Jon Hamm Interview (Podcast)
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2011/10/jon-hamm-interview.html
If you've been coming to this site and noticing there hasn't been much movement of late, don't fret. It only seems like we've left the building. In fact, we've simply moved the site. Please come ...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/risky-movements.html
By Steven Zeitchik After two years, some impressive specialty results but no big openers, (highest-generating wide release: "Righteous Kill," at $40m), the Starz-affiliated Overture looks to fina...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/law-abiding-citizen-gerard-butler-foxx.html
By Steven Zeitchik A studio-level budget, a bankable star and an Oscar-winning director are just a few of the commercial virtues of “Agora.” Alejandro Amenabar’s English-language period pic...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/agora-spain-rachel-weisz-amenabar.html
By Steven Zeitchik Readers of this space might know that we've been a little obsessed with "Where the Wild Things Are" for a number of months now. The reshoots, the self-promotional short doc, th...
By Steven Zeitchik Tommy Lee Jones is heading to court. Jones is in negotiations to direct and co-star in "The Lincoln Lawyer," the Matthew McConaughey vehicle based on the 2005 bestseller from M...
By Steven Zeitchik We've gotten so used to seeing Searchlight at the awards podium -- the specialty division has been nominated for at least five Oscars in each of the past three years, including...
By Steven Zeitchik With the undead of "Zombieland" continuing to stalk the box office, one person associated with that pic may be more enlivened than any character seen on the screen: director Ru...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/zombieland-ruben-fleischer-new-movie-will-ferrell.html
By Steven Zeitchik So Universal gets its first domestic hit in seven months with "Couples Retreat," a picture that proves that you can get men to see a romantic comedy if you make it bawdy enough...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/couples-retreat-vince-vaughn-favreau-universal-.html
By Steven Zeitchik Charlize Theron has opted out of the Spyglass-produced thriller "The Tourist," to which she has long been attached, and in talks to replace her is one Angelina Jolie, sources s...
By Steven Zeitchik It's hard to imagine a film that's taken a more circuitous route to awards season, or a public screening, than the Canadian heavy-metal doc "Anvil: The Story of Anvil." Premier...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/anvil-lips-kudlow-movie-robb-reiner.html
By Steven Zeitchik Brad Weston is getting a chance. The former Paramount production chief will produce "One Chance," the story of unlikely British reality star Paul Potts that Weston had been dev...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/paul-potts-movie-simon-cowell.html
By Steven Zeitchik Anyone waiting or hoping for politics -- that is, for the outside world -- to come to awards season these past few years has probably been disappointed. Two years ago there wer...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/michael-moore-politics-oscars-lebanon.html
By Steven Zeitchik "Paranormal Activity" is already shaping up as a breakout hit, and its producers are wasting no time in trying to find the next big thing. With the Par low-budget horror tale s...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/paranormal-activity-oren-peli-new-movie.html
By Steven Zeitchik The Carey Mulligan express rolled on at the New York premiere of "An Education" on Monday night at a pleasantly low-key event at the city's Brasserie 8 1/2 restaurant in midtow...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/an-education-carey-mulligan-oliver-stone.html
By Steven Zeitchik For the second time in two weeks, a major studio has knocked toppers to the side and elevated someone else at the company. At Universal, Adam Fogelson and Donna Langley have be...
https://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/2009/10/marc-shmuger-david-linde-universal-ron-meyer.html