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Superheroes and Celebrity Resur ...
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 "We’re giving away a Wii at the main site. Oh, Iron Man. You were beloved. You were remixed. Your best moment came after the credits. Your fans were more realistic about the nature of fantasy than women who are really into Sex and the City. 10 Avengers who should be in the Avengers movie. The Tribeca Film Festival recapped. Michel Gondry might have won a Webby for it, but we still don’t care about Sweding. Heath Ledger will haunt the Cannes market. Maybe while he’s there, he can pick up European distribution rights on Donnie Darko 2. Also, lots of people are buying Joker toys. Anna Nicole Smith comes back from the dead in what has to be the meta-est biopic of a former stripper ever made. Probably. How Brawndo lept through the screen. Lloyd Kaufman fights Tribeca. In a chicken suit. Oliver Stone hasn’t cast DIck Cheney yet, but his Bush movie nonetheless comes out in 5 months. So far, nobody likes Indiana Jones and the Kid From Transformers Props Up A Walking Corpse. Except for those ... " [More]

MILf Counting: BlogNosh 05/09/08
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 "Sometime-Moldy Peach Adam Green talks to Gothamist about promoting the Juno soundtrack by playing The View: “They gave me a year’s supply of Café Bustelo for playing. Anyways I got a check for $900 with Mickey Mouse’s head printed on it. Me and my girlfriend couldn’t figure out why Disney was sending me money. It turns out that they own The View. But I’m glad that they don’t censor what Whoopie says.” FEARnet presents its list of Top 10 MILFS. “But don’t worry, were not talking incestuous mother-f-ing action here: we’re talking FEARnet MILFs!…the Moms I Like to FEAR!” It’s a lot better than it sounds. Via Tisch FIlm Review. Above: a frame from Amy Winehouse’s attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend. J/K! Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]

The 15 Films That Buyers Want A ...
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 "In a story published online last night, Variety’s Sharon Swart named the 15 films across both the Cannes Film Festival and the Cannes market that are expected to attract the most attention from buyers. At least one of the titles, Steve McQueen’s Hunger, has been bought in the hours since the story hit the website. At least one more, described as a “martial arts fantasy actioner, currently shooting in Romania…[starring] Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore and Japanese popstar Gackt,” sounds unspeakably (but not necessarily unsaleably) ridiculous. Two more of the films on Swart’s list are related in that they were made the focus of unexpected and unwanted attention in January by the death of Heath Ledger. One is Lucas Moodysson’s Mammoth, shooting of which was briefly suspended so that star Michelle Williams could return to Brooklyn to respond to her ex-fiancee’s death; when Williams returned to the set, the New York Post ran a paparazzi photo of the actress walking past a prop skeleton and ... " [More]

Oliver Stone Has 5 Months To Fi ...
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 "That improbable release date quoted in the Entertainment Weekly story about W? Variety has confirmed it. Apparently, Lionsgate is all set to release Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush movie on October 17…even though it’s not even going to begin shooting until May 12. I’m sure it’s technically possible to finish casting, shoot, edit and promote an ensemble cast biopic about the president of the United States in five months (actually, I’m not sure, but I’ll give Stone the benefit of the doubt). I’m just not sure such a total rush job is really the best breeding ground for a great work of political criticism. Hope I’m wrong! Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]

Glenn Kenny’s New Blog
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 "A day after learning and announcing that his job at Premiere.com had been eliminated, Glenn Kenny has already set up a new personal blog, free of association with Premiere/Hachette. Well, sort of: the subtitle on the TypePad blog is, currently, “Film writer Glenn Kenny’s own bought-and-paid-for-blog, thank you very goddamn much.” The title-title is Some Came Running, and in the first entry, Kenny explains what he hopes to do with it: “Consider this space the drunken boat we stand in, trying to pull either and/or both of these figures in. Not to be loopy, or maudlin, or anything. Just a fancy way of saying…let’s hang, my friends.” Related: “Hachette has always been an abortion of a magazine company,” writes Nick Denton at Gawker. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day
Political Groundhog Day
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 "Your Blogger is having some computer issues this morning. While I get sorted, check out this blog post from Roger Ebert , in which he ponders the never ending Democratic primary in cinematic terms. “It must have been a species of torture for the anchors at CNN, who seemed caught in a Groundhog Day loop…The problem with a screenplay based on these events is that there would be a merciless sameness.” That quote brought to mind two things. First, this has probably been done already, but someone should do some kind of linguistic/historical study, charting the evolution of references to that movie as a universally identified synonym for eternal recurrence. Also: YouTube! The above clip, Groundhog Day in 5 Seconds, which reduces the Bill Murray classic to nothing but merciless sameness. Also: Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]
Funny Games
Funny Games
Warners Closes Picturehouse, WIP
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 "I’ve been in a really ominous mood all day. I thought it was just because the sky is grey and I’ve been been listening to this Belong EP, which basically sounds like a prolonged death rattle, but now that I’m reporting the second major story about people losing their jobs in the past couple of hours, I’m starting to feel like it’s not just me. The whole internet feels like the last scene of Madam Butterfly today––death now fills the air. Anyway: the news. Warner Brothers has shut down its two remaining, dueling indie arms, Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse. Warner’s COO Alan Horn released a statement basically saying that the shell of New Line will handle all low budget fare going forward, and claimed to be “confident that the spirit of independent filmmaking and the opportunity to find and give a voice to new talent will continue to have a presence at Warner Bros.” So. What about acquisitions? Will Warners be sending one of the ten New Line employees left standing to Ca ... " [More]

