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    The Unrelenting Push for the 2010 Blockbuster Is Aready Beginning

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    Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing

    500 Days of Potter

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    Image of D2theMatthews D2theMatthews
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Unrelenting Push for the 2010 Blockbuster Is Aready Beginning
    Kick-Ass gets it right where Year One got it wrong, you need to have McLovin' shooting guns in your comedies if you're casting him.
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    Image of Sharpstyx Sharpstyx
    10/01/09

    In reply to Twitter Co-Founder Disses Own Condo Furnishings
    Canada, americas cap.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/02/09

    @Sharpstyx: America, Canada's footrest.
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    Image of TRexstasy TRexstasy
    08/17/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    Gosh for a second I thought this about Harvey Fierstein and I was going to get really sad. Instead it's a great big schadenfreude sundae! Yay!
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    08/16/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    Anyone know where Harvey’s sled is? Rose-something?
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    Image of noonecaresowen noonecaresowen
    08/16/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    The Smith story is amusing, but it's nothing new. Harvey confused Joey Lauren Adams with Renee Zellweger at the Golden Globes the year Joey was nominated for "Chasing Amy".
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    08/16/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing
    One of my first disaster experiences with the Weinsteins was Dimenson's release of Pulse, a remake of the strangely thoughtful and detached Kiyoshi Kurosawa ghost film Kairo. The orginal film, while not a blockbuster by any means while in release in Japan, was known as something critically-revered and highly respected by aficionados of the genre, and after a first screening where the film was panned by teenage boys who misunderstood the film's quiet concept, it was retooled as a CGI-laden action-survival film so that it could make a lot of money, totally eschewing the reasons for having purchased the movie from the Japanese in the first place. It was a flop of unexpected proportions, pushed back three times from the late winter (when such a "cold" film had a chance) to late summer, and was a horrifying example of the American dream corrupting the intellectual vision of the way actual cinematic visionaries are cultivated in foreign countries.

    That last anecdote by Kevin Smith I loved so much I reread it maybe ten times while trying to put it into the context of so many of their business mistakes, that Harvey especially is so unfocused he doesn't even know who's working for him, only what he's working towards in the hypothetical. He's grasping at straws, trying simultaneously to make certain films that are merely cash cows while making others to gain credible critical adulation, two things which only go hand in hand by accident, not by design. I have a terrible feeling about their next few years, but quality control is obviously not their strong suit. I'm glad they got their Oscar win for The Reader, and are using that critical success to... restart the Scream franchise from the 1990's. Bizarre.
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    Image of lionboy lionboy
    08/16/09

    @ampersandparade: As I read the article this morning, I found the Weinsteins to seem more and more irrelevant until I had to question why I was even reading it. Your last sentence summarizes the whole sorry situation quite nicely.
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    Image of Joao Barbosa Joao Barbosa
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    Bad Girls = Toy Soldiers with girls
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    Am I the only person on Earth who has never read one of these books or seen one of these movies?
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/17/09

    @BxgrlJeri: If you're referring solely to Harry Potter, then no--I wouldn't touch this stuff with a ten-foot wizard's staff. If you're referring to the other stuff mentioned above, though, then maybe--I've read Bad Girls and seen Clerks and Chasing Amy. I could listen to Joey Lauren Adams talk forever...or at least for ten minutes, which is longer than most people.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    07/17/09

    @DahlELama: Just Harry Potter. I love Clerks and Chasing Amy.
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    So Bad Girls is just The Beach, with the Leo character wearing a knee-length plaid skirt?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    Re: 500 Days vs. Harry Potter & The Inkjet Printer - screw you TV, movies do counterprogramming too!
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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    I for one am choosing JGL and animated birds/dance sequences over Hogwarts tonight.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    How old is that Rossum? I need to know how dirty I should feel during my weekend fantasies.
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    Image of registered registered
    07/17/09

    @resipsaloquacious: If you mean Emma Watson (chick in pic) she is 19 and I hear she is starting at Columbia in the fall. Sweet dreams!
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/17/09

    @registered:

    Sorry, yes, Watson!
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    Hilarious--I've actually read Bad Girls, and Alex MacCaulay's other books as well. I can't wait to see Megan Fox lying around in bloody ruins. That stuff is nightmarish.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    07/17/09

    In reply to 500 Days of Potter
    I can't find any reference to Madonna in this roundup. How did her dry thrusting lead to tragedy? Haven't Madonna-thrusts always been kind of tragic?
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    Image of registered registered
    07/17/09

    @MisterHippity: I think this refers to an accident at her stage set this week where a couple of workers were killed.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    07/17/09

    @registered: Except that incident isn't reported anywhere in the roundup above ... is it? Or am I missing something?
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    Image of Natasha VC Natasha VC
    07/18/09

    @MisterHippity:

    Oof! Somehow got chopped out in a last minute rush to post. It's back in!
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    06/19/09

    In reply to The Leighton Meester Sex Tape You've All Been Waiting For
    Having met (and quite liked) Brian Williams, I call steaming piles of News Corp bullshit on the NBC item. Page Six always talks smack about Fox Noise competitors, and it's almost never true.
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    06/19/09

    @Perhaps Not: Also, Megyn Kelly is a full-time anchor, and she clearly doesn't do anything except look cute for the camera.
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    Image of limber limber
    06/19/09

    @Perhaps Not: Yeah, I don't think this is about Brian making the request, I think it's about the producers doing some shuffling for a prettier shot.


    I've never met Brian, but the people I know who have think he's lovely. Like, glowing reviews from relatively unimpressable people. He's just a nice guy.

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