Back in August, our friend Ryan Adams over at Awards Daily ran the poster and trailer for the upcoming Flash of Genius starring Greg Kinnear. I liked the poster, but the true-life story of one man fighting the auto industry didn’t reach out and grab me right away.
Kinnear plays Robert Kearns, the man who invented [...]
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The ever vigilant Nick Plowman of Fataculture just gave me the heads up to Anne Thompson’s Variety report that Fox Searchlight beat out Lionsgate, Overture, The Weinsteins, Sony and others for the rights to distribute Darren Aronofsky’s much praised film The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei.
Which studio’s logo appears on the film [...]
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Summer Bishil in Alan Ball’s Towelhead
The worst box office weekend in 7 years, got off to a shaky start here at LiC. Though things rallied on Saturday, let’s start off this week’s Watercooler with the bad news: an early screening of screenwriter Alan (American Beauty, HBO’s Six Feet Under) Ball’s directorial debut.
Take a moldy dog turd [...]
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