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JAVIER BARDEM IS BOND 23’S VILLAIN This is good news. Bardem is a larger-than-life presence on the screen and Bond could use some larger-than-lifeness — especially if all that larger-than-lifeness is filmed on a tripod. GENE HACKMAN TO COME OUT

QWIKSTER DUMPED, DVD RENTALS TO STAY AT NETFLIX Netflix’s market value has dropped 60% since these debacles began, which just so happens to be the exact same percentage as their recent price increase (today’s announcement helped some). This is a

CINEMARK THEATER CHAIN REFUSES TO SHOW ‘TOWER HEIST’ AS A RESULT OF EARLY VOD PLAN As I mentioned yesterday, Universal is closing the window on VOD even further, offering Brett Ratner’s upcoming “Tower Heist” just three weeks after its theatrical

DISNEY AND PIXAR TO RE-RELEASE FOUR FILMS IN 3D IN 2012 & 2013 Well, why not? With “The Lion King” 3D making a fortune 17 years after its initial release, this makes perfect sense. I do think, though, that “The

BOX OFFICE ANALYSIS 1. Dolphin Tale: $14.3M – Family films rule. Shallow nihilism and conformity posing as “edginess” do not. Yet Hollywood keeps right on making them. Yes, someone somewhere is currently squandering millions of dollars on “Margot At the

If Nikki Finke hadn’t invented it and wasn’t so fond of litigation, I would’ve thrown a big TOLDJA! in the headline. Years ago I was writing about this inevitability and being laughed at. And at the end of this snippet,

MGM’S ‘RED DAWN’ REMAKE LIKELY TO HIT THEATRES BY FALL OF 2012 Another year? My heart goes out to the remake producers and filmmakers in a big way. I’ve spoken to them, they’ve written for us and while they’ve handled

This is good news for Netflix, which needed some, and bad news for cable television and outlets like HBO. Streaming is the future and Dreamworks knows it: Netflix Inc has won a deal to pipe Dreamworks Animation movies starting in

“DARK SHADOWS” SET PHOTOS We all spend a lot of time complaining about sequels and remakes and remakes of sequels posing as prequel-reboots, but sometimes Hollywood jumping in the wayback machine is an inspired idea. “Dark Shadows” is a gothic

Facebook has taken the wraps off upcoming features at the social media platform, including the ability to include audio content from Spotify, and video content from Netflix.

—BLOFELD IS NEW BOND 23 VILLAIN?– This sounds like a move in the right direction. Because for the first time in 40 years the James Bond franchise is in real trouble, at least when it comes to me — and

There’s actually a bigger story here methinks. Cable television is starting to lose customers as people move towards Netflix Streaming and sites like Hulu that for a low monthly subscription fee offer greater flexibility at a much, much lower price.

HERE COMES DISH: NETFLIX FLUBS ENTICE COMPETITION Here we go: At a press conference scheduled for Friday, Dish Network is expected to announce its entry into the streaming-video market via a Blockbuster-branded service that could emerge as a rival to

OUCH: STREAMING TITLES NETFLIX MIGHT LOSE — ‘QWIKSTER’ ALREADY A JOKE Wait. “Apocalypto” is on streaming? … … … … … … … Sorry, had to add that to my queue. Hollywood board rooms everywhere have to be freaking out

***UPDATE: This post was updated to correct a factual error. BOX OFFICE ANALYSIS 1. Lion King 3-D $29.3M: A 17 year-old cartoon not only landed in first place but more than doubled the take of second place. You can blame

NETFLIX SHARES SLIDE AS CUSTOMERS DROP STREAMING GIANT Again, I don’t think the price increase itself isn’t worth the service you’re buying, but it was so dramatic and handled so poorly, they should’ve expected this kind of backlash. If Netflix

No streaming for you! Netflix has started to restrict its users from streaming more than one movie at a time as part of its price hike. The change could have a major effect on how families use Netflix. No longer

– Newsweek continues its victory lap around the toilet bowl. – Female Mexican journalists killed because of their gender. – You can’t call Ed Schultz’s ideology “extreme liberalism.” It’s an insult to classical liberalism. A “raging socialist on steroids” is

