Peter McAlevey
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Horror is Hot … How Horrible Do You Have to Be? (Guest Blog)
Today’s AFM is a leaner affair, but when it comes to horror, the surviving indies have resorted to the same formula
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Before There Was ‘This Is The End,’ There Was ‘Naked Movie’
Guest blog: Seth Rogen and his pals weren't the first to conceive a movie about "Hollywood at home"
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‘Now You See Me’s’ Magic Box-Office Trick
Guest blog: Original movies can beat reboots and make money in summer
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‘I Will Always Love You’ — Whitney Houston’s Real Academy Award
Kevin Costner takes credit for getting Whitney Houston’s music into “The Bodyguard,” but Columbia music exec Maureen Crowe had plenty to do with it, too
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Leon Russell and Elton John: A ‘Union’ Made on Late-Night Radio
With his ground-breaking work on “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” in the 1970s, Leon Russell made a name for himself and later, a pop singer named Elton John
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‘War Horse,’ Steven Spielberg, the Golden Globes and John Ford
Spielberg channeled ‘Ford at War’ with his WWI tale, but given the historical possibilities, this is a missed opportunity
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What the Media’s Missing in Iowa: ‘Personhood’ Is No. 1 Issue
Candidates are succumbing to pressure from a religious right group to limit in-vitro fertilization and giving up control of the GOP in the process
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Michael Eisner and the L.A. Times—A Marriage Made in Heaven?
I should know: In my nefarious career, I worked for both the L.A. Times and Michael Eisner
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‘Expendables’ Should Try On ‘Kashmir’
“The Expendables” is not only reminiscent of “The Dirty Dozen,” but a never-made, ahead-of-its-time action concept
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Tom & Tom and the (Auto)biography of ‘Knight and Day’
Marketing chief Tony Sella really isn’t to blame for the movie’s flopping; look a little higher up the executive ladder at Fox
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3D: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Those gimmicks didn’t work then, folks, and they won’t work for longer than a year or two now
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Who Says There Are No Second Acts? Malcolm McLaren and Dennis Hopper
Rebels have lived long enough to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald wrong