Osama bin Laden on Twitter; no black people at the royal wedding, duh; DVD sales are plummeting; more: leftover links
Plus: Where are the women of summer? Is ‘Doctor Who’ violating a new BBC ban on product placement? Is ‘Glee’ turning kids gay?
Warner Bros
wait, what? Warner Bros. now owns Rotten Tomatoes
Net content is getting more and more consolidated into corporate hands. This cannot be a good thing…
trailer break: ‘The Hangover Part II’ (the one you can’t see in theaters)
Look, it’s just like The Hangover, except instead of a baby, there’s a monkey. Oh oh and the monkey sucks on the fake boner, which is just — hoo! — hilarious.
Scott “Dilbert” Adams comes out of the closet as a misogynist; Duke Nukem Forever features “Capture the Babe” mode; how Disney invaded our childhoods; more: leftover links
Plus: Why Sucker Punch flopped at the box office; Facebook won’t delete photos of a corpse (even after the victim’s family asks nicely); the Guardian is coming to America…
question of the day: Would you watch movies on Facebook?
Warner Bros. announced today that it has started offering streaming movies to rent or purchase directly on Facebook. Good idea? What are the potential problems?
wtf: ‘The Stand’ as a feature film?
The six-hour miniseries ABC did on TV in the 1990s wasn’t long enough. Unless Warner Bros. and CBS Films are proposing to do three three-hour films à la The Lord of the Rings, I don’t want to hear about this.
NBC is sooo regretting letting Conan go; new Wolverine movie is called ‘The Wolverine’; BBC continues to employ David Tennant and John Simm; more: leftover links
Plus: the shocking number of British actors who have not been in a Harry Potter movie; is Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being persecuted?; we don’t need no stinkin’ objectivity in journalism; and more.
tres cool: no 3D for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I is rapidly barreling at us — it releases on November 19 on both sides of the Atlantic — which is good enough news, but now comes even better news for fans of not-sucky films everywhere…
Flipped (review)
Everything that is wrong with The Movies today in America is beautifully encapsulated in how this lovely little movie cannot find an audience in the current movie environment.
Rooney Mara is the American girl with the dragon tattoo; Net neutrality’s swan song; is George Lucas an asshole?; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
