We are just around the corner from the summer movie season. Soon comes Memorial day and the blockbusters will start flowing like wine through the streets or something.
Wait a minute, you are noting, we’ve already had two enormous worldwide movies this month, SPIDER-MAN III AND SHREK THE THIRD. Thanks for noting this. Now shut up [...]

Just want to call your attention to “The Lede” in Wednesday’s New York Times blog, in which they explore the questionable history of turning commercials into real TV series, like this fall’s CAVEMEN. If it sounds like an unprecendented move, it’s only because the other such shows have been miserable failures.
“Baby Bob,” a sitcom based [...]

FCC APPROVES iPHONE
Just like I do, but they didn’t say anything about it costing too damn much.
OPIE AND ANTHONY SUSPENDED
Fans are forced to turn to the other five morning drive-time teams who do the exact same show.
DENIRO, PACINO TO APPEAR IN MOVIE TOGETHER
Studio to set up MySpace page to explain to the kids who the [...]

XM Satellite radio has decided to suspend inexplicably popular morning show hosts Opie and Anthony, for airing crude remarks they elicited from a homeless man. This kind of thing happens in morning radio, but that would be COMMERCIAL OVER-THE-AIR morning radio, which is regulated by FCC decency standards. If you’re listening to some now, you [...]

Just a quick note - the long and enormously entertaining trial over creative rights to the movie SAHARA has been solved, and the novelist Clive Cussler is the loser to the tune of $5 million.
A Los Angeles jury decided he acted in bad faith by slating the film, arguing over the script and inflating his [...]

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In todays show: Halo 3 is not released but it is allowed a little sunlight… first run movies in your home - who wouldn’t want that? … and in my commentary; Boston, augh, Boston. All this and networks announce the new fall shows, I [...]

From the earliest days of editing people recognized that its greatest purpose would be to direct the eye to the objects in a scene that the director wanted you to notice; but edits also enable a director to shape the pacing of a scene after it has been shot - any time you make a [...]

It took some wranglin’ but Dick Wolf’s Law and Order franchise is secure, along with his dream to have the longest running dramatic show in television history. And I don’t mean the show that seems longest. Believe me, he’s already got that.
You may recall in March on the podcast I talked about the danger Law [...]

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Well, advertising people can breathe easy. The two artists behind the Boston Moominite Terror attacks are free, with all charges dropped. If you already know what I’m talking about, I apologize for dragging you through this story again. If you don’t, even bigger apologies.

In late January, Boston police were alerted [...]

PARIS HILTON MAY NOT SERVE FULL SENTENCE
Anyone who knows her will tell you that she can’t even COMPLETE a sentence.
JAMES (SCOTTY) DOOHAN’S ASHES MISSING AFTER TRIP TO SPACE
Or they’re still up there, held in a stasis loop until the Borg’s Earth assimilation attempt is thwarted. Take your pick.
SMOKING IN MOVIES WILL AFFECT MPAA RATING
And depending [...]