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Jim Berkus has been the comic’s primary agent for almost as long as UTA has existed. “We’ve had a great 15-year relationship with Martin Lawrence. He decided he wanted to make a change. It’s a very amicable parting of the ways,” a UTA insider tells me.
(Photos, Lea Thompson and Sally Kirkland rally while Carlos Granda of ABC News reports; SAG president Alan Rosenberg with actress and former SAG VP Anne Marie Johnson; Keith Carradine speaking at rally; SAG’s … Read More »
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The winners of the 2008 AltWeekly Awards were announced yesterday in Philadelphia at a luncheon held as part of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ annual convention for alternative newsweeklies across the United States and Canada. The contest administered by Northwestern University’s Medill School Of Journalism seeks to … Read More »
SAG prez Alan Rosenberg today sent out this email:
June 8, 2008
Dear Members,
Screen Actors Guild’s negotiating committee continued its bargaining with the AMPTP this past week. We continue to negotiate for a new contract that will be fair for actors
SUMMARY: Today it came to light that SAG asked AFTRA to delay asking its membership to ratify the new deal with the AMPTP until after SAG reaches a deal, too. But AFTRA refused and threatened legal action in an unnecesaarily nasty letter in response. Yeah this … Read More »
SUNDAY AM: North American box office gross expanded bigger than expected this weekend – a gargantuan 25% more dollars taken in than the same weekend last year. DreamWorks Animation’s feisty pot-bellied Kung Fu Panda distributed by Paramount led the way, fighting to a $60 million finish after opening to $20.3 million Friday … Read More »
Posted on the Writers Guild of America’s website: “We all remember how SAG members turned out in numbers to picket, march and rally with us during our contract campaign and strike. Now it’s our turn to be there for them. This Monday June 9, please join SAG … Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: I’m told Nicole Chabot is moving to BNC (Bragman, Nyman, Cafarelli) after six years at BWR (Baker Winokur Ryder). She’ll be a director in media relations. The reason this is interesting is because it puts BNC into the hot young comic business bigtime, adding to … Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment uber-lawyer Skip Brittenham is negotiating a first-look producing deal with Warner Brothers for axed New Line founders Bob Shaye’s and Michael Lynne’s new production company. I’m told they’re only going to get the “ex-studio president’s special — like Mark Platt and Casey Silver”. Updating my report yesterday, … Read More »
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Both George Clooney and now Tom Hanks have denied a Screen Actors Guild board member’s unofficial email to members that the two Triple-A list actors have joined the side of some dual cardholders lobbying and rallying against ratification of the AFTRA deal … Read More »
I’m told Sunday’s New York Times will publish a long-in-the-works takeout examining whether MGM studios is on the brink. Harry Sloan was interviewed extensively for it…
So why are advertisers rushing to show commercials on the 4th place TV network? Beats me, because insiders tell me that, any day now, NBC will be crowing how it’s nearly completed sales for this year’s upfront. I’ve been slipped some latest … Read More »
It’s been the most challenging year on record for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — well, if you don’t count 1982′s uproar over naming Pia Zadora best “New Star Of The Year” — that saw the cancellation of its Golden Globe Awards dinner … Read More »
More On Shaye’s & Lynne’s New Company
EXCLUSIVE: So the two New Line founders bounced from their studio by Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes are finally getting closer to starting their own company. I hear Bob Shaye … Read More »
The 2008 Film Financing Conference will be held on June 21st as part of the upcoming Los Angeles Film Festival (June 19th-29th). This very worthwhile day of panels, presentations, and workshops are a must-attend for any first-time or even experienced indie filmmaker because it will address the current (sorry) state … Read More »
I would like to formally welcome every other now blogging or about-to-blog Hollywood print journalist to the already crowded online neighborhood. It’s a big tent, with room for all. But the aahs or angst that all these blogs are causing the Hollywood community is palpable, believe me. (Mine included.) For example, United … Read More »
UPDATE: Paramount Pictures is now announcing what my sources told me: it’s taking its faux indie division Paramount Vantage’s marketing,
distribution, and physical production and combining those three into big Paramount. But I’m also assured that Paramount Vantage will still be an ongoing … Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: I’ve confirmed what I first heard on Monday: that Universal Classics has sent out an email to about 35 art house exhibitors and other film bookers of classic films alerting that the Universal Studios fire destroyed nearly 100% of archived 35mm prints … Read More »
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