Recent Blog Posts
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SNL Strives to Keep Election Momentum
Nov 12 200812:00 am EDT -
The Dawn of a New Night Shyamalan
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Icahn Double Feature: A Yahoo-Lions Gate Deal?
Oct 22 20086:00 pm EDT -
NBC Tries to Copy Fox Hero Worship
Oct 22 200812:00 am EDT -
Can W Succeed Even Though W Failed?
Oct 16 20087:02 am EDT -
Paul Newman's Tasty Legacy
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Tough Times, Even in Tinseltown
Sep 24 20088:00 pm EDT -
New Life for a New Line Movie
Sep 19 200812:00 am EDT -
New to Hollywood? Watch Your Wallet.
Sep 11 200812:00 am EDT -
Superheroes Save Hollywood! (Barely.)
Sep 03 20081:15 pm EDT
The Week (5/7-5/11) By the Numbers
5: Number of Mexican directors--including Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Alfonso Cuaron (Little Children) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel)--looking to make unprecedented collective deal with a studio; five pictures for around $100 million. By the way, they're still looking. (Monday)
70: Percent of all pirated Warner Bros. titles, released over the past 18 months, that originated in Canada, leading the studio to cancel all promotional and word-of-mouth screening there until the Canadian government makes it illegal to bring camcorders into theaters. (Tuesday)
2,500,000: number of viewers that ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox have lost in the past year. (Wednesday)
32: Number of state attorneys general that called for the MPAA to give films containing smoking an R rating unless they reflect the dangers of the habit or the person smoking on screen is a historical figure. (Thursday)
175,000,000: High-end box office estimate of the four-day opening weekend gross for upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which hits theaters May 25th. (Friday)






