Pages of the Bush biopic have landed online, and they are looking pretty authentic to me.
Plus: The future, as imagined in the mid-80s, is already here.
With an almost completely dead, holiday hungover RSS, I spent the morning leisurely slogging through this LA Times profile of 80s it-boy novelist Bret Easton Ellis. Much of the story’s 3,000 words are devoted to defenses of Ellis’ literary reputation, most notably for our purposes from New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, who [...]
February 22, 2008 – 8:30 am
Variety’s corporate parents decide to get out of the magazine game. Also: On Wednesday, the Best Picture nominees were box office failures, but today, they’re huge!
February 14, 2008 – 9:02 am
Paramount has reshuffled its 2008-2009 release calendar, and the big headline is the move of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek from December 2008 to Spring 2009, in order to position the film as a summer tentpole instead of a Christmas/awards offering. Which seems like a no-brainer, but this project has been so slow getting off the [...]
February 13, 2008 – 9:00 am
Around 7pm PST last night, WGA West president Patrick Varrone made the announement: “The strike is over. Our membership has voted. Writers can go back to work.” Only 283 of 3,775 voting guild members cast a ballot in favor of prolonging the strike.
But the Hollywood Labor Wars are hardly over. The Screen Actors Guild [...]
February 11, 2008 – 4:26 pm
Fox made a legal threat against sites who dared to criticize a soon-to-be-produced script by the Oscar nominee, but apparently let another site’s not-entirely-positive script review remain live. What’s up with that?
February 11, 2008 – 8:33 am
As the strike crosses the finish line, it’s time to assess What It All Means (or, at least, What It All Cost).
February 9, 2008 – 10:54 am
But no–the strike still doesn’t seem to be officially, definitively over.
February 5, 2008 – 2:33 pm
…and thereby raises the question: has the relationship between economic imperatives and quality really changed *that* much since CITIZEN KANE tanked?
