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2ND UPDATE: I'm told the Best Actor Oscar-winner has pledged in private conversations with Hollywood in recent days that he doesn't want to go to work "right away" and wants to "regroup" and "just needs personal time". So now he's pushing off some movies he was planning to do. These include MGM's The Three Stooges and Imagine/Universal's Cartel. So what's the fallout? Well, Fox was thinking of partnering with MGM on the comedy but it doesn't look like 20th is involved right now, according to my latest info. And, regarding Cartel, an insider informs me, "CAA told us Sean is taking a year off to work on his marriage. We heard this two weeks ago." Now both those pics' filmmakers have to decide whether to wait for Sean or just recast. Cartel insiders tell me there's already been a decision to move one. "We are moving ahead without him and putting lists together now." But one studios exec counts on the mercurial Penn to reconsider: "I'm hoping he gets too much free time on his hands and wants to go back to work."
Industry Reacts To Sean Penn's Year Off
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Oh no, what will we do without his zero to one movies a year?
Oh, no!
I wonder how much the studios will save with that move?
How long until Drudge Report links to this and the mouth-breathers show up?
Great! Maybe this will allow him to FINALLY realize that a Spicoli spin-off film should be his next move.
In a town filled with unremarkable people and disposable ideas, you’d think these film-makers and execs would show some respect for a man who is trying to do the right thing.
he’s trying to make an important relationship with his family work, rather than throwing it away, something all too common in this town.
someone actually told you they’re hoping he has too much time on his hands and wants to get back to work?
Nikki, I would hate to be a family member of that exec.
Leave Sean be.
Let him get his house in order.
He’ll be far more valuable to you as a whole and happy man.
nothing matters more than family.
One of his kids just turned 18 and probably graduated high school this year. This is probably his last summer at home before going off to college. His other kid will be 16 in August and will be doing the same thing in two years. I don’t blame Sean for wanting to take a year or more off and take it all in.
A year off? If I take a year off, I lose my house and starve. Celebs….
I would not pay to see Sean Penn in movie.
Bring back the old studio contract system and make these actors work all the time and don’t give them script approval just tell them this is what you’re doing next and if you refuse you’re fired. That’ll teach ‘em. At least it always worked for me and Jack.
Leave him alone. If he’s not making movies for a year or ten even, maybe we’ll be spared his publicity-enabled holier-than-thou political diatribes. Heck I’m all for him giving up acting for good. Shut up and act. Better yet just shut up.
Oh no. He’s turning down the chance to play Larry Fine in a big, bloated, catastrophe-written-all-over-it “Three Stooges” movie!!! Well, maybe Billy West will do it.
Whatever will we do without a Three Stoges remake???!!!
That being said, good for Penn in recognizing what nobody else in this town seems to get, that once the lights dim all you have is your family. I’m sure we all wish we could afford to take a year off to work on our lives.
Hi, Dylan — fellow Drudge mouthbreather here. Just wanted to let you know that everybody reads Drudge: conservative mouthbreathers, liberal fuckheads, commie/socialist Obammy supporters, everyone.
We love it when people like you, Dylan, get all uppity and mad about it. We love it.
this is what i would say and that is anyone who thinks this town is their life is a dummy. if you have not figured out that family and friends are all that matter than you are lost and are clearly not in the game any way. this place is random and arbitrary. no one in this town cares about you. so good for sean for caring about himself and his family. if not him than who.
A break? As opposed to working himself to death on his one movie a year?
I heard Penn is actually putting off both these movies to star in a different project called The Professor And The Madman opposite Mel Gibson…
Enjoy your time with Chavez.
Whatever…sounds like “I’d keep more cred announcing I’m away for a year than I would having (a) no films; or (b) sucky films over the next twelve months.”
Renee Zellweger would do well to follow this example.
Im with you Good For Him…his marriage has been in trouble for a while, and when he finally realizes he needs to put in serious work some asshole exec (betcha he aint got a family) wants him to fail. Eff that exec. This is why I sour on Hollywood more everyday. Oh, the needless and terrible remakes dont help either.
Dear Sean Penn.
I love you! Please quit smoking.
yo bro,
blame it on Mexico if you need a reason
Say too much guitar music, tequila, salt and lime
dm
He shd not return at all..not going to miss him. Can’t believe they gave him 2 Oscars and for acting so stupidly!
Why does the Finke need to post this nonsense. I mean really, fuck this douchebag. Great actor, don’t get me wrong, but for real, this guy’s such a prick. Anyone with a brain and 20/20 vision knows the academy gave him the oscar because of Prop 8. Rourke deserved that statue like nobody’s business. Uggh! I’m sorry but I just had to vent.
I love it when actors talk about how they need time off and make it seem to people outside of Hollywood that the work they do is every bit as stressful as jobs that normal people have. The main difference though is that most people don’t get to just take a year off and everything will be okay.
I’m all for getting closer to your family and fixing one’s home life if it’s broken, but I like how Sean sounds so exhausted as if shooting for 3 months and then a couple of parties and talk shows to promote the film is as exhausting as say, roofing a house in Texas summer heat.
“Industry reacts…” Reacts to what?
Penn is a great actor, but it’s not like any of his films really make any money.
Now if Michael Bay took time off, THAT would merit a press conference.
What a spoiled brat. He ruins his marriage and now has to take time off to get his life back on track. Great. Perhaps he should go on a little retreat to learn how to get it right the first time without hurting others. In the meantime, after making a commitment to a film he now hurts even more people who have been hired to start working on this film and are once again in limbo. Lovely, especially after a year and a half where film work has been disastrous. Casting him as one of the Three Stooges made my skin crawl anyway.
why is everyone acting so surprised? In fact, why is this even news? Sean is brilliant, but a freak. Always has been and always will be. It’s who he is and why we love him. Taking a year off–who gives a fuck. The good news in all this is he will not make that train wreck disaster of a film Three Stooges–you know, the one that should finally be the nail in Jim Carey’s coffin.
Um…I didn’t know he had done anything since Milk…And I can’t remember what he did before that unless you go back to I am Sam.
“He needs a break.” Doesn’t it take about 3 months to make a movie? Nine months vacation every year is not enough for him?
What? Someone cares if Penn makes a movie? He’s box office? I don’t think so? Chris died and Sean lives, there lies the tragedy.
Of all the pretentious, self-important actors in the world, Sean Penn is king.
Who cares if he takes a year off –or takes five years off –or starts working tomorrow.
All this pretense about wanting to be with his family. What total bullshit.
Like OMG, he was on my list of people who I don’t want to see or hear from for a year! Others include Lohan, any assorted Kardashian, Megan Fox (sorry guys, efuckcingnuff), Perez Hilton, Paltrow, Anniston’s aging uterus and Dylan @ 3:08 PM! Lighting candles now…
I hope he doesn’t do Cartel. That script was horrendous.
Thank god. The Cartel script BLEW
Rhymes with “nocaine.” Take a year off = Rehab. Hope he gets straight. Good luck, Sean.
the very fact that he had to ANNOUNCE…DA…DA…DA…DA…DAAAAA (fanfare by Sergio Leone AND John Williams as commissioned by Sean Penn)…that he’s taking a year off is MORE EVIDENCE OF HIS NARCISSISM. Robin – leave him while you still have a career and take the kids with you before it’s too late for them.
The half-dozen people who pay to see his movies are devastated.