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Aug 10

The Emmy Awards Get Social

The 2010 Emmy Awards are this Sunday, and NBC is using the ceremony to embrace social media in a big way.NBC is using services such as Twitter, yfrog and Ustream to bring a more real-time experience to the event. These services will also let fans and viewers interact with Emmy presenters using social media. Due to time-shift viewing and a growing number of viewing alternatives via cable or the Internet, network television ratings are in a period of decline

…Emmys and is offering live streams of tweets from Emmy nominees.Will This Work?NBC has a lot riding on the Emmys this year. General Electric is currently working towards closing a deal to sell NBC-Universal to Comcast, a deal that has caught the interest of the FCC and the Justice Department.The network has maintained high ratings through the summer, but Sunday night will be an important time to advertise its new and returning slate of shows. Bringing in a large audience for the Emmys could help the network get off to a solid start once the fall television season officially starts.By making the show live nationwide and tapping into social media to bring more of the experience to fans at home, NBC might just see its ratings increase.As for us, well, we ll be watching not just because we love award shows (we do), but because if Conan wins for Best Late Night show for the The Tonight Show, we really want to see what he says about NBC in his acceptance speech. Contractual rules be damned, we want fireworks!What…

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17
Aug 10

10 Worst (Although Memorable) Hollywood Mothers

Mothers are always the best of all our earthly treasures. This is a part of the list of the entire make believe and funny deviations created as part of the world of movie gimmicks.

…e even on the day of the wedding.
Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest (1981)

This film was based on the real life story written by Christina Crawford who was the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. In her book Christina claims to have been abused as a child as Joan Crawford was more preoccupied with her alcoholism and movie career than the welfare of any of her four children all of whom were adopted. She was herself at the point of being strangled to death by her mother in a fit of rage about the quality of hangers in her wardrobe.
The Stepmother in Cinderella

She could be the ultimate inspiration for all the wicked hearted mothers of cruel acts. This lady is second to none when it comes to conspiracies and plotting against the stepdaughter whose presence she despised. She went from one ugly plan to the other to hurt Cinderella and make her a slave to her two ugly daughters. And in the end watch the Prince take Cinderella away.
Ma Fratelli in The Goonies (1985)

She is the name of ultimate and horrific…

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13
Aug 10

The Horror Movie Poster Trivia Quiz

Do you know your horror posters?

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Welcome to what I hope will become an on-going theme here at Gunaxin because everyone likes movie posters! Everyone, dammit! Here s the deal and it is a deceptively simple deal at that: Try to correctly answer all the quiz questions. No, really, that s it. At the beginning of the next quiz I ll give you all the correct answers to this one. I m fairly certain a trained elephant could handle that well, a trained elephant with a computer. You know what I mean….

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5
Aug 10

Could AMC’s ‘Rubicon’ Give ‘Mad Men’ a Run for Its Money?

What do you think?

…”Rubicon,” AMC’s third original series (”Mad Men” was first, “Breaking Bad” was second), debuted this past Sunday and became the network’s highest-rated original series premiere, with 2 million total viewers. (”Mad Men” came on right after it and snagged 2.5 million viewers.) AMC describes it as “a modern-day political conspiracy thriller that taps into the collective paranoia of a post-9/11 era,” and has been giving it a major push, with the first hour of the two-hour premiere available in advance on Hulu, iTunes and VOD.

As you’d expect, “Mad Men” fell, in its second week, as a Twitter meme — to a one-hour peak of 1,281 tweets. “Rubicon” is already closing in on half that level, with a one-hour peak of 537
tweets the same night. Those aren’t huge numbers, of course, but they’re decent for a network like AMC, which has its sights set on a very specific demographic — including the media chattering class that has made AMC’s other original series seem much bigger than they actually are. Witness Katie…

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Aug 10

Movie Poster for Joaquin Phoenix’s "I’m Still Here" Released

With this single headshot of the film’s bearded star looking as dazed and confused as ever, Magnolia Pictures has probably gotten to the core of this faux-documentary better than any bodily function could.

