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Archives for: July 20085
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Toronto adds world premieres including Disgrace, Miracle Of St Anna
Thursday July 03rd 2008The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008. The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs’ Disgrace, Vicente Amorim’s Good, Spike Lee’s Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett’s Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes jury prize-winner Il Divo and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker.
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SAG needs time to analyze offer
Thursday July 03rd 2008With actors working under a contract that expired a day earlier, SAG officials met Wednesday with studio reps for roughly four hours, discussing details of what the studios called their “final offer.” SAG insiders say the guild told the AMPTP that they needed more time to study the offer and[…]
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Actors guild considering studios’ ‘final offer’
Wednesday July 02nd 2008The contract between movie and TV actors and major Hollywood studios expired early Tuesday after the studios made a final offer and the Screen Actors Guild said it would take more than a day to study it. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said the offer was worth more than $250 million (U.S.) in additional compensation to members of the guild over the three years of the proposed contract. The AMPTP will meet with guild representatives this afternoon to explain the offer, but will not entertain counterproposals. . .
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Don’t touch that dial
Wednesday July 02nd 2008Whether using a split screen to keep the action going or recruiting celebrities to star in ad-sponsored micro-series, networks are continuing to experiment with ways to keep viewers tuned in during commercial breaks. TLC recently adopted a strategy for its series “Your Place or Mine?” that treated viewers to a glimpse of what was going on behind the scenes of the home-makeover game show with a “box inside the box” format during commercials . . .
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Cohen, Ferrell to star in Sherlock film
Wednesday July 02nd 2008Columbia Pictures has set an untitled comedy that will star Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner. Etan Cohen (“Tropic Thunder”) is writing the script, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce. The comedy is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s[…]
ARCHIVES
Archives for: July 20085
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Toronto adds world premieres including Disgrace, Miracle Of St Anna
Thursday July 03rd 2008The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008. The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs’ Disgrace, Vicente Amorim’s Good, Spike Lee’s Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett’s Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes jury prize-winner Il Divo and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker.
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SAG needs time to analyze offer
Thursday July 03rd 2008With actors working under a contract that expired a day earlier, SAG officials met Wednesday with studio reps for roughly four hours, discussing details of what the studios called their “final offer.” SAG insiders say the guild told the AMPTP that they needed more time to study the offer and[…]
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Actors guild considering studios’ ‘final offer’
Wednesday July 02nd 2008The contract between movie and TV actors and major Hollywood studios expired early Tuesday after the studios made a final offer and the Screen Actors Guild said it would take more than a day to study it. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said the offer was worth more than $250 million (U.S.) in additional compensation to members of the guild over the three years of the proposed contract. The AMPTP will meet with guild representatives this afternoon to explain the offer, but will not entertain counterproposals. . .
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Don’t touch that dial
Wednesday July 02nd 2008Whether using a split screen to keep the action going or recruiting celebrities to star in ad-sponsored micro-series, networks are continuing to experiment with ways to keep viewers tuned in during commercial breaks. TLC recently adopted a strategy for its series “Your Place or Mine?” that treated viewers to a glimpse of what was going on behind the scenes of the home-makeover game show with a “box inside the box” format during commercials . . .
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Cohen, Ferrell to star in Sherlock film
Wednesday July 02nd 2008Columbia Pictures has set an untitled comedy that will star Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner. Etan Cohen (“Tropic Thunder”) is writing the script, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce. The comedy is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s[…]
ARCHIVES
Archives for: July 20085
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Toronto adds world premieres including Disgrace, Miracle Of St Anna
Thursday July 03rd 2008The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008. The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs’ Disgrace, Vicente Amorim’s Good, Spike Lee’s Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett’s Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes jury prize-winner Il Divo and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker.
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SAG needs time to analyze offer
Thursday July 03rd 2008With actors working under a contract that expired a day earlier, SAG officials met Wednesday with studio reps for roughly four hours, discussing details of what the studios called their “final offer.” SAG insiders say the guild told the AMPTP that they needed more time to study the offer and[…]
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Actors guild considering studios’ ‘final offer’
Wednesday July 02nd 2008The contract between movie and TV actors and major Hollywood studios expired early Tuesday after the studios made a final offer and the Screen Actors Guild said it would take more than a day to study it. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said the offer was worth more than $250 million (U.S.) in additional compensation to members of the guild over the three years of the proposed contract. The AMPTP will meet with guild representatives this afternoon to explain the offer, but will not entertain counterproposals. . .
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Don’t touch that dial
Wednesday July 02nd 2008Whether using a split screen to keep the action going or recruiting celebrities to star in ad-sponsored micro-series, networks are continuing to experiment with ways to keep viewers tuned in during commercial breaks. TLC recently adopted a strategy for its series “Your Place or Mine?” that treated viewers to a glimpse of what was going on behind the scenes of the home-makeover game show with a “box inside the box” format during commercials . . .
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Cohen, Ferrell to star in Sherlock film
Wednesday July 02nd 2008Columbia Pictures has set an untitled comedy that will star Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner. Etan Cohen (“Tropic Thunder”) is writing the script, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce. The comedy is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s[…]
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