It's happened before with my love of Entourage and Ari Gold (under two weeks until season three starts...), but now they've just gone too far. (just kidding... love ya grey lady!)
This past weekend, David Carr (The Bagger) wrote a piece about how reviews and reviewers are becoming marginalized in today's madcap antics of movie marketing. Yeah, that's what I've been saying. Frank Shaw does a nice job trying to put this in the larger context of reviews outside the entertainment realm... even if I disagree with him - reviewers are screwed now that everyone with an internet connection has a voice. Welcome to the democracy we always wanted ;)
Furthermore, Movie City News had some key corrections that The Bagger didn't take into consideration, didn't research, or just plain ignored. Since it will scroll off their page eventually, I'm pasting the corrections below:
- There Have Been Five $20 Million Openers, Seven Over $10 Million, And Five #1 Openings Without Press Screenings "Lately," Not Three
- "Long before a movie review comes out, young people are texting their friends during the first showing of a movie about how disappointing or must-see it is." False.
- "Fox Atomic will produce eight films a year with a print budget of exactly zero." False.
- New Line "spent seven figures on an elaborate (Snakes on a Plane) Web site of its own." False. In fact, NL has launched a placeholder site that will grow, but hasn't cost $20,000 to date and will not end up costing anywhere near $1 million.
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