Ed Driscoll: Everything’s Wrong With Hollywood, But It’s All Fixable.
What if it’s too late?
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Now and Then: Thelma & Louise vs. Hit TNT Series Rizzoli & Isles.
Thelma & Louise is 20 years old? How time flies…
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You can now pre-order the original Star Wars trilogy’s Blu-ray box set for about $40:
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The Top 10 Comic Book Movies Hollywood Still Needs To Make.
Good picks, but this evinces far too much faith in Hollywood, I think…
UPDATE: Last link was bad. Just fixed. Sorry about that!
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The Saddest Movie in the World.
I’ve never seen it, but I remember my parents did – back in the late 70′s. It launched Rick Schroeder’s career!
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Another sign of 3D’s impending demise? I hope so: RealD Shares Collapse to All-Time Low, Lose Nearly 21% of Value.
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Many great movies owe their existence to her. Rest in peace…
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Some ‘Mad Men’era commercials.
Video at the link.
Related: Mad Men is streamable on Netflix starting today.
And it’s also on Amazon Instant video-on-demand:
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Afghan TV’s version of The Office?
Video at the link.
Still haven’t seen a single episode of either the American or British series…
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Bad news for the Hollywood studios: Study shows 3D displays cause ‘visual discomfort’.
They needed a study to reach this conclusion?
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The season 2 trailer for The Walking Dead.
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Impressive movie poster collection Film on Paper.
These are not for sale. It’s just a gallery representing the items in the collection.
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Now and Then: Hobo With a Shotgun vs. Dirty Harry.
I haven’t seen Hobo yet, but Amazon Instant Video has it for rent for only $3.99
– if you’re interested…
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Incidentally, Dr. Wife and I really liked Salt, which is steeped in Cold War themes. Much better movie than I anticipated (although the main character’s physical prowess stretched credulity a couple of times). I never would have considered it if it wasn’t for reading about it on Libertas.
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To be replaced with AC360, which will be changing airtimes.
Makes sense. If Spitzer on the broadly distributed CNN couldn’t beat Olbermann – whose show airs on a network with a market penetration about the size of my pinky - then he has no business being on the air, on any network.
You could say Spitzer is Olbermann’s first casualty. Though, to paraphrase Aeschylus, I think it’s safe to say Olbermann’s first casualty was the truth, which he strangled long ago with epistemic closure…or something…
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But he’s still beating MSNBC and CNN in the same time slot, which for Current TV is a very big deal because – well – Current has never had that many viewers (is ‘many’even the right word?) before…
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BBC”s Mark Kermode finds a way to express his feelings about Transformers 3.
I suppose he was unable to make his point with a series of face-palms.
Why does this all remind me of the Obama administration?
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THR: Splashy Sarah Palin Movie Shuts Out Hollywood.
And who can blame it? It wasn’t just Hollywood that got shut out, though: “Reporters from around the country that have descended upon tiny Pella, Iowa for the premiere of the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated on Tuesday night were in for a rude awakening: So scarce are the tickets that there’s no room in the theater for journalists.”
Odds are most of them didn’t really want to be there, anyway.
UPDATE: Related: Anti-Sarah Palin doc promises dishonest hit job.
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THR: Premiere of Olbermann’s re-incarnated Countdown beats CNN in target demographic. 179,000 viewers to 89,000.
Keep in mind CurrentTV is carried by few cable systems; as opposed to CNN, which can be seen everywhere.
Of course, 179,000 is not that impressive a number, either. As a TV executive friend of mine once said, “I can open a window and have a bigger audience” (Not really – maybe when I lived in NYC). But this must be something of a humiliation for CNN…
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Has Hollywood Stopped Trying?
CHUD compares Mr. Popper’s Penguins (June 17) to The Smurfs (July 29), both of which we included in our list of the Summer’s Nine Worst Movie Trailers… Not only does each one look bad on its own, but shot for shot they “appear to be the exact same movie.”
You mean they were trying before this?
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll links with related content, which I’ll soon be filing under ‘Things I Suspected, But Somehow Also Already Knew’. Thanks!
