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Time to pronounce the death of the newspaper ... movie

29 Jul 05:40am

Filed under: Entertainment, Film, Movies, Russell Crowe, State Of Play

That’s all she wrote for ‘newspaper movies’, with the fruitful subgenre to breathe its last once the Russell Crowe thriller State of Play slips this week from Australia cinemas.

Hold the home page: What would All the Presidents Men look like today?

No longer will Hollywood stars loosen their ties and roll up their sleeves as scoop-hungry newspaper reporters, no more will veteran character actors bring knowing splashes of avuncular charm to the stock role of the grizzled editor. No longer will the movie news be broken in print.

State of Play, with Crowe as a Washington journalist chasing a far-reaching Capitol conspiracy, marks the end of an era simply because 21st century audiences assume, correctly or not, that news now happens online.

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Jill says:

08:44am | 30/07/09

great article sam, love reading ur work, i’ll have to check out ‘drag me to hell’ now….oh and ‘state of play’ newspapers are definitely fading into the background of our culture, i think with the passing of the older generations, newspaper sales will decline rapidly, gone are the days of… Read more »
SRC says:

12:31am | 30/07/09

I’ll take more movies like Shattered Glass, where you can see sometimes that the online journalist can be just as determined and hardworking as those classic archetypes. Read more »

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