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'LET'S GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE' IS URBAN FILMMAKERS' NEW MOTTO
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By JANICE RHOSHALLE LITTLEJOHN
January 12, 2004 --
NOT long ago, "straight to video" were three dirty words no one making movies wanted to hear.
But for many black filmmakers, it's becoming the best way to go.
"It costs so much money to release a film theatrically," says Carl Seaton, a Los Angeles writer-director. His 2000 melodrama, "One Week," got a limited theatrical release and decent reviews. Still, he's opted to go direct to DVD next year with his feature "Sacred," starring the rapper Nas.
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'PIRATES' TREASURED
By BRIDGET HARRISON
Disney's swashbuckling pirates made Tolkien's hobbits walk the plank last night at the People's Choice Awards.
MOVIE FANS GO 'FISH'
By BILL HOFFMANN
Moviegoers were hooked on "Big Fish" over the weekend, making it the weekend's No. 1 movie and dethroning "The Lord of Rings: The Return of the King" by a whisker after its three-week reign at the top.
CANNED LAUGHTER
By BARBARA HOFFMAN
OH, to be humiliated by . . . Woody Allen. It happened to Annabelle Gurwitch, who was cast last spring in Allen's off- Broadway play, "Writer's Block."
A XANAX BETWEEN 'FRIENDS'
JENNIFER Aniston says she and her pals are not handling the end of "Friends" gracefully.
'GUY': IT'S ALIVE!
By DON KAPLAN
EXCLUSIVE
'THE Family Guy" is coming back from the dead.
RYAN BACK AT WORK
FIREFIGHTER Ryan Sutter from "The Bachelorette" has returned to work after more than six months of wooing and then marrying Trista Rehn.
SUPER BOWL AD RATE $2.25M
THE cost of advertising on the Super Bowl has gone up again - to $2.25 million for a 30-second commercial, according to Advertising Age magazine.
MOM FROM HELL
By LINDA STASI
AFTER one too many boring, soccer mom movies - dumbed-down, whitewashed, horribly written versions of "real-life" dramas - Lifetime has come back into its own with a fantastically original flick, "Gracie's Choice." Starring self-described crazy woman Anne Heche - as well as up-and-comer Kristen Bell and veteran actress Diane Ladd - "Gracie's Choice" is the based-on-real-life story of Gracie Thompson, (played by Bell), a teenager whose substance-abusing mother, Rowena Larson (Heche), has borne five kids, all with different men, all with different last names.
THE STARR REPORT
By MICHAEL STARR
Readers of this column may remember that I griped, several times, about Lite-FM and the former Blink 102.7 (now Mix 102.7) playing Christmas music, 24/7, beginning just after Thanksgiving. As Post radio scribe John Mainelli pointed out in his ratings story last week, the format worked for both stations, since ratings for Blink rose dramatically during that period, while Lite-FM's numbers held steady.
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