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Date Posted: 14:14:08 08/26/01 Sun
Author: spoot
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Hollywood SUCKS

What the fuck is going on?

I was so looking forward to the release of Cat's Meow, to it's Toronto showing and the reviews, and then the slow publicity build up for the film. And yet now it sure seems like this is one that they will slip out quietly, and then release later to video. I don't know what is going on, I can only assume that they don't think it likely to get big audiences or great critical reviews and so they will save the money for one of their other films.

But maybe they will still do some promos, though it's weird that they don't even have a trailer yet! How hard can that be?

I wonder how Eddie is taking all of this, or is he too busy with his own plans and stuff to notice? It is a weird time, he turns away from comedy to film and then his work disappears! I just wonder if there isn't something behind it, perhaps some people in Hollywood don't care for him, as Cyn seemed to suggest. I do know that many people in Hollywood don't much like Bogdanovich, so there might be some of that behind the struggles to get Cat's Meow out. What is hard is that Eddie's next movie, Revenger's Tragedy, is directed by one who also has had major problems with Hollywood, and I don't think there will be much clamor to acquire that movie for the US, unless it becomes a hot commodity on the film festival circuit.

But for me I hope he just keeps working with the rebels and the pariahs of Hollywood, even though it means his movies are hard to see, because there is a reason lots of creative people can't work in Hollywood. Nowadays the shit that the Biz creates is horrid stuff, the equivalent of fast food, viewing it rots your brain, and working on it rots your soul. The studios don't let you make the movie you want to make, the story you want to tell, because all they care about is making 100 million at the box office, selling the soundtrack, etc.

It's all part of a whole, the dumbing down of our culture, the movies, the music biz with it's Britney Spears and Ricky Martins, our news media with it's obsession with sex scandals and other dreck, and to our politics with it's pandering tax rebates and manipulation and lies. And it seems the people are more or less indifferent to all of it, too tired and bored to protest and demand something better. The one thing all of those above things have in common is that behind all of them are corporations making a ton of money. I don't mind that so much but when it gets to the point that artists and small businesses (such as independent film studios a la Lionsgate) cannot find a place to show their work, and people like me cannot find the kind of stuff we like, then there is something wrong!

Oh dear, sorry, I got off on a rant, but I don't understand why they are not releasing Cat's Meow with any publicity. Maybe Bogdanovich is still tinkering with it, responding to the negative reviews with some last minute editing. Well at least there is one consolation, that a limited release means that it will show in LA. I do feel for the rest of you guys, because that means that it will never come to the smaller towns.

Someday soon, probably within five years, they will have movies at websites, and we can download them for a fee, onto a burnable DVD. Apple already has one computer, very expensive, that has a DVD burner built into it. If that happens, we will be able to acquire any movie all over the world, sort of like Napster. God, I hope that will happen, then it'll be word of mouth, with lots of natter over cyberspace, to point us to movies, not all these huge monstrosity movies like Planet of the Apes, and Pearl Harbor.

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