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Spielberg And Will Smith May Re-Do A Korean Epic - Posted November 7, 2008
Will Smith and Steven Spielberg may enact their first partnership on the remake of a Korean thriller, Chan Wook Park's "Oldboy," for DreamWorks and Universal Pictures, Variety says. The film would mark one of the earlier DreamWorks/Universal efforts in the new deal between the two studios. DreamWorks will secure the remake rights... [FishBowlLA]

Universal's Masters Might Be Fine, But What of the Prints? - Posted June 3, 2008
True reports from all corners indicate Universal's film vault was unscathed in the fire, but that's not the end of the story -- and some classic film folks are clearly worried. A tipster sent us this e-mail from the Capri Theatre (in Alabama) that sounds a lot more dire than anything else... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Oct. 11, 2007 - Posted October 11, 2007
DiCaprio, Clooney Team Up for WB Warner Bros. has a super A-list project on its hands courtesy of a big-screen adaptation of Beau Willimon's play called Farragut North, Var's Michael Fleming reports. Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the pic with George Clooney "eyeing" the project to direct. Both actor's respective... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Oct. 11, 2007 - Posted October 11, 2007
DiCaprio, Clooney Team Up for WB Warner Bros. has a super A-list project on its hands courtesy of a big-screen adaptation of Beau Willimon's play called Farragut North, Var's Michael Fleming reports. Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in the pic with George Clooney "eyeing" the project to direct. Both actor's respective... [FishBowlLA]

Elle's Women in Hollywood Roundtable - Posted October 11, 2007
Salon's Rebecca Traister sits in on Elle's Women in Hollywood round table discussion on the state of show biz, why there aren't more women directors, and so on. The group wonders why women don't go to opening weekends, forgetting that people watch movies lots of other ways than at the multiplex,... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Oct. 3, 2007 - Posted October 3, 2007
DreamWorks, Paramount Update DreamWorks is working through tension with parent company Paramount Pictures with the latter reporting boxoffice receipts for DreamWorks under the newly-created DreamWorks-Paramount banner, Variety is reporting. The move, Var says, "could help pave the way for a scenario in which DreamWorks becomes more of an autonomous production company." Read... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Oct. 3, 2007 - Posted October 3, 2007
DreamWorks, Paramount Update DreamWorks is working through tension with parent company Paramount Pictures with the latter reporting boxoffice receipts for DreamWorks under the newly-created DreamWorks-Paramount banner, Variety is reporting. The move, Var says, "could help pave the way for a scenario in which DreamWorks becomes more of an autonomous production company." Read... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: August 21, 2007 - Posted August 21, 2007
Variety's Daniel Frankel and Ben Fritz tag team on a story about the drama surrounding Paramount and DreamWorks Animation's DVD decisions. Paper announced on Tuesday that the studios have exclusively picked HD DVD for all future releases. The story details the move, saying that it's the third by Paramount in an... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: August 21, 2007 - Posted August 21, 2007
Variety's Daniel Frankel and Ben Fritz tag team on a story about the drama surrounding Paramount and DreamWorks Animation's DVD decisions. Paper announced on Tuesday that the studios have exclusively picked HD DVD for all future releases. The story details the move, saying that it's the third by Paramount in an... [FishBowlLA]

Knocked Up--More Possible Lawsuits? - Posted June 15, 2007
Suing Judd Apatow and Universal has become a cottage industry since Rebecca Eckler made a plucky Canadian stand against mammoth American corporate greed. Melissa Summers at Suburban Bliss weighs her options. Patricia Pearson, who wrote Playing House, finds way too many similarities between her book and Knocked Up. PH: an amiable, underemployed, pot-smoking... [FishBowlLA]

ClearPlay Gets Rid of Sex, But Keeps Plenty of Hubris Around - Posted May 8, 2007
ClearPlay is very, very proud of itself. After distancing itself from companies that create "family-friendly" versions of hit films, the DVD manufacturer sent a press release with this headline: ClearPlay 1, Steven Spielberg 0 Powerful words, little company. The press release goes on to tout ClearPlay as the stick-our-fingers-in-your-eye victor of a Congressional... [FishBowlLA]

In the Trades: Remakes, Remakes, Remakes - Posted February 1, 2007
Russell Crowe will star as the not-as-bad-as-we've-been-led-to-believe Sheriff of Nottingham, based on a spec script from Ethan Reiff and Cyris Voris of Sleeper Cell. Imagine's Brian Glazer will produce for Universal. Jennifer Garner will star in a remake of the perfect-the-way-it-is-now, so-why-mess-it-up? 1945 film Christmas in Connecticut. Barbara Stanwyck was... [FishBowlLA]

In the Trades: Remakes, Remakes, Remakes - Posted February 1, 2007
Russell Crowe will star as the not-as-bad-as-we've-been-led-to-believe Sheriff of Nottingham, based on a spec script from Ethan Reiff and Cyris Voris of Sleeper Cell. Imagine's Brian Glazer will produce for Universal. Jennifer Garner will star in a remake of the perfect-the-way-it-is-now, so-why-mess-it-up? 1945 film Christmas in Connecticut. Barbara Stanwyck was... [FishBowlLA]