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Will Miramax’s Impending Doom Signal The Death Of Studio Indies?
4:15AM Foster Kamer | The Disney-owned production house named after founders Bob and Harvey Weinsteins’ parents, Miramax, is—like Bob and Harvey’s current shop—facing tough times. But while The Weinstein Company struggles for air, Miramax is being choked out by its corporate parents. More »
Pressured Miramax Retracts ‘Doubt’ Pseudoblurb
8:00AM STV | Miramax may be starving for an Oscar repeat for 2008, but apparently not enough to mix their meats at the Oscar-season blurb buffet. More »
When Oscar Hype Goes Wrong, Vol. MMCXLII: Miramax Fakes ‘Doubt’ Blurb
5:45AM STV | With at least one major exception, it’s been a relatively modest cycle for manufacturers of Oscar-season buzz. But one day into 2009, the new “hybrid quote” looks to revolutionize the Fine Art of Hype.
Outraged Activists Suggest ‘Full Blindness’ is the New ‘Full Retard’
8:10AM STV | You really can’t make this stuff up: If it’s not the developmentally disabled failing to grasp the point of Tropic Thunder’s “full-retard” satire, then it’s the blind protesting a movie they can’t even see. Or so says the president of the National Federation of the Blind, who sat in on a recent screening of the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo film Blindness with a few sighted allies, only to emerge outraged over the depiction of townspeople reduced to madness and violence when struck by a blindness epidemic. Based on Nobel laureate Jose Saramago’s novel, the film actually reflects the author’s metaphor of sudden, corrupted social order; little did Saramago know he was actually composing the Simple Jack of modern literary allegories. More »
AUDIO: Leaked Harvey Weinstein Tapes Warn Tarantino Of ‘Midnight Phone Call’ From Enraged De Niro
2:50AM Kyle Buchanan | As if suffering through Righteous Kill and a stultifying Letterman Top 10 weren’t career punishment enough for Robert De Niro, the actor has found himself the subject of just-leaked phone calls between Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein during the making of Jackie Brown — and the conversation paints the supposedly money-grubbing De Niro in a light more unflattering than the entirety of Rocky & Bullwinkle: More »
‘House Bunny’ Writers Recall Weinstein Fart Directives and Other Hollywood Dues-Paying
8:30AM STV | We hope you got a kick out of Sunday’s profile of Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, the screenwriters behind last weekend’s highest-grossing new release The House Bunny, as well as previous hits 10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde and She’s the Man. Now the two are moving into producing, adaptations and will soon have an ABC series loosely based on their lives — another long stride in their champagne-soaked march toward world conquest. But what more should viewers at home expect from the personal stories of perhaps the most successful writing duo on Earth without a Y-chromosome between them? After the jump, The NY Times tips off a few more key secrets of Being Lutz and Smith: More »
What’s Stopping Cannes From Embracing Bleak New Julianne Moore Film?
7:25AM Defamer Hollywood | The Cannes rumour mill is whirring at full speed again today as the trades pick up whispers that the Julianne Moore/Mark Ruffalo drama Blindness is likely to occupy the opening-night slot. The Toronto Star is saying it’s a done deal, but it’s not official, and we’re not so sure; with barely two weeks remaining before the May 14th opener, word over the Defamer transom suggests that Blindness is bad enough to make festival programmers wait — and make distributor Miramax stall — before committing the plum spot to a stinker. More »
