February 2009
67 posts
January 2009
73 posts
“Couldn’t they at least cast a real actress?”
– Faye Dunaway on the casting of Hilary Duff in the remake of Bonnie & Clyde - Vulture (via rillawafers)
Another sign of the content distribution revolution: Netflix bucks doomsday trend, announces profit up 45% in 4th quarter, with subscribers up 26%. CEO Reed Hastings talks up the new “Watch Instantly” options enabled through partnerships with LG, Samsung, Roku and Microsoft, saying “It’s very clear that streaming is energizing our growth.” Invest in broadband. (The...
WatchThe Dirk Diggler Story
via atencio:
The full 1988 31-minute short film directed by P.T. Anderson, which he would expand into Boogie Nights nine years later. He made this when he was 18 years old.
WatchChocolate, meet peanut butter - the first clip of Jon Hamm on 30 Rock (via thelastsemester). Because we serve at the pleasure of the internet.
It's Called 'Public Service' →
No longer The Office Spin-off With Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, and Aubrey Plaza That’s Not Really a Spin-off, the NBC series now goes by Public Service. It’ll keep the network’s Thursday night comedy timeslot warm starting April 9th. (A.V. Club)
Anne Thompson Blogs Her Own Layoff From Variety →
This is some bullshit. Variety Editor/Film Columnist/Blogger and class-act Anne Thompson (plus 30 more) joins the sad party of newspaper writers and NPR staffers recently tasked with covering their own layoffs.
Bright spot:
What will continue is the Thompson on Hollywood blog. Variety and I are in talks about continuing to host the blog, but I am also fielding other interest. For the past few...
Meet the Sundance artist: Robert Siegel →
Robert Siegel, writer of The Wrestler and ex-Onion editor, is at Sundance right now with another of his scripts (and directorial debut): Big Fan. This well-reviewed film stars comedian Patton Oswalt, who is chronicling his time at Sundance on his Spew blog.
Sundance shorts on itunes →
They’re free!
Via John August.
WatchStreet Lights: fan-made video for arguably the most-paletable, least-autotuned track from Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak splices night traffic footage together with some of the haziest sequences from Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (via Nah Right)
Previously: Kanye’s Graduation meets Wong Kar-Wai (2046), Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey),...
WatchWatch the preview for Demetri Martin’s new Comedy Central show “Important Things With Demetri Martin” which premieres on February 11th.
I love Martin’s stand up and his album, “These Are Jokes”. Also, he’s cute.
"The Deal Is Done": Weiner & Lionsgate Agree To... →
Everybody exhale. After a threatened desertion of the series, Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner will be coming back for a third and fourth season, to the tune of a seven figure deal.
'Gossip Girl' spinoff moving forward, CW orders... →
Hollywood Reporter
The show’s creators/exec producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are proceeding with a spinoff that will serve as a prequel to the sophomore drama and chronicle the wild teen years of Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford) in Los Angeles in the 1980s. The network has ordered a backdoor pilot for the project, which will air as a “Gossip” episode May...
WatchThe Informers Red Band Trailer
An assemblage of character sketches toying with the author’s trademark excess and metrohedonism, anchored by comeback cases, The Informers is looking like the Cannonball Run of Bret Easton Ellis adaptations. If only the picture was shot, and not just set in the early eighties, we wouldn’t be finding names like Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke (before...
'Sit Down, Shut Up' gets airdate - Variety →
Mitch Hurwitz’s animated Fox series finally has an airdate (April 19) in place after months of work stoppage, in which the writing staff took Sony Pictures to task for unfavorable compensation and union protection. Hurwitz also said that the principal players “have a deal more or less in place from Fox Searchlight” for the long-whispered-about Arrested Development movie.
From Serious PBS, a Survey of American Funny - NYT →
Re: Make ’Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America - the six-hour, six-episode doc released on DVD today, airing on PBS tomorrow.
Related: hope your like your web videos 30 minutes long, hosted by Amy Sedaris, and about web videos.
