Good News For People That Love Bad Movie Industry News

There's was a few significant blows dealt to the indie movie world today. Warner Bros shut down WIP (Warner Independent Pictures) and their other specialty indie tentacle Picturehouse. WIP's last film was the now-ironically titled sadist indulgence "Funny Games" and before that was "Snow Angels." The company is still expected to put out Alan Ball's pedo-suburbia-race film "Towelhead," later this summer (August 8). Picturehouse was most recently known for their success with "La Vie En Rose," "Pan's Labyrinth" and they are expected to release a few more films before the year is out (or at least the larger WB will presumably).

Variety called the decision to shutter the operations ones that "reflects the massive pressures to cut costs" and noted that more than 70 jobs would be eliminated.

On the other side of the coin, estimable film critic Glen Kenny used his occasionally too-esoteric, but very fine movies blog to announce that his position at Premiere.com had been terminated. (Premiere of course was once a movies magazine, but the dwindling magazine age closed them down to exist on the web only).

New Line shutters earlier this year, now WIP and Picturehouse. The Village Voice laid off a solid film critic and now Glen Kenny is gone? High school students, pay attention: go to law school. Don't start a blog and certainly not a movies blog with a focus on music.