Quentin Tarantino

INFOGRAPHIC: Breaking Down 66.5M Oscar-Related Interactions On Facebook - Posted February 25, 2013
The 85th Annual Academy Awards were handed out Sunday night, and film fans too... [AllFacebook]

Quentin Tarantino: 'This Will Be the Writers' Year' - Posted February 24, 2013
"This will be the writers' year, man," Quentin Tarantino cheered as he accepted the best original screenplay prize at the Academy Awards. Screenwriter Chris Terrio won the best adapted screenplay Academy Award for his Argo script. Paperman, Disney's short film about the joys of print and love, won the award for... [AllTwitter]

UCLA Film Student Will Make Four Oscar Show Appearances - Posted February 24, 2013
The odds-on favorite to win Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars tonight is Django Unchained. If and when Quentin Tarantino bounds to the stage, he will be handed his second such trophy by a 25-year-old UCLA Master's film student for whom the "M" is silent. ... [FishbowlLA]

Who Will Win the Screenplay Academy Awards? - Posted February 20, 2013
Who will win the Oscars for best adapted screenplay and screenplay? Below, we've linked to all the nominees in the top writing categories. On Monday morning, this GalleyCat editor will ta... [GalleyCat]

Weinstein, Toy Company Recall Django Unchained Slave Action Figures - Posted January 18, 2013
Here's a controversy that isn't quite as blatant and ridiculous as the one surrounding Anthropologie's ... [PRNewser]

British Interviewer Blogs About His Tarantino Tussle - Posted January 10, 2013
The funniest reaction to that UK Channel 4 set-to-go-viral press junket interview conducted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy... [FishbowlLA]

Thanks to Drudge N-Word Headline, THR Wednesday Web Traffic Was Off the Chain - Posted December 14, 2012
The "D" in Drudge Report was anything but silent this past Wednesday for The Hollywood Reporter. As Max Read on Gawker, Derek Thompson of ... [GalleyCat]

Quentin Tarantino Retirement Plans Hang Over THR Director Roundtable - Posted November 28, 2012
It's remarkable how much traction some early-retirement comments initially made by Quentin Tarantino in his Playboy interview with Deadline.com's Mike Fleming continue to receive. Hundreds of pick-ups lat... [FishbowlLA]

David Denby Looks Back at the Future of Movies - Posted September 28, 2012
At age 69, New Yorker film critic David Denby owns at least two marks of modern media distinction. He is not on Twitter, and he still gets to mete out erudite, long-form print media movie critiques. A collection of his magazine essays spanning 1999 to 2011 make up his latest book... [FishbowlLA]

Joaquin Phoenix's Monumental Montgomery Clift Mash-Up - Posted September 13, 2012
When Quentin Tarantino was doing press for Inglorious Basterds, he was asked by a reporter what films or filmmaker would inspire him today if he was just starting out in the business. He ... [FishbowlLA]

For Your Consideration: Leonardo DiCaprio Dropping N-Bombs - Posted May 22, 2012
Based on reports coming out of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival sneak peak at Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, it's going to be a very schizophrenic Christmas at the movies for perennial Osc... [FishbowlLA]

Deadline's Mike Fleming Takes Another Playboy Detour - Posted May 21, 2012
Although Mike Fleming's deadline.com duties keep him very busy, he still finds the time to continue one longstanding freelance tradition. The Playboy interview. Beginning with ... [FishbowlLA]

Downey Patriot in the Middle of Bastards Sports Bar Brouhaha - Posted May 4, 2012
Should an establishment coming to the heart of an upstanding SoCal community be allowed to call itself Bastards? Even if the name is inspired by the "Magnificent Bastards" nickname of a 2nd Battaltion 4th Marines infantry unit? ... [FishbowlLA]

Panel Debates 'Shifting Landscape' of Independent Film - Posted March 30, 2012
FishbowlLA was in attendance Thursday as Whitewater Films kicked off its third year of bi-monthly back patio panels in Santa Monica with a sunny lunch hour discussion of "The Shifting Landscape of Independent Film." Manning the barbecue as usual was company founder Rick Rosenthal, while Indiewire editor-in-chief ... [FishbowlLA]

New Health Drink Conjures Up Tarantino and a Porn Place - Posted March 14, 2012
The name of LA's latest health and wellness beverage, Mr. Pink Ginseng Drink, has a certain retro-ring. That's because long before Boardwalk Empire, actor ... [FishbowlLA]

Jason Reitman's Reservoir Dogs Rocks the LACMA House - Posted February 17, 2012
One of the great things about Jason Reitman's "Live Read" series for Film Independent at LACMA is that the all-star sessions are never filmed or recorded for Internet posterity. It's all about the audience surrendering to a live-performance moment. To bring that point home last night, curator ... [FishbowlLA]

