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'CSI': Magic Mountain

· A half-hour CSI stage show at Magic Mountain will allow visitors to Six Flags to "witness a fake crime, then guide them through the 'whodunit' process," before shuffling them through turnstiles for the ride of their life on The Wild Blacklight Splooge-Stain Coaster! [Variety]
· Filmmaker R.J. Cutler will turn the new book Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America into a feature-length documentary, highlighting the amazing stand-up accomplishments of groundbreaking comedians like Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and a 4-year-old Dane Cook, who to this day holds the title for youngest Boston Yuk-Yuks headliner of all time. [Variety] More »

12:36 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Seth
485 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: what - how about Paris - the ride.. oh wait - everyone's been on that one already more »

the departed

Jack Nicholson's Strap-On Has Nowhere To Hide In 'The Depanted'


A Worth1000 Photoshop contest fielding posters for movies one letter off from their original titles turned up a surprisingly hilarious bounty of entries. Frustrated at having to single out just a few for special recognition, we eventually settled on the three above—000's abandoned CGI cliff bereft of even a single tumbling Persian, The Lives of Otters's voyeuristic glimpse into the world of marine mammals inhabiting a Cold War-era German zoo, and the mob/FBI game of trou-dropping cat-and-mouse known as The Depanted—but strongly suggest you peruse the entries yourself, lest you miss out on the one-sheet touting Marty McFly's adventure back to 18th century Germany to ensure nothing interferes with the composition of the Brandenburg concerti. Sure, they are good for a laugh, but don't be surprised if this "change one letter" approach doesn't soon overtake sequels and remakes as the preferred studio method of revisiting previously proven material. More »

1:30 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By Seth
2,735 views, 7 comments

Latest by UnidentifiedFemaleCompanion: I thought for sure someone would do a take on Wild Bogs. And for those with a flatulence problem? How about the Defarted? more »

trade roundup

Trade Round-Up: No One Willing To Let 'The Departed's' Oscar Magic Slip Away

· The Departed's freshly minted Oscar-winning duo of Martin Scorsese and William Monahan are already reteaming for another project, the "rock n' roll epic" The Long Play for Paramount. Of course, now that Scorsese's got his statue he can totally mail it in on this one. [Variety]
· More Departed reunions: William Monahan and Leo DiCaprio are getting back together for a remake of the Hong Kong thriller Confessions of Pain for Warner Bros. [THR]
· Paul Haggis' The Black Donnellys underwhelms with its premiere performance in Studio 60's former Monday night timeslot, a result the show's producers can easily blame on Aaron Sorkin's permanent tainting of the 10pm hour. [Variety]
· Pilot casting round-up: Carrie-Anne Moss in ABC drama Suspect; Marisa Janet Winokur in CBS comedy Fugly; William Baldwin in ABC drama Dirty Sexy Money; Christopher Titus in an untitled ABC Jon Feldman project; Swoosie Kurtz in ABC drama Pushing Daisies. [THR]
· Save the date! The Screen Actors Guild stakes out January 27th for next year's installment of its Saggie Awards. [Variety]

1:01 PM on Tue Feb 27 2007
By Mark
1,095 views, 5 comments

Latest by Porkypine420: Haggis is over. The rule of Monahan has begun. Long live Monahan! more »

trade roundup

Trade Round-Up: All Oscar, All The Time Edition

· Oscar Recap Mania! Var and THR remind you about the Oscar moments you were too drunk to remember this morning. [Variety, THR]
· In your face, Altman, Hitchcock, and Kubrick! Martin Scorsese's Best Director win betters the recognition received by those directing legends, who had to settle for honorary Oscars (Bob and Alfred) or nothing at all (Big Stanley). [Variety]
· Warning, members of the media bold enough to suggest that The Departed might not be one of Scorsese's better films: Producer Graham King will melt off your fucking face with lasers emitted from his eyeballs. [THR]
· More Oscar Fun Facts: Alan Arkin's win comes 40 years after his first nomination. That offers some hope to Eddie Murphy, who'll only have to work until 2047 to have a shot at repeating the feat of the man who stole his Oscar last night. [Variety]
· The Oscar telecast's ratings are up slightly over last year's Crash-marred debacle, bumping from 2006's one billion viewers to last night's 1,000,000,002. [THR]
· Anyone who claimed to know that The Departed would win Best Picture is full of shit, says Var. Nonetheless, we'll go on the record as being full of shit: We totally knew! [Variety]

12:32 PM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Mark
884 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: I am strangely disappointed that Tom Cruise didn't do anything crazy. more »

oscars

Oscar SnubWatch: Brad Grey Uncredited, Again

Blogging from the press room at the Academy Awards, Variety's On the Town asked Officially Oscar-Recognized The Departed producer Graham King the uncomfortable, inevitable question about Paramount emperor Brad Grey's losing appeal to have the opportunity to hop onstage and clutch the Best Picture statuette he helped win for a rival studio: More »

11:19 AM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Mark
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oscars

Voter Indifference May Lead To Oscar Best Picture Win For Write In Candidate 'Fuck it, I don't like any of them'

