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Aug. 18, 2009
July 28, 2008
Entertainment & Arts
Sony’s political thriller fares better than expected. Three new comedies sputter.
Feb. 25, 2008
Movies
VARIETY’S venerable Peter Bart didn’t like my Friday posting -- published in Saturday’s Calendar -- about John Lesher running Paramount Vantage into the ground, calling it a shrill “rant,” his way of saying that I lack the smooth, world-weary cynicism that colors Bart’s own writing.
July 29, 2008
Larry the Cable Guy’s “Witless Protection” is coming out on Academy Awards weekend, but producer J.P.
Feb. 22, 2008
Like Breakfast Club or Juno, but not.
July 17, 2008
What DO “Juno,” “Napoleon Dynamite” and “The Breakfast Club” all have in common?
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Screenwriter Barry Levy is enjoying the view from the top.
Feb. 21, 2008
The Will Ferrell comedy is No. 1 with $15.3 million, but it was expected to shoot much higher.
March 3, 2008
It was a year ago July that Paramount Vantage laid off the majority of its 100 or so staffers, signaling the end of the studio’s short-lived specialty division that brought home a host of Oscar nominations but managed to lose loads of money along the way.
Aug. 25, 2009