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What If They Threw An Oscars, And Nobody Showed?

· In case you missed it—and apparently many, many of you did—it was the Oscars last night. "The Awards averaged a 21.9 rating/33 share. That's down a sharp 21% from last year and the lowest on record in at least 20 years." [THR]
· Martin Scorsese and his widow-peaked muse Leonardo DiCaprio have pre-sold their latest collaboration, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane novel Shutter, to foreign markets for record-breaking amounts. Explained one Italian distribution rep, "That Leo. He, how do you say, nails hot models? And we love the little eyebrows-one, and his little movies. Very good!" [THR]

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12:19 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Seth
1,510 views, 2 comments

Latest by Benovite: "it was the Oscars last night"? Did little Sylvia from 2nd grade write that to confuse me into thinking there will be no more Oscar ceremonies? more »

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Universal/Hasbro Deal Good News For Gritty Atlantic City Drama 'A House On Baltic Ave.'

· Hollywood Out of Ideas: Holy Shit, Now They're Raiding the Game Closet Edition. Universal signs a six-year deal with Hasbro to produce "at least four feature films based on branded properties." Among the classic toys and boardgames in their stable: Monopoly, Candy Land, and Ouija. Bay + Candy Land + Giant Fucking Gumdrops + Marshmellow Explosions = Wicked. [Variety]
· The NBC Universal Super-Exec League of Silver Man, The Zucker, and The Phantom Graboff have connected their powerful Peacock Rings and once again produced the impossible: a 52-week programming schedule. You read that right: 52 weeks. They are truly amazing. [Variety]
· Variety sticks fork in this year's Oscar telecast, declares it done. [Variety]

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11:32 AM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Seth
1,055 views, 22 comments

Latest by buttler: Waaaaaait a minute, doesn't Hasbro own ROM: Spaceknight? Now THAT's a movie I'd pay to see. more »

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Apple/'Idol' Partnership Produces The Prone-To-Breakdowns iPaula

· In an uncomfortable marriage pitting one of the coolest brands on the planet with, um, a lesser-cool brand, Apple has become a signature sponsor of American Idol. What does this mean for you, the Apple/Idol fan? iTunes carries show downloads, the iPod becomes the show's "official digital music player," and the company's next top-secret product launch, the iPaula, will perform all the functions of the iPhone, but with improved wasted and weepy functionality. [Variety]
· Toshiba concedes defeat in the high-def war, giving Blu-ray the official win, and relegating HD-DVD to the obsolete technology junkpile. (Attention unnamed dance-punk bands: Blu-Ray Or HD-DVD is up for grabs!) [Variety] More »

12:51 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Seth
1,045 views, 8 comments

Latest by raincoaster: Can I get a Nasty Simon playlist? more »

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'Doctor Parnassus' Paid Visit By A Six-Eyed Guardian Angel

· Variety floated the days-old AICN rumors about The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus this morning. Namely, they re-report that Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell have all signed on to play the role in which Heath Ledger was originally cast. Reps for Cate Blanchett, meanwhile, have yet to confirm her involvement, but it's widely assumed she'll also throw her interpretation into the ring, and walk away with the picture. [Variety]
· The ACE EDDIE Awards give top editing honors to The Bourne Ultimatum and Sweeney Todd. The best reality show editing went to an episode of Cops (for real!), though the winner's acceptance speech was tragically cut short when he triumphantly waved his Golden Scissors trophy above his head and lost his grip. [Variety]

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11:58 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Seth
687 views, 4 comments

Latest by CrankYank: Poor Variety and its puppet masters, it's always so irritating when someone can talk back through media you don't actually control. more »

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Where In The World Is Hugh Laurie?

· OMGOMG. The strike's, like, totally going to happen. Did you hear about the chair thing?? [Variety]
· John Travolta returns to the action-movie realm as the lead subway-hijacking baddie in The Taking of Pelham 123, a role director Tony Scott "heavily courted" the actor for, and which he took only on the condition that the character meet his wasp-waisted body-type specifications. [Variety] More »

1:08 PM on Fri Oct 26 2007
By Seth
5,998 views, 14 comments

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'Star Trek' Finds Its Sulu And Scotty

· Yet more stars sign on to JJ Abrams's much-ballyhooed Star Trek: Early 30s project, including Hot Fuzz's Simon Pegg as Scotty, and John "What? He's Korean? Enh, Close Enough" Cho as Sulu. [Variety, THR]
· CBS signed musical-adapting superduo Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to a three movie deal, meaning at long last Jennifer Love Hewitt in Hello, Dolly! is no longer just a pipe dream. [Variety]
· Director Zack Snyder is reteaming with his 300 team for The Last Photograph, about "a photograph that becomes the catalyst for a journey two abs-licious men undertake through war-torn Afghanistan, upon which they meet a really gay bald guy with a jangly nose-ring." We're there! [Variety]
· Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment is making a "major push" into TV, including Hitch the sitcom, based on the movie of the same name we'd sooner apply a Braun hand-blender to our privates than see. [THR]
· Is Will Ferrell video hub FunnyorDie.com "coasting on the fumes of Landlord?" If so, they may wanna consider giving Pearl a bigger trailer and a piece of the viral backend. [THR]

11:38 AM on Fri Oct 12 2007
By Seth
1,183 views, 12 comments

Latest by Miss d: uh Will? You ain't funny. EVER. Let it go. more »

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WGA Fires Warning Shot Above Studios' Heads

