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Flotsam & Jetsam

Hollywood Contemplates A Saw-less Future; Orders More Top Chef

3:23AM a | Hollywood will always remember where it was when it first heard the news that Saw 6 had underperformed at the box office. Yes, times, are tough. Sure, media is in freefall; but who imagined it would come to this? More »
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‘Saw VI’ Star Surprised To Find Film Gory, Unwatchable

2:55PM Clem Bastow | Saw this yesterday and laughed, so, to borrow Fearless Leader’s turn of phrase, REET! REET! This just in from the Day Old News Desk: In what must be the professional understatement of the decade, Saw actor Kostas Mandylor has admitted to finding the “torture porn” series’ latest gorefest “too much” to watch. More »

Another Halloween, Another ‘Saw’ Sequel, Another Big Pile Of Money For Lions Gate

7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Ease your disappointment from walking into a Halloween party this weekend to discover that no fewer than five other people had been stricken by the same “California wildfire” brainstorm that led you to char your favourite souvenir Malibu t-shirt by reviewing the weekend’s box office numbers: 1. Saw IV – $US32.11 million For a third consecutive Halloween weekend, Lions Gate’s strategy of supplying teenage ticket-buyers with a fresh installment of the Saw franchise at the precise moment when their hunger to be delivered an unimaginative, gore-drenched horror sequel is at its natural peak has paid off, bringing the studio yet another easy, late-October box office win. More »