Was the Writer’s Strike really over George Clooney??

Startling news just in! Startling in that it hasn’t been reported until today!
It seems that way before the Great WGA Strike of 2007, there was a problem regarding screenwriting credits between George Clooney and the Writer’s Guild of America. Clooney, who’s upcoming movie Leatherheads was based on a 17-year-old script he came across, rewrote the [...]

Lionsgate teams up with Apple

Lionsgate released this press release yesterday announcing that they’re partnering with Apple, Inc. to distribute iTunes-ready media alone with their DVDs. Whether the actual iTunes media will be contained on the actual DVD is unclear, but the process is you insert the DVD into your computer, enter a code, and the media will be copied [...]

HD-DVD counters, Blu-Ray beats it back down

In what turned out to be a pathetic attempt to resuscitate the HD-DVD market after Warner Bros. announced they were going exclusively Blu-Ray, Microsoft announced that they were lowering the price of the HD-DVD player add-on for the X-Box 360 by $50 to $129.99. The push was further enhanced by Amazon selling the product at [...]

Flavor Flav rips off The Fresh Prince

My headline says it all. Not much else to say except remakes are as strong as ever…
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – MyNetworkTV is returning to the scripted arena with a new half-hour comedy series starring rap artist and reality-TV star Flavor Flav.
The network has ordered 13 episodes of “Under One Roof,” a show that network [...]

Universal stuffs Joe Johnston into The Wolf Man

This is an update to the Mark Romanek leaving Wolf Man post.
Well, sadly, Universal found a director to take over The Wolf Man. Why sadly? Because he’s only got 2 weeks to prepare to shoot the movie, and because his Jurassic Park was the least impressive of the three. I guess we’ll have to wait [...]