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Midnight Roundup: Germans, LACMA, and more
I’m hoping to finally do my “The Cove”/”Food Inc.” double feature in the next few days or so, but it’s certainly encouraging to hear that news of “The Cove” has spread and is starting to make a difference. For those who don’t know, this documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in a Japanese fishing cove [...]
Midnight Roundup: Stallone, Marvel, and more
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Disney Buying Marvel For $4 Billion
The Walt Disney Co. will be buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion with 40 percent stock and 60 percent cash. $30 per share will go to Marvel shareholders, plus an additional 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share. The deal, which was first brought up several months ago, only recently started to gain traction and, [...]
Midnight Roundup: Spielberg and Crichton, 3D Shakespeare, and more
“District 9″ was one of the ballsiest movies I’ve seen in a long time and fortunately the general movie-going public has recognized this too. Asked in two separate interviews about plans for a sequel, director Neil Blomkamp stated he doesn’t foresee focusing on the return of Christopher Johnson, but rather continuing to tell the story [...]
Ad Watch: Clooney, Romans, and more
Empire is featuring “Avatar” on their October cover and Panasonic will be touring the country with huge TV screens to advertise the film and their 3D technology. Meanwhile, star Sam Worthington claims that the reason director James Cameron opted to debut the trailer online the day before “Avatar Day” was purely tactical; Cameron “wanted to [...]
Midnight Roundup: Facebook the Movie, Ridley Scott, and more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be expanding the pool of Best Picture Oscar nominees from 5 to 10, may not have any Song nominees in a given year, and will present “the Thalberg nod to filmmakers, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the honorary Oscars for career excellence” at a separate [...]
Ad Watch—Avatar, A Serious Man, and more
James Cameron’s return to fiction after a decade away is set to culminate with the December 18 release of “Avatar,” an epic science fiction starring “Terminator Salvation’s” Sam Worthington alongside Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana. Many have likened the story to “Dances With Wolves” meets “Aliens,” about humans who meld with their alien avatars to [...]
Ad Watch—08.12.09
The site’s been pretty dead since the end of June. First I was in China for two weeks and then I hopped on over to the San Diego Comic-Con, which I’ll have more news of in the next day or two. The convention was a blast, but after several years of attending I’ve noticed (besides [...]
Midnight Roundup—06.23.09
Just as I mentioned in last week’s “Ad Watch,” we’re going to keep things a little simple for the time being and gradually grow these columns into more robust creatures. For now the return of news updates to the site will consist of the “Midnight Roundups,” the first of which you are now reading. This [...]
Ad Watch—06.20.09
In my ever so slow quest to keep the content of this site fresh, I’m doing a weekly feature called “Ad Watch,” where I link to all the new online marketing materials that we love to consume, including posters, trailers, and film clips. This week is going to be a little basic with just some [...]
