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Did The Value Of The Variety Paywall Just Drop Bigtime?

January 11, 2010 4:00 pm

This is probably not the way Variety wanted to start 2010. This morning it was announced that Nikki Finke's Deadline/Hollywood has poached one of Variety's best scoopers, Mike Fleming, to handle the New York br...

Marketing Team Behind ‘The Road’ Deserves Raise? ‘Nowhere Boy’ To Premiere At London Film Festival, New ‘Antichrist’ Poster

Simon Dang

August 4, 2009 12:05 pm

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A new poster for John Hillcoat's "The Road" has been, errr... sorta premiered. A bit odd but, either the image has been cut off (likely) taking out the head of its lead, Viggo Mortensen, or the studio thinks Ko...

The Playlist SXSW Recap Pt 2 ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘Sin Nombre,’ ‘Anvil’ ‘Drag Me To Hell’ & ‘Brüno’

Rodrigo Perez

March 19, 2009 8:24 pm

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Continued from our SXSW Film Festival reviews from Friday and Saturday. We saw "I Love You, Man," the design documentary, "Objectified," Sam Rockwell in the psychological sci-fi film, "Moon," and a few others.O...

Virgins Without Super Powers Band Together To Campaign For Brandon Routh In What Ever Form ‘Superman’ Takes Next

M. P.

September 19, 2008 2:05 am

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Apparently Warner Bros. have upset many fans over the beloved, and arguably the most famous super-hero of all time, "Superman," by thinking about taking the film franchise in a new direction a la "Batman Begins...

Variety Scribe Anne Thompson Responds To Bloggers And Their Trade Boycott

Rodrigo Perez

July 23, 2008 4:19 pm

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Part Three, (Four?) in the whole Bloggers Vs. Trades War. This time Anne Thompson weighs in and defends Variety's position. And or at least weighs in on quotes Variety EIC Peter Bart gave to MTV about four week...

Louis Leterrier Won’t Have Jack To Do With ‘Superman Returns’ Sequel

Rodrigo Perez

July 18, 2008 11:13 pm

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A few weeks ago "The Incredible Hulk" director Louis Leterrier was doing some mouth breathing and he sort of suggested that he might have something to do with the next Superman film that DC Comics and Warner Br...

Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards” Not Two Films Long? Sure Sounds Like It

Rodrigo Perez

June 25, 2008 3:15 pm

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We had a sneaking suspicion when AICN reported (without quotes of course) that Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards" would be two films long that this was bad or outdated intel.And we might be right.On the ...

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