The season has barely started, yet the blood-letting is well under way. Yesterday, CBS canceled the Hugh Jackman-helmed quasi-musical, “Viva Laughlin,”. Billed as ‘an offbeat song-and-dance drama’ it achieved such jaw-droppingly bad ratings, CBS pulled the plug after just two airings.This is the second cancellation in what is still a young season. The [...]
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In yet another sad display of Hollywood’s repulsive fetish for placing profit above all other concerns it was announced yesterday that Andy Garcia, John Cleese, Alfred Molina and Aishwarya Rai will be joining Steve Martin in Columbia Pictures/MGM’s avarice-driven sequel “The Pink Panther 2.” Jean Reno and Emily Mortimer will also reprise their roles.The [...] It’s just been announced that on July 9th, Paramount Pictures exceeded $1-billion in domestic ticket sales for the first six-months of 2007. This is the earliest they, or any major studio has ever achieved that feat. By this weekend they’ll pass $1.04 billion for the year – their highest annual Box Office income since the [...] Did you ever have one of those days where, before you’d even finished properly waking up you received some news that made you debate whether you should just open a vein now, thus avoiding any need to endure the remainder of this radiant nightmare? Well, dear readers, this is such a day… It’s been announced [...] Once again, Hollywood learns the hard way that while special effects can help make a movie great, they do not make a great movie. Universal’s ‘Evan Almighty,’ the most expensive comedy in cinematic history at a reported $210-million, grossed just $32-million in its debut. And its second weekend failed to meet even that lamentable number. [...] |
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