(Via Slashfilm) Whether it got the okay from the WGA or not, the point is clear: writers may need to find other jobs if the strike lasts long (or worse). What isn’t clear is whether the time spent making this video couldn’t been better spent actually trying to handle the negotations…
Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Enrique
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The last couple of years I’ve held a grudge against the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in fact it pretty much started when Ryan Seacrest got his star. Once it was considered a great honor to be given a star by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, recognizing your talent and staying power. Now, you get a […]
Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Enrique
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Below is the trailer for Repo: The Genetic Opera. I don’t know what to say, other than this is really, really horrible! This is like Snakes on the Plane horrible! The music is straight out of the 80s.
Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Enrique
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Smokin’ Aces director Joe Carnahan is stuck between a rock and a hard place; George Clooney dropped out of his next movie, White Jazz. Since Clooney was the only name attached to the movie (Charlize Theron is only rumored, according to IMDB), chances are the movie will be put on the backburner by the studio. […]
Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Enrique
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I don’t really see this affecting the movie side of things much, but it’s still an interesting development.
According to Defamer, word in the secret lair of studio execs is that they now WANT the Writer’s Guild of America to go on strike next month, after their contract expires (btw, who the hell decides to make […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Enrique
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This week at ShowEast, a huge convention for the movie-exhibiting types, Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks (he’s the K in SKG, btw) announced that by 2010, there will have been as many as 18 3D movies. And I don’t mean 3D like Toy Story was 3D, I mean “put on these glasses and things will jump […]
Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Enrique
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Let me preface by saying I can understand where he’s coming from; moviemaking is indeed a business, and the business can’t succeed if it doesn’t make money. And a movie can’t make money if people are downloading it for free online.
But c’mon, that’s not why Hostel Part II tanked at the box office. According to […]
Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Enrique
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“Not Taiwanese enough” is how Anne Thompson over at Variety described Ang Lee’s latest movie Lust, Caution, after it was denied a nomination for the upcoming Academy Awards. Apparently, in order to qualify as a foreign movie, your entire crew must be from the same country.
Check out Variety Asia for a more diplomatic explanation.
So there […]
Posted on October 18th, 2007 by Enrique
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What the hell happened? I’ll tell ya: the company that was hosting this website, Jatol, took off! Those fuckers! Ya I was only paying them like $30 for the whole year, but it’s downright rude for them to disappear off the face of the earth after only giving me 6 months of service!
Anyways… I didn’t […]
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Enrique
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