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  • Relativity Media Buys Rogue Pictures

    By Nikki Finke

    LOS ANGELES, CA, JANUARY 4, 2009 ? Relativity Media, LLC has purchased Rogue Pictures from Universal Pictures, CEO Ryan Kavanaugh announced today.  With this deal, Relativity has acquired Rogue’s entire library, its more than 30 projects in development and ownership of its producing deals, including the legendary horror mastermind, Wes Craven and Intrepid.   The first picture [...]

  • HOT DIGGITY DOG! 'Marley & Me' Still #1, 'Bedtime Stories' 2, 'Benjamin Button' 3

    By Nikki Finke

    SUNDAY AM: Weekend domestic box office numbes, including Sunday estimates... Top 10 1. Marley And Me (Fox), 2nd Week, 3,505 locations, Wkd $24M (-35%), Cume $106M 2. Bedtime Stories (Disney), 2nd Week, 3,684 locations, Wkd $20.3M (-26%), Cume $85.3M 3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount), 2nd Week, 2,988 Locations, Wkd $18.4M (-31%), Cume $79M 4. Valkyrie (MGM-UA), 2nd Week, 2,778 Locations, Wkd $14M (-36%), [...]

  • SOS For Hollywood Restaurant Newsletter

    By Nikki Finke

    For years now, I've kept up with LA's everchanging restaurant landscape through Jay Weston's Restaurant Newsletter. The film producer has published his print-only chatty 411 about Industry watering holes for 22 years. Heck, he helped put Nobu Matsuhisa on the Map Of The Stars. But in this rotten economy all of Weston's advertising has disappeared so he can't print the [...]

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  • Stage Raw: Things That Matter, Like Theater Awards!

    By Steven Leigh Morris

     THINGS THAT MATTER The Gaza Strip is on fire; in the middle of a new year's freeze, Russia has cut off heating gas to Ukraine; the global economy is in shambles; the U.S. senate can't decide who should be seated...

  • Gaza on Wilshire: Part 2

    By Steven Mikulan

    Today two implacable foes will fight over a barren strip of land that time seems to have forgotten. That would be, of course, the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard that is home to the Israeli Consulate, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators will protest...

  • Cooking with all Things Trader Joe's: Crazytarian Recipes Made Easy

    By Wil Wheaton

    When I was in my early twenties and had the dual luxuries of copious time and disposable income, I loved to cook. I cooked different things all the time, experimented with various styles of cooking and ingredients, and wasn't afraid...

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  • Palin "Frightening Prospect" Posters Everywhere but LA. What gives

    By Randall Roberts

    These posters have been spotted across the country in recent weeks, but according to the creator's website, Frightening Prospect, they've yet to show up in Los Angeles (or at least no one's snapped photos yet). What gives You can...

  • Along the Antelope Valley Freeway

    By Mark Mauer

    Taken in July driving North on the 14. Had there been more time, we could have stopped and gotten a lot more shots - and clearer ones too. Alas, these were taken while zipping along at 70 or so....

  • Kahlo/Obama 2008

    By Mark Mauer

    A couple of nice pieces I've been driving past for months now. Frida Kahlo on Venice and Crenshaw. And Barack Obama on Washington Blvd... a few blocks before the 10 underpass I think....

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The Style Council

  • Twisted Balloon Fashion...Stay Away from Cacti

    By Gendy Alimurung

    Um, is this a thing now People wearing dresses made out of balloons The outfits probably make a sound like bubble-wrap when you sit down. I wonder if those girls are naked under those balloons. I don't know the why,...

  • Stylist Makeover For Employees at LA's Latest Fashion Hotel

    By Gendy Alimurung

    The old Hyatt West Hollywood (unofficially known as "the riot house") on the Sunset Strip is re-opening this January 8 as the Andaz West Hollywood. It's employees won't be wearing just any old thing, however. WWD reports that management brought...

  • Otaku Art Stars: Anime Conventions Are Breeding a New Generation of Artists

    By Liz Ohanesian

    (All photos by Shannon Cottrell. Click on images for entire Anime Los Angeles slideshow.) It took Ginger Burton an entire can of freeze spray, five bottles of hair dye and countless hours in front of a blow dryer to force...

Foundas & Taylor On Film

  • Papa Manoel Turns 100

    By Scott Foundas

    "How many filmmaker have lived to witness their own centenaries" I asked rhetorically this past spring on the occasion of the UCLA Film & Television Archive's month-long retrospective of films by the master Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. Well, today...

  • Inside The Baader Meinhof Complex

    By Ella Taylor

    Even back in the day, when I was revolting on campus while extolling the paradise of Soviet socialism to my slack-jawed parents over breakfast, my lefty friends and I drew the revolutionary line at Germany?s Baader-Meinhof group, which grew out...

  • Left, Right and Center

    By Scott Foundas

    Sifting through the LA Weekly mailbag over the weekend, I couldn't help but take perverse amusement at a number of virulent missives written in response to my review of An American Carol, the independently produced and distributed right-wing propaganda...

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