Reuters - Call it shrewd
marketing: A film about the shooting of a U.S. president is
released on home video just before the Fourth of July, in a
presidential election year, no less.
Reuters - Male cheerleaders are
taking to the court at Disney, which is developing a dance
comedy inspired by the professional squad that performs at
every Chicago Bulls home game. -- read full article
Reuters - No offense to the
red-skinned, gun-wielding, cigar-chomping demon, but he had to
rely on several real-life heroes before "Hellboy 2: The Golden
Army" could make it to the screen.
Reuters - Robert Downey Jr.,
riding high at the box office with "Iron Man," is in final
negotiations to play Sherlock Holmes in director Guy Ritchie's
movie about the super sleuth. -- read full article
AP - The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 15 any proposed wage increases would not be retroactive, a person with knowledge of unreleased details of the offer said Wednesday. -- read full article
Reuters - A day after losing a bid to scuttle
a rival union's new labor contract with Hollywood's studios,
Screen Actors Guild leaders insisted on Wednesday they were
determined to negotiate a better deal, despite the studios'
assertion that bargaining is over.
