• Carmike Cinemas honcho S. David Passman III gets back to basics, like cleaning the bathrooms. (This story hits home with me because I grew up going to a shoddy Carmike theater.) [Company Town]
• Headline of the month. Not film related, but necessary for your morning LOL dose. [MyFoxBoston.com]
• Drew McWeeny dives head-long into the tank for Ubisoft’s “Avatar” video game with a detailed description of what must have been a breath-taking E3 demonstration. [Motion/Captured]
• Why Cannes awards mean squat for Oscar. [The Playlist]
• How “Slumdog Millionaire” is changing filmmaking in India. [The Guardian]
• Dumb list du jour… [Premiere]
• Paul Dano, “prince regent of independent film,” rides the subway. Just, you know, FYI. [The Times]
• Sam Mendes drew on Hal Ashby for “Away We Go” (he just missed the poignancy). [The Hollywood Interview]
• Searching for the Berkeley home that inspired Carl’s “Up” abode. [San Francisco Chronicle]
• CAA reaches out to James Cameron to represent the director’s new Fusion Camera System technology. [Deadline Hollywood Daily]