Official Movie Poster Art Released For ‘Superhero Movie’

HollywoodChicago.com — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:29:44 -0700

CHICAGO – We have been sent the official poster art for the new simply titled film “Superhero Movie,” which is a send-up of superhero films including “Batman Begins” and “Fantastic Four”.

“Superhero Movie” features Leslie Nielsen, Pamela Anderson (as The Invisible Girl), Sara Paxton, Brent Spiner (the android in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”), Simon Rex (as The Human Torch), Craig Bierko (as Wolverine), Tracy Morgan (as Dr. Xavier) and Regina Hall (as Mrs. Xavier).

The film, which is slated for release on March 28, 2008, is written and directed by Craig Mazin (the writer of “Scary Movie 3” and “Scary Movie 4”). Click the image below for a full-size version.

By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
HollywoodChicago.com
adam@hollywoodchicago.com

Is the WGA Strike Almost Over?

HollywoodChicago.com — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:07:25 -0700

On the eve of talks resuming between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the New York Times sanctioned blogger Nikki Finke.

She reported the following in a post headlined “Dare We Hope a Deal Has Been Struck…?”:

[A] very reliable source tells me that there appears to be a deal seemingly in place between both sides. …

That’s because of the weeks worth of groundwork by the Hollywood agents working the … guild leadership on one side and the studio and network moguls on the other.

Nikki Finke.
Photo credit: MediaBistro.com
Finke went on to vaguely detail how a deal might have already been agreed upon.

When it was first announced that the WGA and AMPTP were to resume, pundits commented on the odd, 10-day lead-in time for talks. The blogosphere rumor mill continued speculating that agents had brought both sides to agreement as they have in past strikes.

This round of talks, which is unusually scheduled for three days (past talks were scheduled as one-day sessions), was supposedly to flesh out a deal already in place.

Nothing has been confirmed yet by the official sources such as Variety or the Hollywood Reporter. They along with the New York Times have all been criticized for their supposedly AMPTP-friendly coverage.

Rumors spread with both outlooks: some hopeful and some cautious. Finke posted that the studios arrived with “a very comprehensive proposal [that] laid out to all the entire [road map of] the deal”.

The most clear speculation on a settlement came from Craig Mazin.

Of the two major issues (DVD and Internet residuals), Mazin personally felt the concessions would be made over the former for gains in the latter. He added: “The companies know their current offer is a non-starter in a general sense.”

If we’ve gotten past some of the major stumbling blocks and boiled it down to the serious stuff at hand … and … if the AMPTP is ready to acknowledge certain basic realities, … then we might be back to work soon.

Craig Mazin.
Photo credit: IMDb
Variety recently reported on two polls. A Pepperdine poll showed 69 percent of the public favoring the WGA while a SurveyUSA poll had 63 percent backing the position of the writers.

Talks between the WGA and the AMPTP are set to resume on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. and will go through Wednesday if a settlement is not reached. Tuesday was the first official negotiation since the strike began on Nov. 5.

By Shane Hazen
Staff Writer HollywoodChicago.com