A file photo of 'Friends' cast, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc. Photo Credit: PR Photos
July 2, 2008 () - Friends Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry are set to reprise their roles for a big screen adaptation of the multiple Emmy Award winning television sitcom that ran from September 1994 to May 2004.
The film, to be produced by Warner Bros, has been inspired by the recent success of Sex And The City.
In the past, Jennifer Aniston hasn't been enthused by attempts to bring the Friends stars together again. However, the $300 million box office collections of Sex And The City have made her more amenable to the idea now.
The success of Sex And The City exceeds pre-release expectations and made Warner Bros sit up to the idea of more such movie adaptations of TV hits. Friends tops the list of programs they identified for movie treatment, not only because of its popularity but also because its six lead stars continue to be active in showbiz.
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
SAG to respond to producers' deal Thursday
'Last, best and final offer' made last week
SAG has made a date with the studios on Thursday to respond to the $250 million last, best and final offer it received more than a week ago.
The decision by the union to with the studio's negotiating arm, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, at 2 p.m. Thursday comes a day after SAG ran ads in the trades with the message "Let's Keep Talking."
In a statement, SAG continued its mantra, indicating that the "national negotiating committee remains dedicated to achieving a fair TV/theatrical contract for SAG members as soon as possible. The SAG national negotiating committee anticipates an equal effort and commitment by the employers and their representatives to achieve this goal."
The AMPTP made its final offer to SAG on June 30, just hours before the actors' union contract expired. The offer ended formal negotiations between the two groups.
Both sides did meet last Wednesday for a question and answer session on the offer.
The AMPTP said SAG indicated it needed more time to prepare a response to the offer.
"The producers remain hopeful that SAG will accept our final offer," the AMPTP stated.
SAG's members have been working on an expired since June 30. Its sister union, AFTRA, is expected to announce results of its new primetime/TV contract later today or early tomorrow.
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Frankie Knuckles; David Morales; Little Louie Veg
Artist: Frankie Knuckles; David Morales; Little Louie Veg
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Angels of Love
Year:
Tracks: 1
Gescom vs Ad Vanz
Oates' Stache -- Hall of a Weapon!
With any luck, John Oates won't ever play second banana to Daryl Hall again -- but he'll have to lose his boom-chicka-boom-boom moustache in the process.
Well, sort of: Primary Wave, the publisher that owns most of the Hall & Oates catalog is shopping around a cartoon called "J-Stache" in which John's upper-lip hair is used as a weapon to fell such evil stache-wearing villains as Tom Selleck and David Crosby. (If you're sensing irony in all this, you win!)
John Oates doesn't think the plan is hair-brained at all. In fact, he loves it: "Just as I'm represented as the John Oates of today, the mustache is the John Oates of yesterday."
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Well, sort of: Primary Wave, the publisher that owns most of the Hall & Oates catalog is shopping around a cartoon called "J-Stache" in which John's upper-lip hair is used as a weapon to fell such evil stache-wearing villains as Tom Selleck and David Crosby. (If you're sensing irony in all this, you win!)
John Oates doesn't think the plan is hair-brained at all. In fact, he loves it: "Just as I'm represented as the John Oates of today, the mustache is the John Oates of yesterday."
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Silvio Rodriguez
Artist: Silvio Rodriguez
Genre(s):
Other
Latin
Classical
Pop
Discography:
Erase Que Se Era (CD2)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Erase Que Se Era (CD1)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Triptico II
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Triptico I
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Silvio
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
En la habana
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Dominguez
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Cita con Angeles
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Expedicion
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Unicornio
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
En Vivo en Argentina
Year: 2001
Tracks: 17
Arboles
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
Mariposas
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Causas Y Azares
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Oh Melancolia
Year: 1998
Tracks: 17
En Chile (Vol.2)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
En Chile (Vol.1)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Descartes
Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
Cuando Digo Futuro
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Rodriguez
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Rabo de Nube
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Mano A Mano (CD2)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Mano A Mano (CD1)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
Auto Biografico
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
Canciones Urgentes
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
Triptico III
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Mujeres
Year: 1979
Tracks: 12
Al Final De Este Viaje
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
Te Doy Una Cancion
Year: 1975
Tracks: 13
Dias Y Flores
Year:
Tracks: 11
The tender balladry offsets the hard-edged, politically one-sided lyrics of Silvio Rodriguez. A spearhead of the nueva trova (new lay) manner of nueva cancion (new song), Rodriguez masterfully blends amorous tunes with protestation material condemning colonisation and the stalinism that swept through Latin America in the late '60s and early '70s. Inspired by French chanson, Rodriguez recorded his debut album in 1976. Although his early albums showcased his solo acoustic guitar playing and silklike vocals, Rodriguez progressively incorporated the musical accompaniment of electric instrumentation. His 1992 record album, Silvio marked his first all-acoustic album in 14 geezerhood. On his album, Causas y Azares, Rodriguez was accompanied by the heavily rhythmical sounds of Afro-Cuban jazz.
