When we woke up this morning, Gothamist hoped last night's Oscars were only a dream. Because the idea that Crash won still hurts our head so much that we haven't been able to really read all the nitty-gritty (because we know our eyes will start bleeding) - we can't believe we frigging liveblogged that shondah! Forget conspiracy theories about Jack Palance being wacked out and mistakenly reading Marisa Tomei's name as Best Supporting Actress in......

There are $11 movie tickets at some chains around town, but for one week, the Ziegfeld will be charging $12.50, a whopping $1.75 more than usual, when it premieres The Producers. Yes, $12.50. Is this because The Producers the Broadway musical started the trend of charging serious dough for theater tickets? And they are thinking that fans of the Broadway show will rush to see it the first week? Lame! Some exhibitors claim that with......

Gothamist is so excited about the Museum of Modern Art's Christopher Guest tribute. Starting tonight, his films, including the ones he directed and co-wrote (A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman), and The Big Picture), one he co-wrote (This is Spinal Tap), and one he starred in (The Princess Bride), and TV work (SNL skits and more). Tomorrow night, Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are going to give some sort of......

So, there's a third act surprise in Million Dollar Baby that critics have alluded to but haven't mentioned, out of respect for the moviegoing experience or something like that. Well, the NY Times ran a story (if you click on it, even the headline will spoil the movie for you, so you're officially warned - and here's the link) yesterday about some anger about the film. Movie City News hilariously calls the NY Times the......

Perhaps Movie City News put it best when they linked to the Observer's story about former Time and Entertainment Weekly writer Joel Stein getting a column in the L.A. Times with the following: "Joel Stein To Bring His Smug Ignorance About Film Biz To L.A Times." Anyway, this is Stein's scheme, per the Observer:Mr. Stein, currently a New York resident, plans to move out to live in Los Angeles full-time at the end of the......

Gothamist is relieved that Movies > The Political 'Fahrenheit' Sets Record at Box Office" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/movies/28BOX.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1088395240-jj1JalxlyVRzXxL6M/VXig">Fahrenheit 9/11 took box office honors this weekend, because, quite frankly, the idea of White Chicks winning the box office derby was illin'. Sure, Fahrenheit may be polemical, more of a personal journey than an objective pros-and-cons examination, but at least it will get people thinking about issues that matter. Of course, the most brilliant thing about the conservative opposition to......

If you wondered how Bill Murray was doing after not getting the Oscar for Best Actor, well, the mystery is over. Murray appeared on Late Night with David Letterman...or, rather, he was discovered in a gutter by Late Night's camera crew. Gothamist didn't catch this bit, so thank you, Movie City News, for the .avi file of it. We like how Murray says the Oscars are a popularity contest and that Sean Penn won because......

The new Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father) film, In America, just won the AFI Fest's Best Picture award. In America is about an Irish family who move to a rundown New York City apartment to restart their life. Even though the trailer seemed a bit mawkish (adorable Irish kids befriending their black neighbor or asking what transvestites are), the presence of Samantha Morton and Paddy Considine, as well as......

Tom Cruise met with dashing (in looks...Gothamist claims no knowledge about Japanese politics, barely able to keep our own country's goings on in check) Prime Minister Koizumi while promoting his upcoming Oscar-contending film, The Last Samurai. They apparently karaoked to an Elvis tune. And for some reason, reporters made Cruise say, "I think he's a charismatic and very intelligent man," while really, what else is a visiting super star going to say about his gracious......

Woody Allen's Loser Movie
What happens when Woody Allen keeps trying to make movies. Gothamist and its readers wonder if he's senile.
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The movie studios are adding blogging to their marketing repertoire: Fox Searchlight Pictures has started it's own blog, foxsearchlight.blogspot.com, to "join this online phenomena" plus innundate people with information about screenings, box office data, interviews, articles in which their releases are mentioned, etc., etc. Part of what's helpful in driving traffic to the blog is the fact that the releases Fox Searchlight has out there right now are actually good, like 28 Days Later and......

The trailer for Val Kilmer's new film, Wonderland, is up at the Movie Box, and watching it reminded Gothamist of Boogie Nights and Auto Focus. Of course, Boogie Nights is not surprising, as BN was based loosely around the legend of John Holmes, while Wonderland is about porn star John Holmes and his involvement with the Wonderland Gang and their murders. At any rate, the gritty, seamy side of Los Angeles vibe looks intriguing (Val......

The Media Action Network for Asian Americans is up in arms against the creators of Charlie's Angels for missing out on the opportunity for giving Lucy Liu's character an Asian parent by casting funny man John Cleese. They have an opinion piece in the L.A. Times: Only Alex's father would appear in the sequel, and he would be played by British comedian John Cleese. Alex's Asian mother would be reduced to an image in......

With all the excitement about The Hulk opening tomorrow, Movie City News brought up this old FlakMag interview with Hulk producer, co-writer, and frequent Ang Lee collaborator, James Schamus. The December 2000 interview was about the screenwriting process for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but at the very end, Schamus mentions he and Lee were talking to Stephen Merritt about turning 69 Love Songs into a musical. How hot would that be? And does anyone know......

We'd like to put this idea into the Bad Idea Jeans Vault: Producer Dino De Laurentiis is moving forward with a movie about Hannibal Lecter as a young man: Currently being plotted by Lecter's creator Thomas Harris...The Lecter Variation, which is being subtitled The Story Of Young Hannibal Lecter, follows the serial killer from his childhood in Lithuania through a period in Paris in his teens to his arrival in the US. De Laurentiis said......

It's easy to do a feature about this summer's eagerly anticipated movies (the summer actually began last weekend, with the opening of X2), but Patricia Vidal at Movie City News tackles how the summer movies may be appealing to women: No look at summer movie size can overlook The Hulk. That’s a Playgirl special edition waiting to happen. Hulk goes right into the Dolly Parton class of sexual celebrity. You almost don’t want to see......

It's premiering at Cannes in May, in official competition, and it's website doesn't launch until May 19, 2003, but for now, you can see the trailer for Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark follow-up, Dogville. Starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, von Trier regular Stellan Skarsgaard, James Caan, Ben Gazzara, and Paul Bettany, Dogville is about a woman who ends up in a small Rocky Mountain town, possibly in the 1930s. The trailer, however,......