The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has invited 105 member of the industry to join their gang, including 2008 Oscar winners Marion Cotillard and Diablo Cody. Insert stripper to Hollywood establishment joke…here.
Jeffrey Katzenberg presented “clips, storyboards and early animation sequences from” several Dreamworks animation films in the works at the CinemaExpo in Amsterdam [...]
As Variety commends audiences for their, um, smarts (oh, puns), the Weinsteins make an intelligent move of their own.
Apple is on track to triple sales and rentals of movies on iTunes this year. Their business got a shot in the arm when they began selling new releases early last month, enabling untold numbers of McConaughey addicts to get their Fool’s Gold fix on the go.
AMPAS will limit Oscar nominations in the Best Original [...]
IFC has picked up Medicine for Melancholy for day-and-date distribution. It’ll be released sometime next year; in the meantime, it’ll play in competition at the impending Los Angeles Film Festival.
Paramount is getting sued by Mario Puzo’s son, based on allegations that he wasn’t paid proper royalties on a video game based on The Godfather. He’s [...]
Spike Lee has spent his own money to acquire Time Traveler, “a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the nation’s first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics.” He’ll co-adapt and direct.
David Gordon Green’s The Pineapple Express will screen at the Just For Laughs Film Festival on July 19, three weeks before Sony opens [...]
Steven Boone returns to the continuing saga of the Antoine Fuqua film shooting in his Brooklyn neighborhood. This week, a chat with the film’s tollbooth worker-turned-screenwriter.
Walden Media is planning a huge blitz to promote their fall Bill Murray starrer City of Ember at ComicCon. The current plan is to “re-create the mythical city depicted in the film on a private two-car train that will transport 25 members of the media on a 2½-hour journey to the convention’s San Diego locale,” [...]
Questions: Why are both The Love Guru and Get Smart––broad comedies that should have mainstream appeal, if they actually appeal to anyone––opening on the same day, and how is the competition going to impact each film’s box office? Answers: either because Paramount locked in a bunch of promo deals for The Love Guru before realizing [...]
At This Recording, Tyler Coates reviews Keith Gessen’s All The Sad Young Literary Men, a book that I’m admittedly curious about, but absolutely refuse to read in hardcover unless someone gives me a copy. It is one of those new fangled novels that wants to tell people in their late 20s and early 30s who [...]
