Remember how Hollywood feared a Screen Actors Guild strike earlier this year following the devastating WGA strike? Well, after a summer of fruitless negotiating, a strike from SAG may indeed finally happen. The guild is voting today on whether or not to ask its members for a work stoppage, which could have actors walking out around the same time the writer’s started picketing a year ago.
Adding to my single reason for not switching to a Mac, Netflix’s Watch Instantly service will now stream 1,000 additional movies courtesy of a deal with Starz. Time to finally buy a Roku, if you haven’t already.
Universal was reportedly already the lead candidate to acquire the available distribution partnership with DreamWorks, but just to clinch the deal the studio is offering Spielberg & Co. an additional $150 million financing safety net from parent company NBC Universal.
Hilary Swank has found another Oscar-bait role: the two-time Best Actress winner will star as the title role in Betty Anne Waters, about a high school dropout who becomes a lawyer in order to defend her brother, who has been convicted of murder.
In case you aren’t anticipating Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards tooooo badly, you can now be sure that you can wait and see it eventually on Showtime, with which The Weinstein Co. now has a seven-year deal. I guess this is good news for the cable channel after the Viacom-subsidiary coup back in April, but as I’m reminded daily, Showtime is the “network of the year” as far as series go. So, why should anyone care if they have exclusive rights to just-confirmed Scream 4 and the remake Piranha 3-D, which won’t even be of interest on a 2-D television anyway?
Hopefully none of you Xbox 360 owners already bought the Roku box for streaming Netflix movies on your television. Yesterday, at the E3 video game conference, Microsoft announced that you can now do pretty much the same thing with your gaming console.
In other E3 news, there will be an official announcement today about Warner Bros.’ plan to adapt the hit video game Lost Planet, which will be written by X-Menscribe David Haytner.
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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