question of the day: Are the Oscars an ever clearer indication that Hollywood *knows* it makes crap?
Because the divide between the movies Hollywood makes for popular consumption are increasingly not the ones Hollywood honors as quality work…
Cinematical
royal wedding hype; ‘Hanna’s Joe Wright says ‘Sucker Punch’ is sexist; dear god no, there’s gonna be another ‘Tron’ flick; more: leftover links
Plus: Should Hollywood stop pandering to dorks? Does the flopping of Mars Needs Moms spell the end of 3D? Why is Katie Holmes failing to charm America?
AOL/HuffPo shoots the messenger, fires Moviefone editor Patricia Chui over work-for-free email
And the AOL/HuffPo Cinematical fiasco comes full circle in the only way it could have: with a scapegoating…
backpedaling is beautiful: AOL/HuffPo attempts damage control
Only an hour after I posted the hideous email sent to Cinematical freelancers, I received this email, from Mario Ruiz, senior vice president for media relations for Huffington Post Media Group…
AOL/HuffPo to movie journos: You’re fired, unless you want to write for free
AOL/HuffPo values the voices and input of its writers… just not enough to pay them. So please do continue to do the excellent work you’ve been doing, Cinematical and Moviefone writers, just don’t expect to get paid for it. *grrr*
my outrage over the TechCrunch AOL ‘Source Code’ mess (aka: this is why we can’t have nice things)
Or, Why not to be a whore for the studios, even though lots and lots of folks are doing it.
question of the day: Has Kevin Smith finally gone mad… or is he brilliant?
Smith wants his fans to pay $60 to see his new movie, Red State, in order to support independent filmmaking and independent distribution. Could any movie possibly be worth that, even to Smith’s legions of fans?
question of the day: Why do we continue to be George Lucas’s bitch?
Just try to ignore the pull of Star Wars 3D. How do we escape George Lucas’s Svengali-like domination?
wtf: ‘The Hurt Locker,’ for reals
I have no doubt that when historians look back at us from two thousand years in the future, they will sneer and express shock at reality television in the way that we sneer and express shock at the Roman spectacles of throwing Christians to the lions.
question of the day: How do you cope with ‘cinematicus interruptus’?
I’m stealing today’s question directly from Peter Martin at Cinematical, because it’s simply too perfect.