…For a film shoot that was loaded with enough sordid conduct to sustain two sexual harassment lawsuits, you would be right to think the poster for I m Still Here might feature some crazed lunacy. Or at least a picture of Joaquin Phoenix getting crapped on. Alas, that isn t the case. But with a single headshot of the film s bearded star looking as dazed and confused as ever, Magnolia Pictures has probably gotten to the core of this faux-documentary better than any bodily function could. Click ahead to see the full poster….

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Jul 10

13 Stupidest Decisions In The History Of Horror Films

Damn, why do they run up the stairs?

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Jul 10

A Tribute to The Kurgan from Highlander

There can be only one Kurgan.

…decapitate Bond and have his way with McLeod s lady friend. What a dick! It wasn t enough to kill him once already, but he has to come back and rape his girlfriend AND kill his drinking buddy? (who, incidentally, sounded pretty Scottish for a Spaniard. Don t you hate those types that adopt the accent when visiting a foreign country?).
Pretty solid villainy so far, but it s not until we see Kurgan in present day 1986 that he really comes into his own. Adopting a goth-punk look and a penchant for flippant one-liners, he is a pale, gravel-voiced menace. And while he may seem to have mellowed somewhat, paying for sex rather than simply taking it, I prefer to think that he has merely refined his style. Take for example the scene where…

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Jul 10

Who’s the Best “That Guy” in Movies?

Who is the best of the best…of those other guys?

…the foremost reason being the fact that his name is Michael freakin Ironside, which scientists agree is one of the most badass names in history. He s also got a badass voice, and he s appeared in movies like Top Gun and Starship Troopers, meaning he s a hero to men everywhere.
David Morse

David Morse is another that guy who has always seemed to be on the verge of breaking out with roles in movies like The Green Mile and Disturbia, and he was a standout on the HBO miniseries John Adams, in which he played George Washington. The big, imposing Morse has even gotten a few shots at headlining TV shows, but for the most part has been relegated to the star s buddy. It s okay, David Morse, you can be our buddy anytime. Just look at those sad puppy dog eyes.
William Fichtner

On a list of recognizable guys, William Fichtner might just be as recognizable as any. He s been in movies like Black Hawk Down, Crash, Armageddon, The Perfect Storm, Blades of Glory and even had a memorable albeit brief appearance in The Dark…

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15
Jul 10

If Movie Titles Were Honest

Movie titles don’t tell you much.

…its funny that its ok to joke about Hiroshima (remember, their government ordered the attack on us, not the civilians we bombed) but its horrible to make a tiny joke a fictional character killed in a real AMERICAN attack. It’s sad, it really is, but compare the deaths that day to the deaths in places like Burma or darfur.
It’s a national tragedy because the media made it one, otherwise it would have been a regional tragedy.
EDIT: Goddamn you poncho, you beat me to the obvious one.
Although they really did stop the war, they were used out of retaliation. Some would say the same thing about the September 11 attack. It’s nothing but an irrational emotional response to something a government did to you, since they didn’t have the intelligence to actually attack the government they punished the people and the patriotic idiots cheered….

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Jul 10

Peter Jackson, Figuring Out How To Fix New Zealand Film

In between creating increasingly gigantic films, Peter Jackson got together with David Court, an Australian academic, and issued an 87-page report on the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of the New Zealand Film Commission.

…accountability should go from “low” to “high,” the management culture from “controlling” to “co-operative.”

The gist is that the NZFC means well but is staffed by terrified bureaucrats who don’t know how to read screenplays and do everything too slow. These insights will be familiar to anyone who’s followed horror stories of the Hollywood development process (”The Commission tends to use drafts as a way of avoiding decisions,” reports one anonymous soul. “If in doubt write another draft. It’s a momentum killer.”)

Everyone seems to agree that it’s important to nurture young talent, though it’s unclear what the best way to do this might be. There’s an endorsement of conventional screenwriting wisdom that would warm Robert McKee’s heart: “We need to get past the cultural cringe of imagining ‘we don’t want to tell American stories’. A good story tutor teaches principles that have driven storytelling since the ancient Greeks.”

On the other hand, there’s a lot of stuff like this: “it is our recommendation not…

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