The Hollywood sequel machine takes a handful of turns for the worse. »

In an industry like Hollywood where once-famous actors and actresses are thrown upon the heap of public boredom; where today’s hotshot agent can’t get anyone on the phone tomorrow; where crafty and clever screenwriters, having failed to score multi-million dollar spec sales, are stacked on the bottom of a low-level development executive’s weekend read list; [...]

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WB and the man in the red reboots. »

I just want to make sure I’ve got this straight: Just two years ago, Warner Bros. gave us Superman Returns, a reboot of a dead franchise. Now in 2010, according to a number of sites, the studio will reboot the franchise again because the last one “didn’t quite work as a film in the way [...]

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No disrespect to Zod, but Burbanked would like to offer some alternative villains for Superman to fight. »

Of course you’ve heard by now that Jude Law is rumored to be considering the role of General Zod in the next installment of Bryan Singer’s more or less revitalized Superman franchise. And you may also have read that some people feel as though this is a valid idea worth further discussion.
And although we welcome [...]

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Mission: Hollywood – just get over it. »

The Hollywood threat “you’ll never work in this town again” is just a bit more antiquated than, say, Costner’s status as a viable leading man. In this day and age, the resilience of Tinseltown’s showbiz players is on daily display as they nobly shoulder the betrayals, outrages and routine backstabbings, and then simply return [...]

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Wednesday linktrash – taking it to the street. »

So what do you think, those links are just going to take themselves out? Now you just march yourself down there and do it like your mom told you to, or I’ll give you something to cry about. Don’t you roll your eyes at me!
From Bulletproof Bracelets, this is among the most unintentionally odd [...]

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Mission: Hollywood – just keep looking over your shoulder. »

Survival in Hollywood is mostly dependent on three* things: a sense of tenaciousness that borders on the sociopathic; a willingness to completely jettison the morality and sound judgment that those parents back in your home state worked so hard to beat into you; and the ability to never, EVER stop looking over your shoulder.
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