It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here, and while there are quite a few things I want to touch upon, this one article just caught my attention and hit a nerve…
Technically two articles. The original being someone on Hollywood Elsewhere who had posted a portion of a Stanley Kubrick interview from 1987 […]

Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Enrique
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An article at FirstShowing brought this to my attention. It seems that studios are no longer interested in Ed Burns’ little indie movies (he wrote and directed movies such as The Groomsmen, The Brothers McMullen, and She’s the One) as no distributor has picked up his eighth movie, Purple Violets, made for only $4 million. […]

Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Enrique
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Okay, so I embellished the quote a bit, but not by much. If you check out this cleverly-titled article, you’ll see that while individual members of IATSE (the crew members’ union) support the WGA strike, IATSE itself might not. At least not completely.
It seems that the head of IATSE, Tom Short, is not only telling […]

Posted on November 15th, 2007 by Enrique
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Full article: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/11/business/strike.php?page=1
The gist: The studios may not be lying when they’re telling the writers on strike that they cannot afford another 4 cents per DVD.
Despite bringing in billions of dollars per year, movie studios may in fact be losing money. An independent study was made that basically audits the movie industry and one of […]

Posted on November 12th, 2007 by Enrique
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(btw, this verifies my previous guess that workers on strike cannot be fired…)
Today the Los Angeles Times posted an email from a key grip… sorry, EX-key grip of NBC’s The Office.
“Our show was shut down and we were all laid off this week. I’ve been watching the news since the WGA strike was announced and […]

Posted on November 10th, 2007 by Enrique
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(yes, I know it’s called “The Tonight Show”… but c’mon, no one ever calls it that)
Interesting bit of news from the only source I need to keep me up on the WGA strike, DeadlineHollywoodDaily It seems that NBC is firing the “non-writing” staff on the show (unless I’m mistaken you can’t fire someone who’s […]

Posted on November 9th, 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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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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