Screenwriters at four major studios have had their contracts cancelled. The studios include 20th Century Fox Television, CBS Paramount Network Television, NBC Universal and Warner Bros. Television. Now for those of you that thought writers aren’t being paid enough, apparently they already get between US$500,000 and $2M per year to develop ideas for new shows.
This […]

RIP, Vampira aka Maila Nurmi. [OMG!]
Director John Singleton really, really wants Woody Harrelson to play Murdock in the upcoming The A-Team movie. Ice Cube is a potential to play B.A. Baracus (the role Mr. T played in the original series). [Cinematical]
Philip Glass, a great modern composer whose scores have often been used in film, will […]

Critics and reviewers of any sort, be it tech, food, music, books, theatre, or film, are always a target, especially if they write something negative. That’s understandable: if you can dish it out, you’d better be able to take it. If the returned criticism is constructive. But what do you do if it consists of […]

Could Hollywood be over? A short post at Variety last week mentions noted Hollywood publicist Julian Myers - who is nearing 90 years of age. He seems to think that the current WGA strike, the impending IATSE strike, and unionists crossing other union lines will trigger violence as well as the end of Hollywood.
Umm, that’s […]

I owe HOW much tax? Apparently Wesley Snipes owes taxes on nearly US$38M earned between 1999 and 2004, possibly due to bad advice. Or not. Ouch, dude. Maybe he was too busy doing method acting studies for a role? [News Yahoo]
Natalie Portman looks good blonde. [FirstShowing]
A Star Trek trailer is coming before the end of […]

Here are the current top ten movies based on box office receipts from the past weekend. We’ve added some links to our own posts about each. The number in brackets represents the position last week, if available.

[-] The Bucket List. Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman.

[-] First Sunday. Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan.

[2] Juno. […]

This is a roundup of recent movie, TV, and entertainment related news.
Dusty Cohl, founder of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) died Friday after a long struggle with cancer. The TIFF is often considered one of the most important film festivals in North America and always draws Hollywood’s celebs.
Bob and Harvey Weinstein reached an independent […]

Here’s the Firefly/ Serenity saga in a nutshell, from a production point of view:

Joss Whedon, creator of Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, comes up with an original space opera series, Firefly, but it dies on the table after the airing on only 11 of the 14 episodes.
Fans go nuts online and offer their support […]

By the way, if you like Philip K. Dick movies, you’ll probably like a lot of his dystopian science fiction short stories and novels. And in that case, you might also like the speculative/science fiction writing of Jack Womack.
Womack’s writing is ripe for film adaptations, especially Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Ambient, Terraplane and Elvissey. […]

Philip Kindred Dick, aka Philip K. Dick, aka PKD, was often considered a science fiction writer that was way ahead of his time. He was critically acclaimed and won several writing awards, but was not particularly successful commercially for most of his career. Much of his writing was dystopic and unnerving, but filmmakers have found […]