As much of a fan as I am of dorky movie mashups, particularly those involving my own bad-to-horrible Photoshop jobs – and especially those involving Nicolas Cage – the idea that someone has gone to the wonderfully demented trouble of creating a blog called Nic Cage As Everyone is, quite simply, a spectacular find. The [...]

Here’s a wacky idea: after two weeks of complete non-bloggery, I’ll just what the heck go ahead and live-Tweet the Oscars. I’ve embedded my Twitter updates below, and you can follow me here. Refresh your browser if the newest updates doesn’t show up. Fans of Hollywood excesses! Enjoy!
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Good day to you and welcome to Burbanked’s first instructional for 2009, A Beginner’s Guide to Comparative Celebrities. In these confusing days of cookie-cutter Hollywood films, with all of the remakes and sequels and reboots and fighting robot movies and fantastically over-edited action claptrap, you have probably become confused and disoriented by a complete inability [...]

Movie celebrities have always been the stuff of public fascination, dating far, far back into Tinseltown’s turbulent history in the near-constant scandals, divorces and sexual peccadillos that have run the gamut from harmless to deviant.
But these days we’re living in a celebrity culture in which all of the taboos are gone. There is no mystery [...]

Dedicated screenwriting 101 here: From an interview with Harrison Ford on the MTV Movies Blog in which the inevitability of another Indiana Jones movie is mentioned:

MTV: Is the ball in George’s court at this point?

Ford: It is. That’s the process. With some general input he goes off and searches for the MacGuffin and then stumbles [...]

I tend to be more or less of a heartless bastard when it comes to the fading and extinguishing lights of Hollywood talent, but there have been times when legends pass into the night and I get an emotional tickle in my throat. We’ve seen both Sydney Pollack and Paul Newman go in the last [...]

Wow! I have to say I’m a bit surprised by the marketing tactics behind this new Katherine Heigl one-sheet.It’s a little wordy for my taste, but one has to admire the bold honesty of putting it out there. (image courtesy of TheBadandUgly.com)