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Writers Strike Update: We Are All Screwed

Well it looks like all our worst fears regarding the Writers Strike has come to fruition: the studios have said “screw’em” and are digging in their heels. Which will translate into TV becoming a vast wasteland of crappy Reality TV programming, and on the big screen — well, it’s still unclear about the big screen. [...]

December 11th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

Lust Caution Rules Golden Horse Awards

Taiwan is lustful for Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution”. The World War II-era drama starring Tony Leung and Tang Wei was the big winner at the 2007 Golden Horse awards, the most prestigious Chinese-language film awards in that part of the world. Besides nabbing Lee the Outstanding Taiwanese filmmaker of the year, it also landed star [...]

December 8th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Writers Strike Stalls Castlevania and Ironbow

No haunted castles in 2008, it would appear. (Wait, “Castlevania” is about a haunted castle, right?) The ongoing writer’s strike has claimed two more victims — the videogame-to-movie adaptation “Castlevania” and the William Tell biopic “Ironbow”. “Castlevania” was slated to go into production in April under the direction of Sylvain White, and “Ironbow”, to be [...]

December 5th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

China Bans Hollywood Films for 3 Months

Oh, those wacky Mainland Chinese. If they’re not doing something silly like banning the innocuous “Rush Hour 3″ for daring to have Chinese villains, they’re banning Hollywood, period. That’s the news from Variety, who reports that the Chinese ban came from the communist country’s Propaganda Ministry. (Geez, is it me or am I the only [...]

December 5th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

Reese Witherspoon is Hollywood’s Highest Paid Actress

Hollywood loves Reese Witherspoon. Or, to be more precise, America loves Reese Witherspoon when she’s falling in love on the big screen, and as a result, Hollywood loves her, too. The star of sappy romantic comedies like “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Just Like Heaven” topped the list of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood with [...]

December 3rd, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Thai Filmmakers are So Screwed

It was bad enough when Thai Government censors started splashing jars of vaseline on entire scenes of Thai movies that involved people pointing guns at each other or someone smoking. This, mind you, while something as reprehensible as a woman being brutally raped on a floor is left completely untouched. Now the Thai Government is [...]

November 26th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Is the Writers Strike at an End? God, Please Say Yes.

The writers strike is killing me. It’s costing me a number of my favorite shows, and one of them, Heroes, has already found its second season sliced in half because of it. But wait, is that good news I hear coming out of Hollywood? Why yes! Deadline Hollywood is hearing rumblings that something may be [...]

November 26th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Writers Strike Postpones Angels and Demons to 2009

TV viewers have already sort of gotten used to this type of news, but now movie fans will have to adjust to it as well: the ongoing writers strike has claimed its first movie victim, this time it’s the production of “Angels and Demons”, the prequel/sequel to the unfathomably popular “The Da Vinci Code”. The [...]

November 16th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

FOX Versus Seth MacFarlane — WHO YA GOT??

Seth MacFarlane’s relationshipo with the FOX network has always been a little, shall we say, contentious. Of course, having a TV show that was canceled by the network, only to be resurrected again when the DVD sales receipts came in didn’t help matters. But after returning to the FOX line-up for a few years now, [...]

November 14th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

34th Annual People’s Choice Awards Nominees List

So, um, the 34th Annual People’s Choice Awards has sent out their list of nominees, and all of Hollywood is afluttered with what movie got on the list and which ones were left out. I’m just kidding, of course. Hollywood has as much respect for the People’s Choice Awards as they do for, well, George [...]

November 11th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Writers Strike Delays 24 Season 7

The first casualty of the writers strike, which is only three days in, has surfaced, and it’s FOX’s action-adventure series 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, set to go into its seventh season in its normal premiere date, mid-January 2008. Now that won’t happen, because FOX is worried they won’t have nearly enough episodes to complete the [...]

November 7th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Is the Writers Strike Insanity and Too Stupid?

I don’t have any horses in this current spat between the Writers Guild of America and their members versus the suits in Hollywood. To be honest with you, it all sounds a lot like two rich guys arguing about who will get that nickel they both happened to run across at exactly the same time, [...]