! A tipster tells us even though their show was getting tired (see below), the cancellation came as a surprise to [...]
Posted on January 22, 2010
Last night on the Housewives, daughters were in peril. Friends were in peril. It’s a dangerous time to be a Housewife in Southern California — what was once easy and meaningless is now fraught with… slightly less ease.
There’s really only one thing you can do in such tough times: Play tennis. Since the French [...]
Posted on January 21, 2010
Here’s a little thing to make you feel ancienter and terribler than you already do: On Monday, the most watched show of all the shows was iCarly. Yes, Nickelodeon’s techno-feminist revision of I, Claudius is very, very popular.
That is what it’s about, right? Clearly we should know, because from 8pm to 8:30pm on Monday night, [...]
Posted on January 20, 2010
Tiger is reportedly getting on the monogamy wagon, and this guy’s famous wife insisted he get help too. This actress needs help getting over a past love, and a reality star needs help getting over himself. Welcome to Gossips Anonymous.
1. “The tabloids are all in a feeding frenzy about a celebrity in sex rehab and [...]
Posted on January 15, 2010
The Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood’s second-goldenest night (and certainly its globiest), will go down on live TV this Sunday night. Who will win? Who should win?? After the jump we’ll break down the big categories to figure it all out.
Because this is all just a preamble to the Oscars (nominations come out on February 2nd [...]
Posted on January 11, 2010
The much-anticipated fourth season of Big Love bloomed strangely last night — a messy, deliriously overstuffed smear of stories that left us anticipating a season rife with the show’s usual eerie, lunar menace. There will also be exotic birds!
That was probably the most gonzo bit of last night, right? Not just Bill’s mom and [...]
Posted on January 11, 2010
This weekend saw more huge numbers for the little chamber piece Avatar, an unsurprisingly British runner-up, and three debuts that didn’t go huge but did a-OK. Did you see any of these this weekend?
1) Avatar — $48.5 million
If you’re James Cameron — your big blue computer flea circus is, in four short weeks, the number [...]
Posted on January 9, 2010
Pop and I are down in Pasadena for our annual pilgrimage to the Winter TCA! Our first day has been a blast so far, with CBS, Showtime, and The CW opening up the ceremonies. Stay tuned over the next week for lots of updates on your favorite shows and stars, but for now we’re [...]
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