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NATIONAL TOUR LAUNCHES SEARCH FOR A SPECTACULAR CANINE In celebration of the releases of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Bolt and Space Buddies on Disney Blu-ray and DVD, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is hosting a special casting call to find one camera-ready canine for a bark-on role in an upcoming...
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It’s funny. I was having an impassioned conversation at Universal’s Frost/Nixon event, where Ron Meyer and Marc Shmuger lingered well into the very pleasant evening, with Sharon Waxman about what “breaking news” in this business is in the internet era and how very rare it is. And then, this morning,...
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Everyone wants to put a good face on the future. In a time when finances are tighter than a freshly jobbed face, this means that the media will be faced with He Said/She Saids between people we have all worked with and developed relationships with over years every single week, perhaps more than once...
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So now it's on, according to Variety , to a "federal judge decid(ing) the case" on Inauguration Day. I assume this means a different federal judge than the one who has already decided in Fox's favor, right? But more unclear, for me, is Variety's ongoing mishandling of the actual...
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Sorry this is late... and yet more Watchmen ... enough to choke on... but I finally got a look at the legal papers around the Christmas Eve finding by Judge Gary Allen Feess and it does speak specifically to a couple of the rumors that are being floated out there. First, it states that the judge has...
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40 were taken out at Reelz Channel yesterday, as they cancelled the one heavily produced show they make, Dailies. Sigh. As I write, more cuts at Paramount are being made. The NY office is taking the most significant hit versus department size. But jobs that were filled to fill the void left by earlier...
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A commenter on another entry coughed this up... "How are you any different than Nikki Finke when it comes to Fox and Vantage? There's no variation on your shtick, and it's not based on reality or facts. "Fox isn't as bad as you think." "Vantage is on the verge of collapse...
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When Nikki Finke writes about Paramount , I pay attention… since she is getting her spun info from Brad Grey and John Lesher directly. Both men embrace a tradition of releasing bad news or unsettled news to media that will print what they want printed and that continues here. Nice of them to blame Scott...
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I figured I should get on the record, as I have been called a Universal-basher today, that I do not agree with Patrick Goldstein's guess about Focus Features being shut down shortly after this next awards season. I have been saying that Rogue is dead for a long time now. Simple math. They haven’t...
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Word today in The New York Times - which means that one side of the negotiation wanted it in the NYT - that Universal may be able to sell off the failed genre arm of Focus Features, Rogue Pictures, to Relativity boggles the mind. How stupid does Ryan Kavanaugh have to be if he is willing to pay a single...
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(note: this e-mail was sent to me as part of a mass group, the contents are not private, and the name is only blocked because there is no reason to make this private person into a public one over my use of the e-mail to express ennui.)
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Nobody does these events better… or as big. Disney did one of their, generally, once-every-three-years events covering the breadth and scope of their film product. Bread and circuses. Heavy presence of international partners. The big show. Effectively hosted by Cook, the massive crowd at the Kodak Theater...
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There are still some movies coming down the pike, but it seems like today is a good day to do that math on DreamAmount/ParaWorks. DREAMWORKS MOVIES UNDER PARAMOUNT 15 movies in the last 3 years : Dreamgirls, Perfume, Flags of Our Fathers, She's the Man, The Last Kiss, Transformers, Norbit, Sweeney...
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DreamAmount No More. "We congratulate Steven, David and Stacey, and wish them well as they start their newest venture. Steven is one of the world's great story-tellers and a legend in the motion picture business. It has been an honor working closely with him and the DreamWorks team over the...
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Fox Press Release - BAZ LUHRMANN’S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED EPIC, AUSTRALIA, TO BOW THANKSGIVING LOS ANGELES, CA (August 27, 2008) __ Twentieth Century Fox announced today that it now will release AUSTRALIA – Baz Luhrmann’s epic adventure motion picture, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman – on November...