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trade roundup
Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
Movie deals for funny men, a TV deal for a funny woman, AMC branches out, SAG and AFTRA become friends again, and The Simpsons make the mail. More »
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Comment by Spirit Fingers: Um, does this mean this Brie person is no longer Pete's wife? 'Cause if it does this could mean interesting... 4 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Every Nerd Will Have His Day
A director gets a big new job, and so does MacGyver. SAG stalls, Chevy Chase steps on the gas, the Sci-Fi Channel takes a soft left turn, while nerds everywhere gather and celebrate. More »
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Comment by tailpipebananna: hopefully, chevy has learned that no one likes him, he has NO friends and zero clout. If he realizes this,... more » | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
SAGpocalypse Now: All Hope is Lost
Let's hope James Cameron's Thespbot 2000 technology works, because from the looks of how things are progressing on the SAG deal front, the sun could be setting on the Age of the Human Hollywood Actor. More »
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By SethComment by TheSometimesWhy: As sad as it is to read, it is eerily refreshing to see a piece that so accurately characterizes the... 18 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
SAG To Renew Kinder, Gentler Saber-Rattling Feb. 17
After finally turning down the volume on Alan Rosenberg's bluesy twang, SAG leadership plans to return next week to relatively quiet — and hopefully swift — negotiations with the major studios. More » -
hollywood strikewatch
Alan Rosenberg Strikes Out In Court
SAG president Alan Rosenberg's final opportunity to preserve his strike-hungry executive director and negotiating committee fizzled this morning in Superior Court. More » -
hollywood strikewatch
Judge Blocks Alan Rosenberg's Restraining Order Against His Own Union
SAG president Alan Rosenberg's ploy to halt contract talks and reinstate his closest strike-friendly ally could be going better, with a judge this afternoon rejecting his petition for a temporary restraining order. More » -
hollywood strikewatch
Blues singer to sue for SAG exec's reinstatement. [The Wrap]
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hollywood strikewatch
Defiant Alan Rosenberg Calls For Sympathy-Vote Resolution
This whole SAG presidency thing may not be working out so well for Alan Rosenberg, but so what? His blues-career Plan B is taking off before our eyes — have a listen after the jump! More »
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By STVComment by TheSometimesWhy: It's a sad reflection of the times when a man serves honorably and with great passion, only to be thrown... 2 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
Rosenberg: Fired Doug Allen "too good" for SAG. [The Wrap]
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sag
SAG Coup Leads Justine Bateman To Cry 'Woe to the Membership!'
Before you unscrew that bottle of André you've been saving up for some happy SAG news, commenter Justine Bateman over at Deadline Hollywood Daily had this to say about the overthrowing of Doug Allen: More »
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By SethComment by CatherineTrammell: Before I say something snarky and bitchy, is Justine pro-strike or against-strike? 1 Responses | Other threads
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sag
Chief Negotiator Doug Allen Overthrown, Replaced By SAGnana Republic
A mutinying group of SAG moderates calling themselves National Board Majority have succeeded in removing Doug Allen as SAG's National Executive Director and chief negotiator, in what will likely be the strike movement's fatal blow. More »
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By SethComment by mcgeorge: This is the darkest day within my memory. Apparently, Rosenberg doesn't remember a little thing called THE BLAGOJEVICH IMPEACHMENT!!! 2 Responses | Other threads
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awards
Rabid, Unstoppable 'Slumdog' Chews Into SAG Awards
Only four more weeks til the Oscars! Which, if last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards showing by Slumdog Millionaire is any indication, means only 11 more months until your next viable Oscar race. More » -
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Today in Sundance Hell: SAG Clarifies, The Linklater Cult, And Park City Comes To You
The first full day at Sundance is eerily quiet in streets and screening rooms alike, but that's not keeping the snap judgments and quasi-news from cascading in from the Park City press corps: More » -
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Will SAG Crisis Kill The Market At Sundance?