'Sundance Skippy' Set for Another Celebrity-Filled Festival - Posted January 19, 2012
Orem, Utah celebrity fan Scott Jessop has already triumphed in a way that Sundance Film Festival cognoscenti can appreciate: he was the star of his very own indie documentary. But that was 2010 and this is now. ... [GalleyCat]

Critics Chime in with Possible Django Taglines - Posted December 27, 2011
The Twitter account for Quentin Tarantino's next movie threw out a casual query this afternoon, asking for possible Django Unchained taglines. Faster th... [GalleyCat]

The Disappearing Rob Schneider Interview - Posted December 2, 2010
Ahead of a Friday, December 3rd stand-up appearance in Chicopee, MA, comedian Rob Schneider did a long phone interview from LA with MassLive.com. For some reason, the Q&A t... [FishbowlLA]

A Publicist, a Producer and an Editor - Posted December 2, 2010
It's been a tragically strange series of Tuesdays this fall for the Hollywood female film and TV industry ranks. On Monday, September 27th, Quentin Tarantino... [FishbowlLA]

Mitchell Remembers Sally Menke, Food Lover - Posted October 14, 2010
In today's world of rapid-fire Internet news cycles, events that should linger in the public consciousness often do not. Which is why, if you have not already, we strongly urge you to read ... [FishbowlLA]

How Mike White Went from Unemployment to Book Tour - Posted September 9, 2010
While unemployed in Michigan, film critic Mike White built a book tour and a book trailer to support the new book, Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection. The book collects ... [GalleyCat]

Actor and Author David Carradine Has Died - Posted June 4, 2009
The 72-year-old actor David Carradine was discovered dead today, apparently by suicide. While best-known for his role in the Kung Fu TV show and as the ultimate bad guy in ... [GalleyCat]

97.1 FM Finally Shuts Up This Friday - Posted February 18, 2009
Apparently 97.1, the talk radio station is going all Britney and Beyonce songs as of Friday. Which means Adam Carolla and Danny Bonaduce are... [FishbowlLA]

Tarantino Nabs Morricone To Score 'Basterds' - Posted November 10, 2008
Quentin Tarantino, who only likes to score his films with two kinds of music -- surf tunes and Ennio Morricone. The "Pulp Fiction" director was able to nab Morricone (who scored all those great Spag... [FishbowlLA]

Sarah Palin on SNL: The Fallout - Posted October 20, 2008
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Sarah Palin on SNL: The Fallout - Posted October 20, 2008
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Pitt Takes On Homer -- And We Don't Mean Simpson - Posted October 17, 2008
Brad Pitt, taking on a definitively intellectual slant, will dance around a starring role in a film version of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" with "Mad Max" director George Miller attached to direct, ... [FishbowlLA]

Pitt to Become an 'Inglorious Bastard' for Tarantino, Media Says - Posted August 7, 2008
It's not the weirdest thing in the world to hear that Brad Pitt will take a role in Quentin Tarantino's next film, "Inglorious Bastards" for the ... [FishbowlLA]

Tarantino Pleas with Universal to Take 'Bastards' - Posted July 30, 2008
Quentin Tarantino's first period piece about World War II, called "Inglorious Bastards," may end up at Universal Pictures... [FishbowlLA]

Tarantino Backs Blood In the Water Documentary: Hungary vs. USSR - Posted March 8, 2007
Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu are the EPs of a documentary film about--no, not competitive knife throwing-- water polo. But it is a bloody water polo match: Hungary vs. USSR in the 1956 Olympics. Brother/sister film makers, Colin Keith G... [FishbowlLA]

'Why I Hate Blacks' Writer Not Sorry: 'If I'm A Racist Then So Is Sofia Coppola' - Posted March 6, 2007
Kenneth Eng, the writer and former NYU student who set off a firestorm over an article entitled "Why I Hate Blacks" published in Asian Week, told Fox News' John Gibson that he doesn't regret anything: GIBSON: You don't have any regrets about saying something as overtly racist as you hate som... [Fishbowl NY]

'Why I Hate Blacks' Writer Not Sorry: 'If I'm A Racist Then So Is Sofia Coppola' - Posted March 6, 2007
Kenneth Eng, the writer and former NYU student who set off a firestorm over an article entitled "Why I Hate Blacks" published in Asian Week, told Fox News' John Gibson that he doesn't regret anything: GIBSON: You don't have any regrets about saying something as overtly racist as you hate som... [FishbowlNY]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted March 1, 2007
Al Sharpton Speaks Out: In an Op-Ed, Sharpton writes about finding out that his ancestors were the slaves of Strom Thurmond's forebearers. "Obviously, the temptation here is to fall into the caldron of anger that s... [FishbowlLA]