Judd Apatow, talking about why he kept the budget to Knocked Up to a relatively cheap $30 million:
“The lower the budget, the less there’s a need for it to meet the studio’s expectations”

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I loved He-Man as a kid. I even had a lot of the toys, including the very cool Grayskull castle. But the idea of making a He-Man movie? It's really, really silly.
Look, there are some things that we are willing to accept in a cartoon that we are simply not willing to accept […]

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Out of the top ten highest grossing Japanese movies from last year, four were animated, including the highest grossing one,  Goro Miyazaki's "Tales From Earthsea". It's not like the US doesn't have it's own share of high grossing toons (Shrek anyone?), but I'm still always surprised by how popular home grown animation is in Japan. […]

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You might have heard it elsewhere, but if you haven't, here is the important part:
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi's beloved Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin for DreamWorks. Pics will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance capture technology.
The two filmmakers will […]

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I happened to catch “Bring it On” on cable a few days ago, and I have to say, that movie was actually really good. Not quite top ten movie of the year good, but still very, very good.
Who would have thought, right? A Kristen Dunst movie about competitive cheerleading that doesn’t suck.  
What “Bring […]

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House continues to post very strong ratings. And I'm very glad for that. This is one series that isn't going to be cancelled any time soon.

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Well, the rumors had been swirling for quite a while, but now we have official confirmation that Gilmore Girls will end after it finishes its seventh season. 
Feel free to mock me, but I really like Gilmore Girls. As a matter of fact the show was, for a little while, my favorite thing on TV a […]

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Man, what a let down. I didn’t actually expect this movie to be great, since the reviews had been so mixed. But considering it was from the same people that gave us Spider-Man 2 I thought it would be, at the very least, good. And it wasn’t.
The main problem with Spider-Man 3 is that […]

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