Granted, it's a worst-case scenario on the fringe of the endless labor imbroglio, but we love a good disaster plot: Could all those outstanding SAG waivers burn movies with studio interest at Sundance? More » -
hollywood strikewatch
Doug Allen avoids banishment after marathon 30-hour SAG meeting. [DML]
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hollywood strikewatch
Chief Negotiator In Limbo as SAG Board Implodes
Conflicting reports emerged late Monday from SAG's emergency national board meeting, where at least one member says Doug Allen is out as the union's chief negotiator. More »
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By STVComment by Tiger_Tanaka: Maybe they should hire a restaurant manager; somebody they're used to taking orders from. more » | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
Actors at Each Others' Throats as SAG Strike Threat Fades
SAG's protracted pursuit of a strike authorization vote may end as early as tomorrow, with the bitter aftertaste of a secret awards blacklist lingering in an emergency meeting underway at union HQ. More »
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By STVComment by taco-flavored-kisses: I understand that many Defamer readers are probably starving actors....so I'm going to try to word this sensitively... ...its really hard... 4 Responses | Other threads
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strikewatch
SAG Delays Strike Vote Two Weeks In Landslide Vote-Delay Referendum
As pro-strike SAG members gathered around their mediation menorahs to light a tiny Eric Bogosian head on fire, thereby commemorating the second night of Yea-nukkah, they were met with a shocking development:
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By SethComment by levari: oh, by all means, let's blame the union. striking for fair division of profits? contemptible. 2 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
SAG Celebrity-Standoff Holiday Cards: Joyeux No-el and Happy Yea-nukkah!
We thought a fun way to keep track of where celebrities stand on the impending SAG strike would be with some printable holiday greeting cards!
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By SethComment by kookla: How can you decorate a Christmas trees with shiny balls and not include Scott Caan!! 1 Responses | Other threads
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awards
Today in Awards Hell: SAG Noms Revealed; Oscar Favors Mariah, Miley, Clint
The Screen Actors Guild took its finger off the nuke button long enough to select 2008 awards nominations, while the Academy narrowed its Best Song candidates to a modest 49. -
hollywood strikewatch
Fox To Dump High-Maintenance SAG For Cheaper, Sluttier AFTRA
A rumor that Twentieth Century Fox Television—producers of some of your most beloved stories, including 24, My Name is Earl, and Family Guy—would be switching over to an all-AFTRA format got this official response:
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By SethComment by gaycurmudgeon: I'm not quite sure what Scott Caan's private parts have to do with either SAG or AFTRA, but I suppose... 2 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
NY SAG Insurgents Call For Leaders' Heads
Hollywood awoke Tuesday to more graphic evidence of sectarian violence in the SAG ranks, with namecalling, dogma and even allegations of brainwashing feeding the union's race to strike-fueled self-destruction.
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By STVComment by Tiger_Tanaka: I kine of like the idea of David Caruso not being on camera for a while. 2 Responses | Other threads
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hollywood strikewatch
A-List Faction Kindly Asks SAG Not to Totally Destroy Hollywood
A sturdy cross-section of topline Hollywood talent from Tom Hanks to George Clooney to Renรฉ Auberjonois today urged SAG leadership to back down from its '09 strike threat. Maybe even more noteworthy: Who's missing?
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By STVComment by academyscreamer: I've still got a few Alan Rosenberg voodoo dolls left...Makes a perfect Holiday Gift for the below-the-liners in your family. 2 Responses | Other threads
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sag
SAG Schedules Strike D-Day for Jan. 2
"Happy 2009 — let's take the year off," will come the refrain from SAG HQ next month, as they today announced Jan. 2 as the date strike authorization ballots go out to its 120,000 members.
