As the major labels and studios are learning, you can adapt, or you can become road chowder. Toronto-based Lion’s Gate film is positioning itself squarely in the former category — potentially as the first major production company to offer its feature film offerings online through iTunes.
The question, really, is what’s the downside? Why has it [...]

I found this again the other day. Possibly the stupidest and most homoerotically charged fight scene in cinematic history.

It’s incomprehensible that this thing was ever greenlighted by someone with money. But then, when Rob Schneider can have a career, I guess anything can happen. Cue the winged pigs.
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The venerable Cracked Magazine has put together a list of the Top 5 Most Obviously Drug-Fueled Celebrity Appearances on TV, including a YouTube clip of each. I had the pleasure of catching one of them live — Crispin Glover’s kung fu meltdown on Letterman.
I would have thought Anna Nicole Smith would have made the list, [...]

From NYU Journalism School’s Pressthink site comes a very interesting story from Jay Rosen. A non-partisan coalition of reporters is coming together to collectively investigate Congressional earmarks.
It’s a brilliant idea, because it’s what the web does well. Here’s the opening salvo:
Today marks a key moment in the evolution of the Web as a reporting [...]

For whatever reason, over the past week or so I’ve seemingly read nothing but stories about urinals. First, on Sunday, this little gem about a snappy bucket-shaped number called the Pale Ale Urinal.

As well, a Dutch McDonald’s restaurant found itself at the centre of a controversy after public outcry forced it to remove a set [...]

For all those folks who think that user-generated content is somehow the future of broadcasting, let me suggest that this video represents a rather chilling vision of things to come.
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