Critics Watch: Glenn Kenny Out ...
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 "Another week, another dose of frustrating news about the state of film journalism. This morning longtime Premiere film critic (and occasional SpoutBlog commenter) Glenn Kenny used his blog to announce that his “position at Premiere.com is being terminated.” Glenn says he’ll keep up his Premiere-hosted blog if he can; otherwise, he’s looking for freelance work. The comments on his hour-old post are already getting lively; check them out and join in here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]

Brolin as Bush
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 "Entertainment Weekly’s cover story is peek at pre-production on W, Oliver Stone’s much-discussed George W. Bush biopic. That’s Josh Brolin above, in makeup for the lead role. In the story, we learn: That script that seemed too parodic to be true was apparently at least two drafts away from the shooting script. Bush historian Robert Draper on that early script: “[I]t just misses the guy…You come away with an even more hyperbolized caricature of Bush the Cowboy President than is already out there.” Dick Cheney had yet to be cast by the time the EW story went to press, but Stone is reportedly considering Paul Giamatti. Which would be AWESOME. In the effort to produce this thing quickly and cheaply (the projected release date for this yet-to-be made film has now inched up to October[!]), Stone is taking advantage of Louisiana’s massive tax breaks, presumably using The Bayou State as a stand in for Texas, D.C. and Yale. Speaking of that improbable release date: Stone’s producers are sa ... " [More]

I Am A Fugitive in Cannes: Trad ...
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 "The Cannes Film Festival will show a classic Warner Brothers film every night of the fest, including I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and Dirty Harry, as part of a tribute to the studio’s 85th anniversary. Also on tap: film critic Richard Schickel’s doc, You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story. John Waters is making a Christmas movie! And it’s gonna star Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey! The film was reportedly once setup at New Line; this Hollywood Reporter story implies that it was abandoned during that company’s mom and dad took its keys away, and that ThinkFilm “is said to be in talks to come aboard.” On Tuesday, Variety negatively reviewed the new Broadway musical Glory Days, pejoratively likening it to a certain “digital revolution”-enabled movie movement that has “democratized the filmmaking process, opening the floodgates for kids straight out of school with no life experience and no stories to tell to start making navel-gazing movies.” Today, the trade reports tha ... " [More]

Contest: Scavenge For a Wii
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 "A friendly bit of Spout promotion: over on the main site, we’re running a contest and giving away a Nintendo Wii. Just go here, agree to the legalese, follow the clues and find the treasure chests. You could be starring in your own injury clip in no time. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]
Young@Heart
Young@Heart
Documentaries: It’s Either a Cr ...
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 "Wildly divergent posts on the State of Documentary today. At Film.com, Eric D. Snider comes up with four “possible explanations” for why reality television is more popular than documentary film; scale of distribution (ie: the fact that most documentaries play in just a handful of cities, if they get traditional theatrical distribution at all) is not mentioned, but the “lighthearted” nature of reality TV vs. non-fiction film is. Meanwhile, AJ Schnack points out that the crowd-pleasing Young@Heart is the fourth doc to cross the $1 million mark at the box office so far this year, putting 2008 on track to be the biggest year for docs since 2003. The second-highest grossing doc of this banner year thus far is Expelled; in a Pop Matters post about why that film is “the essence of bullshit”, George Reisch dismisses its success by claiming that “early box-office indications are that it’s a fizzle.” I know reality is subjective and everything, but when it’s *this* subjective, it starts to s ... " [More]