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By STVComment by Marjory Stewart-Baxter: It's nice to know that actors--those people who stand in front of a camera and "act," followed by telling the... 6 Responses | Other threads
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jay leno
Dear SAG: Strike Away! Love, NBC
So SAG's fucked. Wait—did we say "fucked?" There we go again—needless doomsday prophesying where Obaman cool-headedness is clearly required. What we meant to say is: "SAG's probably fucked." Yesterday brought a confluence of Pop Culture Doomsday events that not even a walrus blowing like Bird could have foretold:
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By SethComment by CatherineTrammell: I love the fact that the waiters in Los Angeles are going to bring this town to a screeching halt.... 7 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
SAG Vs. Studios Getting Nearly As Ugly As Waxman Vs. Finke
Just days after we learned the kinda-sorta true details of a secret summit called by SAG president Alan Rosenberg and attended by the A-list dons of Hollywood's acting Cosa Nostra, tensions between the union and producers have reached a rolling boil. With 120,000 strike-authorization ballots being readied for mailing—each sealed individually by the scarred, arid tongue of Rosenberg himself—both sides have issued blistering written attacks accusing the other of the kind of selfishness typically associated with junket reporters asking innocuous questions of Philip Seymour Hoffman. First came a Rosenberg-penned missive on Thanksgiving eve, in which the blustery thespians' rights crusader rebuked producers for relying on that old "there's a gigantic recession coming" excuse:
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By SethComment by KittyCarlisle: @strega@decebal are you shitting me? Yeah, whatevs..."it's not 10 years,just 3...bhah, blah, blah.." Sure, the amptp will pony up just as... 6 Responses | Other threads
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sag
Nikki Finke vs. Sharon Waxman: The Grudge Match Continues
It took a rumored meeting of superstars like Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep to get us to care again about a potential actors strike, and a hasty bit of rumor-debunking this morning to dash all the intrigue. But after a retraction, a non-retraction, and a few sharp personal jabs between dueling industry journos Nikki Finke and Sharon Waxman, all we know is that this match in their ongoing feud deserves a bit of play-by-play. More »
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By STVComment by secretagentman: Finke is not a mouthpiece for SAG or AMPTP, she mocks them equally. I think I'm going to use that... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty Implicated in A-List SAG Strike Warm-Up: UPDATE
Just when we thought nothing much had changed in the narcoleptic parallel universe of SAG contract negotiations, we're hearing now that the union's saber-rattlers are finally bringing the heavy weaponry to bear on their studio nemeses: A recent dinner hosting Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty and other influential legends reportedly gave the blessing for a crippling actor's strike. (UPDATE: Not at this meeting, anyway — Sharon Waxman has retracted her original story. More after the jump.) More »
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By STVComment by KittyCarlisle: Not to get all preachy, but fuck it. Yes, the high pro's mentioned won't starve or move back to Des Moines... 4 Responses | Other threads
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sag
SAG Swears It Has Your Money and Will Pay You Tomorrow
Frankly, we like your odds of being one of the 66,000 people to whom the Screen Actors Guild owes some $25 million in unpaid residuals — members, heirs of members, and even non-members whose fluke payments have trickled into SAG over the last 20 years. As noted here last month, the union has kept money belonging to actors (Michael Douglas, Mick Jagger), politicians (John F. Kennedy, Michael Dukakis) and other luminaries who've relocated, died or both since SAG was last in touch with them or their families — and now it's going public with the tactful "Get Your Money" sweepstakes. And you could be the next winner! More » -
trade roundup
Helen Mirren's House Of Ill-Repute
· Taylor Hackford is shopping around Love Ranch—a brothel drama starring wife Helen Mirren (oooh!) and Joe Pesci (ewww!)—to studios in search of a distribution partner. [Variety] More » -
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A Slow Burn. Time now to check in on how those pesky, protracted SAG talks are going. Hey, News Corp. president Peter Chernin—what's the latest? He told a conference in New York today that talks are going "horribly," and a strike would be "devastating to the creative community...I think it's genuinely foolhardy to think this is an appropriate time for actors to go out on strike." We doubt union blowhard Alan Rosenberg is going to sit idly for long. Look for the the remainder of the SAG strike campaign funds to be blown on a skywriting campaign announcing "CHERNIN CAN SUCK ME" above Fox headquarters [TV Week] -
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Why Hollywood's Recession- Proof Days May Be Nearing an End
