You knew it was going to happen. Once a couple of the dominos started to fall, a LOT of them would also fall quickly. With the announcement last week about Warner Bros switching to just Blu-Ray and the continuing rumors that APPLE is about to put Blu-Ray players in their … [Read More]
The internet is glorious in it’s ability to democratize information, opinion and influence. However, everything in existence (no matter how good) has a down side. Take for example this issue of the allegation that the reason Paramount and Dreamworks went exclusively with the HD DVD format in the current HD … [Read More]
It’s been no secret lately that Dreamworks (and specifically Steven Spielberg ) has been unhappy with their arrangement with Paramount, and that things look like at the end of 2008 (when the contract between the 2 runs out) the marriage between them will come to an end. But now Paramount … [Read More]
In the improperly named Format War we have two sides. HD DVD and BluRay. I thought I would remind you people in case you have been living under a rock. Like John. See its not a Format War. Back in the Format Wars we had VHS and Beta. Many people … [Read More]
Hey… remember back in the good old days when movie studios put together trailers for their movies so that…. you know…. people would watch them? That’s why they made them right? I mean, studios would even pay HUGE amounts of money to have TV stations play those trailers… they’d pay … [Read More]
Paramount Studios is at it again. As you may remember, some time ago Paramount Studios had The Movie Blog shut down over a picture that we had up of the cast of The Transformers. It was just a simple picture of the cast off camera standaing around posing for a … [Read More]
Some things are better left alone. Highlander being one of them. In fact there are many movies that didn’t NEED a sequel, and some franchises are just worse off because they bothered to sequel them. Paramount doesn’t agree with me. Twitch Film reports: Intent on reviving their once dead properties … [Read More]
Clear and Present Danger , The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games were very successful spy movies back in the day and apparently Paramount is looking for more of that sort of success, but they are going about it in a very strange way. Here’s what director Phillip Noyce … [Read More]
Darren Aronofsky must be feeling a little down these days. The Fountain was booed at film festivals and now, after writing a script for the graphic novel Aronofsky has found out that he will not be directing Lone Wolf and Cub for Paramount, because they never actually got the rights … [Read More]
Earlier this month, John posted about Tom Cruise getting his production contract cut back from $10million a year to the studio is offering Cruise and Wagner in the neighborhood of “$2 million plus a $500,000 discretionary fund each year for two years. Well now it looks like the contract that … [Read More]
A little under a year ago I was interviewed by a Florida newspaper that asked me if I thought all the craziy juice that seemed to be flowing out of Tom Cruise these days was going to ruin War of the Worlds. I said “no”. It takes longer than that… … [Read More]
Hey there… John yet again. I just got off the phone with Paramount Senior Vice President Amy Powell. She was kind enough to call me from an Island (she is on vacation right now). She called to discuss the situation of Paramount taking down The Movie Blog yesterday . Amy … [Read More]