Roger Ebert on the sequel to your favorite movie:
I don’t know a whole lot about fashion, but I know something about taste, and these women spend much of the movie dressed in tacky, vulgar clothing. Carrie and Samantha also display the maximum possible boobage, oblivious to Arab ideas about women’s modesty. There’s [...]

the nytimes has gotten their hands on netflix’s geographical data regarding rentals. below are two maps from the DC area, the first showing the rental distribution for ‘milk’ and the second showing the same statistics for ‘paul blart: mall cop.’ notice anything?

there are maps for twelve other metro areas in the US. the distribution [...]

From the BBC:
A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film.
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“I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,” he told the BBC’s Latin American service BBC [...]

Another interesting tidbit about my favorite movie of the year:
Zombieland was supposed to be a TV show on CBS. But when the network ditched the series — the fools! — Zombieland was made into a movie. Leaving tons of material for sequels.
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Paul Wernick: We got a 23 episode season in our head. So divided by [...]