Archive for September, 2006
Request for information
I'm prepping next week's column on The Departed but it's seeming a little light to me. If anyone from Warner Bros. or an agency that works with them wants to help me flesh it out a little drop me a line at chris(.)thilk(@)gmail(.)com.
Music labels using RSS
The FeedBurner blog has a great post about the number of music labels who have their feeds running through FB and how they're using the feeds to promote different artists or aspects of their business. But here's the question I posed to someone I know at FeedBurner: Are there ANY studios doing this? The few sites I've come across that have RSS [...]
Deck the Halls trailer
The trailer for Deck the Halls looks pretty funny, if a recycling of most of the same Christmas movie jokes we've been seeing since about 1989. It's Danny DeVito's black-comedic instincts that might save this one from cliche-ville.
Theater shuts down because of films
I love this story. A theater in central Illinois shut its doors not because of anything being wrong with the theater, but because of the low quality of the films. He put his two screens here on hiatus rather than sell tickets to the gross-out and freak-out fare he said Hollywood distributors have made available in recent weeks. Boardman said [...]
Surf’s Up trailer
When I heard that Surf's Up was going to be some sort of animated film about surfing penguins...well, let's just say I didn't have high expectations. But, darn it, the trailer looks kind of funny. That's because it uses a lot of footage that's been made to look like it's old and grainy, like it was shot on Super 8 film and has aged poorly. I still [...]
