Hollywood Hotline - Week of August 8, 2024
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Howdy Hotliners!
Welp, two big sales in the past five years have done no favors for legacy studio, Warner Bros. (where I got my start as a VIP Studio Tour Guide in the summer of ‘05 ;) as current CEO (ghoul) David Zaslav has run the studio right into the ground with their stock price dropping roughly 70%. Roughly $10BN loss/write-down. No biggie. I’m sure BEETLJUICE BEETLEJUICE and JOKER 2 will save them.
Also, Paramount is cutting the fat before their Skydance merger. Glad I don’t work at Paramount+! Yay, capitalism!
Without further ado, let’s check the hotline:
Robert Pattinson & Zendaya are the Dream Team for Dream Scenario Director Kristoffer Borgli
The A24 “Project details are under wraps, but rumors suggest it’s about a romance that takes an unexpected turn before a couple’s big day.”
There’s no way they can top Lars von Trier’s MELANCHOLIA (2011) when it comes to “an unexpected turn before a couple’s big day.” But if anyone can try to top it, I guess it would be Director Borgli and producer Ari Aster.
Good Will Hunting Director to Shoot Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Courtroom Drama Movie
“The film is based on a script by Charles Randolph and the book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday. The book details the landmark 2016 court case in which Hogan won a $140 million judgment against Gawker Media, its founder Nick Denton and one of its editors.”
Ew. Gross. Hard pass. When it comes to developing material for the IP Wars and the IP Machine, you have to remind yourself: “Not Everything Has to Be Mined for IP.” It’s like that ‘Dr. Ian Malcom’ quote: “Yeah, yeah, but your [producers] were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.”
Maaaaan, everyone out here STILL chasing the MCU? In 2024? Really??? Thirsty for a franchise so bad they gotta build their own flimsy [checks notes]: “Professional Fixer Vs. Professional Fixer Cinematic Universe.” “—It’s like MR. & MRS. SMITH (2005) meets MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007)!” pitched Jon Watts probably.
It’s Better Call Saul meets Succession with Bill Burr Thrown In
“Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will star in the upcoming revival of David Mamet’s lauded play “Glengarry Glen Ross (1983).”
ABC. Always Be Casting.
COMING SOON:
REBEL RIDGE - I love me some Jeremy Saulnier and FIRST BLOOD (1982)
PRESENCE - A ghost movie where you never see the ghost but just feel its. . . presence??? I’ll show myself out.
SATURDAY NIGHT - Looks like an SNL Digital Short
DISCLAIMER - Forgettable title with the vaguest of teasers?Check!
LOOK INTO MY EYES - People will go to psychics and commune with their dead cat instead of going to therapy
THE PIED PIPER - 1986 Czech stop motion film that just got restored last year that I had never heard of but looks rad
Until next week, Hotliners! Thanks for calling in.
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