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TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Aug 08 :: 22:17

Yeah, dude, you've been doing a phenomenal job of reaching one stalemate after another and shutting down a huge chunk of your industry. All so you can try to get something none of the other unions could get. Stunningly phenomenal...

SAG Says "Informal" Talks Continue
Screen Actors Guild National Executive Director Doug Allen assured members Sunday that union negotiators are continuing to participate in informal talks with members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. "Progress doesn't have to occur directly across a table," he wrote in an email. "Discussions through alternative channels are ongoing as we work toward a fair deal for actors as soon as possible." While Allen referred to several issues that remain a top priority for union negotiators, including jurisdiction over programs produced for the Internet, residuals for new media productions, product integration, and force majeure, conspicuously missing from the message was any mention of an increase DVD residuals, a matter the AMPTP has said it will refuse to discuss. Meanwhile, in an interview with New York Times, union President Alan Rosenberg criticized an insurgent union members who have criticized SAG's negotiating strategy and have put up a slate of candidates to oppose the current leadership. "It is not productive to come out and attack leadership during a negotiation," Rosenberg told the newspaper. Asked about charges that leaders had made mistakes in the negotiations, he replied: "It's a lie! We haven't bungled anything. We've been doing a phenomenal job."

TheCentralScrutinizer · 04 Aug 08 :: 22:38

Sure hope Mr. Freeman's gonna be OK...

Morgan Freeman In Car Accident, In "Serious Condition"
HOLBROOK MOHR | August 4, 2008 03:03 PM EST |

JACKSON, Miss. — Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday after being seriously injured in a car accident near his home in Mississippi.
Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Freeman, 71, is in serious condition. The hospital is about 90 miles north of the accident scene in rural Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta.
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Ben Williams said Freeman was driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima belonging to Demaris Meyer of Memphis when the car left a rural highway and flipped several times shortly before midnight Sunday.
"There's no indication that either alcohol or drugs were involved," Williams said. He said both Freeman and Meyer were wearing seat belts. The woman's condition was not immediately available.
Freeman was airlifted to the hospital in Tennessee.
Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, said he arrived at the accident scene on Mississippi Highway 32 soon after it happened about 5 miles west of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.
McFerrin said it appeared that Freeman's car was airborne when it left the highway and landed in a ditch.
"They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle," McFerrin said. "He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point."
McFerrin said bystanders converged on the scene trying to get a glimpse of the actor.
When one person tried to snap a photo with a cell phone camera, Freeman joked, "no freebies, no freebies," McFerrin said.
Freeman won an Oscar for his role in "Million Dollar Baby." His screen credits also include "The Shawshank Redemption," "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Dark Knight," now in theaters.
He was born in Memphis, Tenn., but spent much of his childhood in the Mississippi Delta. He is a co-owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale.
The hospital where Freeman is being treated is commonly known as The Med, and is an acute-care teaching facility that serves patients within 150 miles of Memphis.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 05 Aug 08 :: 05:16

That's horrible to hear. I hope he recovers and gets out of the hospital soon.

TeeJay · 05 Aug 08 :: 09:06

This morning on the radio they said he had a broken elbow and broken upper arm, but that he was sitting in his hospital bed, talking on the phone. Looks like he was relatively lucky.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Aug 08 :: 17:35

Based on this, I hope it's not true. If it is, I'm sure it'll be just as craptastic as Eddie & The Cruisers II...

Is There An Unofficial Sequel To STREETS OF FIRE On The Way?
Or is someone just making the ultimate Walter Hill tribute film?
I can't say that I'm terribly interested in a STREETS OF FIRE 2 absent the integral contributions of Hill, Larry Gross, Ry Cooder and Jim Steinman, but I am tickled by the notion of the film industry's Schlockmeister General, Albert Pyun, attempting to cash in on largely forgotten box office bomb from the mid-80s.
Mind you, it's just a notion. Judging from the plot summary submitted to us by reader "Clyde the Bartender", there's no overt reason to believe this is a continuation of Hill's criminally underappreciated "rock and roll fable". Here's the gist:
A soldier who has been fighting a long war is driven mad because he no longer believes in any purpose or righteous truth behind the killing. He comes home to a surreal world looking for his first and only love from his youth, believing she will rescue him from his demons. On the road to Edge City he encounters two seductive spree killers who oppose his efforts to find his love and the redemption he desperately seeks.
Nothing doing, right? Well, here's where it gets weird. The soldier's name is "Cody", and he's being played by Michael Paré. You also have Deborah Van Valkenburgh cast as "Sister" - which is intriguing since she had a brief supporting turn as Tom Cody's sis in STREETS OF FIRE. There's even a female character known as "McCoy", which was the handle of Amy Madigan's tough-as-nails sidekick in Hill's flick. And, yes, there's even a brunette chick named Ellen (though she doesn't appear to be the "first and only love" from Cody's youth).
I realize this isn't earth-shattering stuff for 99% of our readership, but I though it was worth passing along to the the twenty or thirty of you who have "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" and "Nowhere Fast" on your iTunes. Could this all just be an avalanche of coincidences? Possible, but I doubt it. Whatever it is, I'd much rather have a new Walter Hill movie than an Albert Pyun-directed retread.
Thanks again to "Clyde the Bartender" for sussing all of this out.
Faithfully submitted,
Mr. Beaks

