· We don't know if this Very Special Episode of the Facts of Life was from the Paul Haggis era, but the social issue it addresses is handled with the same level of nuance he brought to the race-relations problem in Crash.
· Film Threat offers its tips on how to make your own celebrity sex tape. One glaring omission:…
We're slowly coming to the sad realization that we may have to finally abandon our irrational hope that Paul Haggis' double Oscar win would somehow result in an unprecedented blackballing from the entertainment industry, as the densely pawed writer/director continues to pile up gigs at a dismaying pace. Today's …
While watching the trailer for the upcoming Paul Haggis-penned, Zach Braff vehicle, The Last Kiss, The Not-So-Exciting Life of Brian Palmer blog was struck with a stifling sense of déjà vu. No, they weren't thinking of L'Ultimo bacio, the Italian movie upon which it's based, but rather Braff's own…
Hoping to recreate the publicity bonanza that was its recent Britney Spears Baby Safety Night, minor league baseball team the Newark Bears is willing to risk the disappearance of thousands of fans into the fleet of menacing white vans idling in its parking lot during its Hubbard-baiting Scientology Night promotion:
The producers of Crash are suing one another again, this time over what one faction of the team believes to be the misleading promotion of the forthcoming Lifetime TV series Angela's Eyes. The LAT reports that Alpha Crashers Paul Haggis, Mark Harris, and Bobby Moresco feel that producers Cathy Shulman and Tom Nunan…
· Increasingly cost-conscious studios are reexamining what kind of financial return they're getting on their expensive producing deals. So tight-fistedly cautious is the current climate that Paramount is reportedly dragging its feet on renewing its deal with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, perhaps thinking they can…
Kurt Loder had a chance to talk to Paul Haggis shortly before the Oscars about his favorite film of the year, Crash, not a surprising choice for the MTV personality considering the Best Picture winner in many ways echoes that other classic urban cautionary tale, the "Papa Don't Preach" video. Looking ahead, Loder…
The next Bond movie, Casino Royale, is off to a not-so-great start. True, we have our new 007 and hopefully he's laying off the booze, lest we end up with the rather unrefined image of the superspy flying down the Swiss Alps in a black tie and little else but the other two crucial, pussy-stroking pieces of the Bond…
Newsweek correctly guessed the five Oscar nominees (or beat an independent auditor from PricewaterhouseCoopers until he gave up the names) for Best Director, then assembled Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Bennett Miller, and Paul Haggis for a roundtable discussion. In the ensuing pigpile of comraderie and…
· "They've given me complete freedom," said lead-handed Crash director/screenwriter Paul Haggis, in reference to a pilot he's doing for NBC. Have more frightening words ever been spoken?
· This Dr. Phil clip made us taste bile, not chuckle, so officially we're still waiting The Showbiz Show to deliver its first…
