CHARLES BRONSON'S ESTATE HAS A DEBT WISH
And by that I mean they think they're owed money from MGM and Warner Bros. over the TV and home video cash from his lesser known titles Telefon, and St. Ives, and they've filed a lawsuit.
Personally, I think it's a shame. I am automatically assuming that the studios involved are guilty as homemade sin. I know that blows chunks on the tradition of "innocent until proven otherwise," but this happens way too often for there not be any meat on these bones.
Yet again another product of the super-short-term thinking that dominates the whole Hollywood business system. The folks who created the convoluted book-cooking recipes are long gone, the people running the studio now don't give a crap because it allows them to inflate their bonuses until they get fired, and neither do their replacements, because they know they won't be there long either.
Yet all complain about the high costs of doing business in Hollywood, from bloated star salaries, to constant litigation, and don't seem to see that such behavior is the cause of these problems.
To lighten the vitriol, here's the trailer for one of Bronson's lost classics, I think you'll enjoy it.
And by that I mean they think they're owed money from MGM and Warner Bros. over the TV and home video cash from his lesser known titles Telefon, and St. Ives, and they've filed a lawsuit.Personally, I think it's a shame. I am automatically assuming that the studios involved are guilty as homemade sin. I know that blows chunks on the tradition of "innocent until proven otherwise," but this happens way too often for there not be any meat on these bones.
Yet again another product of the super-short-term thinking that dominates the whole Hollywood business system. The folks who created the convoluted book-cooking recipes are long gone, the people running the studio now don't give a crap because it allows them to inflate their bonuses until they get fired, and neither do their replacements, because they know they won't be there long either.
Yet all complain about the high costs of doing business in Hollywood, from bloated star salaries, to constant litigation, and don't seem to see that such behavior is the cause of these problems.
To lighten the vitriol, here's the trailer for one of Bronson's lost classics, I think you'll enjoy it.
A CASE OF BAD IDEA IN A GOOD IDEA'S CLOTHING
Lionsgate TV is going to do a reality series about swingers. Now this isn't a series about the movie with Vince Vaughn, but about rich suburbanites who like to swap spouses to alleviate the boredom of their lives.
Now this is a case, as I said in the title, of a bad idea hiding in a good idea's clothing. On the surface it looks like it's got it all, good looking, upscale people, sex, sex, and sex.
But there's a problem that will probably sink the whole thing.
Swingers are boring.
Previous projects about swingers promise all sorts of lurid excitement, and what you get is a bunch of pseudo-philosophical noodling to justify their extra-marital canoodling.
It gets really boring, really quickly.
The best thing that can happen for the producers is if the lives of the people they'll be following fall apart completely during the filming. Then you get that schadenfreude market that keeps most reality shows alive.
I'M TOO SEXY FOR THIS BLOG
Some folks are wondering if Marvel is relying too much on sex to sell their upcoming X-Men: First Class.
Personally, I don't see a problem.
I've had to deal with swingers.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the ones I've met, they're real #@$holes.