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the day after

Guilt, Blame and Other Wreckage From the Picturehouse/WIP Crash

The eulogies are on following Thursday's twin killing of Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures by the executioners at Warner Bros. — or perhaps more accurately, by hooded, high-ranking Time Warner axeman Jeff Bewkes, to whom some today are attributing the death penalty that ended in nearly 75 lost jobs between the two mini-majors. While we still suspect that WIP's demise in cosmically linked to its acquisition of the poisonously atrocious Alan Ball film Towelhead (another blogger disagrees, citing Funny Games instead), at least a few other observers have more official diagnoses from the murder scene. More »

10:05 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By STV
1,449 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: @StylusPictures: Haneke's a great director but there's something uniquely Austrian about him. The average Austrian is more frightening to me than everything Eli Roth has ever done. I mean, don't they all have basements over there? more »

strictly business

Two Months After Its Oscar Win, Could Picturehouse Be Closing Its Doors?

A few notes kicked under the door at Defamer HQ hint that the end may be near for Picturehouse, the Oscar-winning art house shingle plunged into limbo in February after its parent company New Line was absorbed by the Warner Bros. mothership. We have yet to hear where company president Bob Berney will wind up, though a popular rumor has him sharing power at Warners' other struggling boutique outpost, Warner Independent Pictures, with current WIP boss Polly Cohen. We posit at least one more underdog alternative as well — plus a prognosis for the remaining Picturehouse output — after the jump. More »

2:51 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By STV
2,952 views, 9 comments

Latest by STV: @Armin_Tamzarian: RS was a product of the HBO/Picturehouse marriage, which broke up earlier this year. It was developed in-house, or at least financed in part by that partnership. My understanding is that Fatboy was indeed spun off to Picturehouse by more »

tomorrows outrage today

'Towelhead' Trailer Conveniently Distills Repugnant Alan Ball Effort to Two Minutes

We've survived our share of bad movies at film festivals, but nothing quite scrapes the all-time low of Towelhead, the directorial debut of American Beauty/Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball. Upon our viewing of the film (then titled Nothing is Private) at last year's Toronto Film Festival, our disdain for Ball's facile mishmash of pedophilia, racism and "edgy" suburban angst provoked us to level a bounty on the filmmaker's pin head — a bounty we'd like to double after viewing the new trailer. Laugh! at the lukewarm tampon gags. Gasp! at Aaron Eckhart's predatory one-liners. Cry! at Toni Collette's decreasing selectivity. This is but a fleck of the steaming horseshit we expect will bury Warner Independent Pictures in its post-New Line fight for life with corporate cousin Picturehouse, but we still think it merits your suggestions for creative, affordable means of cosmic revenge we might exact in the months ahead. More »

11:10 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By STV
2,636 views, 18 comments

Latest by Benovite: @judithvansteppes: Um.. Looks like Persepolis 2? more »