question of the day: Are sites like Hulu and YouTube “anti-consumer, anti-media employees, and even anti-America”?

Last week at Deadline Hollywood, Nikki Finke posted some extraordinary comments by watchers of Hollywood and measurers of the performance of its products regarding the upheavals media is going through at the moment: I’ve seen 3 deep-dive reports just this month about studio-produced entertainment going online. And the consensus is that Big Media could destroy … more…

opening in the U.S. and Canada June 19: ‘The Proposal,’ ‘Year One,’ Whatever Works,’ ‘Dead Snow,’ ‘The Windmill Movie’

opening wide The Proposal: Remember how we decided to get married, honey? It was so romantic, what with you threatening my career and all… *sigh* Year One: Or maybe they could call the sequel Year One: Number 2, and then they could get a shit joke right in the title. opening limited Whatever Works: Woody … more…

opening in the U.K. June 19: ‘Year One,’ ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,’ ‘Miss March,’ ‘Away We Go,’ ‘Moon,’ more

Year One: Oh god, there’s gonna be a sequel, isn’t there? Year Two? For the love of Brian, someone make it stop… Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: By the time I see this come Monday afternoon, its debut-weekend fate in the U.K. will already be known. Weird. [trailer] Miss March: Man, we are just dumping … more…

pity poor Michael Bay

If this isn’t the quote of the year (as spoken to the London Times), then I dunno what is: Look, it’s easy to go shoot an art movie on a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers. How many people it takes … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #76

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.