• Dreamworks and Paramount have decided to open Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd wide on Christmas weekend. The original plan was to open on a couple of screens December 21 and then go wide three weeks later, but the studios, apparently convinced that Johnny Depp’s demon barber could have the appeal of a singing, cannibalistic Captain Jack, think Burton’s Sondheim adaptation has holiday weekend written all over it.
• “Owen Wilson’s emergency hospitalization and recovery are throwing a major monkeywrench into production of two movies and causing marketing headaches for two more,” writes Variety’s Tatiana Siegel. It seems like a fair thing to  speculate, but the only studio rep who would go on the record dismisses the line of inquiry as “totally inappropriate at this time.”
• Another day, another set of amazing sidebars announced by the New York Film Festival. This time, it’s a series of “dialogues” with directors Julian Schnabel, Todd Haynes, Wes Anderson and Sidney Lumet.
• Women in Film, in partnership with GM, have launched an online magazine for/by/regarding females in the film industry. It’s called Traction, and you can find it at wiftraction.com

An artist takes on the remake of a canonical film by opening up the creation to the YouTube generation. Interviewing artist Perry Bard who is calling for people everywhere to shoot pieces of their lives to remake Dziga Verdov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929) shot by shot. Also, Karina Longworth gets personal about Broken English (2007) starring Parker Posey, Gena Rowlands and directed by Zoe Casssavetes. We also discuss The Gleaners and I (2000).

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