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Friday, May 10, 2024

Article at The Hollywood Reporter credits "the popularity" of the Gollum video game for inspiring the new Gollum movie

THR (the listed author):

It’s unclear if the fan-made film helped inspire WB’s project. But one suspects that the popularity of the video game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which was released last year, was at least part of the project’s inspiration.

The game's Wikipedia entry: 

The game received negative reviews from critics and was ranked by Metacritic as the worst game of 2023.

Its poor reception and sales caused Daedalic Entertainment to cancel plans for a second Lord of the Rings game and close their development division, laying off their staff and moving to a publishing-only model.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

I thought this was another scandal about the group behind the Golden Globes, but no, it's a different Hollywood press group

Golden Globes are the HFPA. This is about the HCA:

Hollywood Critics Association in Turmoil As Numerous Members Resign, Including President, Amid Questions About Finances and Voting

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The HCA was the brainchild of We Live Entertainment web journalist Scott “Movie Man” Menzel, who approached then-Access Hollywood on-air correspondent Scott “Movie” Mantz in the summer of 2016 about starting a critics group that, unlike most others, would be gender balanced and racially diverse. (Both Menzel and Mantz are white males.) Mantz liked the idea, so the two Scotts, along with former Bachelor bachelorette/journalist Krisily Kennedy, launched the organization later that year, with Menzel listed as its founder and Mantz as its president. Kennedy dropped out of the group in 2018, followed in September 2019 by Mantz, who was displeased that Menzel had independently appointed his wife, Ashley Menzel, to be the group’s vice president, and had begun making other major decisions without consultation. 

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Sunday, April 25, 2021

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

"Hollywood has set a weird precedent by treating the clown who does crimes like a Shakespearean role"

"Phoenix is the second Academy Award–certified Joker, after Heath Ledger’s in The Dark Knight, released barely a decade ago. Even the guys who didn’t nab an Oscar when they played the Joker — Jack Nicholson and Jared Leto — have won in different years."
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Monday, February 10, 2020

I love watching Cole Walliser introduce celebrities to the Glambot



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ROSALIA!! I must say she was the MOST REQUESTED person to GlamBOT at the Grammy’s and I can see why! Whenever I see an outfit with dangley things coming off of it I always push for a turn! The first one was rad, but since you all requested her so much I wanted to make sure we got it perfect so we did it again!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ She was super sweet, and I know I had fun shooting her, I hope she did! And wow, those nails really caught me by surprise! She made sure to bring them up near her face so you could see them. That’s the level of professionalism we NEED at the GlamBOT! LOL!! πŸ˜‚πŸ€–πŸŽ₯ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Also shout out @rosalia.vt for having her only post about the Grammys be the GlamBOT!! ♥️♥️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For more GlamBOTS follow: @colewalliser #rosalia @enews #grammys @eentertainment #glambotbts
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

"Doug Liman’s $100 Million-Costing ‘Chaos Walking’ Was Reportedly Deemed 'Unreleasable' By Lionsgate"

Playlist:
Starring Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, and Mads Mikkelsen, “Chaos Walking” is based on the book “The Knife of Never Letting Go” and Charlie Kaufman is one of the writers who adapted the screenplay

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Liman has presided over such notoriously troubled productions such as “The Bourne Identity” (so bad, it got him fired from the franchise and basically kicked out of the editing room), “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” and ” Edge of Tomorrow.” The commonality of all these films, however, is that they were huge hits
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

"Fox Rocked by $179M 'Bones' Ruling: Lying, Cheating and 'Reprehensible' Studio Fraud"

Hollywood Reporter:
In coming to a decision, [the arbitrator] describes how some of Fox’s top executives . . . “appear to have given false testimony in an attempt to conceal their wrongful acts.” According to the ruling, Fox has taken a “cavalier attitude toward its wrongdoing" and exhibits a "company-wide culture and an accepted climate that enveloped an aversion for the truth."

Slamming the company with a punishment that includes $128 million in punitive damages, or five times the amount of compensatory damages, [the arbitrator] points out that the award is 0.6 percent of 21st Century Fox’s stipulated net worth.

He muses whether it’s really enough.

“In fact, one could question whether a five to one ratio given Fox’s financial condition and lack of contrition serves to deter the wrongful conduct at issue here, or whether it will be considered part of the cost of doing business,” writes the arbitrator.

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The nearly $200 million award amounts to the second-largest in television industry history, after a 2011 jury verdict punishing Disney to the tune of $319 million over profit-sharing for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It will not only put Murdoch’s Fox sale in a whole new light, but may also raise questions about the future viability of Hulu, plus any platform enjoying what’s pejoratively known as “Hollywood accounting.”
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

The cursed filming of John Wayne's movie "The Conqueror"

Wiki:
The exterior scenes were shot near St. George, Utah, 137 miles (220 km) downwind of the United States government's Nevada National Security Site. In 1953, 11 above-ground nuclear weapons tests occurred at the site as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. The cast and crew spent many difficult weeks at the site, and Hughes later shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood in order to match the Utah terrain and lend realism to studio re-shoots. The filmmakers knew about the nuclear tests but the federal government assured residents that the tests caused no hazard to public health.

Director Powell died of cancer in January 1963, seven years after the film's release. ArmendΓ‘riz was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 1960, and killed himself in June 1963 after he learned his condition had become terminal. Hayward, Wayne, and Moorehead all died of cancer in the 1970s. Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991. Skeptics point to other factors such as the wide use of tobacco – Wayne and Moorehead in particular were heavy smokers, and Wayne himself believed his lung cancer to have been a result of his six-packs-a-day cigarette habit. The cast and crew totaled 220 people. By the end of 1980, as ascertained by People magazine, 91 of them had developed some form of cancer and 46 had died of the disease. Several of Wayne and Hayward's relatives who visited the set also
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Thursday, August 31, 2017

The movie Tulip Fever "is finally being released after three bizarre years of languishing in post-production"

TA:
the novel was once a hot Hollywood property, optioned by Steven Spielberg and initially planned as a $48 million DreamWorks production in 2004, directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and starring Jude Law, Keira Knightley (or perhaps Natalie Portman), and Jim Broadbent. The film was in active pre-production, with sets built and some 12,000 tulips planted, when the U.K. government closed a tax loophole and the financing collapsed. Those 12,000 bulbs, Moggach said, were given to her friends and neighbors in London, sprouting everywhere as a reminder of a film that never was.
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