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METRONOMY with The Mae Shi
1.21.09 | El Rey | Los Angeles, CA
by Noah Barron
Do you know what I love? Choreographed dance moves and battery-powered tap lights on dudes’ chests. I can’t be the only one, because Metronomy totally nailed it. There they were, in all black, standing before their keyboards and samples and drum machine stands, chest lights aglow like Iron Man’s arc reactor, ripping into their techno-electro-Prince-doo-wop-baile-whatever tracks. Can I get an Amen?
Frontman Joseph Mount, interviewed on said lights: “I thought, ‘We’ll whack these on our shirts and do some synchronized light shows!’ I’m totally aware that some people hate it but equally I think some people enjoy it just for the fact that it’s a bit of fun.”
Consider me emphatically in the latter, Joe. Read the full review.
VERDICTS • Jan. 09, 2009
Larry Gordon
By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES – “Turnaround” is a magic word for movie producers. It’s that Lazarus moment when a dead Hollywood project is given new life at another studio. But occasionally, as happened with the “Watchmen” film property, a turnaround can go dramatically awry.
“Watchmen” is looking more and more like a $130 million train wreck for Warner Bros., which paid to make the movie, now that a federal judge has ruled 20th Century Fox owns all the distribution rights.
Industry attorneys said the “Watchmen” debacle serves as a warning to studios to refocus their attention on ownership research before greenlighting a movie. Hollywood studios have been using the turnaround vehicle at issue in the “Watchmen” case to smoothly pass ownership of a film project to one another without legal glitches since the early 1980s, but the Fox-Warner dispute shows how potentially expensive a slip-up can be, the lawyers said. Read the rest of this entry »