Val Kilmer, Xzibit join 'Bad' update
Join Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendez in Herzog's cop drama
NEW YORK -- Val Kilmer and Xzibit are about to have a "Bad" trip.
They're set to join Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendez in Werner Herzog's cop drama "Bad Lieutenant," an update of Abel Ferrara's cult classic.
The original followed the depraved adventures of a corrupt policeman (Harvey Keitel) investigating the rape of a nun. The new film will feature Kilmer as the partner of Cage's crooked cop and Xzibit as a villain.
"Lieutenant" will likely capture the spirit of the original, with the protagonist's drug intake, his accepting sexual favors as bribes and other elements that endeared so many to the 1992 version.
The original's producer, Edward R. Pressman, will produce the new version with Stephen Belafonte, Alan Polsky and Gabe Polsky. Randall Emmett and Cage's Saturn Films also produce. Billy Finkelstein wrote the screenplay, loosely based on Ferrara and Zoe Lund's script. Filming is set to begin later in the summer.
Kilmer is repped by ICM and Affirmative. Xzibit is repped by Paradigm and Management 360.
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Studios ratchet up pressure on SAG
AMPTP scolds union for delaying AFTRA deal
One day after AFTRA ratified its pact and left SAG as the only Hollywood guild without a new labor contract, the studios ratcheted up the pressure.
The AMPTP sent letters to city, county and state elected officials, scolding SAG for delaying AFTRA's deal and warning of the economic consequences if the guild fails to make an agreement. Additionally, the studios called attention to one of the proposals in its 43-page "final offer," which would provide wage increases retroactively only if SAG accepts the deal before Aug. 15. If the deadline passes before the union ratifies a contract, the studios said, the actors could lose more than $200,000 a day in increases dating to July 1, the day the new contract would take effect.
"Under the final offer, if the new agreement is not ratified by Aug. 15, all changes in terms and conditions would become effective in the first payroll period after ratification," the AMPTP said. "The producers have included this traditional incentive in the final offer in order to get everyone back to work and end the de facto strike."
The AMPTP's roughly 120 letters went to members of the California Legislature, the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
"SAG's anti-AFTRA campaign has served to stall SAG's negotiations with us, and the result is a de facto work stoppage throughout much of the entertainment industry," AMPTP chief negotiator Nick Counter wrote. "Each day that production grinds to a halt causes more and more dislocation to the economy of Los Angeles in particular and California in general."
In response to the letter, SAG's national executive director Pamm Fair said, "We don't think any legislators will be surprised that multibillion-dollar global companies engaged in negotiations with a union have resorted to rhetoric and mischaracterizations regarding union workers.
"While we have not yet seen evidence of a slowdown in production, any decrease in film and television production would be a result of the studios and networks that control the industry, not the actors they hire. Screen Actors Guild remains committed to bargaining a fair contract and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week," she added. "If anyone is stalling, it's the AMPTP by suggesting that bargaining is over, when we clearly haven't achieved an agreement that is fair for actors and the industry."
SAG may be willing to negotiate 24/7, but the studios have said the bargaining is over and that today's afternoon session at the AMPTP headquarters is strictly an opportunity for SAG to ask questions about the offer, which the studios claim provides $250 million in additional compensation over three years.
Faced with the studios' stonewall, SAG insiders have focused on semantics, maintaining that while the AMPTP presented a final offer, it's not a "last offer" or "best offer" or "last, best and final offer," all of which the actors union's leaders believe are possible.
The studios have virtually shuttered movie and TV production because of the potential for an actors strike. And though SAG's ability to call a strike was diminished greatly by the ratification of AFTRA's contract, the studios are likely to continue the production slowdown rather that start back up.
"They do not want to be in the position where they can be in the middle of a major production and suddenly find out they have a strike and have to shut down in the middle of production," said one veteran transactional attorney familiar with the talks.
If SAG does not accept the offer, the studios are most likely to wait it out until Aug. 15 rather than lock out actors, according to an entertainment labor attorney who represents producers.
"I think the AMPTP's motivation is to get people back to work," he said. "I don't know if they're going to lock people out because that runs counter to what their desire is."
Another attorney agreed, saying, "There won't be a lockout because that will infuriate SAG members, and that could be the one thing that would bring a strike vote. I think we're just going to be in Never-Never-Land."
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