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Battleship The Board Game’s March To Big Screen Now Unstoppable
1:16AM Richard Rushfield | • July 1, 2011. This will be the date when the world sees Peter Berg’s Battleship film, inspired by the Hasbro plastic peg board game. [Variety] More »
Ron Meyer’s Pissed: A DreamWorks and Disney Wedding Album
8:10AM STV | Disney and DreamWorks today sent out official confirmation of their shotgun wedding, issuing a release around town raising more questions about its relationship than it answers. More »
BREAKING: Universal Just Not That Into DreamWorks
5:45AM STV | Remember all those questions we had last year about how DreamWorks and Universal might bridge the financing gap in their tenuous new relationship? The answer’s simpler than anyone thought: They won’t. More »
At Last! Unicorny ‘Tintin’ Reality Blossoms With Jamie Bell And Daniel Craig
3:17AM STV | After years of delays, budget haggles, director turnover and studio upheaval, we can finally, officially ask: Who’s ready for some Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn?!? Oh. Sorry. More »
‘I Had Radio in My Teeth!’: When Spielberg Met Warhol
4:31AM STV | The accompanying video really requires no comment beyond a statement of its simple, almost otherworldly concept: Andy Warhol interviews Steven Spielberg. On a hotel bed. Bianca Jagger looks on. And something is swallowed. More »
DreamWorks Bell-Ringers Lagging on $US750 Mil Holiday Goal
5:41AM STV | Variety today offers a disturbing memo to anyone who had “DreamWorks’ resurgence FTW” in their forecast of industry predictions for 2009: Maybe next year. More »
Spielberg Soaked In Madoff-Brand Ponzi Dipping Sauce
5:00AM Seth | MadoffGate continues to rock Hollywood: the “$US50 billion Ponzi scheme”—pause for smelling salts—that roped Mort Zuckerman, Spielberg’s Wunderkinder Foundation, and God knows who else. Please, please, please let the Olsen Twins’s fortune be intact! [Variety] More »
Steven Spielberg, Will Smith Make Historic Pact to Dilute Bloody Korean Masterpiece
3:05AM STV | We think we might have found Bad Lieutenant’s successor for Unholiest Hollywood Remake: Steven Spielberg and Will Smith may partner to adapt the ultraviolent Korean revenge flick Oldboy for American audiences. DreamWorks will produce, Universal will distribute and Smith will reportedly star as a man seeking payback after 15 years of kidnapped captivity. And we will reserve judgement, though we have at least three good reasons not to. More »
DreamWorks Remembers David Geffen as Loving, Studio-Shopping Father
5:22AM STV | A tender postmortem in today’s New York Times reminds the world yet again that seriously — like, really, this time — David Geffen is leaving DreamWorks. Having shepherded the monolith through the Hollywood establishment from conception to its first marriage (and divorce) before giving the frazzled bride away a second time in an arranged marriage to its dashing Indian suitor, Geffen’s tenure is remembered fondly by his ‘Works co-founders Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Not that they’ll admit to knowing what they’re doing without him. More »
