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Celebritize your life. AKA Facebook

Celebrities came about because there were people – now affectionately called paparazzi – who were willing to follow movie stars and the...
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Drama and Escape – Know your audience

As Industry analysts sum up Hollywood’s 2009 box office, concerns grow for the future of adult dramas. Articles here and there suggest that the...
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What Star Trek is and isn't

In my last article, 2009 Summer Movies - checking our predictions, I got some heat from Star Trek fans (check the comments). I said that the film was...
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2009 Summer Movies - checking our predictions

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About a month ago, in an article about release dates and what they can tell you about a movie, we made a bunch of assertions about the then upcoming...
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Watchmen, Star Trek and release dates

This is a primer on what a film’s release date can tell you about itself. I haven’t seen Watchmen yet but I want to, and will when it...
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Tax Incentives for L.A. film - helpful, but not the cure.

A lot has been said recently about the new California budget and its provisions for incentive tax discounts to the local film industry to compete with...
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Let's Poison Mars!

You may have heard that Mars is farting. I mean, not heard the bottom-burp itself, but that scientists think the huge plumes of methane gas released...
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Tax Porn Hard!! - 2 Polls.

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Given the current disastrous state of the Californian economy, to say nothing of the national and worldwide...
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Shoot night on a sitcom - Part 5, the end.

When we last left off, the curtain had gone up and shooting had just begun. This first part of the shoot tells the...
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Shoot night on a sitcom - Part 4

When we last checked in, the audience had just been seated. Now the warm up begins. First the music, then that...
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