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Coen Brothers Creating TV Show

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:51:49 CDT

Good news for Coen brothers fans: Soon you won't even have to leave your house to get a fix. The Oscar-winning filmmakers are creating an hour-long TV series for Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter . The single-camera comedy Harve Karbo will center on a Los Angeles private investigator, his deadbeat...

Big Lebowski for Rent on Facebook

Tim Karan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:03:05 CDT

It's now the easiest it's ever been to share your favorite The Big Lebowski quote with strangers. The Coen brothers' cult classic is available to rent on Facebook , where you can "like" and comment on specific scenes and lines as you progress through the movie, reports Mashable .

Real People Who Inspired Movie Crazies

Sarah Whitmire — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:18:05 CDT

Some things are too good to be true, but that's not the case for these fictional movie characters: BuzzFeed has a list of 10 popular movie icons that you'd never believe were inspired by actual people. A sample: Big Lebowski 's The Dude : Producer and political activist Jeff Dowd was...

Directors Who Should Go Sci-Fi

Will McCahill — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:05:00 CST

With Avatar whipping up Oscar buzz for James Cameron, io9 nominates five great directors who could make magic with the “wondrous freedoms” available in the science-fiction genre: Paul Greengrass: The man behind The Bourne Ultimatum thrives on a “mixture of chaos and intimacy”—perfect to document the future. The Coen...

Notable Golden Globes Snubs

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:44:29 CST

The Golden Globes are “as notable for the films and performances that members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association omit as for those that they celebrate,” writes Chris Lee in the Los Angeles Times , and yesterday’s nominations “had no shortage of surprising snubs.” Lee, and Gregg Kilday in the Hollywood...

A Look Back at Movies of the '00s

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:50:37 CST

The shifting sands of entertainment technology make a look at the past decade's movies a tricky proposition simply because standing the test of time means something different almost daily. "The possibility of a digital, on-demand afterlife guarantees at least a theoretically universal long-tail immortality to blockbusters and curiosities alike," New...

Burn Leads Box Office Boom

Laurel Jorgensen — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:57:38 CDT

The Coen brothers' Burn After Reading led an unexpectedly strong box office weekend by nabbing top spot with $19.4 million, Variety reports. With overall sales up 35% over this frame last year, Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys took second with $18 million, followed by Righteous Kill ($16.5...

Non-Mainstream Seduced Oscar

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:35:00 CST

For a Hollywood award, Oscar wasn't too fond of Tinseltown last night. The Academy Awards were dominated by a crew of crack European actors—and a pair of maverick brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, operating far from the Hollywood mainstream. It was a record year for the number of Oscars...

Clooney Sees No Country Sweep

Harry Kimball — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:19:17 CST

If you’re betting on Oscar results this weekend, Time has an odd piece of advice: Listen to George Clooney. The actor says he's never been wrong about winners, the magazine reports, and he shares this year’s picks: The Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men will sweep, netting the film...