Editsound · 05 Aug 08 :: 18:42

That is so bizarre, and I do have tonight is what it means to be young and nowhere fast on my itunes.

It does feel more like a fan of the film using the names and casting, not really like a sequel.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Aug 08 :: 20:08

I would have them on my mp3 player if I had the music on CD.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Aug 08 :: 23:32

Hey Carol, how's your weather today?

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Aug 08 :: 23:39

Jeebus! More friggin' He Said/He Said...

No Informal Talks, Says AMPTP
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Monday denied claims by Screen Actors Guild National Executive Director Doug Allen that AMPTP members are engaging in informal talks with SAG on a new contract. "No meetings, formal or informal, regarding these negotiations have taken place ... and no meetings are pending," the AMPTP statement said. The group, however, appeared to open the door a crack to the possibility of a resumption of formal talks. "The AMPTP is always interested in exploring ways to reach an agreement, and if SAG has an approach that's consistent with the parameters of our June 30 final offer, then we are open to hearing that," it said.

Why can't these idiots get off their collective lump and DO SOMETHING?!?

justme · 06 Aug 08 :: 03:43

They are doing something. Both sides are posturing and firing off press releases with wild abandon.:doh:

TheCentralScrutinizer · 06 Aug 08 :: 03:52

Ohhhhhh, so that's what Rosenberg is doing a phenomenal job of! Now, I get it.

justme · 06 Aug 08 :: 03:58

He is a world-class posturer and firer off of press releases.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 06 Aug 08 :: 22:15

Yeah, what Chernin said!

Chernin: Producers Won't Sweeten Deal Offered To SAG
News Corp COO Peter Chernin, who is often credited with fathering the compromise that ended the writers' strike, says that the current impasse with the Screen Actors Guild is "a source of enormous frustration" for him and fellow media executives. Appearing on the Charlie Rose interview show on PBS, Chernin insisted that the studios are adamant against giving SAG a better deal than they negotiated with the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. "Nor do the difficult economic times justify a better deal for anyone else. It's hard for me to understand why a deal that's good enough for key, key creative partners -- the writers, the directors and the 40 percent of the actors represented by AFTRA -- isn't good enough for SAG." Meanwhile, Membership First, the group that currently controls SAG unveiled the list of 33 candidates for its board Tuesday, the best known of whom are JoBeth Williams, Joe Bologna, Scott Wilson, Keith Carradine and Joely Fisher.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 Aug 08 :: 21:45

How to lose a lucrative job through utter stupidity...

Harrison Ford Is Indiana Jones, Not Shia, Says Lucas
Shia LaBeouf will not become the next Indiana Jones, George Lucas has told MTV News. Although Lucas has previously hinted that LaBeouf would take over the franchise, he reversed himself Wednesday, saying, "Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones. If it was Mutt Williams [the character LaBeouf plays in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull] it would be Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis or something." Lucas did say that he's planning another Indiana Jones sequel and that Ford will star in it. What he's looking for now, he indicated is what Alfred Hitchcock used to refer to as a "McGuffin," an artifact to propel the story. "They are very hard to find," he said. "It's like archeology. It takes a huge amount of research to come up with something that will fit."

Yay. Now maybe I'll be able to watch the next Indy if they make one.

Illinoisguy1 · 07 Aug 08 :: 23:05

Like it or not there will be a time when Ford is just too old to be Indy and if they want to continue the series they will have to "pass the torch" on to someone else

Personally I have no problem with Shia and will be buying Indy 4 when it comes out on DVD in November.

