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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Friday, October 13, 2000 Blogs | Subscribe | Interviews | Events | Films | Book Blog Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs TNT's Roughcut.com Gets Facelift Turner Network Television's (TNT) daily online movie magazine, roughcut.com, has launched its redesigned website. The site's new tagline is ``The Voice of Hollywood,'' and is reflected across the site in new features, including VoicesPro and CivilianVoices, which feature Hollywood insiders and regular Internet users, respectively, sharing first-hand accounts of show business. In addition, film critics Andy Klein (New Times) and Susannah Breslin (The New Movie Show) have joined roughcut.com as featured movie reviewers. The redesign is one component of the major facelift the site is receiving. In June, the site relocated from Atlanta to Los Angeles to gain greater access to movie studios, executives and talent, and named David Poland as editor-in-chief. Poland has been columnist for roughcut.com's popular daily movie insider column, The Hot Button, for the past three years. Poland will oversee the site's new direction and a staff of five from roughcut.com's West Los Angeles offices. Over the course of the next few months, roughcut.com will premiere several new site features. Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, VoicesPro features studio heads and movie insiders sharing first-hand accounts of their experiences in show business. Each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, CivilianVoices invites regular Internet users to voice their opinions on movie-related subject matter in an edited forum. VoicesPro contributors include New Line President of Production Mike DeLuca, movie marketing guru Chris Pula and Roger Ebert & The Movies producer Andrea Gronvall, among others. ``The move to Los Angeles completes a critical stage of roughcut.com's growth, locating it in the heart of the industry it has been chronicling so beautifully,'' said Scot Safon, senior vice president of marketing for TNT. ``With the growth of The Hot Button column, the success of recent advertiser promotions such as The Internet Movie Awards and our new features, roughcut.com is showing a wonderful vitality as TNT's unique and lively online voice in the competitive field of movie industry coverage.'' Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.