YouTube Is The Girl Studios Can’t Commit To YouTube is the gold standard for online video, but Hulu-mad Hollywood studios are just beginning to gingerly touch it with a 10 foot pole.
As Chris briefly noted earlier this morning, MGM has confirmed last week’s CNET rumors and announced that they’re slowly rolling some of their feature film library on to YouTube. But the New York Times story about this, by Brad Stone and the always-skeptical Brooks Barnes, warns us not to get too excited — because MGM certainly isn’t.
Gogol Bordello Non-Stop Director Margarita Jimeno: The Media Diet Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello have drawn an increasingly large following as the decade as worn on, but this year their cinematic profile has raised dramatically. In Berlin this year Madonna unveiled her Filth and Wisdom, staring frontman Eugene Hutz, and now comes a full blown tour documentary filmmaker Margarita Jimeno, Gogol Bordello Non-Stop. The […]
Will Smith Enlists Son Jaden For ‘Karate Kid’ Remake I think it’s official — if you were old enough to see “The Karate Kid” in theaters, Hollywood considers you ancient news, and your childhood memories up for grabs. It’s the latest 80s movie to get the remake treatment, following in the wake of proposed updates of “Short Circuit,” “Footloose,” “Red Dawn,” and “The […]
I think it’s official — if you were old enough to see “The Karate Kid” in theaters, Hollywood considers you ancient news, and your childhood memories up for grabs. It’s the latest 80s movie to get the remake treatment, following in the wake of proposed updates of “Short Circuit,” “Footloose,” “Red Dawn,” and “The Last Starfighter.”
FilmCouch #95: The Wisdom of Crowds, the Horror of Mobs In the wake of an historic week, we look at some classic films made at different pivotal points in American history.
New To Theatres This Weekend: Role Models, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Soul Men, JCVD Not a particularly exciting week for new theatrical releases as we impatiently await the North American premiere of Quantum of Solace. The Paul Rudd/Seann William Scott comedy Role Models didn’t look all that funny but it is getting surprisingly good reviews; Soul Men, on the other hand, is not winning over critics despite featuring the […]
New Ventura Revealed The New Ace Ventura has been revealed to us. Coming around the third time, the Ventura flick is not going to star the ever so funny Jim Carrey but instead, will be starring…Josh Flitter?!?! He starred in Licensed to Wed and Nancy Drew but I don’t know how in this lifetime he is gonna fill […]
The New Ace Ventura has been revealed to us. Coming around the third time, the Ventura flick is not going to star the ever so funny Jim Carrey but instead, will be starring…Josh Flitter?!?! He starred in Licensed to Wed and Nancy Drew but I don’t know how in this lifetime he is gonna fill Carrey’s shoes.
Halloween Movies: TCM 48 Hours of Horror If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing […]
Transsiberian Contest Winners Congratulations to the following Film Junk readers, who have won themselves a copy of Transsiberian on DVD: Gizele Farris of Moncton, NB Valencia Burns of Atlanta, GA Mary P. Ferrarini of Chicago, IL Thanks to all who entered, and a big thanks to Brandy from ddPR for making the contest possible! Stay tuned for more giveaways on Film Junk […]
Prop 8 Rally Crashed By Bruno Character It looks like the pre-election battle over California’s Propositon 8 (which would render gay marriages illegal in the state) could provide the backdrop to a scene in Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming Borat follow-up. Cohen showed up at a Yes on 8 rally this weekend in character as Bruno, the gay Austrian fashion designer, and […]
Oscars vs Box Office Chapter 735 Or, why suggesting that audiences are “indifferent” to films that never make it to a multiplex is insane.
Conservative film blogger Dirty Harry is often best ignored when he’s aggressively railing against the liberal Hollywood elite, but when he offers a faux-populist view of filmgoing that’s so obstinately limited in scope that it’s actually potentially dangerous, I have to say something.
The gist: the cursed Hollywood elite is once again pushing movies with purely elite appeal for awards, and audiences are not responding to these films because after years of reading reviews written by partisan elitists who are out of touch with What The People Want, they no longer trust film critics. An excerpt:
As Chris briefly noted earlier this morning, MGM has confirmed last week’s CNET rumors and announced that they’re slowly rolling some of their feature film library on to YouTube. But the New York Times story about this, by Brad Stone and the always-skeptical Brooks Barnes, warns us not to get too excited — because MGM certainly isn’t.
I think it’s official — if you were old enough to see “The Karate Kid” in theaters, Hollywood considers you ancient news, and your childhood memories up for grabs. It’s the latest 80s movie to get the remake treatment, following in the wake of proposed updates of “Short Circuit,” “Footloose,” “Red Dawn,” and “The Last Starfighter.” 
Conservative film blogger