Talking about the $4 million dollars Akiva Goldsman has supposedly been offered to write Angels & Demons, Erik Davis says:
What does this mean for screenwriting? Well, writers now have a new bargaining chip. Up until this point, the most amount of money offered for a script (usually an original piece of work) has been […]

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Ok, this is actually wrong:
But what is fair? Is it fair that an actor like Jim Carrey gets $20 Milion per movie but his recent films like Bruce Almighty and Fun with Dick and Jane were basically flops? Even Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a terrific film with a compelling performance by Carrey, wasn’t […]

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This story starts like this:
 Everyone is looking for the next "Harry Potter" or "Lord of the Rings" movie franchise, and Lauren Shuler Donner thinks she may have found it in the "Cirque du Freak" books. She is beginning production on the first film.

Look, I know that LotR and Potter made/are making tons of […]

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Australia has a reported budget of 130 million dollars. That seems like a lot for a period movie set in Australia directed by the brilliant but crazy Luhrmman. let’s hpe they now what they are doing.

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As you may have heard, Australian director Baz Luhrmann is currently working on an epic movie set in the Australian outback. The movie will be starred by Aussie Hugh Jackman and by Nicole Kidman, who was actually born in Hawaii but who lived in Australia during most of her childhood. Filming will occur next year, […]

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"Young Adult" does not mean dumb. It also doesn’t mean "has no taste in movies and will see whatever crap you put out".

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So, the Revenge Of the Nerds remake is no more:

Fox Atomic has officially ceased production on its remake of "Revenge of the Nerds," which the division had hoped to release next summer.
Project was put on hold earlier this month after two weeks of filming when Emory U. in Atlanta, where the pic was skedded […]

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Deck The Halls Holiday themed comedies can be very good. But, since many of the bad ones make tons of money anyway, the studios seem to think that they really shouldn’t put much effort into the whole quality thing. Just throw in some christmas decorations, a few speeches about the meaning of the season and […]

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Dead at 81.
From the CNN article:
In May, Altman brought out "A Prairie Home Companion," with Garrison Keillor starring as the announcer of a folksy musical show — with the same name as Keillor’s own long-running show — about to be shut down by new owners. Among those in the cast were Meryl Streep, Lily […]

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SCI FI Channel has announced that "Battlestar Galactica" will move to a new timeslot starting January 21, 2007: Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, following the premiere of the new original series "The Dresden Files" at 9 p.m.

This seems like a good chance to take a look at how the series is doing, […]

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