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Studios Marketers Are Defenseless Against Twitter, They Squeal
8:20AM Natasha VC | Shame on you! Movies are bombing all over and it’s your fault. The latest creation in the Ass-Covering Studio Excuses R&D Dept. is the “Twitter Effect.” Movies aren’t making money, you see, because too many people are learning, 140 characters at a time, about how bad they are. More »
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How We Actually Sorta Sympathise With People Suing Brüno
1:00AM Richard Lawson | So Brüno dropped a perilous 73% in American ticket sales this weekend, basically meaning that the Yanks have forgotten about Sacha Baron Cohen’s Austrian fashion reporter (who’s gay!!!!) alter ego. Well, one American hasn’t. That brain-damaged lady is still suing. More »
Discuss: Universal Paid Seven Figures For Jonah Hill’s New Script
7:55AM STV | No one will confirm it, and considering the secrecy around the project, Universal may never disclose the rumoured seven-figure price tag accompanying its deal for Jonah Hill’s new screenplay Adventurer’s Handbook. Still — seven figures? 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 »
Universal Revisiting The ‘Thing’ Thing
2:15AM Seth | Universal’s remaking The Thing, with Battlestar Galactica EP Ron Moore to write the script and commercials director Matthijs Van Heijningen set to direct. If you’ve forgotten how amazing John Carpenter’s version was, watch this. More »
Universal Quickly Fulfils 2009 Resolution to Flee the Crap-Movie Business
5:21AM STV | After several months of negotiations, Universal has closed its deal to sell genre-mill Rogue Pictures to the studio’s close financing partners at Relativity Media. 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 »
Money Man Ryan Kavanaugh’s Next Funding Project: A Drunk Driving Defence
10:08AM STV | Here’s a Doomsday holdover for anyone who thinks today is going a little too conveniently well: Ryan Kavanaugh, the film financier whose Relativity Media interests intersect heavily with Universal, Sony and pretty much anyone else making films in Hollywood right now, will be arraigned next week on speeding and drunk driving charges dating back to October. His arrest was his second since 2006, when he previously sideswiped a Malibu police cruiser. And that would be a probation violation; do they allow development meetings in jail? More »