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Some comments in reaction to the new and re-imagined Lara Croft, of Tomb Raider fame: “I want to see her succeed because I see a little bit of me in her. “
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It’s not a story by R.S. McCain, but it could be (Fiction or news? You decide).
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Awesome gallery here.
Via Kottke.
This is a Brooklyn I’ve only seen on film. I rarely visited Brooklyn while I lived in New York back during my college years, but all those movie memories actually make these photos feel strangely familiar. The shot of the Brooklyn bridge in between two rows of buildings has been used in at least one movie that I can recall: Once Upon A Time In America (if not on its poster and promotional materials).
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If you’re so inclined, Olby made the cover story of this week’s Hollywood Reporter.
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Enforcing politeness at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
This needs to happen more often. Fun video at the link, but NSFW. The ejected texter uses plenty of profanity.
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FSFF: Undead Links to George A. Romero Studies.
…or for the budding zombie movie scholar, too.
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Ben Shapiro on the subjects of his new book
, Primetime Propaganda: “Hollywoodites admit openly to messaging their product, and to their scorn for conservative Americans. I’m just reporting what they told me.”
It’s not like we needed any convincing, but it’s good to hear it coming straight from the horse’s mouth. Not everyone in the industry is like that, but many are. And it sure doesn’t hurt, careerwise…
Which is why when I hear Media Matters bitch and moan about Fox News, I just have to roll my eyes…
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Cult of Personality: Putin battles terrorists and public protests in new comic book.
Both equally noxious threats, I suppose…
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Man vs. Cable System: “A few weeks ago I moved and arranged with Time Warner to move my cable. Just like when it happened to you, Time Warner Cable didn’t show up (twice) to our appointment. Their monolithic apathy to their inability to do what they say they will was frustrating, so I thought I’d make fun of them by writing a letter expressing my feelings and taking out full page ads in a few New York news papers running the letter.”
Via Consumerist.
Mirman’s stunt got Time-Warner’s attention, by the way.
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The studio won’t trademark “SEAL Team Six” after all.
I think they did the right thing, in more ways than one. You don’t want to get in the PR mess that would result from fighting the Navy over the right to exploit the SEAL’s commercially…
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Going for a little post-modern fashion statement…or something…
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FilmLadd: “Converting two-dimensional movies into stereoscopic ones ‘after the fact’just doesn’t work.”
That’s just the studio trying to capitalize on 3D to sell tickets. In other words, it’s a gimmick. So it adds nothing to the experience. In fact, it probably gets in the way of it. And – according to one study – in the way of selling tickets, too!
Related: Boston Globe: Many theaters are misusing 3D lenses while showing 2D films…ruining the experience in the process.
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WSJ: “To make his case that the [Citizens United v. FEC] ruling invites ‘unlimited corporate money’to dominate politics, Mr. Colbert decided to set up a political action committee (PAC) of his own. So far, though, the joke’s been on him.”
Read the Whole Thing™. It’s a rather amusing Narrative FAIL and an Alinsky Rule 5 FAIL (of a sort we’ve seen before on Comedy Central). But there’s also something truly delicious about it: we’re witnessing one of the snarkiest, most apt, Left-tilting irony-smiths on TV – not merely immersed in an actual, naturally-occurring irony – but running right into the Great Wall of Your-Take-On-The-Issue-Is-Just-Plain-Wrong…
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Arnold is very much in the news today, at least in the world of entertainment news.
But here’s another side of Arnold that you didn’t know about…or 30 sides, to be precise:
UPDATE: Heh.
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THR: The movie poster art of Bill Gold.
A gallery of some of his great ones here.
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Slate: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…I was a ‘Star Wars’fan.
Weren’t we all?
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He just made the announcement – amusingly enough – during the NBC upfronts.
But given he’s managed to turn off his mostly Democratic audience, is this good news for NBC?
UPDATE: More at TheBlaze, including an official statement/press release.
MORE: Professor Douglas links with related content. Thanks!
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“WANTED,” it says, “Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke … You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.“
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At last! You can download it from the Android Market, free!
