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• Harvey Weinstein said he’d shoot himself if Cate Blanchett doesn’t get an Oscar nomination for I’m Not There. Has he already forgotten?
• Eli Roth wants to do sketch comedy. Seriously.
• Lance Weiler has a new web series.
• Asia Argento: The next Marlene Dietrich?
• What works for the queer blogosphere doesn’t necessarily sell a blockbuster in Korea.
• Netflix has hired Dana Carvey to star in a crappy web series.
• If you have a recent picture of yourself in a costume and can make the appropriate value judgements about John Carpenter flicks, you could attend Harry Knowles’ 24-hour film festival.
• Film theorist Rudolf Arnheim died, but commenter Marco didn’t have anything to do with it.
• Fox is showing a lack of confidence in Parker Posey’s sitcom debut.
• YouTube is getting ready to launch a tool that will spoil the party for mashup artists.
• Kevin on Ultimate Blogger, possibly the web’s first reality show.
• John Cusack talks about playing an Iraq war supporter in Grace is Gone.
• If Will Ferrell barely has time to make content for FunnyOrDie, how is Judd Apatow gonna manage it?
• You can download a free issue of Film Quarterly that includes out takes from the script of Mark Rappaport’s From The Journals of Jean Seberg. I read them on the subway and they were awesome.
• Disney denies they’ve fired Vanessa “nudie pic” Hudgens from their flagship tween franchise. Here’s three reasons why they shouldn’t change their minds.
• Find out what *really* happened to the couples of Say Anything, Pretty Woman and The Princess Bride after the end credits.
• Thanks to a recent rule change, Silent Light is eligible for an Oscar.
• Robert Rodriguez’s Barbarella remake is in trouble, for a myriad of (mysterious, half-probable) reasons.
• Newsflash: Michael Moore blogs about himself. A lot.
• Should George Lucas try to hit the YouTube generation by making content for YouTube?
• Kimberley Pierce’s Stop-Loss has been infuriating critics for months, and the trailer only premiered yesterday.
• A tour through Warner Brothers’ recent marketing blunders.
• Think Tyler Perry’s a hack and Judd Apatow’s a genius? Armond White says that’s because you’re white.
• On FilmCouch: Paul and Kevin mull over Mike Mills’ depression in Japan doc Does Your Soul Have A Cold? and finally got around to seeing The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — no thanks to Warner Brothers. And Karina tries to explain why a four hour Tom Petty documentary directed by Peter Bogdanovich makes perfect sense.
• After you listen to the podcast, you can read more about Peter Bogdanovich.
• Wristcutters: A Love Story’s road to theaters was much more of a slow bleed than the film itself.
• Is there really going to be a Brokeback Mountain sequel, or is OK! Magazine now just making stuff up for their own amusement?
• CIFF red carpet coverage: John Cusack, Mos Def & Jeffrey Wright, Anthony Hopkins, Malcolm McDowell,  Laura Linney

Under discussion:

Brokeback Mountain  (2005)

I probably shouldn’t even legitimize this with a post, but what the hell, it’s Friday: OK! Magazine, that bastion of fairness and accuracy in reporting (see their previous “scoop” from earlier this week) is reporting that Heath Ledger is about to sign on to star in a sequel to Brokeback Mountain:

“It will follow the nasty process of being openly gay in 1963 Wyoming, an insider tells OK!. “Ennis will finally come out of the closet.”

Defamer, noting that Ang Lee’s film followed Ledger’s Ennis DelMar through to 1983, calls bullshit:

Escape from Brokeback Mountain promises to mine all the nasty gay processes missed by the original, while setting the stage nicely for part three, Brokeback Revolutions, in which our hero finally reaches the fabled realm of Zion (which looks a lot like a leather-themed circuit party in Fort Lauderdale).

Under discussion:

Thumbsucker  (2005)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford  (2007)

Does Your Soul Have a Cold?  (2007)

Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  (2007)

What you should see but may not know is showing this weekend: Does Your Soul Have a Cold? by Mike Mills (Thumbsucker), a documentary about depression and the pharmaceutical invasion of Japan playing on IFC. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Andrew Dominik, the best movie to come out of Hollywood you’ll have to strain to find. And a four and a half hour documentary by cinema legend Peter Bogdanovich on none other than… Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers?

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Does Your Soul Have a Cold? The Assassination of Jesse James, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Runnin Down a Dream