Into the ever-running discussion about quote whoring and film critics being influenced by studios comes Josh Ozersky, an online food critic for Time.com who had a parade of celebrity chefs cater his wedding, later writing, "There are restaurants all around...
Posted in The Hot Blog on June 23, 2010 07:25 PM
It's nice to see WB trying yet again to revive Looney Tunes. The only hole in Brooks Barnes' story, as best I can tell, is that he didn't know about the five (if it was a different number, please correct...
Posted in The Hot Blog on May 21, 2010 12:21 AM
It's funny to see the New York Times in the wild speculation business, as with Will DreamWorks Animation Abandon Paramount?. The reason the blog entry is mostly speculation is because Brooks Barnes (surprise!) hasn't actually thought it out. He throws...
Posted in The Hot Blog on April 28, 2010 09:18 AM
I don't get it. From a feature on Blue Sky Animation in the NY Times... Adjusted for inflation, “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” ranks as the third biggest computer-animated movie of all time, behind “Shrek 2” (DreamWorks), which sold...
Posted in The Hot Blog on January 11, 2010 12:27 AM
It's still $200,000 short of the December record. As noted yesterday, the estimates yesterday were less reliable than normal because of east coast weather conditions. And indeed, Fox was about $4 million low on its estimates yesterday. Does it much...
Posted in The Hot Blog on December 21, 2009 02:03 PM
You can lead a reporter to executives, but you can’t make him think. In his opus on the end of the year in Hollywood, "In a Distressed Year, Hollywood Smiles," Brooks Barnes truly embarrasses the New York Times. The piece...
Posted in The Hot Blog on December 20, 2009 08:00 PM
Brooks Barnes' NYT piece commits the ultimate sin for a journalist. It seems to purposefully avoid the facts and instead throws around snarky opinion without backup, like "That harsh sentence...is as good an example as any of the prevailing sentiment...
Posted in The Hot Blog on June 27, 2009 12:00 PM
The Story: Animation Upstarts Are Joining the Fray The Reporter: Brooks Barnes The Facts: There have been a total of 21 animated films released by studios other than Disney, DreamWorks, Paramount, Sony, Fox, and Warner Bros, that have grossed over...
Posted in The Hot Blog on June 2, 2009 09:33 PM
Make no mistake... NYT is still the most important paper in my world, followed closely by the Wall Street Journal. That said... the attention desperation level over the keeps rising. The "look at me!" of the day is a bizarre...
Posted in The Hot Blog on May 31, 2009 04:58 PM
Okay... let's put opinion aside... let's just look at the facts.... Barnes writes,"Pixar’s last two films, “Wall-E” and “Ratatouille,” have been the studio’s two worst performers" Here are the numbers... Rank - Title - Total - Domestic - Foreign -...
Posted in The Hot Blog on April 6, 2009 12:09 AM
Over the weekend, a Brooks Barnes story – “Who Threw the DVD From the Train?” – ran in the NY Times… and it keeps me wondering… where are the editors at the Paper of Record? Firstly, that headline is not...
Posted in The Hot Blog on March 23, 2009 01:54 PM
When will the New York Times make the effort to make their movie coverage as well edited and considered as the rest of the paper? Today’s latest embarrassment is Brooks Barnes’ summer wrap up, which is filled to the gills...
Posted in The Hot Blog on September 2, 2008 08:47 PM
I don’t know Brooks Barnes… but someone at the New York Times needs to get him to start doing a little research on his stories. The latest embarrassment was his love letter to Universal’s Direct-to-DVD success with the American Pie...
Posted in The Hot Blog on January 28, 2008 11:49 PM
Ah, The Paper Of Wreckord. Just when Hollywood thought it was safe to get back into the sanity of industry coverage, along comes Brooks Barnes – who is surely less to blame than whatever editor over there has his/her head...
Posted in The Hot Blog on January 2, 2008 11:01 AM
Is this the single stupidest New York Times story on the film business in history? "At a time when the likes of Paramount and Warner Brothers are having trouble turning a profit on movies that gross $200 million at the...
Posted in The Hot Blog on August 6, 2007 10:15 PM