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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 28, 2010
Here’s a teaser trailer for Oliver Stone’s new, either-really-timely-or-really-dated Wall Street sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Which is true! But it does burn in credit fires. Anyway, look! Gordon Gecko is old! Shia LaBeouf is young. Money is… asleep.
Oliver Stone was probably thinking of fat old 2006 while putting this project together, but [...]
Posted 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 26, 2010
Another day, another piece of news about broadcast television’s slow, painful death rattle. It’s no longer just primetime that’s hemorrhaging: the big old networks are fighting battles in daytime, in news, and royally fucking up their once-sturdy late night empires.
Broadcast’s grand formula has always been straight-through-the-day coverage, with morning shows giving way to daytime chatters [...]
Posted on January 25, 2010
The fourth season of HBO’s social drama just keeps getting bigger. Last night we saw a trip across the country, an accident that brought two fringe cultures together (sort of), and a wild and surprising kiss.
The episode, written with daring aplomb by playwright (and staff writer) Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, showed its four main characters venturing [...]
Posted on January 25, 2010
This A-lister’s boner should be considered an occupational hazard. Also getting pokey are a famous husband exploiting his open marriage, and an actress who has taken up with the producer of her show. Someone needs to call HR.
1. “Which A-list married actor got overexcited filming a love scene with a much younger starlet? The director [...]
Posted on January 23, 2010
Sandra Bullock hit the red carpet at tonight’s SAG Awards looking lovely, and she shined on stage once she won the Best Actress statue for her work in The Blind Side. She gracefully entered the press room to talk about her gratefulness for being rewarded after reevaluating her whole approach toward her work. She said:
On [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 23, 2010
It’d appear that The Hollywood Hardass™ herself, Deadline Hollywood Daily’s Nikki Finke, has trademarked one of her very loud, angry catchphrases. Can you guess which one? And can you guess what practice Ms. Finke has rallied against in the past?
If you guessed “TOLDJA” and “inane trademarking,” you’d be correct. A tipster noted that Elizabeth Swanson, [...]
Continue ReadingPosted 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
Jersey Shore, the (overly) buzzed-about documentary series created by the vengeful ghost of Margaret Mead, is coming to an end tonight. (Well, a season end, at least.) So what do we do now? Explore other terrible youth cultures, of course!
Former Jezebelian Jessica Grose just came up with a nice pitch for a [...]
