The Hot Blog Archive for July, 2007
Sunday Morning Blogout
It was fascinating to watch Peter Bart fight The Evil Of The Blogosphere on Sunday Morning Shootout, with Peter Guber taking a much more moderate position and guest Anne Thompson actually smacking back a bit against the boss.
The very real tendency to define the entirety of cyberspace by, to their credit, Shootout-tagged gossip sites, is really the biggest problem for those of us who don
Sunday Estimates by Klady
The most predictable number this weekend was Chuck & Larry. It
7 Comments »Friday Estimates by Klady
Sorry this took so long to post today
35 Comments »Stupid Is As Stupid Does
If you want to know why there is a somewhat broken class system for critics in the minds of the studios, you have to look no further than the antics of Dann Gire, front man for the Chicago Film Critics Association.
And I am not talking about the rather absurd and self-congratulatory threat e-mail from Dann & The CFCA Board (a group that does not include Ebert, Roeper, Rosenbaum, Pride, or either of the Chicago Tribune
Late Night At The Movies
It felt like good news for Hairspray at the Arclight in Hollywood on Thursday night. The 12:01am show in The Dome had about 500 people, about 90% of whom appeared to be under 30. That is the core audience if Hairspray is to be a hit, with due respect to the much-smirked about gay musical loving crowd.
On the other hand, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry was only about 15% full.
Of course, Los Angeles tends to be a horrible indicator and it is likely that the Sandler film will be #1 for the weekend, ahead of Hairspray. But still
Pull Quote For New Line
“Back in the 1950s, Broadway
9 Comments »The Three Amigos Go To India
The trailer is tagged to Once this weekend… is it an indie Star Wars situation where art geeks go to the movies just to see the trailer? Could be.
ComicCon '07
I am doing everything I can to avoid going down to San Diego for ComicCon this year. So when I say that the event jumped the shark last year, I will understand if some of you point and laugh. But like Steve Martin
21 Comments »Old Dogs, New Tricks
Drama on the borders of the critical community continued this week, as some sloppy reporting on an e-mail sent to Fox by the Chicago Film Critics Association, led by Dann Gire, leaked out just as Fox was figuring out how to handle the issue raised by the letter, when and how studios screen movies for critics who are not amongst the studios
8 Comments »Must Not See TV Fails
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip was really simple to figure out. Yes, some of you loved it. Enjoy the obscurity.
It failed because
Twice The Crazy… Half The Journo
ADDED: 7/18, 12:18a – From WWD’s Wed edition – EDITOR
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