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MoviesTuesday Oct 21, 2008
Financial Crisis Fallout: Possibly One Less Candace Bushnell Movie
"Overnight, it was like the script had been written two years ago," Arturo Interian, Lifetime's vice president for original movies, told The New York Times. While the movie will likely still be made, the plot will be altered and production may be delayed. (Can you say "silver lining"?) Elsewhere, other movies based on the Wall Street boom times are feeling the pinch as well. Tuesday Sep 16, 2008
Chinese Movie Makers Secretly Head to Hollywood
Due to "security concerns," the clinics were kept under wraps until they concluded. Officials were concerned about the safety of the travelers, who were selected by China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. So why were they here again? And Kung Fu Hustle really needed four rewrites? Thursday Sep 04, 2008
Hollywood's Latest Savior: Abu Dhabi
imagenation abu dhabi, part of Abu Dhabi Media Company helmed by chairman Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, will be based in the Arabian country but work with Hollywood and Middle Eastern studios. "We are bringing Hollywood and the international production community to Arabia," former Disney executive and imagenation chief executive Edward Borgerding told the Telegraph. "Our aim is to make award-winning films which are commercially successful and appeal to audiences across the world." Not everyone is happy about yet another bloated production company coming to Tinseltown. "The world needs new sources of energy and cures for diseases, but another set of eight films? Who cares?" media analyst Harold Vogel, said to the Los Angeles Times. So who gets to make Saw VI? Monday Jul 28, 2008
We Think Oliver Stone May Have Been Reading Too Much MoDoFriday Jul 25, 2008
We Can't Write One More Thing About Barack Obama This WeekWith that in mind, and in honor of TVNewser's sighting earlier today, we bring you this. Seriously, Miley has nothing on Ralph. By the way, if you happen to be looking for some new direction in your own life, you should go check out our job board. Friday May 30, 2008
Everything's Coming Up Carrie, For Now
While Carrie et al. are currently cash cows for many magazines, if not the retail industry, over at Folio Dylan Stableford is speculating that they may be the last of the red-hot cover girls. In the show and now the film Bradshaw is all about about print, with nary a cell phone in sight (which brings us to this: A pay phone! Does she also use subway tokens?), however at a party the other night in honor of one of the film's stars Kristin Davis, Stableford says the hosts could barely give away a magazine, Wednesday May 21, 2008
Sex in the City Backlash Reaches Jerusalem
We have not asked to advertise nudity, or messages that may be offensive to the general public and the ultra-Orthodox community in particular. Nevertheless, this is the name of the movie. We feel that it is ridiculous to prohibit us from advertising the brand without naming it. If you ask us, the less advertising the better. In other SATC-related news, Heavy.com has brilliantly parodied the Fab Four as bodybuilders. Clip after the jump. Wednesday Apr 09, 2008
Woody Allen's Movie Controversial for Language, Not Threesome
But despite all that salaciousness, the movie's first controversy is a linguistic one. Authorities in Barcelona are forbidding The Weinstein Company from distributing the film in Spanish. Barcelonan audiences will have the choice of either watching the film in English with Catalan subtitles, or viewing a version that's been dubbed into Catalan. Both Cruz and Bardem, of course, are Spanish speakers. Elsewhere in Spain, the movie will be shown in English with Spanish subtitles. It's all due to the Catalan-promoting policies of the regional government: The regional government recently announced a E7.4m (GBP5.9m) film fund to promote Catalan cinema. It also gave a grant of €15,000 to a soft porn producer for three "erotic films" as they would promote the Catalan language. But despite generous public funding, the 12 Catalan language features produced last year were watched by just 0.8 percent of the region's 24 million cinemagoers. Vicky Cristina Barcelona's co-producer, Jaume Roures, is a dedicated Catalan nationalist. Wednesday Apr 02, 2008
Fox Promotes Film With Anti-Lou Dobbs AdWhen it came time for Fox Searchlight Pictures to promote their new immigration-themed drama Under the Same Moon, they decided on a unique strategy for their trailer... Promote the movie by making fun of Lou Dobbs. Now, here's the thing. The Fox News Channel, Fox Searchlight's corporate sibling, has an unabashedly conservative political stance. It's home to a number of pundits that rely on jingoism and masked xenophobism as a matter of course. Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight is promoting a film about a family of illegal immigrants trying to stay afloat in the USA. Needless to say, it's openly sympathetic to their struggles. It just goes to show: It's not about left-wing or right-wing. It's all about the almighty dollar, people. Thursday Mar 13, 2008