Slate clues us into a disconcerting trend (well, if you can call the voting habits of a bored director and pissy publicist a "trend"), in which this year's tight Best Picture race is attributed to the fact that everyone hates all the nominees equally:
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6:08 PM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Seth
1,744 views, 3 comments

short ends

Short Ends: Scorsese's Favorite Letter


· The Film Experience blog compiles a list of people you're probably going to be pretty sick of by the end of 2007.
· The LAT examines the Spoof Movie Fart Joke Mystique.
· A question to which we don't care to ever know the answer: What's Up With Brit's Necklace?
· Rachel Zoe to reveal the utterly mysterious ways in which she transformed many of your favorite troubled starlets into stylish, stick-thin zombies.
· A fun thing for film nerds to discuss: Martin Scorsese's use of X's in The Departed.
· And the award for Best Sneaky Use Of A Network Catchphrase In A Publicist's Statement goes to this Bravo flack for working "Watch What Happens" into her response to the Top Chef spoiler flap.

6:00 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Mark
118 views, 5 comments

Latest by nick_r: I'm interested in the "X" motif in The Departed, but also curious about the "You rat motherfucker!" motif. more »

oscars

Academy Announces Twenty Percent Reduction In Brad Grey's Best Picture Chances

According to a press release that just landed in our inbox (which confirms this earlier Slate story), it seems that the Academy's Executive Committee on Whether Or Not To Ignore All These Annoying Recommendation Letters About Why Brad Grey Deserves To Get A Producing Credit On The Departed has finally ruled on the Paramount emperor's appeal to get a piece of the Warner Bros.' film's Oscar glory, deciding to crush Grey's "uncouth and distasteful" double-nomination dreams. Even though he's now freed from the embarrassing possibility of having to brush by his own defeated Babel crew on his way to deliver a potential victory speech for a competitor's movie, he should still spend some time practicing suppressing the politically ill-advised urge to point to himself and mouth, "That's my movie, assholes," should the camera pan to him following the annoucement of a Departed Best Picture win. More »

2:59 PM on Fri Jan 26 2007
By Mark
570 views, 3 comments

Latest by Scout: This leaves him free to pursue the inclusion of his name on the Dreamgirls soundtrack. He does, after all, sing the songs in the shower every morning. "Brad Grey - lead vocals/Producer of The Departed" more »

brad grey

Brad Grey Just Happy To Be 'Nominee To Be Determined'

When the ominous words "nominees to be determined" accompanied the announcement of The Departed's nomination for Best Picture, industry tongues reflexively clicked, heads were gravely shaken in disapproval, and the eyes of vulnerable children were shielded as if in the presence of a well-endowed drifter who unexpectedly exposed himself near a grade-school crosswalk, for it seemed clear that Paramount emperor Brad Grey had appealed the Academy for a producer credit on the film of rival studio Warner Bros (a credit recently denied by the Producers Guild), a prideful sin compounded by the fact that his own studio's Babel is also in the race for the shiniest Oscar of them all. Today's LAT reports that Academy officials are keeping quiet on the matter of Grey's presumed petition, unconvincingly asserting that they have no idea why their fax machine has recently been clogged with missives from esteemed members of the Hollywood community noting that, "For like an entire year, Brad just wouldn't shut up about how much time he spent producing this Departed thing": More »

8:35 AM on Wed Jan 24 2007
By Mark
138 views, 2 comments

Latest by ILikeSalads: Hey, Brad Grey, a guy named Shakepeare wrote a play called JULIUS CAESER where his hubris not only brought his own downfall but that of the Roman Empire. Check it out, great read. You might learn a thing more »

the departed

Awards Round-Up: Chicago Critics, Pencils Down Please

· The Chicago Film Critics Association decide upon The Departed as this year's best picture, with Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker taking top acting honors. Congratulations: Through the process of critical concensus repetition alone, you have now been brainwashed into believing those two actors will take home an Oscar. [THR]
· The Florida Film Critics Circle also honor The Departed, Mirren and Whitaker, while the Pauline Kael Breakout Award (sponsored by Clearasil) goes to Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls. [Variety]
· The AFI name their "Moments of Significance" for 2006, a sort of Oscars for Hollywood trends, we guess, recognizing such abstract concepts as "Clint Eastwood - A National Treasure," "The Documentary Speaks To The World," and "YouTube Redefines 'The Tube.'" Sadly, "End to Years-Long Battle for Armrest Dominance Over That Guy Sitting Next To You at the Movies" is one Moment of Significance that has yet to see the light of day. [The Envelope]

