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Bush Banks, Crash Crush: Trade Roughage 03/26/08

March 26, 2008 – 8:54 am

A California appeals court has refused to force the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to give a “retroactive Oscar” to Bob Yari for producing Crash. Yari was excluded from the film’s 2005 Best Picture win when the Academy changed qualification rules the same year, limiting a film’s eligible number of producers to three. [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Awards, Hollywood, Politics | Comments (0)

Trade Roughage 01/29/08

January 29, 2008 – 9:00 am

C’mon guys, CLOVERFIELD’s second weekend drop wasn’t *that* bad––no worse than HULK! Plus: GI JOE and Paul Haggis. This is gonna be a good day, I can tell already.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Business, Hollywood | Comments (1)

Trade Roughage 12/04/05

December 4, 2007 – 8:07 am

Talks resume today between the writers and the studios. The WGA’s chief priority is to “get a better proposal on the table”; the AMPTP seems most concern with stepping up their game on the PR front.
Viacom is starting to hedge on earlier indications that they’re all but ready to unload Dreamworks. At the UBS Global [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Hollywood, Screenwriting | Comments (1)

Cronenberg calls Haggis a [bleep]hole

October 31, 2007 – 10:33 am

Today in filmmaker catfights: the director of the first CRASH throws a bone to the Haggis-haters.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Stars | Comments (5)