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• DVD Review: Friday Night Lights (TV)

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:54 am

  Tags: Dvds, Television, Reviews, Brian Grazer, Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights, Kyle Chandler, Peter Berg

  Contrary to popular misconception, this NBC show is NOT all about big football wins, mindless jocks, and spoiled cheerleaders.

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• Trailer for 'Funny Games' Remake

  Published: September 16, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Brian Grazer, Briangrazer, Michael Haneke, Michael Pitt, Michaelhaneke, Michaelpitt, Naomi Watts, Naomiwatts, Ron Howard, Ronhoward, Tim Roth, Timroth

  long-time production partner Brian Grazer surfaced back in February, although there has yet to be official confirmation. Haneke is also slated to start production on The White Tape or the Teacher's Tale, a period piece set in a German village pre-WW1. Since I haven't seen the original Funny Games, I can't say whether or not the remake is a good

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• Brian Grazer Puts 'American Gangster' On His Back, Carries It Into Theatres Himself

  Published: October 16, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: American Gangster, Brian Grazer, Denzel Washington, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe

  credits reading "Produced by Brian Grazer," "Based On An Idea By Brian Grazer To Do A Movie About A Magazine Article About A Drug Kingpin From The 70s" and "A Ridley Scott Film Shepherded By Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, Who Simply Refused To Let This Crazy Dream Die" will give moviegoers an adequate appreciation of the Herculean efforts

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• Trade Roundup: Hollywood Dreams Of Labour Peace, Internet Porn, And Starter Wives

  Published: October 17, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Abc, Awards, Brian Grazer, Casting, Damon Wayans, Gigi Grazer, Judd Apatow, Oscars, Pilots, Starter Wife, Trade Roundup

  The trades discuss yesterday's big strike news that's allowing Hollywood its first glimmer of hope that a walkout might be avoided. (Please, no one say anything about the internet and digital downloads and ruin the town's brief buzz.) Also, THR unveils its stunning, strike-related news logo (at left). [THR, Variety] Judd Apatow officially

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• Robin Hood + Gladiator = Nottingham!

  Published: October 23, 2007, 11:32 am

  Tags: Brian Grazer, Briangrazer, Gladiator, Nottingham, Ridley Scott, Ridleyscott, Russell Crowe, Russellcrowe

  least that's what producer Brian Grazer would like you to believe regarding his upcoming "reversal" on the Robin Hood legend. According to the MTV Movies Blog, the revisionist epic Nottingham will be the Gladiator-ish version of an oft-told tale. And since he's already got Ridley Scott as director and Russell Crowe for his leading man, this

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• Trade Roundup: In Denial About The Coming Labour Apocalypse, Hollywood Keeps Announcing New Projects Like Nothing's Wrong

  Published: November 2, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Brian Grazer, Dreamworks, Hollywood Strikewatch, Imagine, Oprah Winfrey, Paramount, Trade Roundup, Transformers, Wga

  · In a badly timed announcement of blockbuster-derived profits, Viacom crows about the "phenomenal success" of "new global brand Transformers" that helped lift their net income by 80 per cent, forgetting to transfer the revenues to a balance-sheet loss column and publicly lament that "there's no money to be made in this dying business of

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• Universal and Imagine Team for Another Gangster Flick

  Published: November 3, 2007, 7:02 am

  Tags: American Gangster, Americangangster, Brian Grazer, Briangrazer, Dick Wolf, Dickwolf, Guy Lawson, Guylawson, Hbo, The Knife, Theknife

  The intriguingly-haired Brian Grazer will produce. "The Knife" will be published in the January issue of GQ. Lawson is quite the hot writer right now, HBO is making his book The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia into a mini-series produced by Dick Wolf. According to Variety, the title of "The Knife" refers

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• Brian Grazer's Tireless Superproducing Work Pays Off In 'Gangster' Triumph

  Published: November 5, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: American Gangster, Box Office, Brian Grazer, Universal

  story of how superproducer Brian Grazer singlehandedly brought long-troubled passion project American Gangster to the big screen (background here - make sure you have some tissues handy before following the link, for the part about how he nursed a sickly script draft back to health by feeding it formula through a medicine dropper is guaranteed

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• Brian Grazer Would Trade His Hollywood Kingdom For A 'People' Cover

  Published: November 19, 2007, 2:45 pm

  Tags: Brian Grazer, Imagine, Jerry Bruckheimer

  all by himself, Imagine's Brian Grazer is still tormented by feelings of Hollywood inadequacy. In today's NY Times, Grazer, his signature hair-spikes seemingly wilting with each anguished word, laments that for all of his show business accomplishments, his name is still relatively unknown by the middle-American moviegoers to whom he delivers

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• Brian Grazer: Something Special In The Air

  Published: November 20, 2007, 2:35 pm

  Tags: Brian Grazer

  to find superproducer Brian Grazer's face smiling back at him. (MOVIE MAKER: What do a mermaid, an astronaut, and a Harlem drug lord have in common? Brian Grazer.")

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• The Smart 50: Entertainment Weekly Declares That There Are At Least 50 Intelligent People In Hollywood

  Published: November 29, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Brian Grazer, Judd Apatow

  We've made no secret of our love for Hollywood power lists, as hierarchical inventories of which players are currently swinging the biggest dicks (and that doesn't exclude the ladies who occasionally creep into the rankings!) in the entertainment industry briefly bring order to an otherwise confusing show-business world. In a twist that

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• A Farewell To Grazerhead

  Published: February 15, 2008, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Brian Grazer, Diary, Self Indulgence Dept

  [SFX: a PHONE RINGING at Defamer HQ]

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• DVD Review: American Gangster

  Published: February 18, 2008, 7:00 am

  Tags: Dvd Reviews, Dvds, Movies, Reviews, American Gangster, Armand Assante, Brian Grazer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr, Denzel Washington, John Hawkes, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, Rza, Ted Levine

  Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in this Ridley Scott-directed drama based on true events.

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• Knowledge Junkie Brian Grazer Seeking New Thought-Pusher

  Published: March 3, 2008, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Brian Grazer, Cultural Attaches, Imagine

  Grazer has made little secret of his helplessness over his knowledge addiction: The superproducer's cravings have become so extreme, he can regularly be found shivering in the alley outside the Imagine offices awaiting his cultural attaché, who arrives bearing a bindle of high-grade Blue Insight for Grazer to cook up over a bare

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• Brett Ratner Is Incredible'

  Published: April 22, 2008, 2:48 pm

  Tags: Movies, News, Brett Ratner, Brian Grazer, Eddie Murphy, Thomas Lennon

  Brett Ratner is in talks to remake the scifi class Incredible Shrinking Man with Eddie Murphy attached to star.

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