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The Hollywood writers strike can now claim its
first awards show casualty. The latest I'm hearing from
my sources as of a few minutes ago is that NBC will not be televising the Golden Globes as planned on January 13th. Insiders tell me also that the ...
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As the WGA strike begins its 4th week,
I've been told positive news about today's resumption of
talks between the writers and the producers. So positive, in fact, that I'm almost fearful to post it. But here goes: a very reliable source tells me that ...
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This is great news to that small but
passionate audience for the best TV series you're not
watching. I'm told that Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman had been searching for a way to pick up the critically acclaimed but low-rated Friday Night ...
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You know that I don't discuss celebrities unless
there's a strong Industry news component. And, except for
one posting, this has been a Lindsay Lohan-free zone. Well, sources just told me that Lohan has been un-attached from the independent feature ...
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This comes to me from three different producers,
so I know it's real: Warner Bros president of
production Jeff Robinoff has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead". This Neanderthal thinking comes after both ...
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EXCLUSIVE: I've just learned that David Letterman and
his producers yesterday morning announced to his Late Show
staff that they will be paid through the end of the year even though the show isn't on the air during the writers strike. "Dave's not ...
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The Incredible Hulk trailer is on its way.
It debuts Wednesday night at 9:56 pm on all
the MTV channels and Spike TV and VHS1. It gets shown Thursday at ShoWest. And it plays this weekend in front of Universal pics in the theaters. (But it's also ...
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SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Very early Saturday numbers confirm
Marvel's Iron Man made a platinum $20 million for
Saturday, giving it an estimated weekend total of $48 million and a new cume of $174.6M, more than enough domestic box office gross to stay No. 1 ...
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I know there have been lots of rumors
to this effect in celebrity mags and infotainment shows.
But one of my reliable TV business sources is hearing that Tori Spelling is going to be in the Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff just picked up by the CW. Well, ...
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SATURDAY UPDATE: I've just been told that the
Hollywood/Big Media CEOs who belong to the AMPTP are
furious at MGM chairman Harry Sloan for "allowing" this WGA-United Artists deal to go through. FRIDAY NIGHT: This is big. This is BIG! Because WGA ...
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UPDATE: I'm told that the The Alliance of
Motion Picture and Television Producers around 5 PM today
put a new proposal before the Writers Guild Of America. My sources say it included the following provisions: It demanded that the writers take Reality ...
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Is this the best surprise announcement ever since
the strike started?! The date they return to the
bargaining table is November 26th. I picked up rumors about this breakthrough about two hours ago, and I've just confirmed it from a WGA source. Now ...
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EXCLUSIVE: I've just been told by an insider
that "there is a chance, only a chance" that
Media Rights Capital which will be programming Sunday's two hours on the CW "may elect to take Moonlight as one of those two hours". This is developing to be ...
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NBC sources tell me that the network will
announce on Monday that Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien
will be returning. Presumably, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel won't be far behind. "A major announcement will be made by more than one network on Monday," an insider ...
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So when is the WGA membership going to
see the language of the deal that the leadership
is bringing the union? I'm told by an insider that "it has to be completed first and it is not as of now". Time is growing short before Saturday's meeting...
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EXCLUSIVE: At a time when major media organizations
are cutting back on the most vital news coverage,
how discomforting to know that some are increasing their celebrity reporting instead. I've learned that the venerable Associated Press is pouring ...
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EXCLUSIVE BULLETIN: The AMPTP presented what its sources
just told me are "a number of New Media
proposals" today at Talks Day #4. "This is the day it shook loose," a relieved insider just told me minutes ago. (This is also what I was reporting ...
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First let me say this: Warner Bros president
of production Jeff Robinov had many opportunities to deny
my Friday posting that he'd articulated a new decree to three different producers that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead", that ...
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URGENT! The denials were announced tonight at the
big WGA West membership meeting taking place right now
at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. goldenglobes.JPGThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association had requested a waiver for its NBC broadcast, but ...
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So I've just been told that Peter Chernin
did make it to Super Bowl XLII after all.
(Heck, it's News Corp's Fox Sports televising it, and Phoenix is only an hour's corporate jet ride away.) And the mogul is telling Hollywood folk there that "the ...
Televised Golden Globes Cancelled!