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This legendary Hollywood flack died today. He was old school: he actually believed that journalists were important. And he never lost his passion for the business.
This morning the Directors Guild notified directors who've worked for The Weinstein Co films and told them they would be notified about the status of their unpaid residuals with that company. This included the prominent Hollywood helmer who alerted me yesterday that he hadn't been paid a six-figure residual by TWC for the fourth quarter 2007 and had [...]
UPDATE: I hear MRC now has been asked to consider Moonlight for mid-season. This is such a shot in the dark it's barely worth posting. But I'm posting nonetheless. I've also been told that CBS continues to hold an option on the star of the show, Alex O"Loughlin, and that he's in demand for other projects.
...I just heard it's [...]
The 2008 "Best of the West" journalism competition, recognized as the West's most prestigious, is designed to reward journalistic excellence and to promote freedom of information. It is administered by the nonprofit First Amendment Funding and draws entries each year from journalists in the 13 states west of the Rockies:
Category: Special Topic Column Writing
First Place: Nikki Finke, "Deadline [...]
CBS 2008-2009 PRIMETIME FALL SCHEDULE, For The Record
Monday
8:00 PM: The Big Bang Theory
8:30 PM: How I Met Your Mother
9:00 PM: Two and a Half Men
9:30 PM: WORST WEEK (new)
10:00 PM: CSI: Miami
Tuesday
8:00 PM: NCIS
9:00 PM: THE MENTALIST (new)
10:00 PM: Without a Trace
Wednesday
8:00 PM: The New Adventures of Old Christine
8:30 PM: PROJECT GARY (new)
9:00 PM: Criminal [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Is this another wave of bad news? Now a prominent Hollywood film director just emailed me the following allegations about a heretofore unknown battle brewing between the Directors Guild and The Weinstein Co over residual payments for 20 to 30 films that may lead to arbitration or worse. (See below for the emails, which I condensed with his permission.) [...]
EXCLUSIVE: I've just been told by an insider that "there is a chance, only a chance" that Media Rights Capital which will be programming Sunday's two hours on the CW "may elect to take Moonlight as one of those two hours". This is developing to be quite a behind-the-scenes drama because the order came from Warner Bros TV this [...]
CW 2008-2009 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE, For The Record
UPDATE: 'Moonlight' To CW?
That yawning sound you hear around Hollywood is the CW schedule. There are a lot of tipsters telling me that network boss Dawn Ostroff won't be around to see the CW's early launch on September 1st. She's outsourced Sunday night's scheduling to Media Rights Capital, but maybe [...]
Endeavor talent agency will represent both Barbra Streisand as an actress, director and producer as well as her Barwood Films. The Hollywood legend's longtime manager Marty Erlichman will continue to principally help guide her career. Streisand had been with ICM but it's been quite some time since she's starred in a movie (2004's Meet The Fockers) or directed [...]
EXCLUSIVE: As you must know by now, in the past 48 hours, Joel Silver had his $160M movie Speed Racer tank at Warner Bros, and his TV series Moonlight axed by CBS. And, because of his many faults, most of the town is ecstatic over it. And, to make matters worse, everybody and their dry cleaner have heard today's rumor that Warner Bros [...]
UPDATE: CBS has officially let veteran Moonlight know that it's been cancelled. The network even nixed any remote chance of a mid-season back 13-episode order. See my previous about the renewal saga, 'Moonlight' Not On CBS Fall Schedule But Not Dead; Show Lobbying For Back 13-Episode Order. CBS also axed Shark, a show that deteriorated faster than a [...]
CBS didn't just renew The New Adventures Of Old Christine but just gave the sitcom a full season 22-episode order. This show was on the bubble at CBS, even though ABC was ready to steal it with a full season order. As for me, I watched 1/2 of one episode and that was more than enough...
It sounds like this is the guy who'll know where MGM's money is gonna come from. MGM today announced Bedi A. Singh, most recently the exec VP/CFO of Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc, has been named President, Finance and Administration & Chief Financial Officer of MGM, reporting directly to chairman/CEO Harry Sloan. In this newly created position, [...]
UPDATE: CBS renews How I Met Your Mother for Monday at 8:30 PM. Given the Britney shtick, there was never any doubt. And Neil Patrick Harris needs to win an Emmy.
I'm told that "bubble shows" won't be notified by CBS until later today or early tomorrow. But in terms of renewals, a network source tells me that [...]
ABC 2008-2009 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE, For The Record
As I reported earlier, ABC had strong comedy development this time around. And the fact is that most of ABC's new stuff will need to go midseason because not only have few pilots yet been shot, but most are still only in the casting stage. As a result, this is [...]
