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Moment of Truth: Banksy is Selling, But Are You Buying?

Posted on April 15, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s weekly spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. This week, we hear from John Sloss, the veteran sales agent-turned-rookie distributor of Banksy’s directing debut Exit Through the Gift Shop. It opens Friday in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Leave it to mischievous street-art godhead Banksy to completely overturn cinema with his first foray into feature filmmaking, Exit Through the Gift Shop . More specifically, leave it to Banksy to permute the documentary genre with expert zeal, turning a film ostensibly about him into a film about its original director. It sounds both more and less complicated than it really is when you think about it — a testament to the shadowy artist’s dexterity with narrative and character. But what about his dexterity with facts?

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5 Potential Challenges for Michael Bay’s New Action-Adventure Reality Show

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Our new cousin Nellie Andreeva at Deadline reports that pyrotechnically-inclined auteur Michael Bay is shopping around a reality series entitled One Way Out , a lawless game in the mold of Survivor, The Mole and The Amazing Race that “pits ordinary people from all walks of life against each other.” Just what surprises will the Transformers director have up his short sleeve for this one? We’re not sure, so we’ve taken the liberty of suggesting 5 challenges that would perfectly suit a Bay-branded show. (We even wrote him some hosting patter!)

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Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva No Longer Making Beautiful, Unlistenable Music Together

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Good grief, Hollywood — enough already with the celebrity bust-ups. Right around the same time today Larry King was croaking “Go ahead, caller” to his divorce attorney, word tumbled over the transom confirming the sad news that Mel Gibson and his Russian vocalist girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva have also called it quits after a year of dating and procreating. But it was fun while it lasted! Or at least it was fun for lovers of faintly adequate pop-music songs with videos over-directed by Oscar-winning anti-Semites. Because these two were the gold standard . Click through and reflect on the good times.

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ScarJo and Sam Rockwell Board Kubrick Film

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For a dead man, Stanley Kubrick sure is prolific. Steven Spielberg mounted his A.I. : Artificial Intelligence as a semi-posthumous collaboration with the director, and now a lost Jim Thompson story commissioned by Kubrick is scheduled to go before cameras with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johanssen starring. Next up for dead Stanley: tackling 3D! [ Production Weekly ]

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Who Should Play Suzy Kolber in Forthcoming Joe Namath Biopic?

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Word on the street is that James Mangold is in talks to direct a biopic about the legendary New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. While there appears to be no script as of yet, the film would no doubt cover all the crucial milestones of Namath’s life, from leading his team’s heroic upset of the Colts in Super Bowl III to shilling for Hanes BeautyMist pantyhose to his stunning, drunken on-air flirtation with ESPN sideline reporter Suzy Kolber in 2003. The high-profile project will make for one of the most coveted roles in Hollywood, for which every agent in Hollywood will have only one question for the filmmakers: ” Who’s playing Kolber? ”

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TV Bites: Sarah Chalke Works Double-Time This Pilot Season

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You’ve Got 2 More Days to Win an iPad from Movieline

Posted on April 13, 2010 by | Leave a comment

They’re in the wild now, these iPads. Perhaps you’ve seen them. Perhaps your friends have them, or that neighbor, Jones, who you’re trying to keep up with. They’re kind of fun to play around with, am I right? There’s just that sticking point of the price… Fortunately, you’ve got 2 days left to win an iPad for free, thanks to Movieline.

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How Totally Random are This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival Juries?

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Answer: Pretty totally random! Tribeca today sent over a release announcing 35 jurors for its 2010 festival, ranging from Oscar winners to a Twitter co-founder to a State Department member to Jessica Alba, Zach Braff Aaron Eckhart, and Alicia Keys — in no particular order, and not quite where you’d likely expect them to show up. It hardly seems right that they’d snub Movieline’s distinguished staff on our birthday , but there’s always next year. Speaking for myself, I’d give up a chair for Brooke Shields or America Ferrera any day. The rest, though… you really must see it to believe it.

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Remembering 3 Great Culture Wars From Movieline’s First Year

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There were all kinds of awesome contretemps dotting the pop-culture landscape during Movieline’s first year online, but only a few of them seemed to flare up into blazes you could see from outer space. Some you might have expected (Roman Polanski), some were crazy-making (Paramount’s patronizing G.I. Joe campaign), and some were just… crazy (Harry Connick Jr. vs. Australian blackface? Say whaaaa? ). But for better or worse, they all helped set the standard for culture wars and other skirmishes to come in the year ahead:

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Conan Goes on Tour, Brings Some Old (New) Friends: VIDEO

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Conan O’B rien may be legally prohibited from being funny on television — at least until November — but that doesn’t mean he can’t bring some laughs to YouTube. The new TBS host started his nationwide comedy tour last night in Eugene, Oregon, and — wouldn’t you know it — many of the surprises and jokes from the show have already found there way onto the Internet. So if you can’t wait to see Conan on your HD television in seven months — or if you couldn’t get tickets for the live shows in the other 29 cities — check out these crappy cell phone videos after the jump. Spoilers, kinda.

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