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Wow. The MPAA thinks that because modern technology makes it hard to legally prove the origins of copyrighted materials distributed via the net, they should be able to collect damages from people without proving anything. The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right ...
LGF, MPAA, Record industry, Movies, Hollywood, Law, Copyright
It’s amazing what leftist filmmakers can get away with: Morgan Spurlock: CAIR Free. CAIR is fine with this:
Oliver Stone is rushing to finish his new film in time for the Presidential election, a film that asks the question, “How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?” It’s a light-hearted fantasy. A real feel-good movie. Capra-esque, but with a ...
The movie Stop Loss is yet another in a long string of Hollywood anti-American and antiwar flops: ‘Stop-Loss’ DOA. I’m told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4 M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn’t ...
What the heck — why not an Academy Awards thread? I’m watching it on my Mac, using a nifty broadcast high-definition receiver, the [Amazon Link]. And it looks fabulous, of course. A reminder: if the ‘reply’ or ‘quote’ functions don’t seem to be working right, refresh your page to reload ...
The “Bob Lee Swagger” novels of Stephen Hunter are a weakness of mine, so I was looking forward to the movie version of [Amazon Link], renamed “[Amazon Link],” even though it co-starred Castro/Chavez suck-up Danny Glover. Unfortunately Glover’s cruddy politics seem to have leaked all over the script, because near ...
LGF, Hollywood, Left Wing, Anti-war, Stephen Hunter, Shooter
Apparently Oliver Stone thinks America is interested in the life story of Iran’s thug-in-chief: US director gets green light on Ahmadinejad documentary.
In the holiday season’s next big controversy, the Catholic League is calling for a boycott of the film The Golden Compass. Yahoo! Movies has posted the first five minutes of the film (an appealing variation on the “trailer” concept).
The first reports from Iowahawk’s alternate universe box office mag are in, and things don’t look good for the Xmas-haters who rule Tinseltown: BoxBux Sux as Stix Hix Nix Xmas Flix. Los Angeles - Despite critical acclaim and massive promotional budgets, a wave of anti-Santa holiday pictures floundered at ...
Redacted: the world’s first self-detonating movie. November 25, 2007 — IT’S hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if Americans won’t see their movies. While the public is staying away in droves from “Rendition,“ “Lions for Lambs” and “In the ...
National Public Radio film critic David Edelstein says Brian DePalma’s anti-US movie Redacted is terrible—but he loves it anyway: NPR Loves Bad Cinema — If It’s ‘Laudable Agitprop’ Against the Troops. UPDATE at 11/25/07 1:22:55 pm: Another anti-war box office bomb.
LGF, Hollywood, Left Wing, Islamofascism, Political Correctness, Redacted
The Daily Kos-endorsed Robert Redford film Lions for Lambs is utterly tanking at the box office: Daily Box Office for Friday, November 9, 2007.
LGF, Hollywood, Left Wing, Islamofascism, Political Correctness
The world’s most openly biased wire service, Agence France Presse, has a piece on the recent crop of awful Hollywood movies about terrorism and Iraq, completely ignoring the films’ unanimous left-wing political slant to argue that they’re failing because the war is unpopular: Hollywood is casualty of war as movie-goers ...
LGF, Hollywood, Left Wing, Islamofascism, Political Correctness
Libertas has some links to trailers for Brian DePalma’s upcoming anti-war film, “Redacted,” a leftist anti-military fantasy come to life: Coming Soon! From Hollywood.
LGF, Hollywood, Left Wing, Islamofascism, Political Correctness
LGF reader Gregg Rossen sent a link to a funny short he and his writing partner Brian Sawyer made, about the Hollywood writer’s strike, titled “Heroes of the Writers Strike:” [Video] The LA Times had a piece about it last week: Screenwriters mull flipping burgers.
The Robert Redford anti-war film Lions for Lambs is not getting good reviews in advance of its release, and if it tanks as many expect it will, it could jeopardize MGM’s financing. Meanwhile, the filmmakers obviously know which audience they’re playing to—the Kos Kooks.
Here’s an excellent article by Michael Fumento on Hollywood’s ongoing self-loathing leftist campaign to whitewash Islamic terrorism: Hollywood’s War on the War on Terror. Read the whole thing, but here’s my favorite line: They’re giving us the equivalent of 1943 movies equating FDR with Hitler.
LGF, Hollywood, Left Wing, Islamofascism, Political Correctness
This link goes to the final round of an Los Angeles Times “Dust-up” between David Ehrenstein and Andrew Breitbart on the abysmal left-wing tilt of Hollywood (but you should read it from the beginning if you haven’t already): Tinseltown’s last hurrah. (Use this link to bypass the Times’ registration wall.) ...
Director Brian De Palma, maker of some of the most amoral and voyeuristically violent Hollywood films in existence, has released a fictionalized attack on the US military based on material he found on the internet: ’Redacted’ stuns Venice. This article doesn’t say which web sites De Palma used for research, ...
In the New York Post gossip section, Cindy Adams has a disturbing bit of info about the head of Al-Arabiya and some Arafat cronies, in bed with a new US film company and already influencing the movies that get made: Look who’s on studio board. July 11, 2007 — PAY ...
LGF, Hollywood, Films, Saudi Arabia, Propaganda, Palestinians, Yasser Arafat
Evan Sayet, a former writer for—unbelievably—Bill Maher, makes a lot of great points in this speech to the mega-evil neocon conspirators at the Heritage Foundation. It’s long (more than 45 minutes), but guaranteed to provoke cogitation in those so enabled. (Hat tip: many LGF readers.) [Video]
Moonbats, Netroots, Nutroots, Progressives, Anti-war, Violence, Moral Equivalence, Sayet, Hollywood
I have to admit, my interest in the Academy Awards approaches absolute zero. But an open thread could be fun...
A group of Hollywood stars, directors, and studio suits has taken out an ad in the LA Times condemning terrorism. And for once, they aren’t talking about the United States. Kidman condemns Hamas, Hezbollah. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) NICOLE Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism. The actress, joined ...
The Hollywood machine is quite eager to take advantage of the Independence Day crowds, releasing the new version of Superman for the July 4th weekend. But the screenwriters and their studio overseers were so embarrassed by Superman’s American heritage that they changed the famous slogan “truth, justice, and the American ...
Left wing billionaire übermoonbat George Soros has purchased the Dreamworks film library from Viacom: DreamWorks films sold for $900m to Soros consortium. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) GEORGE SOROS, the billionaire financier, has taken control of the film library of DreamWorks SKG from Viacom, the entertainment giant, in a deal worth $900 ...