5:20AM Defamer Hollywood | · Hollywood invades the Middle East! MGM partners with a Jordanian animation company on a 26-episode
Pink Panther & Pals cartoon series, while Paramount plans to erect a theme park in Dubai that exploits properties like
Top Gun, Titanic, Mission: Impossible, and many, many others. Visitors to the UAE park
will be moved by an animatronic Effie’s emotional delivery of “I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” on
Dreamgirls: The Ride. [
Variety,
Variety]
· Get excited: Legendary Pictures will pump $US1 billion into its co-financing and co-production deal with Warner Bros. Who can’t get psyched when multimedia conglomerates and financing entities hook up to minimise the financial risks of producing another overbudget
Superman sequel? [
THR]
· In the most hotly anticipated hosting announcement of the largely unwatched US summer TV season, Joey Fatone will oversee the smooth operation of NBC’s karaoke clusterfuck
The Singing Bee. [
Variety]
· Speaking of the summer TV wasteland, Fox wins the 18-49 demo with
Top Chef: Shouty, Brain-Damaged Edition, while NBC fails to win behind a two-hour, all-Mark-Consuelos-hosted block of our new favorite shows,
Kittens Vs. Cougars and the premiering
Science Vs. Penis. [
THR]
· Even with
American Idol drawing tens of millions of teenagers away from their MySpaces twice a week, Fox’s median viewer age passed 40 for the first time last season. Expect some emergency counterprogramming in the form of the Wilmer Valderrama-hosted
So You Think You Can Watch Our Channel, You Old Fuck? [
Variety]
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