Sometimes experience just isn't enough. That appears to be the immediate lesson provided by the announcement this week that The Film Department will call it quits by the end of May. In one sense, this doesn't mean much. During its incredibly brief history (a mere...
Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is exclusively caused by vindictive movie critics who write back-stabbing and mean-spirited reviews in pursuit of their hidden liberal agenda. Well, that is pretty much the explanation given by the producer of Atlas Shrugged concerning the film's rapid flat-lining...
When last we checked the current box office is down. Meanwhile, the production costs for this summer's big special effects movies are suddenly skyrocketing through the roof while rumors swirl that some of these flicks may not be ready in time for their release dates....
There is no real way of determining a movie's box office. At least not in some kind of 100 percent, absolute manner. At best, the market is fickle and the audience has a constitutional right not to buy tickets to your movie. And it is...
Hey kids, let's put on a show! At least that's the gist of the recent New York Times story on the surge in internet-based indie productions. Though the Gray Lady doesn't quite utter the infamous Mickey Rooney line, she comes close. It also means that the...
Somewhere in Los Angeles, an army of spin doctors is working hard to present the current box office report in a positive light. After all, just last weekend the movie Hop played much better than anyone in their right mind thought possible. So maybe there...
The more things change, the more they stay...
We all believe in a lot of half-truths. Mostly they are little things that help get us through the day. Minor things like “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Often these half-truths are harmless. After all, that apple may not do you any...
Predication about the immediate future of the film industry is a lot like watching a pack of ten-year-olds go careening through a round of bumper cars. Lots of theories and ideas are whizzing around out there, wildly colliding into each other until somebody gets a...
It's official. Hollywood has discovered old people. They're right there in the front row of the theater. Well, not the front row. They tend to sit more toward the back, near the exit door. It's closer to the restrooms, you know. Yep, the hot scoop from...