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  • June 2008

    • Dark Days Ahead for Little Movies

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 30, 08 9:26 AM CDT

      Dark Days Ahead for Little Movies

      This has been a banner year for Hollywood blockbusters, but things look dour for explosion-free cinema, David Carr writes in the New York Time s reports. Small movies have flooded multiplexes, choking each other out—a sign, producer Mark Gill says, of big-money backing meeting the ease of digital film-making. The money's disappearing, and eventually only good indie flicks will get made. More »

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      film  • movie industry  • independent film  • Hollywood studios  • art-house movies

  • May 2008

    • Warner Bros. Closes 2 Indie Divisions

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 9, 08 12:30 PM CDT

      Warner Bros. Closes 2 Indie Divisions

      Warner Bros. announced yesterday that it is closing both its indie arms, Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse. Speculation had the studio merging the indie and art-house divisions, but the studio opted for even more cost-cutting, the LA Times reports. More than 70 employees will lose their jobs in the shakeup. More »

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      layoffs  • Warner Brothers  • independent film  • art-house movies

  • April 2008

    • People Not Smart Enough

      newser  |  Rotten Tomatoes  |  Apr 11, 08 1:45 PM CDT

      People Not Smart Enough

      Critics like the big-name actors in family serio-comedy Smart People —especially Dennis Quaid, who stars as a cranky professor with much to learn about people—but think they might have been smarter to choose a different script. Screenwriter Mark Jude Poirier "is aiming for Scrabulous dialogue but his movie is barely of Boggle quality," Carrie Rickey writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer . More »

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      movie  • film  • movie review  • Sarah Jessica Parker  • independent film  • Dennis Quaid  • Ellen Page

    • LiLo Going Full Frontal for $40K

      newser  |  Sun (UK)  |  Apr 10, 08 12:48 PM CDT

      LiLo Going Full Frontal for $40K

      Lindsay Lohan wants to bare the full monty in an upcoming flick where she's making a paltry $40,000 to play a nymphomaniac waitress. The sex scene only required a topless shot but she asked for the direction change so she could prove she was a "mature actress," the Sun reports.  More »

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      Los Angeles  • Lindsay Lohan  • nudity  • independent film  • acting career

    • Web Videos May Be Ad Gold Mine

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Apr 4, 08 3:12 PM CDT

      Web Videos May Be Ad Gold Mine

      TV networks, major news organizations, and independent producers are all scrambling to create Web videos that will let them snag a portion of the ad dollars flowing online. Ad spending on Internet videos will grow to $4.3 billion by 2011, say researchers—a 455% increase over today. "It's growing faster than any other advertising category," an NBC Universal exec tells USA Today . More »

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      Internet  • advertising  • NBC  • CBS  • online advertising  • Disney  • online videos  • video  • independent film  • LonelyGirl15

    • No Juice in My Blueberry Nights

      newser  |  Metacritic  |  Apr 4, 08 11:01 AM CDT

      No Juice in My Blueberry Nights

      As the lead in My Blueberry Nights , Grammy-winning jazz-pop chanteuse Norah Jones doesn't exactly dazzle. Her performance as a waitress, who ditches New York City for the open road after being ditched by her boyfriend, is "agreeable but bland," writes Todd McCarthy of Variety and "oddly behind the beat," observes Michelle Orange of the Village Voice .  More »

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      movie review  • independent film  • Natalie Portman  • Jude Law  • art-house movies

  • March 2008

    • Faithfull Shines in Irina Palm

      newser  |  Rotten Tomatoes  |  Mar 21, 08 10:31 AM CDT

      Faithfull Shines in Irina Palm

      Irina Palm , about a frumpy grandmother who resorts to prostitution so she can pay for her desperately ill grandson's operation, is winning over critics, both because of its unsentimental portrayal of the sex trade and because of the performance given by its star, singer/songwriter/actress and '60s icon Marianne Faithfull. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • prostitution  • health care costs  • independent film  • sex trade

  • February 2008
  • December 2007

    • Compass Leads at Top Spot, Yet Falls Short

      newser  |  Variety  |  Dec 9, 07 7:56 PM CST

      Compass Leads at Top Spot, Yet Falls Short

      The Golden Compass took top spot at the weekend box office but fell short of its expected $30-40 million tally, Variety reports. The flick grossed $26.1 million, chump change for a film costing $180 million—and New Line execs didn't hide their disappointment as they touted its sales abroad. Moviegoing slumped 19% overall compared to this weekend last year. More »

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      box office  • independent film  • Atonement  • The Golden Compass

    • Coppola Turns to Youth

      newser  |  Vanity Fair  |  Dec 8, 07 11:14 AM CST

      Coppola Turns to Youth

      Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in a decade is about an elderly character returned to youth by a lightning strike; indeed Youth Without Youth finds the director making the kind of "personal" film he wanted to at age 25. Having wallowed for 30 years in less than stellar projects, the Godfather filmmaker has made a small picture on his own dime—and it “betrays not a molecule of commercial calculation.” More »

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      independent film  • The Godfather  • Francis Ford Coppola  • Orson Welles

  • October 2007

    • My Big Fat Indie Meltdown

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 25, 07 3:34 PM CDT

      My Big Fat Indie Meltdown

      Small-budget indie flicks become improbable mainstream successes every year—except, the LA Times notes, 2007. Moviegoers are bombarded with art films that have all flopped, from melancholy war pieces to classy, studio-backed star vehicles. “It's as bad a fall as I've ever seen,” says Focus’ CEO. The problem? “Too many movies,” says Miramax’s chief. More »

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      movie  • film  • film studio  • independent film  • Miramax

  • March 2007

    • The Super-Rich Are Rewriting Hollywood Rules

      newser  |  MSNBC  |  Mar 12, 07 1:49 PM CDT

      The Super-Rich Are Rewriting Hollywood Rules

      A new breed of Hollywood players—so rich they don't need studio money—are   financing and releasing slates of small-budget films on their own. Producers like Sam Nazarian, a 31-year-old scion of a wealthy Persian family, and self-made billionaire Sidney Kimmel, 78, are shouldering the costs of a full lineup of films, including the printing, advertising, and marketing that indies usually turn to the studios for. These mini-moguls keep control of their films, and all the profit. More »

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      movie  • film  • Hollywood  • business  • independent film  • ultra rich

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