Credit: Brad Gregg The notoriously meticulous executive has a reputation for trimming the fat (or, in some instances, the meat and bones) of certain films to make them more palatable for your average moviegoer; so much so that he acquired the nickname “Harvey Scissorhand.” His latest casualty is Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller […]
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Forbidden love
Credit: Brad Gregg It’s fair to say the love story of Ernest W. Marland and Lydie Roberts could have given Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn a run for their money in the department of the thoroughly icky. The Weinstein Company is set to make Ends of the Earth, a film dramatizing the tale of Marland […]
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Bully pulpit
Ty Field-Smalley On the morning of May 13, 2010, he and a friend were hanging out on gym bleachers before school when they were approached by a boy who’d been harassing Ty. A fight ensued. Eleven-year-old Ty went home, suspended. Later that morning, his parents said, the sixth-grader pointed a .22-caliber gun to his head […]