No really?
Director George Lucas says it took 20 years to get his latest film made, "because it's an all-black movie".
Speaking on The Daily Show, Lucas said he had to self-fund Red Tails, the true story of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II.
He claimed major film studios would not back the movie because "there's no major white roles in it at all".
"I showed it to all of them and they said, 'No. We don't know how to market a movie like this,'" he said.
"They don't believe there's any foreign market for it, and that's 60% of their profit," he added.
Read more here.
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Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Cheetah dies aged 80
The passing of Old Hollywood.
A chimpanzee who apparently starred in Tarzan films in the 1930s has died at the age of 80, according to the sanctuary where he lived.
The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor said he died on Saturday of kidney failure.
He had acted alongside Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan films from 1932-34, it claimed.
Read more here.
A chimpanzee who apparently starred in Tarzan films in the 1930s has died at the age of 80, according to the sanctuary where he lived.
The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor said he died on Saturday of kidney failure.
He had acted alongside Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan films from 1932-34, it claimed.
Read more here.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Warners Brs. plans to whitewash Akira
Tuesday will be Akira's turn at bat. Warners' adaptation of the Japanese classic is looking for the actor to play Tetsuo, a young man with telekinetic abilities who becomes a dangerous weapon. (Garrett Hedlund is in negotiations to play Kaneda, the teen's older brother and leader of a motorcycle gang.) Ezra Miller, the emerging star of indie thriller We Need To Talk About Kevin, and Alden Eherenreich (who starred in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro) are the names surfacing most often with the reading.
Hard to assign blame here. Racist Hollywood producers or their counterparts in the viewing audience.
It's a bitch to live in an age soaked in racism while it simultaneously denies anything of the kind exists.
Hard to assign blame here. Racist Hollywood producers or their counterparts in the viewing audience.
It's a bitch to live in an age soaked in racism while it simultaneously denies anything of the kind exists.
Hollywood's creative bankruptcy on display with 2, count 'em, 2 Snow Whites coming
The first of two live-action Snow White movies set for release next year is getting a slightly ironic title: "Mirror Mirror."
That's the name Relativity Media has picked for its comedy-action adventure starring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, Armie Hammer as the prince and Lily Collins as Snow White. The movie is set for release March 16.
Less than three months later, on June 1, Comcast Corp.'s Universal Pictures is set to release its action flick starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in the title roles of "Snow White and the Huntsman." In Universal's version, Charlize Theron is the Evil Queen.
Although both movies make use of the fairy tale made famous by the Brothers Grimm, the studios are saying they're different enough and spaced far enough apart to both succeed.
Yeah, ok, sure
Read more here.
That's the name Relativity Media has picked for its comedy-action adventure starring Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, Armie Hammer as the prince and Lily Collins as Snow White. The movie is set for release March 16.
Less than three months later, on June 1, Comcast Corp.'s Universal Pictures is set to release its action flick starring Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in the title roles of "Snow White and the Huntsman." In Universal's version, Charlize Theron is the Evil Queen.
Although both movies make use of the fairy tale made famous by the Brothers Grimm, the studios are saying they're different enough and spaced far enough apart to both succeed.
Yeah, ok, sure
Read more here.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Two US acting unions sue IMDB because Hollywood producers are scum
Two US acting unions have criticised movie website IMDb over its policy of giving actor's ages and dates of birth.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) said the site was "facilitating age discrimination".
They claim actors are losing work because of details published on site.
Read more here.
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) said the site was "facilitating age discrimination".
They claim actors are losing work because of details published on site.
Read more here.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Ron Howard: "It's Gay" joke stays cause straight people buy more tickets
Translation: We find it hilarious, and don't care if it is offensive, I mean it's only gays, sheesh....
Fuck you Opie
Rarely has an offensive joke been defended so lamely, and because it's gays that are being laughed at, he thinks he can spend paragraphs defending it.
Had this been a "nigger" joke, would he be as defensive?
Fuck you Opie
Comics have been making gay jokes for years, but perhaps none of them has caused as much of a stir as the quip uttered by Vince Vaughn when he made fun of an electric car by saying, "It's gay," in the trailer for the upcoming Ron Howard comedy, "The Dilemma." Coming just as the media was full of stories about taunts and attacks on gay teens that drove some to suicide, the joke hit a raw nerve. After CNN's Anderson Cooper publicly took issue with the trailer's joke, saying "we've got to do something to make those words unacceptable 'cause those words are hurting kids," a full-blown controversy erupted. Universal Pictures pulled the trailer, substituting a new one scrubbed of any gay humor.
But that was three weeks ago, and this is now. Universal has confirmed to me that the joke is staying in the movie, which is slated for release in January. The decision is ultimately Howard's call, since he is a final-cut director, although my sources tell me that Howard sought advice from a variety of sources, not only from talent involved with the film but also from people at Universal and in the larger comedy community.
Read more here.
Fuck you Opie
Rarely has an offensive joke been defended so lamely, and because it's gays that are being laughed at, he thinks he can spend paragraphs defending it.
Had this been a "nigger" joke, would he be as defensive?
Fuck you Opie
Comics have been making gay jokes for years, but perhaps none of them has caused as much of a stir as the quip uttered by Vince Vaughn when he made fun of an electric car by saying, "It's gay," in the trailer for the upcoming Ron Howard comedy, "The Dilemma." Coming just as the media was full of stories about taunts and attacks on gay teens that drove some to suicide, the joke hit a raw nerve. After CNN's Anderson Cooper publicly took issue with the trailer's joke, saying "we've got to do something to make those words unacceptable 'cause those words are hurting kids," a full-blown controversy erupted. Universal Pictures pulled the trailer, substituting a new one scrubbed of any gay humor.
But that was three weeks ago, and this is now. Universal has confirmed to me that the joke is staying in the movie, which is slated for release in January. The decision is ultimately Howard's call, since he is a final-cut director, although my sources tell me that Howard sought advice from a variety of sources, not only from talent involved with the film but also from people at Universal and in the larger comedy community.
Read more here.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Details Magazine: Attack of the Clones
Details has an article highlighting the "Next Generation of Hollywood's Leading Men"
You will never seen a more lily white collection. Bet you can't tell them apart...
Read more here.
You will never seen a more lily white collection. Bet you can't tell them apart...
Read more here.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Spielberg ends career
Steven Spielberg plans a remake of 1950 classic Harvey - the tale of a man who claims his best friend is a giant invisible rabbit.
Hollywood, you are out of ideas. Leave the classics alone.
Read more here.
Hollywood, you are out of ideas. Leave the classics alone.
Read more here.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
'Kung Fu Panda' Hits A Sore Spot in China
This article starts out about "Kung Fu Panda" but quickly become a thinly veiled attack on the Chinese education system and ideology.
Why a Quintessentially Chinese Movie Was Made in Hollywood?
You know you're in trouble right here, as they call the film "quintessentially Chinese"...
The blockbuster success of an American animated movie that's set in ancient China, highlights Chinese culture, mythology and architecture and stars a kung fu fighting panda has filmmakers and ordinary Chinese wondering: Why wasn't this hit made . . . in China?
Read more here.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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