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Guest-blogging on EW.com

July 27, 2007 Los Angeles, Meta, Projects, The Nines

Because I’m just not busy enough, I’ve started guest-blogging on EW.com’s PopWatch blog, detailing some of the madness related to launching The Nines. You can read the first of these entries today. One observation so far: I’m snarkier on other people’s blogs than my own.

Three from The Nines

July 27, 2007 Projects, The Nines, Video

In preparation for the trailer competition, I wanted to see how footage from the movie would hold up when subjected to the Flash compression of YouTube and the other video-sharing sites. So I uploaded three clips in various formats to experiment. The results? Two clips look surprisingly great. The third looks like ass. The difference […]

Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician

July 24, 2007 Big Fish, Books, Projects

Daniel Wallace, the dashing and talented writer who wrote Big Fish (the novel), has a brand new book in stores for your purchasing pleasure: Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. I read it a bazillion years ago — books take a surprisingly long time to go from manuscript to shelf — so I’ll let the […]

The Nines goes to Venice

July 23, 2007 Follow Up, News, Projects, Sundance, The Nines

A reader alluded to it in the comments of an earlier post, but today we can officially announce that The Nines was chosen to play the Venice Film Festival as part of Critics’ Week. (At least, I assume we can announce it. We were sworn to double-super secrecy, which is presumably now over, since it […]

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