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twilight
Twilight Director Canned For Being "Irrational" And "Difficult"
Despite the fact that Twilight has already made a profit of about $100 million in the space of 3 weeks, Nikki Finke broke the news yesterday that director Catherine Hardwicke was fired from the Vampire-lovin' franchise. She will not direct New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, and an insider from Summit Films tells Finke that Hardwicke was "'difficult' and 'irrational' during the making of Twilight…That doesn't mean anything when you're talking about a filmmaker because they all are, but still..."
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By JessicaComment by Penny: I am not trying to be provocative with this, but I don't think I have ever heard a man referred... 33 Responses | Other threads
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the women
Things Are Looking Up For The Women In Hollywood
Ever since Sex and the City turned out to be a money making juggernaut, Warner Brothers has decided to aggressively market The Women. "This is an about-face from the studio's earlier decision to leave plans intact for about-to-shutter Picturehouse to debut the chick flick in limited release and with a small P&A," says Nikki Finke, who has been following the fate of the Meg Ryan-helmed film for some time now (also starring: Annette Bening, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett Smith). If you'll recall, last year Warner Brothers' Jeff Robinov famously declared, "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." Well apparently he's doing at least one movie with a woman in the lead, and while that's heartening, movies still have a long way to go. Looking at the just-released shortlist for Emmy nominations, however, shows that there are myriad plum roles for leading ladies on the small screen. Which leads me to wonder: why is there such an enormous disconnect between females on TV and the ones on the silver screen? More »
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By JessicaComment by millerhighlife: maybe it has something to do with this idea that women are more "complicated" than men...that the mainly male hollywood... more » | Other threads
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women scorned
Ultimate Chick Flick The Women Is Finally About To See The Silver Screen
Here's the trailer for The Women, the Diane English remake of the 1939 George Cukor film based on the play by Clare Booth Luce. According to Nikki Finke, the movie — which features an all-female cast (Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Debi Mazur, Joanna Gleason, Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield and Cloris Leachman) and is directed and produced by a woman as well — had a dicey future, despite the fact that Sex and the City proved that women actually, you know, go to see movies. It took 15 years to get The Women made, and male studio execs, whom Finke refers to as the "he-man woman-haters club" were about to shut the movie down, but had a change of heart and the film will now be released this September. More »
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By TracieComment by kimboslice: Nice to see that Meg Ryan's lips are back to normal and that Annette Bening still looks fabulous. more » | Other threads
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hookers, victims & doormats*
Kate Hudson Gets Creative; Heather Locklear Goes Lifetime
*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories
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Loose Lips
Mariah Carey wants to try speed dating! What we wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at that event. • The Golden Globes ceremony has been canceled due to the Writer's Guild boycott. Our girl Nikki Finke has the scoop. • Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson have been hanging out in Hawaii together. Totally Owen and Woody's Excellent Adventure. [Hollywood Rag, Deadline Hollywood Daily, Dlisted]
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By JessicaComment by Hooplehead: Mariah's got it all wrong. Rich, famous ladies don't speed date. They point at the one they want... more » | Other threads
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darling nikki
Just Because Nikki Finke Hates Everyone In Hollywood Doesn't Mean She Doesn't "Care"
The New York Observer names LA Weekly blogger Nikki Finke its "Media Mensch Of The Year." If you don't know Nikki from our previous adulation, she's a veteran Hollywood journalist with a bottomless reserve of outrage re media consolidation, hypocrisy, conflicts-of-interest, chauvinist arrogance disguised as entrepreneurial "vision"...um, basically everything I hate also? Anyway, Nikki's blog Deadline Hollywood Daily has "owned" coverage of the Writer's Strike because she is not "owned" by anyone and also because she has realized to her surprise that she actually cares about Hollywood. "The writers don't get that the studios don't care," she said. "They think that the shareholders would care or the bosses would care or Wall Street would care or the government or Congress or the viewers—they don't care." Then she adds: "I didn't know I cared." Turns out she cares. And it's not for the reason you might think. On a personal level, you see, she sort of hates everyone in town. More » -
divas
Will The World's Only Bankable Woman Actor Ruin Charlie Wilson's War?
A big story in the New York Times wonders whether the big-budget upcoming movie Charlie Wilson's War will be able to overcome the fact that it's about, like, history and politics and a seemingly obscure would-be footnote in Cold War history that fatefully happened to set the stage for the current War On Terror or whatever. The story is awesome: an obscure liberal Democratic congressman from Texas with a reputation as a drunk and a playboy happened to get a seat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, which authorizes top-secret CIA funds, and upon the request of a socialite played by Julia Roberts singlehandedly finances the war of the Afghan "freedom fighters" are fighting against the Soviets, which would eventually grow into a war against, uh,"freedom" itself. He convinced his colleagues to go into all this with the eminently rational statement: "The U.S. had nothing whatsoever to do with these people's decision to fight. ... But we'll be damned by history if we let them fight with stones." More »
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By MoeComment by AnnieGetYourFun: @galalefey: I meant brunette. Don't know how I managed to let that one slip by. more » | Other threads
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polls
How Does the Screen Writers Guild Strike Affect You? Depends How Trashy You Like Your TV!
Many of you may be aware that a Writers Guild of America strike is basically a forgone conclusion at this point, but you might not realize how the lack of working screenwriters might affect the average couch potato like yourself. To recap: the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which includes writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable, and new media industries, had a contract which expired yesterday, because they're still haggling ove digital rights, DVD profits, and something darling Nikki Finke calls "jurisdictional issues." Not every writer in Hollywood is union, of course; especially those writers who don't actually write because their shows are — wink, wink — "unscripted." But the bottom line is that if a strike lasts a long enough time, scripted series will go the way of the dodo for the 2007-2008 TV season and networks, says Finke, will "rely on programming more cheap reality-TV and game shows," which is probably what the world needs now anyway. So where does this leave you? More »
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By JessicaComment by sassymoniker: @jenndavo: The GAP?! Oh, John. What have they done to you? You are more than basic knits. Much, much more. more » | Other threads
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darling nikki
"Cordial", "Charming" Studio Chief Explains Why Women Can't Sell Movies (Except Julia Roberts)
Last week the legendary L.A. Weekly movie business reporter Nikki Finke broke news that Warner production chief Jeff Robinov had issued a studio-wide freeze on movies with female leads. (The rationale: a Jodie Foster movie for which the movie posters had misspelled "Jodie Foster" bombed.) Okay, so then, naturally, he kind of thought about denying it, but that would be lying, which wouldn't normally be a big deal but it's like a pet peeve of Nikki's, so he had a few off-the-record phone conversations and email exchanges with Nikki during which he tried to ingratiate himself to her while lying a few more times because he just can't help himself and instructed all his people to phone up Nikki's competitors calling her "crazy." Meantime, Nikki got ill, we're hoping not as a result of foul play, and managed to dig up even more specifics on Robinov's chauvinism: he's even downgrading the role of Wonder Woman in an upcoming film! More »
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By MoeComment by shunguy007: Rumour has it that Rose McGowen(sp?) will star in yet another remake (Hollywood is out of ideas) directed by the... more » | Other threads
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the hills
What The Cast Of 'The Hills' Does After They Leave Third Period
There are lots of things to hate about The Hills, namely that it is not dead. For starters, we hate that all the cast members recite their lines with the same profound sense of purpose that the popular seniors used to employ when giving, like, an oral presentation? On, like, the Reformation? (Which granted universal suffrage to African-Americans? Or wait, um, no? Can I, like, get a hall pass?) More »
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