The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
By Steven Zeitchik It's been so long and twisted a road for "What Just Happened," poster child for all those misbegotten Sundance expectations, that for a while it was easy to forget the movie has yet to actually come out....
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Laura Lippman has produced a formidable body of work writing on crime in Baltimore, which means she has an awful lot in common with her husband, she tells fellow writer
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Robert DeNiro stops by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss his new movie “What Just Happened” directed by Barry Levinson and based on the memoirs of Art Linson. Check out the clip...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Or, maybe, director Barry Levinson should have advised John McCain. In his blog at the Huffington Post, Levinson conjectures: Over the years since directing Wag The Dog I have been asked whether Hollywood producers are directly involved in political campaigns. I hear rumors from time to time that they might be pulling the strings but no hard evidence. But my suspicion is, no Hollywood producer
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Today we have newly released “What Just Happened'” poster. Barry Levinson’s ”What Just Happened'” is based on Art Linson’s memoir (book and screenplay) about his experiences as a...
Reel Pop (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Attention celebrities: If you haven't participate in a get-out-the-vote video effort, your career is probably over by now. Here's yet another from the Creative Coalition. Participating celebs include: Blake Lively, Susan Sarandon, Tim Daly, Anne Hathaway, Kate Walsh, Tony Goldwyn,...
eugonline (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Wednesday's "What Just Happened?" premiere at MoMA gave industry insiders and celebs a look at Barry Levinson's well-constructed, but ultimately a bit flat new film. At the 21 Club dinner after the screening, folks were telling me that the source material, accomplished producer Art Linson's book What Just Happened': Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, is a much...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Barry Levinson ’s What Just Happened? is not a particularly good or funny or incisive inside-Hollywood movie, but no one who was leaving the film's premiere on Wednesday evening at the Museum of Modern Art seemed to mind. Afterward, on the second and third floors of the nearby 21 Club, Sean Penn -- who before the film started had spent at least three minutes having a gesticulation-heavy conversation...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
TIMING is everything. The ongoing implosion of Wall Street and the nation's banking crisis will provide grist for HBO's "Americatown," a new series in which Americans emigrate to other countries because of economic hardships at home. The series...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
HBO television is developing the futuristic drama series, which hails from writer Bradford Winters and producers Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy.
io9 (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Will the economic crises force us all to flee the country and set up our own little villages filled with U.S. immigrants? HBO seems to think so, and just greenlit a drama series titled Americatown.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
What if economic and climatic disasters conspired to render the United States a much less desirable place to live? What if, in the year 2045, Americans found themselves emigrating en masse to other lands and founding communities on foreign soil'That’s the premise of HBO’s “Americatown,” scripted by Bradford Winters (a writer on “Oz” and brother of “Oz” stars Dean and Scott Winters).Tom Fontana & Barry...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Based on Barry Levinson's 1988 film, there's no doubting Rain Man's cinematic pedigree. Barry Morrow's screenplay won one of four Oscars, while Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman gave highly memorable performances as two brothers embarking on life-changin...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The stunt pulled by Boogie (Mickey Rourke) is crude and vulgar – out of keeping with the rest of a very thoughtful and well-made film – but it still makes you chuckle every time you see it. He has bet his friends that a notoriously cold and prudish girl he is taking for a first date will "go for his pecker" as he puts it. They take the bet, thinking that there is no way he can possibly win – or prove...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Going for a nice, catchy name, Barry Levinson has directed a documentary about the just-completed Democratic and Republican national conventions dubbed Polliwood. It will be released by indie distributor Screen Media Films. The documentary features interviews with a host of showbiz names including Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon, Alan Cumming and several political notables. It blends [...]
