Of course, when Nintendo revealed the 3DS at E3 and gave participants the first chance to get your hands on your handheld, many came away impressed. The lesson, apparently, is for everyone to keep his damn mouth shut about the next time, if they know what’s good for them. (more…)
Griggs Thompson is covering the Conference on Human Development Department with emphasis on Hollywood
(Not to be confused with the District 9, which rocked, and Rob Marshall, Nine, which is not sold here)If there was a disappointing movie panel at the Conference, 9 would be.
… I better eatsks ughughughughugh spinach!You should not have if your product is an animated film produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov both (that is, it looks like a doll nesting version of Popeye Bluto. And when they are showing again is a trailer that has been in theaters ...Read More
Hey, Hollywood, do not be fooled by week’s earnings reports this pessimism in the major media companies. Now why this does not translate into more projects and more jobs is because of all the Nervous Nellies new (it used to be male moguls) on entertainment units. In fact, the entertainment side of some of these companies are making – dare I say – better. But there is definitely green shoots on earnings reports
But profit film directed by Hangover rose 52% due to lower overhead and marketing expenses(Y TW topper Jeff Bewkes reminded analysts that ...Read More
UPDATES WME assistance fee worst WM
BH A source tells me. “Can you believe we decided to break the news to us in a covert meeting to discuss our plans for new health insurance?” The office of New York was announced first, followed by Beverly Hills headquarters. Manwhile, Tham WMAers Endeavorites earned more overtime”And, of course, nothing in writing … just a scale that told us with indifference.” The new body had to “recalculate” the wages of assistants WMA (about $ 13.50 per hour) to be more in line with the attendees ...Read More
When you are the third highest paid CEO in corporate America, Wall Street remains at a different level. poor news reports say that JP Morgan downgraded Disney to underweight (neutral) this morning. So after Bob Iger, Disney announced third quarter profits had slipped 26%, shares of the population moved sharply lower – up to -3.5% – when the market opened this morning the House. Sales of existing DVD titles like National Treasure 2 and delighted, and more DVD titles in the catalog, fell in the ...Read More
And women are stronger in Inglorious Basterds in District 9, despite the Sony photo opens a week earlier. Has come to the right track – strong. But now a rival studio, I even said, “Paramount is doing a good job ignoring the sniping and snarking 60M. “It is now some movement in recent days.”) Quentin and much maligned Weinstein Company / Universal picture is getting 50 in the “definite interest” of men. Yes, that much maligned the Paramount picture that comes out August ...Read More
UPDATES NBC admits it was “premature” to declare Conan Late Night Bible
More dueling press releases late at night. And The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is to win viewers for the 3rd consecutive weekSo CBS is out very early this morning with his singing of Public Relations The Late Show with David Letterman has just released its longest winning streak at The Tonight Show from 1995.
This is the first Late Show, has won four consecutive wins over “The Tonight Show” with a term first broadcasts from the week ending June 9, 1916 de ...Read More
September ELECTIONS: Larry Gelbart Write Open Letter To WGA Membershi
I contacted the well field for the version you want to publish. Google opened the first paper and published. I was asked to click “accept changes”, then change the Google document for your Word document. Then I went and opened the Word document and saw that he was still “monitoring” mode and clearly has published a document widely. UPDATE: Looks like Camp John Wells sent me two versions of his rebuttal: one in Google, and one in the Word. What did I do now. (Click on ...Read More
We are pleased Mr. Govan committed to this meeting.At present there are over 2,100 signers of an online petition (including upper-level film critics, artists, dignitaries and movie lovers around the world), a vocal and active group of Facebook, Twitter, video Youtube (search save the film at LACMA) and a writing campaign email. Since 28 July, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art first announced it would end its decades-old film program in mid-April to October because of $ 1 million in losses over the ...Read More
LOS ANGELES – August 17, 2009 – In a lawsuit filed in Superior Court today, the Halcyon Company, which owns the rights to the Terminator movie franchise, accused a former employee of a hedge fund in Santa Barbara fraud and double dealing, and of conspiring with the current general director of the Fund in a scheme to line their own pockets at the expense of Halcyon
In a second lawsuit also filed today, Dominion Group, LLC, which is owned by Halcyon directors Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, Pacificor accused of wrongfully filing a lien on certain ...Read More
Wow, this man helped run Revolution Studios on the ground. What a tool. What a horrible decision. Now he’s going to do the same with AMPAS. Because Tom Sherak has been responsible for the evening for many of the worst decisions of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. How stupid of Board of Governors
What is Sherak planning next? Sherak that studies to get what they want at the expense of the Academy of integrity10 Best Actor or Best Actress and Best Director and Best Foreign Film and nominations? ...Read More
UPDATES WHAAAAAT? Tom Sherak New Pre AMPAS
So his name was removed, and that was when Sherak got the job. And Tom Hanks was nominated for Sherak he thought might be a “Gregory Peck-type” leader AMPAS. But sources say Hanks I refused, saying it “was not able to set the time.” At least it’s comforting to know that AMPAS and Sherak head in the right place to want a player instead of two research funds recovery hooksEXCLUSIVE: I learned the Board of Governors of the Academy of Arts and Sciences wanted Tom Hanks to serve as president for ...Read More
Robert King is WGAW Board of Directors and co-founder of United Writers
Dear Member of WGA Fellow
I have three arguments can be summarized as followsI am a proud founding member of United Writers, I am a strong supporter of our Executive Director, David Young, who was a fervent supporter of the strike of 2007-8, and I am urging you to vote for John Wells for President Howard Gould for Vice-President, and Christopher Keyser Secretary-Treasurer. In my opinion, this is the only way-and I mean the only way we can build on the achievements of the 2007-8 strike.
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John F. Bowman chaired the WGA Negotiating Committee 2007/2008
My colleagues WGAW
As Chairman of the Negotiating Committee 2007/08, I would point out some of the things that I think gave us power and influence in our last negotiation
We organized together, walked the sidewalks together, and stood on the same page at the negotiating table. THIS unity with the WGA for the first time in decades, the two unions spoke with a strong, unified voice. This time, there were conflicting signals from the companies for
Due to historical differences between our ...Read More
Now, the next question is what happens when Robinov Alan Horn and Barry Meyer leaving the studio. Snark you what will Warner Bros (and certainly has!), The movie studio is once again having a banner year, perhaps even bigger than Hollywood last years record setting year. As such, Robinov deserves credit for continuing to monitor the film division and its worldwide production, marketing and distribution operations. But I can say that after three months of negotiations and a meeting two weeks ago with Time ...Read More
