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• Everyone is losing money these days but by God, the celebs are still sooo filthy rich, perhaps some of the are feeling the recession like us, you think?

  Comment by Henrietta — Wednesday February 4, 2009 @ 4:43am PST  Reply to this post

• Henrietta:

  There are definitely some celebs/actors feeling the pinch. When was the last time Orlando Bloom got his quote? Two and a half years ago on “Pirates 3.” Now he’s doing an indie film in a role that James Franco dropped out of. Kirsten Dunst seems like she’s in a similar situation.

  I’d say folks like Richard Gere, Meg Ryan, Winona Ryder, Terrence Howard, Jessica Alba — people who need the EXACT right project to get anything close to a hit — are all getting squeezed.

  Same probably goes for a lot of directors we haven’t heard from in a while. The climate is, if you’re not genuinely bankable nobody is going to pay your full price.

  Comment by INterested Observer — Wednesday February 4, 2009 @ 6:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Does that mean they’ll fix HBO now? Could a channel that was so profitable, creating such great product, tank so quickly at the helm of incompetent execs? Sue Naegle, the shows you are greenlighting sound less exciting than the upcoming season for FX. No taste, no vision.

  And the proof is in the $$. Can those dumbasses and get Albrecht back!!

  Comment by Outis — Wednesday February 4, 2009 @ 10:32am PST  Reply to this post

• And the only reason Time Warner is up 7 percent in movies is because of DARK KNIGHT.

  AS for IO’s “pinch” — Bloom is working. I am not.

  Comment by Robert — Wednesday February 4, 2009 @ 11:45am PST  Reply to this post

• Outis – why the FX hate? They are currently a better HBO than HBO with the best comedy and drama on television: ALWAYS SUNNY and DAMAGES.

  HBO needs to take a page from the FX playbook, which started as a page from HBO’s.

  Comment by Killertv — Wednesday February 4, 2009 @ 12:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• But Bewkes got a huge bonus, priceless. What a joke.

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday February 4, 2009 @ 2:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• Killertv, it was actually my poor grammar that made it seem like I was dissing FX–I was trying to point out that FX is far more inventive than the premium HBO. Is there any reason to pay for that shite?

  Comment by Outis — Wednesday February 4, 2009 @ 5:06pm PST  Reply to this post