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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 »
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Oprah Puts Michael Moore In Deep Freeze
6:59AM Richard Rushfield | Apparently science has discovered the one force in nature that can silence Michael Moore: The Oprah Winfrey Show. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Barbaric Blogger Bloodsport Revealed In Hollywood
7:29PM Ryan Tate | Revolution is inevitably followed by a period of chaos. Maybe that’s why a highbrow New York Observer story about the evolution of Hollywood news media devolved into a glorious, shit-throwing media shitstorm. More »
Americans Shocked to Learn They Were Supposed to See ‘Soul Men’ Because of Obama
3:28AM Kyle Buchanan | If you’re excited to read something terrible today, you’re in luck! The LAT’s Patrick Goldstein has taken time out of his busy, blogger-excoriating schedule to continue his second career as a one-man promo machine for the Samuel L. Jackson/Bernie Mac vehicle Soul Men, and today, he’s produced a real whopper. Periodically, Goldstein has used his column to check in with the film’s producer David Friendly (also a former LAT writer, and thus easy to get on the phone) to rebut rumours about Soul Men that you haven’t heard, but rarely have the results been this dunderheaded: 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.
Fox Boss Forgets Own ‘Sci-fi Isn’t Funny’ Rule in Greenlighting ‘Meet Dave’
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Patrick Goldstein is getting kind of good at this blogging thing! After a busy week tipping the world off to the wit and wisdom of censor nonpareil Joan Graves and catching Alan Horn sharpening his ax for Where the Wild Things Are, he spent Monday afternoon taking on the Eddie Murphy Problem. “Murphy has pulled off an almost unprecedented achievement with Meet Dave,” Goldstein notes. “He’s delivered a movie that even 20th Century Fox couldn’t market.”
‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Gets New Release Date: Never
9:40AM Defamer Hollywood | We hoped you liked the clip “test footage” of Spike Jonze’s troubled adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, which made the rounds in February amid rumours of the $75 million film’s slow demise at Warner Bros. We’re reading now that that may be all you see for at least a few more years while Jonze tinkers and tweaks on Warners’ watch, prompting Alan Horn to offer an update today to his bloggy BFF Patrick Goldstein. More »
Meet Joan Graves, the Most Powerful Censor in the Film Industry
7:05AM Defamer Hollywood | Believe it or not, half-arse blogging neophyte Patrick Goldstein has kind of a genuine scoop today at The Big Picture: A heads-up to an interview with CARA (Classifcation And Ratings Administration) board head Joan Graves, arguably the most notorious (and notoriously private) movie censor of the last 50 years. Of course, it’s not Goldstein’s interview, but rather his wife’s, banished to the relatively innocuous comfort of Graves’s alumni magazine at Stanford. But that doesn’t make it an any-less-terrifying glimpse behind the scenes of the ratings board’s “parent-friendly” tyranny: More »