BUMMER: STARZ ENDING STREAMING DEAL WITH NETFLIX As of Feb. 2012, Netflix will no longer stream Starz, which means a lot of newer movies won’t be available. Bad timing with the new Netflix price increase starting today. Starz content was

EXCLUSIVE: KEITH DAVID JOINS WACHOWSKI’S ‘CLOUD ATLAS’ One of the most underused, under-appreciated actors in Hollywood is The Mighty Keith David, a true screen talent and presence who has made every project he’s been associated with better since his first

Movie Pass: All the Movies You Can Watch for $50 a Month Would you pay $50 a month to a subscription service that allows you to see as many movies as you want in theatres for that full calendar month?

UPDATE ON YESTERDAY’S NETFLIX POST… An email from a friend informs me that Netflix is currently being sued for their lack of close captioning. Also, a third of their streaming titles already include captions — with 80% expected by the

ROD STEWART PLAYS LAS VEGAS Hard to believe Rod Stewart could turn 66 but he has and is now packing Caesar’s Palace in Sin City. May he live forever. About ten years ago I saw Stewart perform live. He wasn’t

PACINO’S ‘SCARFACE’ CELEBRATES BLU-RAY RELEASE You’ll never hear me make any apologies for my unqualified love of this film. It’s just a fact (admit it) that when you’re in the right mood and have three-hours to kill, Brian DePalma’s completely

—DVD SALES DOWN 18.3% IN 2011; ITUNES DOMINATES DIGITAL MOVIE SALES— Interesting Variety article, that for some reason isn’t behind their suicidal paywall. Bottom line is that even though digital sales are picking up, they only make up a fraction

MIRAMAX TO LAUNCH FACEBOOK STREAMING VENTURE While Miramax already has a deal with Netflix, this is still a fascinating move on the studio’s part. Warners, Universal and Paramount have already moved onto Facebook, as well. On a less horrifying scale,

–CHARTER SOLVES THE PROBLEM! — A extremely nice and patient tech professional from Charter spent the day with me and my Internets yesterday and refused to leave until the problems were solved. It took some doing, a few routers, phone

–SORRY FOR THE DELAYED MORNING CALL SHEET– Before moving, I apparently made the mistake of getting Charter Internet — and it went a little something like this: ME: Hi, I’m moving to North Carolina, work online and want Netflix to

—“DESPERATE TIMES FOR TV NETWORKS”– Jace Lacob has an excellent article at the Daily Beast about the demise of scripted television, especially the serialized drama. Most telling is when he reminds us that up to 30 million people once watched

We movie fans love our Blu-ray and DVD collections, our shelves overflowing with the titles we love, but pretty soon they’re going to be like vinyl records, premium product for the die-hard consumer. It’s no big statement to point out

–NEW FEATURE DEBUTS TOMORROW– Hunter Duesing, who does an excellent job covering the latest in DVD and Blu-ray releases, has seen the future and its name is STREAMING. And so he will now do double duty with a weekly column

“RUNAWAY SLAVE” NEEDS YOUR HELP— How’s that for a headline! The folks behind “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” have started a new project with C.L. Bryant, a one-time NAACP leader who saw the light and moved to the right. The

One of the primary reasons we started the Morning Call Sheet was that it would allow us to promote contributors and right-of-center artists in a way that wouldn’t affect the editorial format of the overall site. This is a win-win

–FOUR TIMELESS COMEDIES HIT BLU-RAY TODAY– Not sure why the Reuters headline calls the 1978 film “Animal House” an “80’s comedy,” but aren’t these the same idiots who forever label all-too expected bad economic news as “unexpected.” Anyway, “Animal House,

–‘ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK’ REMAKE DEAD … FOR NOW– A draft I read of this intended remake was extremely well written but also an environmental allegory and warning. If memory serves, Manhattan had become a prison due to the flooding

—— Don Rickles is hilarious in this clip being … Don Rickles. If you haven’t seen 2007’s “Mr. Warmth,” a terrific documentary directed by John Landis that looks at the last comedian still allowed to stick his finger directly in