In a never-before-seen interview from 1970 that just surfaced on YouTube, The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling talks with SF author James Gunn about his show, the stories he created and his own ability to actually write science fiction…
Shia LaBeouf Tops Forbes’ Best-Bang-for-the-Buck List
Attention studio moguls: In case you didn’t already know, Shia LaBeouf is a good value. At least according to Forbes magazine, which this week ranked the “Transformers” star No. 1 on its list of Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck…
https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/shia-labeouf-tops-forbes-best-actors-buck-list-20529
SAG plan tightening its belt
Eligibility rules altered for health plan
https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023523.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Google in Talks With Studios for On-Demand Video
While Google gets ready to fight an appeal from Viacom in its billion-dollar copyright lawsuit, the search giant is in negotiations with Hollywood studios to launch a “global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010,…
https://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/report-google-talks-hollywood-studios-demand-video-20494
3DTV Clashes With Multitasking
It’s impossible to text, instant message or surf while watching 3DTV, and that’s an obstacle to adoption, according to the latest very expensive research…
Pay TV Subscribers Dwindle
…People abandoned cable TV in record numbers during the second quarter of 2010, according to analysts at SNL Kagan. Cable lost 711,000 subscribers, with six of eight MSOs reporting their worst quarterly video losses as well.
The Internet–for once–isn’t believe to be driving the exodus. It’s the diminished economy and the resulting unemployment and poor housing starts…
Is 3DTV Unhealthy?
Blockbuster to file bankruptcy in September
Source says that video retailer could close 500 to 800 of its stores
Dustin Hoffman Confirmed For Little Fockers, But Can He Save It?
When we reported earlier this month that Dustin Hoffman was getting dragged back in to the Meet the Parents franchise in a last-ditch effort to save Little Fockers, it sounded like he’d just pop into a scene or two and leave it at that. But Deadline is reporting that Hoffman has officially confirmed his paricipation, and not only does it include four brand-new scenes, but they wound up paying him the exact exorbitant amount he was asking the first go around, which caused them not to hire him begin with…
…Little Fockers will reportedly be costing at least $100 million, which is yet another insane overspend for Universal, the studio that also paid $100 million for Land of the Lost…
Is Hollywood settling into a prolonged recession of its own?
No one needs any introduction to America’s prolonged recession, which has put millions of people out of work and set the country on edge, creating an unprecedented level of angst, anger and political unrest. But even though this year’s box office grosses are up a little over a year ago — due mainly to higher ticket prices and 3-D — Hollywood remains in the grip of a serious recession of its own…