calling bullshit on: blaming audiences for Hollywood’s sins…
… as *The Christian Science Monitor* does in a piece by staff writer Gloria Goodale. Under the headline ‘Why intriguing ‘Inception’ is the Hollywood exception,’ Goodale says…
Hollywood hates moviegoers
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…
question of the day: Will Hollywood learn anything from the flopping of ‘Jonah Hex’?
The Hollywood Reporter blog Heat Vision has a few lessons Hollywood might want to consider when contemplating another film like Jonah Hex, which is destined to go down as one of the worst-performing movies of 2010. The lessons seem evident: Fanboys might not make or break a film, but they need to feel respected. Pick … more…
wtf: new phone app wants you to use your phone during a movie
I attended a press screening recently — one held in a large multiplex, not a small screening room — during which the gaggle of studio employees sitting to my right proceeded to spend the entire movie texting, the nuclear glow of the screens of their smartphones blazing in the darkness of the theater. I repeat … more…
question of the day: Shouldn’t Hollywood condemn Ashton Kutcher’s ‘piracy’ of ‘Killers’?
I noted in last Friday’s Question of the Day that the Katherine Heigl/Ashton Kutcher flick Killers wouldn’t be screening for critics before it opens tomorrow. (I’ll attend a courtesy screening for press tomorrow morning, and will have a review asap afterward.) Lionsgate’s reason for this? The studio wants to “capitalize on the revolution in social … more…
question of the day: What is it with January and bad movies?
And so the traditional January onslaught of crap commences today, with the releases of Leap Year and Youth in Revolt. Next week’s The Spy Next Door ain’t gonna be pretty, either. Why does Hollywood hate us? If someone paid just slightly more attention to the people making movies, couldn’t we avoid creating really, really bad … more…
