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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...

Sacha Baron Cohen Set To Produce Two Upcoming Projects

Beau

November 6, 2009 9:56 pm

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Sacha Baron Cohen continues to prosper in the post-Ali G era. He has already made an obscene amount of cash for this movies "Borat" and "Bruno" and according to Variety, has two more projects in development via...

‘GI Joe’ Scores Over $100m Worldwide; ‘Joe 2’ Already On the Way?

Beau

August 11, 2009 1:25 am

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Despite all the bad press, skeptics, and rumors, "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra" dominated the box office weekend doing $56.2 million in the U.. and Canada as well as another $44 million internationally. For anyone...

Duncan Jones Set For ‘Blade Runner’-Esque Film, ‘Man On Wire’s’ Philippe Petit Set For Fall Performance, Nicole Kidman’s Pregnancy Kills ‘Need’?

Simon Dang

April 15, 2009 4:23 am

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Duncan Jones, the U.K. filmmaker with a penchant for regurgitating re-imagining genre films (the very "Solaris" and Kubrick-ian "Moon") has revealed that his next project will be a... sci-fi story that will ape...

Nikki Finke Strikes Back: Says Variety Piece Was An Ordered Hit After Negotiations To Buy Her Site Failed

Rodrigo Perez

March 24, 2009 2:25 pm

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Man, we'll try and keep the internecine inside-baseball squabbles short cause its possible you couldn't give a rat's ass, but you know how bloggers can never resist the temptation to discuss ourselves.Obviously...

Stephen Chow No Longer Helming ‘Green Hornet’ For Seth Rogen

M. P.

December 19, 2008 2:24 pm

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Over the summer, it was announced that the "Kung Fu Hustle" star/director, Stephen Chow, would be directing and co-starring along side Seth Rogen in the upcoming 'Green Hornet' film. However, Variety has the sc...

Hilarious Variety Spoof Video

Spencer Martin

November 20, 2008 3:27 pm

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This spoof of a Variety staff meeting has surfaced recently on Will Ferrell's comedic website, Funnyordie.com. It is pretty funny and worth a view but beware, it contains a copious amount of strong language....

Sam Mendes Pwns Variety Over ‘The Preacher’

Rodrigo Perez

November 7, 2008 5:51 pm

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Remember how Variety reported that "Revolutionary Road" director Sam Mendes was going to tackle an adaptation of the graphic novel "The Preacher"? Looks like Variety just got pwned. Mendes says the trade was fa...

Peter Bart Misses His Poor Little Variety Oscar Ads

Spencer Martin

October 27, 2008 2:35 am

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Part-time blogger, full-time curmudgeon, Variety's Editor-in-Chief Peter Bart took to his blog the other day to protest the greatest tragedy that has come with the recent economic climate, the lack of Oscar ads...

Luke Wilson And Giovanni Ribisi To Fictionally Go Into The Online Porn Business

M. P.

September 21, 2008 8:06 pm

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Variety has got the inside scoop on the new indie drama, "Middle Men," the story of how the Internet porn industry "came" to be. George Gallo co-wrote and will direct the film. Gallo doesn't have many distingui...

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