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#hollywoodeconomist

Can Indie Movies Survive?

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. More »

02/05/10

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By Edward Jay Epstein

#emotions

Emotionally Unstable Woman Weeps at Every Movie

Some guy has created a website all about how his wife blubbers like a crazy person at the end of pretty much all the movies. He films her sobbing after watching tear-jerkers like Back to the Future III and 2012. More »

02/03/10

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By Richard Lawson

#andnowhesdead

David Brown, Producer

David Brown, film producer, magazine editor, short story author, and husband of Helen Gurley Brown, died in New York yesterday. He was 93. More »

02/02/10

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By Pareene

#layoffs

Layoffs at the Weinstein Co.?

Fast Company is reporting, in a reed-thin update to their obit for Miramax, that the Weinstein Co. is laying off 30 people today. We're trying to confirm, but people familiar with the firm say insiders were bracing for another round. More »

01/29/10

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By John Cook

#badtrips

Why We Never Want to Go to Sundance

The only thing you need to do to get rid of any "Ohh, I wish I was at Sundance" blues is to actually look at coverage of Sundance. The crowds! The lines! The stars! It's all pretty gross up close. More »

01/27/10

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By Richard Lawson

#banksy

Banksy on his movie: "Please don't give away the ending on Twitter." Good luck, dude.

01/25/10

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#trailerpark

Some Inscrutable Banksy Thing: The Movie

All those Banksy pieces popping up around the Sundance Film Festival are promoting Exit Through the Gift Shop—which is either a documentary or a mocumentary or a big stunt about Banksy or some other dude. Look, another picture! More »

01/21/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#art

Banksy Does Sundance

A new documentary about superfamous/ semi-anonymous street artist Banksy is reportedly screening at Sundance this year, and Banksy pieces (another photo below) are popping up around Park City, Utah. After Mali and New Orleans, we guess he deserves a vacation. More »

01/20/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#nerdery

Bolivian president Evo Morales: Avatard.

01/13/10

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#ohno

Click here to read <i>Spider-Man 4</i> Implodes: Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire Out

Spider-Man 4 Implodes: Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire Out

Sam Raimi demanded creative control, Malkovich as the villain, didn't want Anne Hathaway, and, most importantly, couldn't deliver by May 2011. So Sony will replace him and make Spider-Man 4: 3D a "reboot" with a whole new cast.

01/11/10

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By Pareene

#charticles

Netflix: Manhattan Mostly Occupied by Gays and Self-Loathing Alcoholics

A fairly accurate description, no doubt! The Times has a crazy-cool infographic about which zip codes rent what movies in 12 cities. Naturally, Milk and Rachel Getting Married have done very, very, very well. Fun! Also: Jersey <3's Shitty Movies. [NYT]

01/10/10

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By Foster Kamer

#secretsocieties

Skull & Bones: Campy Gay Horror Version

Today in the further deterioration of the Skull and Bones mystique: Skull & Bones, the gay slasher flick. Here is the trailer. It's a couple years old, but still. This is why George W. Bush wanted to kill the gays.

01/07/10

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By Hamilton Nolan

#movies

No Screeners Probably Means No Screenplay Awards for Weinstein Movies

Did you write a movie for Weinstein Co., and would you like a Writers Guild of America award for doing so? Too bad: Weinstein's not sending WGA members any screeners. Sorry, Nine, Inglorious Basterds, The Road, and A Single Man. More »

01/04/10

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By Pareene

#flameouts

The Incredible Shrinking Weinstein Co.

After the dismal opening of atrocious musical Nine, the Weinstein-hating community is on tenterhooks awaiting at last the loathsome duo's spectacular implosion. Alas, it appears that the Weinsteins will dwindle away with a whimper, not disappear with a satisfying bang. More »

12/30/09

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By John Cook

#hoorayforhollywood

Don't Stop Believin'

In a move that will simultaneously fill waiters and barstaff in LA and NY with hope and bitterness, a Uruguayan who posted a three-minute, $300, YouTube film has been given $30m to make a sci-fi movie in Hollywood. [BBC]

12/18/09

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By Ravi Somaiya

#movies

Documentary to Expose Twittering, Typing, Lunch Habits of NYT Media Reporters

The uniformly mustachioed Twitter addicts of the New York Times media desk are getting a documentary of their very own! Sounds pretty........interesting. Sorry, fell asleep there for a sec. More »

11/17/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#newspapers

Unauthorized Alien Movie Promotion Will Save Newspapers

Struggling Alaskan newspapers have come up with a new revenue source that could well become a model for the whole industry: Being paid restitution by a Hollywood studio that used your paper's name without permission to advertise an alien movie. More »

11/12/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#bloggingfordollars

Dumenco: Nikki Finke offers Hollywood the thrill "of seeing a spun reporter do as told."

11/09/09

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#listicle

Elijah Wood Is the Most Critically-Acclaimed Actor, Freddie Prinze, Jr. the Most Hated

Indie mag Miller-McCune performed mathematical voodoo on a zillion movie reviews to figure out critics' favorite and least favorite actors, as well as which critics are the nicest and the meanest. More »

11/09/09

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By Maureen O'Connor

#movies

Tucker Max Has an Explanation

Schlitz-grasping cargo short sporter Tucker Max has finally figured out why his movie, Penis in a Beer Cozy, was a financial failure. More »

11/02/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#franchises

Click here to read Poor Sad <i>Terminator</i> to go on the Auction Block

Poor Sad Terminator to go on the Auction Block

How the mighty tumble! Just yesterday, Hollywood trembled in awe before the Terminator series; creator of planet-devouring sequels and merchandising. Today, it goes on the auction block like the baggage at some grizzly slave auction. More »

11/02/09

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By Richard Rushfield

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