Jeff Robinov, who decreed that Warner Bros wouldn’t make movies with female leads, wants to not make women-led films elsewhere, probably
Not that this won’t be a mark in his favor with the other studios.
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Hellaware trailer: insane art posse
The band featured in this film — Young Torture Killers — isn’t real, but some folks were fooled into thinking they are…
American modern-day Sherlock Holmes: now officially inevitable
Someone make it stop, please.
question of the day: Should we applaud successful movie marketing when the movie being marketed is a stinker?
I’m angry as a filmgoer, and on behalf of all those filmgoers who plunked down for a ticket to The Devil Inside this weekend and then felt like they’d been ripped off.
question of the day: What is a fireable offense for a film critic?
What does it take to get fired from a job writing film criticism? Elvis Mitchell — just booted from Movieline — may run the gamut. Or not…
question of the day: What recent crappy movies would work better as TV shows?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer the movie sucked. But some folks seem to feel that Buffy the TV series was pretty darn okay. I’m really desperately trying to keep that in mind when I think about how the American network Fox is going into production with a series based on the deeply terrible 2005 Will Smith film Hitch.
um, what? ‘Social Network’ is elitist?
‘Left coast, right coast, and a smidge of Chicago only. The rest of the country could care less,’ says a studio exec about who came out to see the Fincher Facebook flick. Huh?
question of the day: Who should get paid $38 million to be a judge on ‘American Idol’?
I don’t pretend to understand why audiences find the modern Gong Show freak show American Idol so enthralling, so I don’t even know where to begin thinking about this bit of news. According to a scoop at Deadline Hollywood, the rumor that Howard Stern would be replacing Simon Cowell as a judge on that show … more…
because there’s no formula Hollywood can’t beat into the ground
A sequel to Valentine’s Day had already been just about greenlit last week, before it raked in $63 million this past four-day holiday weekend, according to Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood: Little wonder Warner Bros’ New Line is in love with the Garry Marshall-directed Valentine’s Day because of its formula of cramming more than a … more…
question of the day: What will the pitch for the J.D. Salinger movie sound like?
J.D. Salinger is dead. Long live J.D. Salinger, the movie? Maybe now someone will produce the definitive work about the legendarily reclusive author? There’s already a documentary, by filmmaker Shane Salerno, finished last year, according to Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood — he’s even seen it: I found the film, which doesn’t have narration, to … more…
