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July 15, 2008
Hot Button - Quietly Former-lized News
The Weinstein Co has announced its re-pacting with Showtime... at the expected lower price (the Hollywood Reporter reporting on TWC paying Showtime upfront cash makes little logical sense... there may be smoke and there may be money changing hands, but why and how and how much probably has not yet been uncovered)... which is most likely exactly what Paramount and MGM and Lionsgate will end up doing also.
With The Weinsteins out… MGM building with Mary Parent, but unlikely to be delivering much product to anyone before product that would have been running on Showtime will need someplace to land… Lionsgate having a rough run and 13 films on the schedule for the rest of this year, which means a lot of cash out in marketing and few guarantees of big hits… and Paramount already in flux with the anticipated DreamWorks exit in the months to come and not able to promise more than a half dozen films to a new outlet for cable release in 2009…
It’s independence vs. security. And with all three major players weak… well…
Posted by dpoland at July 15, 2008 02:14 PM
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at July 15, 2008 09:56 PM
What frightened me about this announcement was that it appears they are set on a Scream 4? Where can you go when the third film in a trilogy is an out and out parody of the other films in the franchise. Or, that's kind of how I see Scream 3, because... really...
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at July 16, 2008 03:54 AM
Scream 4 could be a prequel or set far in the future....
Posted by: doug r at July 16, 2008 06:31 AM
They should kill Neve, Courtney and David in the opening scene and then have the killer turn out to be Jamie Kennedy in a surprise (and nonsensical) twist that nobody saw coming.
Or, better yet... not.
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at July 16, 2008 08:24 AM
I got Sirius for life, Netflix, broadband internet, Skype phone, a smart phone, a gigantic cable bill, and I can't get to a movie on time because I'm too busy. I'm ditching cable and giving up on going to the movies, bring them to me.
Posted by: T. Holly at July 16, 2008 08:59 AM
And I subscribe to the NY Times digital... yes Dave, it is wonderful, the only thing I miss are the beautiful print ads. If all the papers had thought of it, they'd be giving away the tablet computers by now.
Posted by: T. Holly at July 16, 2008 09:05 AM
I'll ask for the billionth time, but why do Paramount and MGM flicks take 18 months to hit pay?
Posted by: LexG at July 16, 2008 11:35 AM
You're sure? You mean on Showtime? File that under so what?/don't care, or who knew?/do care. Worry more about AOL filmanthropist internet distributors.
Posted by: T. Holly at July 17, 2008 08:43 AM
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