omg: Hollywood secretly embraces the power of piracy

Viacom does, at least. It’s from a couple weeks back but I just discovered it, a post by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing about the lawsuit in which Viacom is suing Google “for $1 billion for not having copyright lawyers inspect all the videos that get uploaded to YouTube before they’re made live.” Here we … more…

trailer break: ‘Love Ranch’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… “There’s no business like ho business”? *headdesk* I hope that’s not indicative of the level this film is operating on. I expect more from Helen Mirren, at the very least. Though perhaps this is what happens when you work with your spouse — she’s married to director … more…

question of the day: What fine-art painting would you like to see adapted as a film?

Steve Simels writes a regular column at Box Office Magazine, and over the holiday weekend he offered a possible new avenue for a Hollywood intent on borrowing from other mediums for its stories: fine art. And Simels had a particular painting in mind for adaptation: “genius-of-the-macabre artist Henry Fuseli’s incredible The Nightmare,” dating from 1785: … more…

retro trailer: ‘1776’

Take a look back at an old trailer… Happy Fourth of July to my readers in the U.S. (To everyone else, happy Sunday.) It’s as disgusting in Philadelphia today — and in New York, too — as it was on this same day 234 years ago, as they all sing about here (well, in the … more…