Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Jeff Wells has this up over at Hollywood-elsewhere. The fine print? "A life misunderestimated." The marketing, Ad Age suggests, will "reach across the aisle." The idea being, what, that Bush is unpopular or an object of fun to both parties,...
From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The Rabbi Report (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Jeff Wells shows his sensitive side and gives us Werner Herzog as Adolph Hitler. Gee. How flattering....
Defamer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shocking news today as John McCain refuted his choice of Heidi Montag as vice president, instead settling on heavily lip-glossed Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. As Jeff Wells notes, Palin has a certain...
Movie Marketing Madness (Free subscription) | yesterday
Late yesterday afternoon the Telluride Film Festival announced its slate of movies. The SpoutBlog team is going to be on the ground there and you can follow all their reviews, interviews and other coverage here. As usual, these movies are ones that will likely be critically acclaimed but hard to market to a mainstream audience. Jeff [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... who saw it and was asking himself as he watched the first two acts, ‘Why am I not laughing?’” - Jeff Wells jus’ sayin’ The Guardian was seemingly pleased with the film, but they also refer to the film as an “afterthought”… “Burn After Reading may also go down as arguably the Coens’ happiest engagement with the demands of the Hollywood A-list - but this bit of career development may...
/Film (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
As reported by Jeff Wells awhile back, Religulous has started playing in two theaters (one in NYC and one in Claremont, CA) to fulfill Rule 12 of the Academy’s eligibility rules for Best Documentary nominations. The theaters themselves are out of the way (apparently the one in New York is all the way up [...]
Entertainment Base! Fun! Daily! (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
The Wolverine situation is something that movie journalists have been talking about since February. You probably didn’t notice because most of us didn’t write about it. And even now, I’m not exactly sure what I could or should say. So I’ll just relay the RUMOR that Jeff Wells is reporting on Hollywood Elsewhere. The basic gist [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
The Wolverine situation is something that movie journalists have been talking about since February. You probably didn’t notice because most of us didn’t write about it. And even now, I’m not exactly sure what I could or should say. So I’ll just relay the RUMOR that Jeff Wells is reporting on Hollywood Elsewhere. The basic gist [...]
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
According to Jeff Wells, Larry Charles and Bill Maher’s Borat-style religion doc Religulous is playing this week in Claremont, CA in order to meet the Academy’s rule stating that non-fiction films must screen for one week in a commercial theater in both New York and L.A. in order to qualify for a Best Documentary nomination. [...]
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
According to Jeff Wells , Larry Charles and Bill Maher’s Borat -style religion doc Religulous is playing this week in Claremont, CA in order to meet the Academy’s rule stating that non-fiction films must screen for one week in a commercial theater in both New York and L.A. in order to qualify for a Best Documentary nomination. “That means Religulous is probably playing in some out-of-the-way...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Filed under: Lionsgate Films , Celebrities and Controversy , Movie Marketing , Images , Posters Yesterday, Jeff Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere put up the poster for the new comedy My Best Friend's Girl , starring Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Jason Biggs and Alec Baldwin. The poster (which premiered online earlier this summer) is boring in the extreme, making the film look like your typical...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... Tribute at the Gotham Awards on Dec. 2 in New York City. • Much web-howling could be heard when Jeff Wells of suggested that Robert Downey Jr. might be nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor for portraying a ridiculous Oscar winner in "Tropic Thunder," but now Sasha Stone of takes the notion seriously too. • The second season of "" (Emmy nominatee for best drama series) just...
/Film (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... I will be seeing the film in a couple weeks at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. via: Jeff Wells Related Stories Religulous Movie Poster (For Canada, Of Course) Holy Controversy: Religulous Reviews Hit Web Religulous Clip: Bill Maher in a Burka Store Religulous Movie Trailer DisbeliefNet.com New Religulous Movie Poster
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
“My thoughts on [George] Lucas are basically that he’s the devil,” writes Jeff Wells . “Which is to say a very real metaphor for total corruption of the spirit.” Wells offered up these “thoughts” allegedly in response to Devin Feraci’s interview with Lucas for CHUD (Lucas did a junket for Clone Wars last weekend (our own Kevin Kelly was there and his coverage is forthcoming)....
