The Hot Blog Archive for December, 2007
SAGinations
What to make of the SAG nominations?
Airplanes? Origami? Another Yuletide log on the fire?
Kidding
Dueling Clocks
United Hollywood
AMPTP
And while I am here… a response to the AMPTP “Dollars & Sense” silliness…
Dollars & Sense
BYOB – 'Twas The Week Before Christmas
New Line Vs The Pope
It’s quite remarkable how New Line can’t stay out of Jesus trouble. Last year, it was a teen pregnancy for their Mary in The Nativity Story, which went on to do less over its run than The Passion of The Christ did in its first two days. Now, after endlessly inflammatory bad press over the Godlessness of The Golden Compass, The Vatican felt compelled to actively go after the film.
Ouch.
Maybe they can do a Vampire Christ movie for next Christmas and push Christians to burn down the studio
THB – Strike Hard
I pray that I am wrong about the future of this strike, because my fear that the WGA is now moving towards creating enough internal dissension that the union will be forced to settle unfavorably around March, if not earlier. That would be tragic. And even more so because it will make it very hard for SAG to hold firm
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No… it’s not a George Miller prequel about dancing cro-magnons.
The Hobbit walked back into The Shire Of Moviedom this morning, as OneRing.net (Jackson
Why Does This Feel Like I Am Posting A Hollywood Tuna Entry?
There is something lovely and odd about that moment when the media has a crush on an actress like the media is now crushing on Amy Adams. The most lovely part is that Amy still seems to be keeping her head about her.
The images are from Focus’ Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, due next March.
Did…
… Anthony Lane write this review before seeing the film?
It’s not that a pan of Sweeney Todd is impossible or even improbable for some. It’s that with the exception of a notice of Edward Sanders as Toby, this “review” mostly seems like a pre-screening musing on Burton’s carer limitations as Mr. Lane sees them, is really not much about the film.
Odd.
Summer With The Warner Bros
May
June
July
BYOB – Pre-Christmas Week
Ho ho… anyone left in town?
28 Comments »Charting The Top Tens
We are in the early stages of compiling our fifth annual list of critics’ Top 10 lists – only 33 lists in – and I thought I would point out an interesting awards element that seems to becoming narrower over the years.
Our first list, 2003, ended up with Oscar’s Best Picture nominees in slots 1-3, 8, and 19 (Seabiscuit). In 2004, it was 1, 3, 4, 13 (Finding Neverland), and 16 (Ray).
But in 2005 and 2006, all of the BP nominees came from the Top 8 films.
Does this mean that campaigning is giving way to quality? Does it mean that critics are more susceptible to having their heads turned by the awards season?
And does it mean that the Top 8 will contain all 5 nominees this year?
I just noticed that we posted the first chart with the hierarchy based on # of votes and not points… so here is the Top 18 by points…
Sunday Estimates by Klady – 12/16
Only Harry Potter and Christ have had bigger openings than Will Smith outside of the summer months. Does that make Will bigger than The Beatles?
Potter I, II & IV, The Passion of The Christ
The Beginning Of The End?
I have been sitting on an entry that I wrote on Tuesday
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