It only took 100 days, but the Writer’s Guild has voted to accept the tentative contract worked out with the AMPTP. Details here, here, and here. Celebrate by going to see a movie…
Posts By: Patrick Corcoran
Holy Hannah!
Disney’s 3D concert feature “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” set box office records ovewr the weekend. It’s $29.1 million bow was the highest ever for a super bowl weekend, for a 3D film and for a film opening in less than 1,000 venues. According to Variety, Disney intends to extend the… Read more »
Academy Award nominations
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards. ***UPDATE*** Variety and The Hollywood Reporter both take notice of the expanded box office possibilities of the Oscar-nominated films. This year is a bit unusual for the number of films still in release. Here are the big… Read more »
Word.
NATO’s vice-president and general counsel, Kendrick Macdowell, turns the air blue with his explication of the Classification and Ratings Adminsitration’s language rule in the latest issue of Boxoffice. Misunderstood, often appealed, and utterly appropriate in Macdowell’s thinking, the required “R” rating for two instances of “the F-word,” gives the power of language its due. Cover… Read more »