So it looks like we're back on the Depression's doorstep, with credit axed and markets capsizing here and abroad. But one growth industry continues to thrive reliably: Movies, where despite the ongoing threat of a SAG work stoppage, studios are sinking more than a half-billion dollars into productions for their 2010/2011 calendars. This after earning nearly $7 billion at the domestic box office through September (more than 10% of which came from The Dark Knight and Iron Man alone) and increasingly hedging their bets with financiers based everywhere from Manhattan Beach to Calcutta. While you may be panicking, and both Wall Street and Washington wonder where the bottom is, Hollywood is betting on its history as a recession-proof redoubt — one that was never sturdier than in the Great Depression. We can outlast anything! More » -
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America Tunes In To Smell What The Barack Is Cooking
· Pundits are saying the second presidential debate turned a corner for the Obama campaign, as he was much more successful in interacting with the cadavers propped up in chairs at the Town Hall Meeting of the Dead. [Variety] More » -
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Jack Black, Amnesiac
· Jack Black will soon reunite with the writers of Kung Fu Panda, teaming up on an untitled comedy about a man who wakes up sans memory on Cuban shores only to deduce he's a superspy. Yuks, partial nudity and Bourne-franchise comparisons ensue. [THR] More »
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By STVComment by denominator: Wait, so Sam Jackson will have been in Unbreakable AND Unthinkable? Unbelievable. more » | Other threads
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sag
Are You Mick Jagger? SAG Has Your Money: A recent scan by Sharon Waxman of the Screen Actors Guild's Web site yielded the only slightly staggering discovery that the union is holding more than $25 million in unclaimed funds for almost 67,000 members. The majority is dead (Katherine Hepburn, John F. Kennedy, Buster Keaton), but no small number is still alive and working, including Michael Douglas, Mick Jagger, Patrick Dempsey and even Eric Bogosian — who last week was elected to SAG's board, making its official "we can't find these people" excuse all the more baffling. On the bright side, Assaf Cohen is on his way. Changes will be made! [WaxWord]
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By STVComment by Palmerlime: We're missing the real story here... JFK was in the Screen Actor's Guild? 2 Responses | Other threads
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sag
SAG Insurrection Introduces Brave New Levels of Seething Internecine Hatred
In a savage coup of upstart infidels, the Unite for Strength ticket outlasted incumbent Alan Rosenberg's MembershipFirst slate in Thursday's SAG board election, thus opening a new era of moderation, peace and progress in Hollywood's rancorous labor wars. Or... not. Maybe? It's too soon to tell, frankly, with new leadership including Amy Brenneman, Scott Bakula, Adam Arkin, '05 loser Morgan Fairchild and Assaf "Brother of Sacha Baron" Cohen making up only a theoretical majority at best; studio-friendly Variety says the SAG/AMPTP squabble's days are numbered, union flunky Nikki Finke says that's "simpleton" piffle, and here in the middle, we can't help but notice that SAG's contract-negotiating team isn't changing at all. Still, we look to the future with cautious optimism perhaps best evoked by Rosenberg's concession on Thursday: More »
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By STVComment by KittyCarlisle: @FuriousD1 They have a 30million + warchest, thank you very much. The divided has to do with what actors always do...screw... more » | Other threads
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90210
SAG is Not Afraid of '90210' or the Rest of Those Dirty AFTRA Freaks
Variety reminds us today that a major! labor! crisis! remains in effect at the Screen Actors Guild, which after three months has still made exactly no progress in settling its contract quibbles with the networks and major studios. Still, if those producers aren't worried, then you shouldn't be either — especially now that AFTRA is reportedly taking over where SAG can't necessarily be counted on. To wit, after securing its own three-year deal with the majors over the summer, the union has nabbed some high-profile new recruits for the primetime season to come. More » -
trade roundup
The Chrome Knight Returns
ยท The rumors are true! Darren Aronofsky will write and direct a sequel to RoboCop for MGM, with both parties hoping they can score a piece of this guy-in-a-stupid-costume-noir mania currently gripping the planet. [Variety] More » -
sag
Bloody SAG Coup Could Result In Banana Actor Republic
With the studios' post-final-offer, post-AFTRA-vote concession of $10 million in pay raises to SAG still having failed to bring the two sides together in a starry-eyed embrace, nervous Guild delegates are beginning to wonder if their president Alan Rosenberg—"The kind of guy that would trade heated words with his own clown mother, if it meant pushing his resolutions through!" whispered some—is really the man for the job. Now, a small resistance has sprouted from inside; calling themselves United for Strength, the celebrity freedom fighters spend all night mimeographing manifestos in the basement of a Fairfax Ave. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. From the LAT: More »
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By SethComment by SteamyMcFirecrotch: @sanyucat: (Reference to Christian Bale.) more » | Other threads
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