IESB.net are calling out Variety again and this time calling them, “thieves,” over the “300” sequel/prequel news that they reported that Collider kinda beat them to first when they talked to director Zack Snyder. We’re actually giving this one to Variety, because Collider didn’t have the sense to call out their news in a headline and instead called their piece, the bland and uninformative, “Interview Backstage With Zack Snyder. ” Learn some editorial skills or shut up. Even competitive movie blogs were smart enough to pull out this tidbit of news in the Collider story and make something out of it. What kind of name is IESB anyhow? [IESB.net]
You gotta give it to Hollywood, when they well runs dry they start to milk something else. First it was TV remakes. That petered out and they went on to graphic novels and comic book adaptations which are still going strong. But some people are already looking ahead and to the new trend: making narrative, feature-length adaptations of your own hit documentaries. It seems like “The King of Kong” people are going that route and now so is documentarian Dan Klores who will remake his “Crazy In Love” documentary into a regular old movie for HBO films. Hey, when in rome, right? ‘Crazy’ chronicled the seemingly implausible story of a psychotic ex-boyfriend who hired thugs to blindhis former lover with lye, and yet after his lengthy prison setence, the duo eventually got married. Talk about cuckoo for cocoa puffs. The script written by Klores is apparently being turned in next week.[Variety]
Variety is calling the Sonic Youth concert documentary shot by kids, “Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake,” the most “engaging and single-minded film studies of a band,” since Jem Cohen’s look at Fugazi in the doc, “Instrument.”[Variety]
