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Muslim Extremist Can't Take a Joke, Post Death Threats Against "South Park" Creators
Threat against South Park creators highlights dilemma for media companies. Comedy Central bleeped out all references to the prophet Muhammad in the show after he was depicted dressed as a bear. The shows creators disagreed strongly with the decision. In its 200 shows, the irreverent animated program “South Park" has mercilessly satirized Christianity, Buddhism, Scientology, the ...
Woody Allen: Have I Mentioned I Love Paris?
Woody Allen has been saying for years that he's happy to explore new means of financing -- er, urban backdrops -- and has pretty much backed up that promise/flexibility by jumping between England and Spain for his past half-dozen films (including one detour to his native New York). The director hasn't stopped off in Paris yet, ...
Hollywood Don't Get Games
Avatar producer Jon Landau says getting game developers to work directly with forward-thinking filmmakers is the solution to Hollywood's long-standing videogame problem. The process for developing movie-themed games “can't be studio-driven," Landau told Wired.com. “It has to be filmmaker-driven. I think [game companies] need to go find the Jim Cameron's, Steven Spielberg's and Peter Jackson's of ...
The Big Easy on TV: 'Treme' Brings New Orleans Jazz Front and Center
By Tad Hendrickson Talk to most musicians, and they'll generally sound like they are caught amidst a whirlwind of activity. It takes a lot of hustling to make ends meet when you are musician, particularly a musician who plays jazz. So it is altogether appropriate that one of the running threads of the new HBO series ...
8 1/2 Turns 50
Is it possible? Can “8 1/2" be close to 50 years old? The calendar may say yes, but to see this classic of personal cinema one more time is to be in the presence of a kind of picture-making that defiantly remains forever young. First released in 1963, Italian director Federico Fellini's landmark examination of self-portraiture ...
Box-Office Futures Exchanges Dealt Blow by Senate Panel
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday passed the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act, which includes in it a provision banning futures trading on movie box office. This is a big blow to Indiana-based Media Derivatives and Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, both of which had been given the green light to create their box-office futures ...
Flaming Lips Play Pink Floyd's "Breathe" on Jimmy Fallon
BREATHE, BREATHE IN THE AIR, DON'T BE AFRAID TO CARE This is a pretty heavy reinterpretation of Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon rumination, and it makes one excited to see The Flaming Lips (with some help from Stardeath and White Dwarfs) perform the entire album performed live at Bonnaroo and other hot spots this year. ...
Five Easy Pieces Turns 40
Bob Rafelson's film, starring Jack Nicholson in the role that helped make him a star, opens Friday at the Nuart, Santa Monica. “You don't sit down and say, I'm feeling alienated today, I think I'll make a movie about alienation,' “ notes director Bob Rafelson, reflecting on a movie about alienation, of all things, that he ...
Gimme Shelter Screening Tonight in Santa Monica
The 1970 Rolling Stones tour filmed by the Maysles brothers, Gimme Shelter is a rare screening at the Santa Monica Library Gimme Shelter Tue., April 20, 7:00pm Santa Monica Public Library - Fairview Branch 2101 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90406 Santa Monica (310) 450-0443 Starring: The ...
Feds OK Second Commodities Exchange Against Hollywood
Decision comes after Friday's greenlight of Trend Exchange. Federal regulators approved the creation of another commodities exchange hoping to trade in film futures. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has not yet given the greenlight to the Cantor Exchange's actual contracts to be traded. That decision is still pending. Their decision is not much of a surprise. ...
