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The 9 Batsh*t-Craziest Lines Heard at the Hobo with a Shotgun Premiere

“Let’s tear this place apart!” So instructed director Jason Eisener before Friday’s midnight premiere of Hobo with a Shotgun , the unabashedly campy Canadian-American grindhouse flick about a homeless drifter who cleans up the streets of a depraved urban metropolis with only a pawn shop shotgun and plenty of gloriously insane death-dealing catchphrases in his arsenal. And while it may have disappointed Eisener and Co. that an actual riot didn’t erupt before or after their film, they must have been pleased that Hobo played exactly right to just the genre-loving crowd it was made for.

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The 9 Batsh*t-Craziest Lines Heard at the Hobo with a Shotgun Premiere

Preview Portlandia and ‘Put a Bird On It,’ Please

The Sundance Film Festival in Pictures: Day 1

What’s the next best thing to being at the Sundance Film Festival? Eww! No, not that. It’s actually following the Sundance Film Festival at Movieline — your eyes and ears in Park City. And, for the next week, anyway, your indefatigable, photo-trawling friend on the other side of the computer screen. Have a look at some of what’s been shakin’ so far at Sundance, and drop back by in the days ahead to find out what’s next.

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The Sundance Film Festival in Pictures: Day 1

Fred Armisen on Portlandia and the Dream of the 90s

Of all the current Saturday Night Live cast members, Fred Armisen seems like the least likely to spin-off one of his Studio 8H characters for the box office. Not necessarily because he hasn’t been given the opportunity — after Will Forte’s disastrous MacGruber though, who could blame movie studios for not trying? — but because Armisen, who Lorne Michaels described as “an artist, not a careerist,” seems genuinely content to be part of Saturday Night Live ‘s ensemble cast. So it is a little surprising to see that after nine seasons with the show, the self-described “short-sighted” actor has gone ahead and created a new sketch comedy series for the IFC called Portlandia , which co-stars Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein.

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PIC: 30 Rock Reveals NBC’s Programming Strategy

OMG: The Breaking Dawn Title Treatment Arrives; Wait, What?

At the risk of being a jerk: Has anyone actually seen the phrase “title treatment” before? “Title card,” sure; but “treatment”? It just seems like we’re in new territory here — one similar to the place where that Transformers: Dark of the Moon announcement trailer lives. (And looks awesome; what can I tell you?) Anyway, click ahead to see your first look at the title treatment for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I . There’s no butter-colored sex , but there is some fancy, curly typeface. So, win!

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Latest Awards Hurdle for The Social Network: Is Mark Zuckerberg the New Bernie Madoff?

The Social Network ‘s ride to status as Oscar front-runner has been a fairly smooth one — not even the charges that Aaron Sorkin’s script too sexist and/or too fabricated has been able to knock the film off the tracks. But perhaps this will do the trick: Is Mark ” Time Magazine Person of the Year ” Zuckerberg running his billion dollar company like Bernie Madoff?

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Latest Awards Hurdle for The Social Network: Is Mark Zuckerberg the New Bernie Madoff?

George Lucas Doesn’t Believe in 2012 and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: A Star is Born gets born again with an unlikely duo… Russell Brand is ready to Rock … Taco Bell doesn’t like potential kiddie porn… and more ahead.

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George Lucas Doesn’t Believe in 2012 and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Sundance is Hip, Red State Fuss Overblown, and 6 Other Talking Points From Robert Redford & Co.

Among the topics at hand today as Robert Redford held court in Park City, Utah to open the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: The Sundance Institute’s commitment to artists, their plans for global domination, how the fest is getting with the times ( Twitter !), and of course, Kevin Smith’s Red State . Because even in a wide-ranging convo about the storied indie mecca that Redford built, Smith’s attention-grabbing, not-screening-for-press Christian homosexual murder pic had to steal the spotlight. Highlights of what Redford, festival director John Cooper, and Executive Director Keri Putnam had to say (including awkward chatter about marketing “riff raff” and rival fest Slamdance) after the jump.

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Sundance is Hip, Red State Fuss Overblown, and 6 Other Talking Points From Robert Redford & Co.

New Three Musketeers Photos: Valiance in 3D!