Steve Pond
Steve Pond
Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.
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Kevin Smith to Indie Producers: ‘Lower Your Expectations, the Way My Wife Did’
Profane filmmaker dominates Produced By panel with tales of surviving in changing indie landscape
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‘X-Men’ Producer: ‘There’s Too Much 3D Right Now’
Lauren Shuler Donner was among the tentpole producers taking shots at the format Saturday at the Produced By conference
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L.A. Film Fest Adds Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Erykah Badu
Black/MacLaine conversation will take game-show approach; alien-invasion film and Iraqi true story also added to galas
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Making ‘Tree of Life’: Inside the Malick Method
Terrence Malick’s collaborators talk about the wild, unconventional journey that turned into a remarkable new film
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Oprah Embraces Poetry Doc — and Complicates Things for ‘Louder Than a Bomb’
Makers of vibrant high-school poetry film find Oprah’s Doc Club a new destination in a changing landscape — but it comes at a price
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Curtis Hanson: ‘Tell Geithner to F—ing Blow Me’ and Other ‘Too Big’ Changes
“L.A. Confidential” director faced daunting task: turn financial conversations between men in suits into a thriller
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Richard Linklater Black Comedy ‘Bernie’ to Open L.A. Film Fest
Festival also adds Sidney Lumet tribute, appearances by Quincy Jones, Dustin Lance Black, Phillip Noyce
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Guillermo del Toro Named Guest Director of LA Film Fest
Festival also adds “Green Hornet” screening, conversations with James Franco and Julie Taymor
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YouTube’s Rental Service Flexible and Searchable, Says Provider
YouTube has been pushing for new contracts to kick off flexibly-priced streaming rentals, according to content distributor
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YouTube Finally Admits It: They’re Renting Movies
Video site posts letter confirming TheWrap’s April story and announcing a new service to rent 3,000 feature films
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‘Raymond’ Creator Phil Rosenthal: ‘Thank God for the Internet’
“Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Phil Rosenthal knows TV, which didn’t help him one bit in selling his indie doc “Exporting Raymond”
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Rotten Tomatoes, a Division of Warner Bros. — Can It Be Unbiased?
Skeptics wonder if the movie-review site can remain impartial now that it’s owned by a major studio; here’s why they’re wrong
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Venice Festival Gives Glory to Al Pacino
Actor/director will receive Glory to the Filmmaker Award, debut new film “Wilde Salome”
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NATO to Hollywood: Give Us DirecTV’s Premium VOD Numbers
“What’s an experiment without data?” asks NATO president
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William Campbell: From Elvis to JFK to Captain Kirk
Veteran actor William Campbell sang with Elvis, worked with Coppola, acted on “Star Trek” — and oh yeah, his ex-wife Judith Campbell had an affair with JFK