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AFTRA and Inconvenient Kinks. Trade Roughage 07/08/08

AFTRA will announce the results of their guild’s ratification vote on a prospective contract with the AMPTP today. It’s said to be “widely anticipated the terms will be accepted,” despite SAG’s pressure on their overlapping union to vote no in order to get a new/more favorable deal.
Robert Schwartz looks at three of New York’s outdoor [...]

An Inconvenient Truth, The Remake. Clip of the Day.

Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind may have failed to make much of an impact at the box office, but as Liz Shannon Miller reports at NewTeeVee, it did touch off a serious wave of low-budget remake making on the web. Of the three “Sweded” mini-masterpieces she considers, by favorite is the above take on An [...]

Oscar Doc Shortlist Needs to Be Longer

At least by one, say fans of King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Personally, I’d like the addition of something I’ve actually seen.

Doc Depression

AJ Schnack has written a great post on the so-called “doc depression”. And no, we’re not talking about the emotional trauma that follows a screening of Lake Of Fire–though “depressing” documentaries likely have something to do with it, this depression is purely financial.
Only three nonfiction films are on track to gross a million dollars or [...]

A Convenient Hook: Trade Roughage 10/15/07

Hollywood takes credit for Al Gore’s Nobel. Plus, WB’s JESSE JAMES “strategy” seems to have the desired effect.

Howard Dean in Hollywood: Trade Roughage 10/11/07

Plus: Lloyd Kaufman takes Washington, and Al Gore’s bias is cited in Britain.