Trade Roughage 12/12/07

By Karina Longworth posted 10 months ago

Oh, the perils of being an organization built on starfucking: if the Hollywood Foreign Press Association can’t get the WGA to issue a waiver to allow writers to pen lame banter for the Golden Globes, then there’s a strong chance that most stars will refuse to cross the (real or theoretical) picket line to attend the ceremony. No stars=no photo ops=virtually no point in going through with the awards. Variety says the HFPA’s chances at landing a waver look slim, although the WGA just issued a similar pass to the SAG awards.
In other awards news: Juno and Into the Wild lead the nominations for the Critics Choice Awards; Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, one of my favorite films of this year, and Bruce ~~Greenwood~~ McDonald’s The Tracey Fragments made the Toronto International Film Festival Group’s list of the Top 10 Canadian Films of the Year. Winnipeg will also open the Forum sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival in February. It’s screen alongside Green Porno, a collection of three short films by Isabella Rosselini about the sex lives of insects.
This story is days old, but I missed it: a German producer has acquired the remake rights to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

James McNally said 10 months ago
It’s Bruce McDonald’s film The Tracey Fragments. He’s the director of Roadkill, Highway 61, and Hard Core Logo, among other films.
karina said 10 months ago
That was a stupid early morning mistake on my part. I’ve fixed it.