Trade Roughage 12/14/07
The WGA faces indirect pressure from both the DGA and Golden Globe nominees to drop their demands and go back to the table. Plus: ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS is like BATMAN BEGINS, except with "lively hip-hop."
As if the neverending scrapple between the WGA and the AMPTP wasn’t bad enough, enter the DGA, who are impatient to begin contract negotiations of their own. They’ve agreed to hold off their talks with the AMPTP until January in order to give the studios one last chance to hammer it out with the scribes, but after that, “With so much at stake and no end to the standoff in sight, we can no longer abdicate our responsibility to our own members.”- Variety asks Golden Globe nominees if they’ll cross picket lines to attend the awards. David Cronenberg, James McAvoy and Mad Men star Jon Hamm (swoon) emphatically say no; two Juno nominees pretend like the strike will be over by February; and Ryan Gosling says he’ll do whatever Tom Hanks tells him to do.
- Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the Variety review of Alvin and the Chipmunks is in! Says Joe Leydon: “New pic is the chipmunkish equivalent of Batman Begins, re-imagining the mythos while re-introducing Alvin, Simon and Theodore as madcap forest denizens involuntarily relocated to Los Angeles…Lively hip-hop and techno-pop versions of Chipmunk standards only add to the fun.” He almost makes us forget about the coprophagia.
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