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On VOD: The Sundance Hit You Never Saw, the Richard Kelly Puzzle You Never Solved

Currently available on demand — as if risen from the grave around which its own plot revolves — find a Sundance hit that took almost 14 years to make its appearance to a paying public. And a studio whatsit that may take even longer than that to untangle.

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On VOD: The Sundance Hit You Never Saw, the Richard Kelly Puzzle You Never Solved

Snooky the Cat Beats Jersey Shore’s Snooki to Trademark Punch

You may to have to wait a little longer for that Snooktionary — the reference book that Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has threatened to have someone ghostwrite for her — because government officials have turned down the Jersey Shore star’s application to trademark her name for “printed matter” purposes. The Patent and Trademark Office was concerned that buyers might confuse the orange guidette with a yellow fictional cat named Snooky who is featured in the popular children’s book Adventures of Snooky . Polizzi has the option of either submitting evidence to support her case, or interpreting this as divine intervention to shy away from the literary world forever. [ TSG ]

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Snooky the Cat Beats Jersey Shore’s Snooki to Trademark Punch

Chinese Remake of Blood Simple Won’t Be That Simple

American remakes of foreign films have become so commonplace that even a statute of limitations barely exists anymore; Le Dîner de Cons — the French film that Dinner for Schmucks was based on — came out in 1998. So by those standards, Zhang Yimou’s Chinese conversion of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple — A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop — feels positively warranted. After all, it has been 26 years since the original came out.

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Chinese Remake of Blood Simple Won’t Be That Simple

Weinsteins Fighting R-Rating For Tillman Story

A week after Adam Yauch went to war ( unsuccessfully ) with the MPAA ratings board over A Film Unfinished ‘s “bullsh*t” R-rating, Harvey Weinstein is appealing (and, of course, publicizing) the same injustice against his Pat Tillman cover-up exposé The Tillman Story .

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Weinsteins Fighting R-Rating For Tillman Story

Penn Badgley: Talented Person

What’s On: So You Think You Can Have This Last Dance?

We’re nearing the end of So You Think You Can Dance ‘s magical (and slightly tragic, with all the injuries) seventh season. Prepare to say goodbye to Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe, and Mia Michaels’s “disapproval voice.”

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On DVD: Colin Farrell’s Straight-to-Video War Wounds

So few movies actually get hoisted into theaters nowadays (a fraction of the number we saw 20 or 40 years ago) that each release seems to have the import and ambition of a moon landing. (Or, they’re made to seem like moon landings, so we won’t want to miss it and get left behind the herd.) This means that some movies with marquee-brand stars end up going straight to video — which used to be the dumping ground for the truly unmarketable but is now simply a B-movie delivery system. There need not be shame any longer if your movie’s road takes you straight to Netflix and Blockbuster.

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On DVD: Colin Farrell’s Straight-to-Video War Wounds

VIDEO: Joseph Gordon-Levitt May Spin in Air, But Watch His Brother Spin Fire

Impressed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s aerial acrobatics while floating through the zero-gravity hallways of Inception ? You ain’t seen nothing yet: PopEater alerts us to Gordon-Levitt’s older brother (and dreadlocked doppleganger) Dan, who’s a fire-spinning flow artist. Head over there for an interview , and hit the jump for a clip of Dan in action:

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VIDEO: Joseph Gordon-Levitt May Spin in Air, But Watch His Brother Spin Fire

Modern Family Now Ransoming the Future of its Child Actors for an Emmy

How far will Modern Family’s producers go for an Emmy? They’ve already run an ad promising that Sofia Vergara will run naked down Sunset if the show wins the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy (still a less salacious ad than the one for Yogi Bear ), and now they’ve upped the ante.

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Modern Family Now Ransoming the Future of its Child Actors for an Emmy

Buzz Break: The Due Date Poster is a Little Familiar