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Joel Silver And Warners Say He’s Staying: “I Can’t Stop The Slings & Arrows”

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 2:59pm PDTTags: Box Office, Directors, Joel Silver, Moonlight, Movies, Producers, Speed Racer, Speed Racer Box Office, Studios, Warner Bros

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 is supposedly cancelling or at the very least not renewing his deal there. Page Six is even writing about it tomorrow. But a Warner Bros spokesman told me officially today that Silver is and will be staying at the studio. So I phoned up Joel who just gave me this info exclusively: ”My deal has a year and a half to go. I won’t renew it until the deal is up. And my Dark Castle deal has 16 movies released through Warner Bros which are independently funded, and which we have all the money for. And the first one is the Guy Ritchie movie, RocknRolla, which will be in October.”

Look, say what you will, but Silver’s Lethal Weapon series and Matrix movies made gazillions for Warner Bros. Of course, he and the studio are down in the dumps about Speed Racer‘s disastrous opening. “Everyone is disturbed about this. I know there’s a long list of Hollywood types right now kinda elated about that. But Warner Bros is my family, I’ve been there for 22 years, and we’re fine. But I can’t stop the slings and arrows of the world around me.”

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More ‘Speed Racer’ Fallout: Emile Hirsch Exits United Talent; “Total Shocker”

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday May 12, 2008 @ 3:45pm PDTTags: Actors, Agents, Emile Hirsch, Movies, Speed Racer, Speed Racer Box Office, Summer Movies, UTA, UTA Actor

EXCLUSIVE: UTA was just informed today, and the actor’s agent Shani Rosenzweig is gobsmacked, I’m told. The tenpercentery had repped Emile Hirsch for seven years. The star of Speed Racer, which opened dismally over the weekend, is planning to park … Read More »

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TOLDJA! ‘Speed Racer’ Finishes Only 3rd; Facts Show Warner Bros Inflated Figures

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday May 12, 2008 @ 1:38pm PDTTags: Box Office, Directors, Movies, Speed Racer, Speed Racer Box Office, Studios, Summer Movies, What Happens in Vegas, What Happens in Vegas Box Office

Shame on the trades and mainstream media for not making the big deal out of this angle of the Sunday box office story I did. (Or, is that the reason? See my previous, … Read More »

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WHAT A DISASTER! ‘Speed Racer’ $20M Weekend Half What Warner Bros Hoped; Rival Studios Accuse WB Of Inflating #s

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday May 11, 2008 @ 2:07am PDTTags: Box Office, Comic Books, Directors, Distribution, Iron Man, Iron Man Box Office, Movies, Speed Racer, Speed Racer Box Office, Studios, Summer Movies, What Happens in Vegas Box Office

SUNDAY AM: Showing just how fiercely competitive the summer box office is right now, rival Hollywood movie studios are complaining to me they don’t believe Warner Bros’ domestic gross numbers released today. Those claim its disastrous Speed Racer came in 2nd behind Marvel’s … Read More »

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‘Speed Racer’ Crashes & Burns To Become First Summer Bomb: ‘Iron Man’ Still No. 1

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday May 9, 2008 @ 10:56pm PDTTags: Box Office, Comic Books, Directors, Iron Man, Made Of Honor, Movies, Speed Racer, Studios, Summer Movies, What Happens in Vegas

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SUNDAY AM UPDATE: WHAT A DISASTER!… Read More »

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Weekend Prediction: Problem-Plagued ‘Speed Racer’ Distant No. 2 To ‘Iron Man’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 8, 2008 @ 7:15pm PDTTags: Anime, Ashton Kutcher, Box Office, Cameron Diaz, Critics, Directors, Movies, Speed Racer, Studios, Tracking, Warner Bros, What Happens in Vegas

The last time I saw a studio resort to prayer for a movie opening was Universal for Evan Almighty. And the Box Office Gods didn’t make it a hit pic. But now Warner Bros is figuratively on its knees praying for at … Read More »

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PETA Asking Hollywood To Whistleblow

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 1, 2008 @ 3:15pm PDTTags: Movies, Speed Racer, Studios, Variety, Warner Bros

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) today claims someone from the set of the upcoming Warner Bros film Speed Racer reported that one of the young chimpanzees used in the role of Chim Chim was beaten during filming. … Read More »

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