UPDATE: It gets worse: Joshua Newton quotes Variety president Neil Stiles as saying “No one takes these reviews seriously,” and that the paper plans to cease reviewing altogether this year. EARLIER: After firing most of their chief critical staff, just one week after it came to light that they’d suppressed a negative review in order […]

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Congrats to Tim Gray, who will be stepping up to take vacating editor-in-chief Peter Bart’s job at Variety.  Bart “will assume a new role as vice president and editorial director of Variety,” this staff article reports.  “[He] will continue to contribute his weekly column as well as his blog and serve as Variety’s ambassador in […]

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