Virgins, Stones, and Strike Fever! Trade Roughage, 07/31/07

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

If it’s a labor dispute that finally gets The Rum Diary off the ground, then so be it. “The latest statistics for filming in L.A. confirm what everybody already knows,” writes Dave McNary for Variety. “The studios and networks have revved up production, stockpiling projects as strike fever engulfs Los Angeles.”
After at least a decade of producing softcore for teenage boys, Maxim’s getting in the business of … producing softcore for teenage boys! The men’s mag will slap their name on a Screen Gems teen comedy called Virginity Rocks!, which will tell the story of “a gorgeous transfer student who clings to her virginity and gets all the promiscuous girls in school to abstain from sex; in response, the popular guys ask the school stud to try to bed the poster girl and ending her ‘virginity rocks’ campaign.”
IMAX has announced a plan to release Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Rolling Stones documentary, on their massive screens simultaneous to the film’s September 21 premiere in “real” theaters. Insert “do we really need to see those walking corpses on a such a scale?” joke here.