Jun 26 2008
News Dailies: Wall-E, meet Oscar; Polanski casts a few ‘Ghosts’
Could Oscar come early this year? Heath Ledger’s turn as The Joker has generated Academy Award buzz when the first trailers hit earlier this year. That movie doesn’t come out for three weeks, but Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers already put up his review — the first professional review of the film — here . In short: It’s the stuff dreams are made of.
The Hollywood Reporter has an article claiming Wall-E (for which there plenty of positive reviews online) the start of Oscar season. In the past, Brad Bird has tried unsuccessfully to lobby for his film to be a nominated for Best Picture rather than Best Animated Feature. Could Andrew Stanton and Wall-E be the first of the PIXAR films to break that barrier?
Now that she has Sex and the City behind her, Sarah Jessica Parker is going to play a single woman living in New York in The Ivy Chronicles. It’s not SATC 2.0, but a flick about a divorce who loses her job, downgrades apartments, and starts her own business.
Everyone’s favorite deportee — OK, deportee isn’t exactly fair, but I couldn’t think of what you call someone who isn’t allowed into a country for fear of being arrested for a crime committed decades ago. Anyways, Roman Polanksi has cast Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton and Pierce Brosnan in The Ghost, a remake of the Patrick Swayze classic. That’s a lie, it’s actually an adaptation of Robert Harris’ novel about a ghostwriter who finds his life in danger after filling in for a dead writer who was writing the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister
The future of To Catch a Predator is in the air after NBC settled a $105 million law suit with a woman who claimed the producers pushed police to arrest her brother after he didn’t show up for one of the show’s trademark sting operations and he killed himself. The settlement comes months after a judge said a jury could say NBC “crossed the line from responsible journalism to irresponsible and reckless intrusion into law enforcement.”
Tired of product placement on your favorite TV shows? Well it’s not going anywhere, if anything it’ll probably going to get worse thanks to TiVo, but the Writers Guild of America West recently talked with the FCC about the problems with product placement and how it should change. You can read a short, interesting article about it here.
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