Reading between the lines it doesn't say that Shia won't star in the #5 at all, it just looks like they are saying that Shia can't be Indy and/or that Indy 5 can't be without Ford. The vibe I'm getting is that they are also saying that if Shia was to star w/o Ford that Shia's character just isn't the same as Indy - that it would be completely different type of character. In other words he would likely be a different type of "hero".

magicalturkey · 07 Aug 08 :: 23:09

Shia's really been acting like an idiot. I hope he learns his lesson and doesn't land a big movie. When the time comes that the torch does need to be passed, my top choice would be Matthew Davis to take over, even though it would basically be impossible to do. Shia would be down on my list near Dakota Fanning.

Illinoisguy1 · 07 Aug 08 :: 23:20

speaking of Dakota Fanning, I have only seen her in the War of the Worlds remake and gee was her character annoying. Her almost constant screaming just got on my nerves.

I don't really know who could replace Ford, but it does have to be somebody of a certain body-type. Shia currently looks a little too scrawny to be believable as an action star. Of course you don't want someone like Arnold S. to star in it because that would be a tad too extreme. Someone who looks strong, athletic and probably in their 30's.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 Aug 08 :: 23:28

He doesn't respect what he has --- or much of anything, if you listened to the interviews they aired last week. So he should lose it. All of it. Period.

And I only posted one of the several articles all over the web about this. Before all of Sheephead's "trouble", Lucas was all for having him take a bigger role in the franbchise. Now he's back-peddling. Hard. Lucas is no dummy. He doesn't want a film he working on to be shut down for a month because the baby star is acting like a spoiled punk.

magicalturkey · 07 Aug 08 :: 23:42

Illinoisguy1 wrote:

I don't really know who could replace Ford, but it does have to be somebody of a certain body-type. Shia currently looks a little too scrawny to be believable as an action star. Of course you don't want someone like Arnold S. to star in it because that would be a tad too extreme. Someone who looks strong, athletic and probably in their 30's.

Like Matt Davis . He looks a little bit like Harrison Ford and he definatly has the right body. Just to prove my point...

TheCentralScrutinizer · 07 Aug 08 :: 23:48

Yeah, he looks enough like Ford. Can he act? What am I saying? A tree stump could act circles around Sheephead. Sign me up.

Illinoisguy1 · 07 Aug 08 :: 23:53

Perhaps Shia has some personal demons he needs to deal with first, perhaps he's an alcoholic. There are rumors that he may be going to rehab. It seems like he's a nice enough guy and all, just that he needs to work on some personal problems.

I read the MTV Movie Blog and it doesn't really say that Shia won't be in Indy 5 at all. So there is a possibility of him being in it. Perhaps they'll spin-off the character into it's own film.

justme · 08 Aug 08 :: 00:03

magicalturkey wrote:

Illinoisguy1 wrote:
I don't really know who could replace Ford, but it does have to be somebody of a certain body-type. Shia currently looks a little too scrawny to be believable as an action star. Of course you don't want someone like Arnold S. to star in it because that would be a tad too extreme. Someone who looks strong, athletic and probably in their 30's.
Like Matt Davis . He looks a little bit like Harrison Ford and he definatly has the right body. Just to prove my point...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/ … davis2.jpg

Well, he's not Karen Allen's kid. Maybe he's Capshaw's? :clueless:

Seriously, I don't even know if they should make Indiana Jones movies forever. Harrison Ford is 66. I can understand if Lucas & Spielberg want to put a nice, pretty bow on the series. But there were 19 years between "Last Crusade" and "Crystal Skull". None of those guys have that kind of time anymore.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 08 Aug 08 :: 00:19

Yeah, it's time Lucas tried oh, I don't know, a new idea.

Illinoisguy1 · 08 Aug 08 :: 00:55

What kind of gets me is that hardly anyone made fun of a 66 year old Harrison Ford being in Indy 4. When they were making the Star Trek films with the original cast they were always making fun of how old they were on such shows as In Living Color. But they were in their 50s & 60s and Kelley was the oldest at 71 when Star Trek 6 was released.

You know what I kind of hate is Lucas always tinkering with his films. Yeah they're his films, but can't he just stop updating the fx.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 08 Aug 08 :: 01:43

Well that probably has to do with the fact that it was sad to see Captain Kirk in a girdle and toupe. Ford still looks quite good.

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