Actors Guild Faces Drama In Its Ranks
By PETER SANDERS
April 3, 2008; Page B1 of the Wall Street Journal
As the Screen Actors Guild gets set to begin contract negotiations with the major Hollywood studios — and tries to avert a crippling strike like the recent walkout by writers — the union first must address some strife [...]
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Screen Actors Guild Internal Turmoil
05-Apr-08 Mercedes Peterson is trying out for a reality show but she needs to have people vote her in!
She spent several years in Springfield until a recent move with her husband and now she’s got a national TV opportunity.
Go to the website and cast your vote for a former Springfieldian!!!
Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film
17-Mar-08On Ozarks Public Television this evening at 8:00 pm. The American Experience.
LAS VEGAS - A new study by The Nielsen Co. found that the PG-rated movies with the least profanity made the most money at the U.S. box office.
Sexuality or violence in those films had less to do with success than the language, the Nielsen PreView group said in a study being released Thursday.
“The reality [...]
“John Adams” stars Paul Giamatti as Adams, Laura Linney as his wife, Abigail; Tom Wilkinson as Benjamin Franklin; David Morse as George Washington and Stephen Dillane as Thomas Jefferson. The seven episode series, based on the best-selling book by historian David McCullough, covers more than 50 years, from the Boston Massacre in 1770 to the [...]
From the Wall Street Journal, the story of efforts to reach an audience not known for attending films - women over 35
In the movie business, word-of-mouth marketing is usually reserved for hipster or art-house films like “Juno” — they are screened for key audiences in hopes of generating positive buzz. Now, the tactic is being [...]
Writers Guild End Their Walkout
13-Feb-08LOS ANGELES — The striking members of the Writers Guild of America voted overwhelmingly late yesterday to end the three-month walkout that has crippled the entertainment industry.
Patric Varrone, president of Writers Guild of America West, announced the end of the strike against the Hollywood studios in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday.
The vote by 3,775 of the [...]
Super Bowl Ad Preview - Anheuser Busch
23-Jan-08The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the process Anheuser Busch goes through preparing their Super Bowl ad blitz while also looking at what didn’t make the cut.
Anheuser-Busch is well known for its funny and irreverent Super Bowl commercials, and there will be plenty of those this year. But two of them were deemed [...]
80th Academy Awards Nominees Announced
22-Jan-08The nominees were announced this morning. All the details can be found on the Oscar website. In the meantime, I’ll point to some nominees that have a nominal local connection. In other words, they are part of a Brad Pitt production
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in “The Assassination [...]
Honors For Nonfiction Films
11-Jan-08We pointed to a story in the Wall Street Journal late last year on the Oscar’s issues with Documentary Films. Well, there’s a group of filmmakers and film festival programmers who have decided that Documentary Films deserve more. From AJ Schnack’s blog
Why should an artist of any stripe put focus and effort into [...]
