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The Media Does London, Courtesy Of The Fantastic Mr. Fox

8:40AM Richard Rushfield | In the crowded media landscape, it’s not easy to create buzz for a new film. It takes years of careful positioning, delicate marketing skills, a well-cultivated grassroots network…Or you can just buy a bunch of bloggers trips to London. More »
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September Is The Month To Make Bad Oscar Predictions

4:22AM Richard Rushfield | Over the next weeks Hollywood gets its first look at many of the Oscar heavyweights at the Toronto, Venice and Telluride film festivals. But that doesn’t hold back the pundits from weighing in today on who owns this race. More »

Oscar Bloggers: Trained Pros or Douches in Clown Suits?

8:01AM STV | If there’s a hell, it might look, feel and sound like the slapfight between aggrieved Oscar bloggers Patrick Goldstein, David Poland and Tom O’Neil, who today aired their tired tussle for all the world to overlook. But with your awards-season intelligence at stake, you really mustn’t miss a minute of the wheezing action that so influences how Hollywood’s biggest prizes are distributed every year. Your highlight reel follows the jump.

Brilliant Film Critic Tragically Mistaken For Pathetic Drunk

6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Unless it results in an extra getting thrown off the set of Transformers 2 for lunch crimes against Michael Bay, we’re not generally in the blog-comment monitoring business. But some flame wars are so spectacular (and some news days so implacably slow) they defy ignoring — especially when obvious intoxication is involved, and especially when the offending party himself is the only one around to catch fire. More »