BIG 6: WALKING DEAD producers talk, Michael Moore’s hate mail, more

Walking Dead producers talk Season 2, Frank Darabont’s departure and more

Fans will still be pleased to know that the majority of the season was laid out by devoted fan Darabont before his abrupt exit from the show back in July. Darabont’s name remains in the opening credits as executive producer and Mazzara indicated that the credit would remain.  Read the full HitFix post

Michael Moore: I was the most hated man in America

The hate mail after the Oscar speech was so voluminous, it almost seemed as if Hallmark had opened a new division where greeting card writers were assigned the task of penning odes to my passing. (“For a Special Motherfucker …” “Get Well Soon from Your Mysterious Car Accident!” “Here’s to a Happy Stroke!”) Read the full Guardian article

An Interview with John Landis

It’s a brave new world out there. It’s a different business than the ’70s. I’m very lucky to have worked in the ’70s. It’s a different industry and distribution is in a state of flux now. It’s all different platforms, they’re doing this video-on-demand thing and also playing the film theatrically. It’s funny to me: In the States it’s an arthouse movie. Read the full AV Club article

The Spandex Awards: The Highs And Lows Of The Summer’s Superheroic Cinema

See above, in re: Assiduous Faithfulness. Movies are not comics. Comics are not movies. Adaptation from one medium to another is a perilously difficult prospect. As I tried to explain here, when comics-to-film transitions go wrong, they tend to go either self-serious or hopelessly hokey. The Green Lantern managed to be a singular mix of both. So, you know. Kudos for THAT.  Read the NPR article

Moneyball comes to bat after lineup changed midgame

They quickly decided to hire Sorkin, who was then working on The Social Network, to do a rewrite of the script, with Sony also attaching “Social Network” producer Rudin. Sorkin’s script, the parties agreed, would emphasize the isolation of Beane as he pursued his unorthodox methods as well as the human aspect of him winning over skeptics. Read the full LA Times article

Life Itself: Ebert autobiography a charming remembrance

Nearing 70 and beset in recent years by a series of maladies and operations that have robbed from him parts of his face and the ability to speak (he was a celebrated conversationalist), eat and drink (he was prodigiously accomplished at both) and to take long walks in foreign cities (London and Venice, most romantically), the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and television star has crafted a beautiful book, which is scheduled to hit bookstores Tuesday.  Read the full Chicago Tribune article

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