· Thumbing its nose at coldhearted, Spielberg-disrespecting corporate partner Viacom, DreamWorks Animation names legendary Sumner Redstone shitcanee Tom Freston to its board of directors. That’ll teach you not to fuck with a national treasure, unfeeling new CEO Phillppe Dauman! [Variety]
· Now here’s some casting chatter we can get behind: Jessica Biel is “in talks” to […]
Sep
25
Trade Roundup: DreamWorks Ani Extends Bird Viacomward, Takes On Tom Freston
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Sep
25
Exciting Business Opportunities Not Caught By Our Spam Filter: “Good Morning, I was just looking at your …
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“Good Morning, I was just looking at your website, as I have a number of clients searching online for breast augmentations and other cosmetic surgery options in that area. I’m looking to find one plastic surgeon I can work with to direct these people to online. […] Based on your website, I think you might […]
Sep
25
Advertising Intitiatives Dept: A Note On Our Temporary New Look
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As our more astute readers have pointed out to us both in an earlier comment thread and in some concerned emails, Mr. Defamer appears to have been kidnapped by Peter Krause, star of Filthy Smutty Cash, a new show on a television network we hardly need to name in this space. Let us just say […]
Sep
25
Marketing: Summer Movie Candy Tie-Ins Set To Turn Getting Fat Into An Adventure
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With next summer’s franchise blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones in the Land of the Diamond Skulls knee-deep into their production schedules, so are plans for the confectionery merchandising tie-ins coveted by shrill, skirt-tugging children and paunchy, middle-aged fanboys alike. Eschewing such creative but functionally infeasible options of the past–such as the boulder-sizedRaiders […]
Sep
25
Annals Of Day-player Nudity: In parsing Good Luck Chuck’s apparent cinematic …
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In parsing Good Luck Chuck’s apparent cinematic influences, an latimes.com slideshow makes this not-unexpected discovery concerning Hollywood most stubbornly never-nude (for now, at least) actress: “The first thing we noticed…was that about 30 women took off their shirts in the film and none of them was named Jessica Alba.” [latimes.com]