Seattle Post-Intelligencer film critic William Arnold thinks that the studios cutting down on their advance screenings is a good thing. He writes, “So I salute you, New Line Cinema, and your innovative decision to keep ‘Snakes on a Plane’ from my sight until I can’t give it the publicity it so clearly doesn’t need. It surely wasn’t your intention, but I suspect you’ve done the world of movies an enormous service.”
[RELATED: Rosenbaum’s Hollow Man review.]
Steely Dan takes on Wes Anderson. My money’s on Steely Dan. (via Waxy)
Christopher Nolan is on board for the Prisoner movie, which is a far more reassuring choice than Simon (Con Air) West, who was set to helm it a few years ago. (via Ghost in the Machine)
Man of the Year trailer. Barry Levinson, Robin Williams, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Linney, Christopher Walken.
Eric Snider: “I, on the other hand, don’t work for the paper and wouldn’t be representing them specifically on the junket. I’d be a freelancer, representing only myself. So the only thing stopping me from going was whether I, personally, had any ethical qualms about it. I do have such qualms, but I also have a curious nature and enjoy doing things that I have never done before. That’s why I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, and that’s why I said yes to Paramount. This is the story of how I spent 24 hours as a junket whore.” (via The Hot Button)