David Talbot

Source: The Stranger

As David Fincher demonstrated in his criminally underrated Zodiac, something weird was happening in San Francisco in the 1970s. A truly terrifying serial killer was on the loose; social mores were crumbling in a haze of drugs, sex, and protests; and gay ...
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Blu-ray Deal: Alien Anthology Box Set

Source: Geeks of Doom

Amazon is currently selling the Alien Anthology Blu-ray Edition box set for only $51.67 (that’s 48% off the list price of $99.99). This Blu-ray box set includes all four standalone Alien films, which starred Si ...
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Promethipedia: a run-down of Ridley Scott's new blockbuster Prometheus

Source: This Is London

With this promotional campaign director Ridley Scott has treated the Prometheus audience like a chained-up Alien mother-beast, to which he has tossed the odd chunk of raw meat. These include YouTube videos of a fake TED lecture by a dying Peter W ...
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Producing more, Brad Pitt is 'Killing Them Softly'

Source: Boston.com

CANNES, France—Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy. Since he last collaborated with Andrew Dominik, he's starred in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading," David Fincher's "The Curious Case of ...
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Producing more, Brad Pitt is 'Killing Them Softly'

Source: The State

tool goes here CANNES, France — Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy. Since he last collaborated with Andrew Dominik, he's starred in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading," David Fincher's "Th ...
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Netflix Original Content and For-Profit Superstar Faculty

Source: Inside Higher Ed

Will for-profits poach faculty members from non-profits, people who have public profile, who get quoted in the press, write opinion pieces, and author books and articles aimed at nonspecialists? Netflix's move into ...
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‘Batman: The Dark Knight Returns’ Voice Cast Announced; Plus Images From The Film

Source: Geeks of Doom

Around the time that the forthcoming The Dark Knight Rises went into pre-production, Warner Bros. and the newly rechristened DC Comics Premiere Movies (formerly DC Universe Animated Original Movies) announced that the ne ...
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Hulu and Netflix Offer More Opportunites---With a Tradeoff

Source: Backstage

Online channels are expanding their original programming and giving actors new opportunities -- albeit at a price. Hulu announced this week it would premiere 10 original series this summer. Netflix, meanwhile, is building on the success of “Lilyhammer,” ...
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Stale-looking 'That's My Boy' is a raunchy risk for Adam Sandler

Source: Los Angeles Times

Ten of the last 11 comedies made by Sandler’s Happy Madison production company earned at least $100 million in the United States, and Sandler’s international performance has been impressive. At a time when most studios are cutting back spending on comedi ...
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