· The WGA, in an aggressive measure meant to show the studios that the protracted ball-tickling session that's defined the negotiations until now must come to an end, has redrafted and broadened their strike rules to now allow for "pug-faced studio types so much as looking at us funny." [Variety]
· Hollywood's dreamy consciences George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio may team up for Warner Bros.'s adaptation of Farragut North, a play loosely based on the Howard Dean campaign. (Sorry Jake, torture-lovers not invited to the party.) [Variety]
· The rumors are true! After 50 years, NBC is moving from its legendary plot in Burbank to a spot across the street from Universal Studios. NBC plans to sell the real estate to a single wholesale retail giant, who'll develop it into independent nation state Costcovia, where every man, woman, and child is guaranteed a pickle-barrel-sized container of mayonnaise. [Variety]
· Private Practice's audience continues to grow, and Pushing Daisies won its timeslot despite coming down from its premiere numbers. Bionic Woman, however continues to plunge steadily since its first week, throwing the future of Isaiah Washington's triumphant comeback into question. [THR]
· Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron gets a two-year deal at CBS, mainly on the strength of his Patricia-Arquette's-Rack-in-3D initiatives. [THR]

11:38 AM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Seth
694 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: @gwendolyn: Yes to the point of a blood filled mouth for Washington. more »

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Magic Johnson Beats The Hillary Drum

· Not to be outdone by Oprah Winfrey's lavish Barack Obama fundraiser—attended by the likes of Will Smith, Jamie Foxx and Chris Rock—lesser community-outreach deity Magic Johnson hosts one for Hillary Clinton at his Beverly Hills home. [Variety]
· Finally convinced it won't lead to an assist-tent-city for Valkyrie crew members to work out their shoulder knots and lingering Hitler-thetans, Germany reverses its decision not to let the Tom Cruise movie shoot at a historical execution site. [Variety]
· Al Gore's presence at this year's Emmy awards has been confirmed, where he'll be called upon to solicit an apology from Britney Spears for "squandering her one comeback chance and rendering polar bears extinct." [Variety]
· Alyssa Milano will star in Wisegal, a Lifetime movie about a female mobster that will require her to tap into the brash street-smarts of a Samantha Micelli, and the steely business sense of an Angela Bauer. [THR]
· New Line hires the Ghost World screenwriting team of Terry Zwigoff and Dan Clowes to rewrite (and Zwigoff to direct) The $40,000 Man, about an injured astronaut rebuilt as a bionic man on "a measly budget of only $40,000." We're seeing Will Arnett trying to catch up to a moving bicycle, accompanied by the familiar sound effect. [THR]

12:26 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By Seth
615 views, 4 comments

Latest by lovely nigerienne: Oprah is an idiot. Like her and all, but for someone with a politically diverse audience, giving couch time to only Obama is idiotic. Way to isolate 80% of your viewers, tard more »

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Trade Round-Up: Les Moonves' Sweet Victory

· Four of the six big media companies saw their stocks rise this year. Among them, CBS' went up 4%, while Viacom went down 10%. Les Moonves was last overheard cackling in his office, inviting his secretary to join him for a slice of a custom-ordered cake iced to resemble a naked, weeping Tom Freston. [Variety]
· Superman Returns pulls in a healthy $21 million on its opening day, performing to but not exceeding Warner Bros.' expectations, and not coming anywhere near Spider-Man 2 record of $40.4 million. Brandon Routh's agent announces the happy news at some teenager's house party in the Valley, as his client teeters on the roof, having an Almost Famous moment. [Variety]
· Sony screens 20 minutes of Casino Royale at the Cinema Expo, revealing a much grittier, angry Bond who [SPOILER!] blossoms once he reluctantly accepts an undercover post acting as a bitchy fashion editor's assistant. [Variety]
· "How do you end a network?" In the case of The WB, apparently you end it by airing a day's worth of old pilots and "classic promos and image campaigns from the WB's 11-year history." Be sure to catch the montage of Regrettable Felicity Hair Decisions, set to a tear-jerking "Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)." [Variety]
· Kyra Sedgwick's TNT series The Closer has been renewed for a third season, in which audiences will finally learn what Kyra has been getting closer to in the first two seasons. [THR]

1:53 PM on Fri Jun 30 2006
By Seth
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Trade Round-Up: "Wedding Crashers" Makes Teens Think Getting Drunk Is An Awesome Way To Get Laid

· Like a chivalrous man asking his beloved's father for permission to marry his daughter, General Electric gives NBC Universal approval to try to buy DreamWorks. Actually, this is a pretty shitty analogy because GE doesn't own DreamWorks, but we were momentarily swept up in the crazy romance of corporate acquistions. [Variety]
· An alcohol watchdog group alleges that Budweiser's paid product placement in Wedding Crashers encourages underage drinking. A "porking lonely bridesmaids" watchdog group has yet to publicly comment on the film, but we expect an announcement shortly. [THR]
· Dogs are the new poker: John "Animal House" Landis catches canine fever and will direct Show Dogs for New Line. [Variety]
· Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films prepares to pull another author out of obscurity by adapting Toni Morrison's Promised into a TV miniseries. Oh, wait. We've actually heard of Toni Morrison (damn you, college!), and she's rich and famous already. Nevermind. [THR]
· Charlie wins at the overseas box office, while The Island was "somewhat less disappointing offshore than domestically." It would kind of have to be less disappointing, wouldn't it? [Variety]

11:46 AM on Mon Aug 1 2005
By Mark
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