Michael Bay To Remake Rosemary's Baby![]() Rosemary's Baby was that most rare of beasts: A horror film set on the Upper West Side. It's also a time capsule of New York maternal anxiety c. 1968 filtered through the minds of Ira Levin and Roman Polanski. You know, a classic. A classic which may very likely be remade by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Bad Boys). Paramount, the owner of the Rosemary's property, is close to completing talks with Bay's Platinum Dunes production company to approve a remake. Platinum Dunes, which is helmed by Bay alongside Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, has been on a horror movie remake kick as of late. The other films they've landed the rights to include: Platinum Dunes were also behind the recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Amityville Horror and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes; it's odd company for what's widely considered to be one of the best psychological horror films of all time. The current word is that Fuller is currently soliciting pitches from various horror-oriented Hollywood screenwriters. PreviouslyRidley Scott To Direct Movie Based On Board Game Owen Wilson Back To Work (In Ex-Journalist's Movie) The Yiddish Policemen's Union & The Repo Men The Smurfs: Back With Super-Heavy Viacom $$$ Did Morgan Spurlock Find Osama Bin Laden? Steiner Studios Expands Navy Yard Facility Vogue Documentary Close To Completion Dual Mafia Movie-Book Deal For Weinsteins 'Torture Porn' Opening Earns Just $1.55M Patton Oswalt Likens Ratatouille Press Junket To Gitmo Regal Cinemas Holding Captivity? Steven Spielberg Headed To Broadway Buzz Bissinger's Barbaro July VF Article Already Optioned For Big Screen Blue Cross Talking Points Memo On Sicko Leaked New DiCaprio-Winslet Film Casting White, Hairless, Tattooless Extras Money Honey To Interview Michael Moore Sicko Trailer To Be Projected Tonight In Times Square Simpsons Movie Trailer Released Wall Street II To Film In London Seinfeld's Bee Rape Joke Stings Sicko: YouTube's Greatest Pirate Hit 'Mitch' Writing Screenplay For 'Sandman' Video: Dan Klores' Crazy Trailer Tribeca Film Fest 2007: Free Tix For You Crude: Sundance CEO Tells Partygoers To 'Shut The F*ck Up' Jena Malone's First Bloodstains Release Extremely Limited Spike, HBO To Talk Levees Sequel Real World Creator Forms Documentary Film Division 'Gruesome' Cuthbert Movie Poster Pulled From 1,400 Taxi Tops Is Hollywood Buying Nick Kristof's Story? Oscar-Winning Producer Disses Graydon Carter's Chicago 10 FBNY @ SXSW: Weinstein Picks Up Secret (Bearded) Morgan Spurlock Middle East Doc FBNY @ SXSW: Combining The Best And Worst Of CES Jennifer Hudson-Vogue Oscar Outfit Spat Ignites Couture Catfight Seinfeld At Oscars: What's The Deal With Popcorn? Theater Owner: Here's The Deal, Funny Boy Scorsese Departs With Oscar(s) FBNY's Incomprehensive, Uninformed Guide To The Oscars Cocaine Film Director Makes Desperate E-Mail Plea For Audience Did Jim Carrey Movie Poster Rip Off Lou Reed Project? Will The Academy Finally Give Scorsese An Oscar? And The Nominees Are ... Obvious Update: Baron Cohen's Non-Borat Interview Not The 'Milestone' We Thought Breaking: Sacha Baron Cohen Steps Out Of Borat Character For NPR Video: Ben Affleck Turns Press Junket Into Lapdance ER Creator: Using Starving Children As A Shield From Bad Publicity Never A Good Idea Frat Boys Lose Bid To Ban Borat DVD Suspects Freed In Cameraman Brad Will's Murder; Government Cover-up Suspected Animated Penguins Beat Bond And A Borat At Box Office Can Bond Beat Borat At The Box Office? He's Just Not That Into You Authors Just Not That Into Sequel Ex-Page Six Scribe Working On Horror Screenplay AP Quotes Wes Anderson Character In Story On NYC Pot Delivery Sting $26.4 Million Buys Borat Potential Lawsuit Borat Provides Copywriters 'Glorious Hand Relief' Borat: Cultural Consequences Of Staying In Character The Blingy Backlash Against Blood Diamond Running With Scissors May Be A Box Office Dud, But The Duds Are Selling Well At Bloomies NYC Filmmaker Shot, Killed In Oaxaca, Mexico Spike Lee's Levees Screened For Knicks Christopher Guest Resurrects Spinal Tap Character For VW: Cool Or Sad? Documentary About Jay Bakker, Hipster Preacher, Son Of Jim & Tammy Faye, To Get Premiere In NYC Borat Soundtrack To Include 'Throw Jew Down The Well'; iTunes Gets It Week Early 'Make Click' On Borat's 'Official Home Site' Fox To Launch 'Faith Films' Aimed At Christians Film Depicting Bush Assassination To Debut At Toronto Film Fest WTC Movie Donates $2.6 Million To 9/11 Charities Times Art Dept. Teams Lohan With Cruise, Gibson What Marvey Weinstein Might Hear When Mel Gibson Calls To Apologize MSNBC To Mark 9/11 Anniversary With Reflections From ... Samuel L. Jackson? Who Would Play JonBenet 'Killer' In TV Movie? Happiness' Dylan Baker, Perhaps? 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