The Hot Blog Archive for October, 2006
Lunch With David XIIII – The Rising Fall
Some hope arrives with some good movies…
The Klip
More Ebert
I am thrilled that Roger Ebert decided to review a film from bed. I know it’s not the way he wants to be seeing any movie, but his critic muscle is just another in his body – even if it is the best developed one he has – that needs to be used to get back to full shape. And of course, Roger is a great Anglophile, so The Queen couldn’t be a more appropriate choice. (I would also guess that he sees real Oscar possibilities and wants to throw his hat into that ring too… 2 birds, 1 stone.)
Of course, me being me, I couldn
For The Sake Of Balance
30 Rock is pretty damned good.
It is much more like the way a real comedy show is done. But more importantly, it is very, very funny.
What needs to be adjusted is that Tina Fey
And Now, The Healing Begins
You’ve been inundated with Mel Meets Diane stuff all week… but this actually seems like stupid good fun to me…
You can dress Mel as you like at Heavy.com
The Trailer Says It All…
I’m sure some people will like Bobby.
For me, this trailer does actually capture the essence of this film. It’s got plenty of historical Kennedy footage, some rousing music, and so many celebrities that getting them all into 2 minutes required at least one composite shot to get the writer/director seen. Everytime the trailer seems to be going somewhere, it suddenly turns into a parade of celebrity faces.
You tell me.
ADDED, 1:15p – Just found this very special version of the trailer floating around the web…
20 Weeks To Oscar… The Clock Starts
We have Little Sunshine Children and The Good German Shepherd.
There is Nic Cage, Michael Pena and Will Smith, all surviving Wall Street.
We’ve got George Clooney on the European Front, Clint Eastwood on the Asian Front, Derek Luke challenging apartheid, Christian Bale fighting to survive Vietnam, Samuel L. Jackson in Iraq, and Leo DiCaprio on the mean streets of Boston.
The rest
ADDED, 9p Thurs – MGM has decided not to release Rescue Dawn this year… it will be reflected in next week’s charts, but thought you’d all like to know sooner than later…
Ebert Sends His Regards…
“I plan to have my Overlooked Film Festival again in April, and cover the Academy Awards and Cannes. I can’t wait to be back in the Sun-Times on a full-time basis, and to rejoin Richard Roeper in the “Ebert & Roeper” balcony. Dr. Harold Pelzer and Dr. Neil Fine of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and my personal physician, Dr. Robert Havey, also of Northwestern, assure me I will eventually walk, talk, taste, eat, drink and live, more or less, normally. But it will be a struggle, involving another surgery to complete what began in June.”
The whole story…
Why Dart Needed Allan Meyer
It’s not real complicated. Studios pay through the nose for consulting on movies, especially in Oscar season. But corporations, who like to keep a low profile, pay a lot more
10 Comments »Housekeeping…
On the run until 3 or so today…
But, two things.
1. Gregg Goldstein needs a swift kick in the pants for linking to Perez Hilton’s publication of the stolen content from Dreamgirls, same as Tame Tommy O’Neill. Of course, the link didn’t work by the time it was posted, as Perez Hilton heeded Paramount’s demand. But still… publishing stolen goods because a third party has done so does not make any major blog or publication free of culpability. We are not children. Nor is the web anymore.
2. Why does anyone listen to what 2929 says about the web and movies? They have failed at every turn. All they have had, to date, is style and money. The Google/MySpace/YouTube stuff is utterly irrelevant to the future of the film industry and anyone who says otherwise is either pushing an agenda or full of crap.
Content drives the new media, not the other way around. Same as it ever was. And when studios finally decide they are ready to built – or in the case of Fox, buy – the infrastructure to do it themselves, be sure that they will and no one else will be a partner just because they have eyeballs this year.
A million a day of anything is a lot. But shifts happen. And they happen quick.
When the film business shifts home entertainment to internet-based delivery, it will change the P&L statements and the ease of access. But the revolutionary issue is digital ownership, not delivery.
IM Trail DOESN'T Surface In Keisha Castle-Hughes Pregnancy
This is the rarest of Hot Blog events… I am pulling down the vast majority of this entry.
In spite of what I thought was an obvious connection to Mark Foley and the comedic idea of a virgin birth requiring a modern relationship between Mary and God and even this late posted warning…
(NOTE: The above is a slight variation on the IM messages from Mark Foley to a teenaged Congressional page. Since Ms. Castle-Hughes is playing the Virgin Mary in an upcoming film, it only seemed logical that a virgin birth would start, in this day and age, with an IM exchange.)
… it seems that some websites, particularly in New Zealand, have run this fake communication as a real one and hounded Ms. Castle-Hughes over it. That was not my intent. And since it is the result and the joke is played out anyway, down it comes.
I have placed the opening, less graphic, section of the piece after the jump in case you have no idea what I am prattling on about.
I will kill over freedom of the press and any infringements on it that I feel are being requested – and I didn’t respond to an earlier request by an interested company to remove the piece – but this piece was not real, it’s not important news or satire, and it’s not worth upsetting a pregnant 16-year-old over.
And I will leave the comments as they were… and will be…
Happy Stuff
You can save this gif and send to friends (especially female and young ones) with a right click. (It will surely be Mark Foley’s new IM icon)
And if you want to see a live performance by Mumble, click here…
Perfume Kills
I will get further into it later, but Tom Tykwer
12 Comments »Perhaps If Snakes On A Plane…
… had this as their manual instead of the very funny instructions for dealing with snakes, they would have done more business.
