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After $35M Opening, Sony Admits Skyline Didn’t Steal From Battle: Los Angeles

Posted on March 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Yesterday was Thursday, when it seems the folks at Sony were in such a good mood that they dismissed their complaints of breach of contract against the Strause brothers, VFX experts and makers of last November’s indie alien invasion pic Skyline . The strongly worded charges originally accused the Strauses’ Hydraulx Entertainment of using Battle: Los Angeles equipment to make their own competing sci-fi flick, but you know what helps smooth over disputes like this? Discovering that Skyline ‘s effects were completely different from those in Battle: Los Angeles . Also: Having $35 million in your pocket.

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Monday Morning Talkback: Let’s Hear About Battle: Los Angeles

Posted on March 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Happy Monday! Now that we’ve all sprung forward, it’s time to address one of the weekend’s other primary cultural matters: Battle: Los Angeles . The number-one movie in America was also one of the most critically reviled of the year — from Movieline’s own Michelle Orange to Roger Ebert , opinions on this ranged from generally disapproving to bitterly angry. But that was before you saw it.

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Is Moneyball the Next Social Network?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A popular non-fiction book — without any real cinematic leanings — gets turned into a buzzed-about feature film with the help of Aaron Sorkin, Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, and Sony Pictures. Nope, not The Social Network — Moneyball ! ESPN writer Jon Weisman (formerly of Variety) makes the case that the Bennett Miller-directed film could be a sleeper hit next fall along the lines of The Social Network and that other Michael Lewis penned sports-book-turned-movie, The Blind Side . Probably not, but, hey, Brad Pitt is in it! So, maybe? [ ESPN ]

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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Producer Slams Reviews and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Posted on February 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Alex Pettyfer protested salary dispute by not cashing checks… The Little Miss Sunshine team gets back together… an Alfred Hitchcock classic gets teen’d up… and more ahead.

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Glenn Beck Really Loved Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

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Like really loved it. More than Wicked even! “After you couldn’t get a ticket to Spider-Man and you’ve offered a kidney for it, go see Wicked ,” Beck said during his nationally syndicated radio show on Wednesday. “I mean, you’ve got two kidneys. Don’t give both kidneys up — go see Wicked before you give both kidneys. But give a kidney to go see Spider-Man .” Someone stick that on the poster! [ NYT /ArtsBeat ]

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Oscar Index: Fighter, Toy Story 3 Among This Week’s Best Picture Bruisers

Posted on January 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

It was a busy, busy week in Movieline’s Oscar bureau, where a few key guild nominations and one of the smartest campaign tricks in years in years left us sorting through the Best Picture-race implications. Plenty more turbulence — and a Jacki Weaver sighting — trickled down through Actress and Supporting Actress. What does it all mean? To the Index!

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Oscar Index: Inception, ‘Steak Eaters’ on the Move

Posted on December 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Well, here we go: Nomination ballots are in Academy voters’ mailboxes as of this week, meaning that the ” [m]ost over-covered, over-considered Oscar season ever ” just became that much more over-covered and over-considered. How can we ever hope to break it down? To the Index!

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Oscar Index: Inception, ‘Steak Eaters’ on the Move

Posted on December 29, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Well, here we go: Nomination ballots are in Academy voters’ mailboxes as of this week, meaning that the ” [m]ost over-covered, over-considered Oscar season ever ” just became that much more over-covered and over-considered. How can we ever hope to break it down? To the Index!

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Watch Family Guy Parody Return of the Jedi, With Bonus Alec Baldwin Joke

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If you always thought that Return of the Jedi would benefit from toilet humor, good news: Seth MacFarlane has reimagined the Richard Marquand classic to do just so in Family Guy ‘s third and final Star Wars parody: It’s a Trap! The feature, which will be released on DVD tomorrow, includes Han Solo flatulence jokes, Paraplegic Joe as Jabba the Hut and a cameo from Pee-wee Herman. If that isn’t enticing enough, allow MacFarlane to sell you on the latest George Lucas homage: “It’s more of exactly the same kind of jokes you’ve seen in the other two. So if you like those, this is the same and you’ll enjoy it just as much.” Take your first look ahead.

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Who Had the Worse Weekend: How Do You Know or the NY Giants?

Posted on December 20, 2010 by | Comments Off on Who Had the Worse Weekend: How Do You Know or the NY Giants?

Man, oh, man, what a weekend for sadists. If watching a bloated cultural institution run aground in front of millions of viewers — thus squandering its talent and goodwill before finally collapsing beneath the weight of ego, misjudgment, bad decisions and competitive pressure — is your idea of a riotous spectacle, you were in all kinds of luck. But enough about How Do You Know .

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