Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Star in Incredible Love. Meow.
Hey Life: why? After millions of lunch room dream movie arguments in the ’80s; after spiders launched webs inside their Planet Hollywoods, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are finally teaming up on screen! It’s inglorious, bastards. The Times Online reports that they’ll co-star in the highest profile Bollywood flick to date, Incredible Love, the story of an Indian stuntman who can’t find true romance in the States (aw). C’mon, just have a duel with Nerf rockets instead.
The film is headlined by Indian stars, Ashkay Kumar (Singh is Kinng) and Kareena Kapoor (Bewaffa) and will film at Universal Studios, a first for the flashy Indian cinema. Apparently, Stallone will have a larger part than Arnold, and it wasn’t clarified whether they’d be playing their real life selves. Expect it to be cheeky, cheeky like that photo above.
“Sajid Nadiadwala, the producer, said his success in landing Stallone and Schwarzenegger reflected the growing power of the Indian film market and Bollywood’s increasing cooperation with Hollywood studios that are keen to cut costs.”
Indeed. Earlier this month, Steven Spielberg made a landmark deal worth $500 million plus with Indian entertainment company Reliance ADA. For more on that situation, click to see the post Dreamworks For Dummies. If all of this Bollywood news makes you want get your party on, let us suggest Bombay the Hard Way and the newly released King Kahn and the Shrines (seriously amazing with Bollywood-inspired cover art) as the soundtrack.
In other news: The Love Guru was a massive flop this weekend. Cool.
Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars
Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars by MookieMovies
The Pitch: Chewbacca and a Jawa dance to Footloose, Princess Leia and Queen Amidala are Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and Darth Vader is a Thriller in Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars, part of the 2008 Star Wars Weekends Hyperspace Hoopla show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
via: SuperPunch
Let’s Make a Deal: Studios, AFTRA Shake on It
One down, a whopper to go.
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has OK’d a tentative deal with Hollywood studios on a new three-year contract, a first step in avoiding an industrywide actors’ strike this summer.
The union said this morning that the deal focuses on new media paychecks, establishing fees for content streamed and downloaded over the Internet and covering the use of actors’ voices and images in online clips.
The AFTRA deal only covers a few TV showsincluding Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rules of Engagement, Flight of the Conchords and Reaper, as well as the new sitcoms Project Gary, Harper’s Island and Roman’s Empireand must still be ratified by the union’s members.
“This is another groundbreaking agreement for AFTRA,” the union’s national president Roberta Reardon said in a statement. “In addition to achieving meaningful gains in compensation and working conditions for performers, it also establishes AFTRA jurisdiction in the dynamic area of new media and it preserves performers’ consent for use of excerpts of traditional TV shows in new media.
“This is a challenging time in the entertainment industry and this was a tough negotiation.”
Speaking of tough negotiations, the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers now must make peace with the more belligerent and more powerful Screen Actors Guild, whose members work in most prime-time TV shows and films.
SAG’s contract expires June 30.
In a statement, SAG National President Alan Rosenberg said that although the union had heard about AFTRA’s new pact, “We do not know the details of the agreement.”
“We look forward to receiving an update from AFTRA staff regarding the negotiations as soon as possible,” said Rosenberg. “We look forward to hearing more during a face-to-face briefing with AFTRA’s negotiating committee as soon as AFTRA provides the opportunity.”
Rosenberg said the guild, as promised, will be back at the table with producers at 10 a.m.
The Screen Actors Guild begins contract negotiations with the studios
Here we go again. We have barely healed from the wounds that the Writers Guild of America strike opened up late last year, now it’s the Screen Actors Guild’s turn to make us nervous about the television we watch.
Yesterday, SAG representatives began negotiations with the Hollywood studios by swapping contract proposals between the two parties. This is the first time in nearly three decades that the Guild is negotiating solo with the studios since the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) has rejected combined talks. AFTRA is upset with the Guild over concerns that it is attempting to poach its members. The Guild is denying this accusation with the statement that it normally broils its members over a low flame with some butter sauce.
As the Writers Guild did during its strike, SAG is asking for additional compensation for new media as well as a larger cut of DVD sales. They are also looking to gain pay for product endorsements placed within scripts as well as a review of the studios’ policies of compressing work into fewer days in order to pay the actors less. I’m with them all the way, except for the product endorsements. If they get additional pay for these I could see some actors asking for more endorsements per script in order to make more money. Then, we could be looking at 30 or 60-minute television commercials.