12:05 PM on Thu Dec 28 2006
By Seth
32 views, Comment

awards

Awards Round-Up: The San Diego Critics Have Spoken

In our ongoing effort to bring you the best of year end movie lists and awards—no critics' circle too far or too small!—another round-up:
· Chargers fans also love Clint Eastwood, as Letters From Iwo Jima is awarded best picture and Eastwood best director from the San Diego Film Critics Society. And while Helen Mirren once again gets top actress honors (her certificate, suitable for framing, is in the mail), they then proceed to throw several curveballs in the other acting categories, including Lili Taylor as best supporting actress for Factotum, Ray Winstone as best supporting actor for The Proposition, and Ken Takakura as best actor for his work in Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. From the title alone, that sounds to have been a lot more demanding a role than Mirren's, which mainly required her to sit around in a palace, sip tea, and act bitchy. [Variety]
· The Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards gave United 93 best picture, Mirren best actress, Forest Whitaker best actor, and Little Miss Sunshine best screenplay, proving stretching out Blind Melon's "No Rain" video into 100 minutes of indie movie quirk clichés was an idea whose time had come. [OscarWatch]
· indieWIRE's first annual Critics Poll—a descendant of the Village Voice poll— asked 107 North American film critics to assess the year's best, with a special eye to movies that may have been overlooked. Number One, and far ahead of the pack, is Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. [IndieWire.com]
· The Onion A.V. Club gives their top honor to Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, with special mentions to the underrated Brick (#4), and Half Nelson (#6), which succeeds in its inner-city high school inspirational teacher story despite a lack of a Coolio song on the soundtrack. [AV Club]

1:42 PM on Thu Dec 21 2006
By Seth
40 views, Comment

awards

Broadcast Film Critics Willing To Forgive Ben Affleck His Past 'Gigli' Transgressions

We here at Defamer love the holiday season for no other reason than the bounty of movie critics' year-end lists and awards it brings us, like decrees handed down from on high from our pull-quote producing, thumb-direction-assigning cinematic sages. The Broadcast Film Critics Association adds another layer of intrigue to the process, dragging things out heightening the suspense by first releasing a list of nominees in every category, and later announcing the winners at the E!-broadcast Critics' Choice Awards—a mini-Oscars, as it were, only with the added feature of having Ryan Seacrest backstage to helpfully offer select Best Actor and Supporting Actor nominees stress-relieving lower back rubs. A partial list of the nominees, from The Envelope: More »

12:23 PM on Tue Dec 12 2006
By Seth
139 views, 1 comment

Latest by Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: Well, I'm happy for Ben, as much as my vow to hate him forever (just for fun!) will allow, anyway. more »

awards

Critics Expose The Steaming Awards Season Entrails To Be Read By Blind Oscar Soothsayers

Once a year, our nation's most esteemed movie critics lock themselves inside smokey, windowless rooms, and heatedly debate, Twelve Angry Men-style, the relative merits of what they have seen over the previous twelve months. It can often escalate into full-on violence—at the New York Film Critics Circle deliberations this year, for example, The New Yorker's David Denby reportedly had The Observer's octogenarian critic-in-residence Andrew Sarris in a half nelson in a dispute over Ryan Gosling's performance in the film of the same name—but inevitably, a consensus is reached, giving obsessive Oscar prognosticators key pieces of evidence to jot down on index cards and affix in perfectly aligned columns to their bedroom walls. A round-up of the results of four major critics' lists: More »

12:24 PM on Mon Dec 11 2006
By Seth
68 views, 1 comment

Latest by junkie: Re: Babel In fairness to my South Asian brethren in Pakistan it should be noted that the random tourist shooting occurred whilst on vacation in Morocco. If it actually were in Pakistan it was more likely to have been a random tourist more »

the departed

Overheard Celebrity Peer Evaluations: Keanu Questions Jack's Motivation

For those who have been patiently anticipating an update to our ongoing, cultural critique series, "Overheard Celebrities," your wait is over: Blogger Johnny Hong Kong happened to be occupying the same sonic sphere as Keanu Reeves at a weekend screening of The Departed, during which the venerated screen thespian was overheard saying he would have taken Jack Nicholson's role of sociopathic mob boss Frank Costello in a different direction. He sent us this capsule report: More »

5:05 PM on Mon Oct 9 2006
By Seth
435 views, 9 comments

box office

Monday Morning Box Office: Mistakes Were Made: Quality Movie Succeeds At The Multiplex

Celebrate this Columbus Day like you would any other Monday: by drowning out the sorrows of another seemingly endless week of indentured servitude with the box office numbers: More »

8:43 AM on Mon Oct 9 2006
By Mark
60 views, 2 comments

jack nicholson

Jack Nicholson's Strap-On Ready For Its Close-Up

When Jack Nicholson's strap-on first started making gossip sheet appearances last June, we feared that the actor's prosthetic member would burn too brightly too early, exhausting its buzz more than a year before its awards-worthy supporting turn in The Departed could be seen. But with the movie's release approaching, the up-and-coming dildo's publicist has wisely courted the tabloids again, pimping a crucial Rolling Stone mention to Page Six: More »

9:55 AM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Mark
2,596 views, 5 comments

jack nicholson

Jack Nicholson: Lakers Fan, Script Doctor

We all remember how Jack Nicholson's dedication to craft led him to lobby his The Departed director Martin Scorses to juice up the realism of his sex scenes with liberal amounts of dildos and blow. Now Radar reports that Jack was even more hands-on during shooting than previously suspected: More »

10:14 AM on Fri Jul 22 2005
By Mark
620 views