Are the Saw creators returning to their low-budget roots with Insidious?

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Are the Saw creators returning to their low-budget roots with Insidious?
The Saw creators are relaxed about inventing ‘torture porn’. Even Jigsaw, they say, ‘wasn’t that kind of killer’ Even outside the horror circuit, you wouldn’t read an article about the four Scream movies that didn’t mention director Wes Craven or scriptwriter Kevin Williamson. You wouldn’t read an article about the Halloween movies – one groundbreaking original and nine more, including sequels …
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Morgan Spurlock Is Making Another Sponsored Documentary
Soliciting product placements for his new movie, “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” seems to have given Morgan Spurlock a taste for sponsorship dollars. The “Supersize Me” director is already at work on a new film about male grooming, underwritten by a single sponsor, he says in an interview with Forbes. (My Q&A with Spurlock is here; the information about the grooming …
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This week’s Pop Forecast with Chris Lackner
Fast Five, The Voice and Steve Earle are on our radar this week
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A tale of two exchanges: How Singapore lost Down Under
SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan was in the South Korean coastal city of Gyeongju preparing for meetings with G20 finance ministers when he heard the news.
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