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When Will ‘Shopaholic’ Isla Fisher Catch A Break?
2:00AM STV | Any armchair economist can sit down today and point out last year’s indications of a New Depression. The one he’d likely miss occurred when Isla Fisher nabbed the lead in Confessions of a Shopaholic. More »
Helen Mirren, Nazi Huntress
3:40AM STV | Helen Mirren will trade in her two-piece for a gun in The Debt, a remake of an Israeli hit about a Mossad agent who comes out of retirement to track down a war criminal. [Variety] TNT fell for the old “Buy a Bruckheimer, Get a Wahlberg For Free” trick, not realizing it negotiated for Donnie’s new Boston cop procedural Bunker Hill. Gotta read those contracts, gang. [THR] More »
It’s Not TV. It’s Bruckheimer/Bay Blow-Shit-Up O-Vision.
3:30AM Seth | A stunning development could herald the return of one of the greatest way-above-the-title pairings in Hollywood history: that of superproducing entity Jerry Bruckheimer and überdirecting force Michael Bay, the former the explosion-loving ying to the latter’s blowing-shit-up-obsessed yang. The pair’s creative partnership resulted, of course, in some of the most beloved, absolutely-terrible blockbusters of the mid 1990s—but what project could satisfy their shared need for one mushroom-cloud-detonation per page and a stream of ham-fisted catchphrases that can only be fully appreciated when delivered by Nicolas Cage? More »
Jerry Bruckheimer Crosses ‘Chick Flicks’ Off His List of Shit to Blow Up
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Seeing as contemporary genre godmother Nora Ephron wouldn’t be interviewed for today’s taxonomy of chick flicks in the New York Times, we didn’t know how or even if author Michael Cieply could compensate for the vast accompanying vacuum of perspective. But after a few moments considering the revisionist dynamics of forthcoming films like Ephron’s Julie & Julia and Confessions of a Shopaholic — both evidently appealing to younger male viewership — we suddenly knew there was only one capable replacement worth getting on record. And it has a Y chromosome: [Confessions] is not just for women, the filmmakers insist. “We all have spending habits, a lot of us do,” said Jerry Bruckheimer, one of the film’s producers, speaking by telephone last week. “If we do our job right, this could be another Wedding Crashers.” … More »
Brian Grazer Would Trade His Hollywood Kingdom For A ‘People’ Cover
5:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Despite having earned untold millions from his incredibly successful superproducing career, won an Oscar for his shepherding of a buddy comedy (with heart!) about a math-loving schizophrenic and his favourite imaginary friend, and having recently dragged a troubled, $US100 million passion project out of development hell and into a lucrative box office run all by himself, Imagine’s Brian Grazer is still tormented by feelings of Hollywood inadequacy. In today’s NY Times, Grazer, his signature hair-spikes seemingly wilting with each anguished word, laments that for all of his show business accomplishments, his name is still relatively unknown by the middle-American moviegoers to whom he delivers Russell Crowe-starring cinematic delights every couple of years: Despite having won Oscars as well as most other film and television awards, Mr. Grazer remains largely unknown outside Hollywood. And while he acknowledges the success of his work, he still craves public recognition. More »
Trade Roundup: ‘24′ Writers Taking Their Time To Think Up An Extra-Shitty Day For Jack Bauer
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | · Hollywood Out of Ideas, Tiny People Injected Into the Sickly Body Of Originality Edition: Roland Emmerich will direct a remake of Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century Fox. [Variety] · Production has temporarily stopped on 24 so that the hit show’s writers have enough time to adequately dramatise every apocalyptic scenario that would probably come to pass if a Hillary Clintonesque president ever assumed our highest office. [THR] · Former Daily Show/Colbert Report EP Ben Karlin explains the just-announced, combined film/television deal he signed with a certain premium cable outlet: “When my reps asked me what I wanted to do next, I said firmly, ‘not TV.’ They said, ‘HBO.’ I had to admit, they had me there.” [Variety] · ABC’s new NASCAR in Prime tanks its premiere, probably because the show clearly belongs on Fox. [THR] · Jerry Bruckheimer informs CBS that it must buy his drama pilot about a “globetrotting team of freelance treasure hunters” or he will withdraw every one of the 45 weekly hours of programming he generates for them; the network, of course, happily complies, remarking about how much they always wanted a more expensive, scripted version of The Amazing Race. [Variety] More »Breaking! ‘Spider-Man’ Sequel Absurdly Expensive
5:11AM Jess McGuire | Given that the first two Spider-Man movies made Sony about $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office, it probably surprises no one to learn that the studio’s relentless pursuit of another huge summer run may have resulted in the third installment becoming The Most! Expensive! Movie! Ever! Made! Still, even if the $350 million number (throw in marketing and promotion and we’re at half a billion) passed along in Kim Masters’ Radar story on Spider-Man 3’s historic, budget-busting run are, is claimed by a flack, a “complete fabrication,” the real amount is still big enough to choke even its free-spending producer:
Still reeling from a flurry of bad press on its PlayStation 3 gaming console, Sony isn’t eager to claim this honor. A studio spokesman angrily rejects the $350 million estimate as a “complete fabrication,” insisting that production costs didn’t exceed $270 million. One of the film’s producers, Laura Ziskin, also disputes the higher total, albeit in a less forceful manner. “I refuse to say the [real] number because it makes me choke,” she tells Radar. Spider-Man 3 was a super-expensive movie–the most expensive film we’ve ever made. But there’s no way you can get to $300 million.”
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