Crunch Pak goes Hollywood – again – for Kids’ Choice

Crunch Pak’s sliced apples will follow up their backstage appearance at the Academy Awards with a role in another Hollywood award show — the Kids’ Choice Awards.

The show, set for March 31 at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, will be broadcast by Nickelodeon at 8 p.m. EST.

Young Adult Fiction Hype

Studios gorge on young-adult fiction amid success of 'Hunger Games'
The influence of young adult fiction in Hollywood over the past years has taken over. The studios have gone into a frenzy with buying the rights to young adult books that are only modest sellers. In doing this it may save them money in the future. With the drastic new change in teen hits, The Hunger Games allows for all types of demographics to take interest. Therefore, the studios intend to develop stories with a darker theme instead of the over used love story that previous franchises have over done.

Hunger Games, A Waste of Time?

This article is by far one of the more thought provoking critical arguments on the Hunger Games that I've read since the film's premiere this past Friday.

The author makes a good point in the sense that although the film managed to hit the basic elements of the book, the dampening of the violence created an emotional disconnect with the film's characters and the audience. Essentially, the killings were cheapened by Hollywood's economic desire for a PG-13 rating.

The film lacked any political charge or groundbreaking social commentary. Romantic chemistry among the two star crossed lovers, essentially non-existant.

These are very daring comments on a film that seemed to be ranking in the approval of critics everywhere.

"Hunger Games" and the great Hollywood hype machine

"This approach to movie marketing, one in which the buzz machine cranks up early and feeds the blogosphere often, is now commonplace. “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the multiple installments in the “Twilight” saga and the soon-to-be-released “Hunger Games,” the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s young-adult novel about a government-sanctioned teen death match, are among the many films engaging in varying degrees of something we’ll call movie publicity foreplay."

"People v. State of Illusion" Debuts as No. 1 Movie Over the Weekend

This film did pretty well for itself when it first came to indie theaters (such as the Harkins Camelview) back in September.

I like that this article asks Hollywood, "Are you watching?" because Hollywood does not seem to always pay attention to the indie films, which can be better than the Hollywood films sometimes.