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29 MAY 2008.- "EDGE OF DARKNESS" BOUGHT BY DUTCH DISTRIBUTOR |
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RCV Entertainment, part of the Canadian-based Entertainment One Group, has picked up some of the hot Cannes market titles. RCV will release the new Mel Gibson thriller "Edge of Darkness," as well as "Law Abiding Citizen," a new thriller starring Gerard Butler and talk-of-the-town "Fame," based on the popular musical.
Hilversum-based RCV also got hold of "Point Break: Indo," directed by Jan de Bont, "Disaster Movie," starring Carmen Electra and Kimberly Kardashian, "Queen of the South," starring Eva Mendez, Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley, "My One and Only," starring Renee Zellweger, "The 4th Kind," with Milla Jovovich, "My Bloody Valentine (3-D)," the Madonna documentary "I Am Because We Are" and "Drag Me to Hell," directed by Sam Raimi.
29 MAY 2008.- "HEATH LEDGER SCHOLARSHIP" 
The Heath Ledger Scholarship is named in honor of Ledger who was an Ambassador for AiF before his untimely death in January 2008
Source: AiF
Los Angeles-based Australians in Film (AiF), the preeminent organization for expatriate Australians in the entertainment industry, is holding its fourth annual Breakthrough Awards to honor up-and-coming Australian actresses Abbie Cornish (Stop Loss) and Mia Wasikowska (In Treatment) on June 5, 2008, it was announced today by Susie Dobson, president of AiF. As part of the organization’s program to support emerging talent from Australia, Dobson also announced that AiF has established the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund which will be presented annually to a young Australia-based actor to help them pursue their dream in Hollywood. The first Scholarship recipient to receive a financial contribution from AiF will be announced in 2009.
The Heath Ledger Scholarship is named in honor of Ledger who was an Ambassador for AiF before his untimely death in January 2008 and has the full support of the Heath Ledger family.
“Australians in Film is pleased to recognize the efforts and talents of Australia’s newest faces who are already proving they are on their way to join the ranks of the high-profile Australian talent working in Hollywood,” comments Dobson. “We are also thrilled that we will be able to assist burgeoning Australian talent launch their career in the States to become potential future recipients of a Breakthrough Award.”
The Breakthrough Awards’ exclusive invitation-only evening will again be held poolside at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills and will be attended by 150 of Hollywood’s elite. The Master of Ceremonies will be Showtime Australia’s award-winning, Hollywood-based entertainment correspondent, Andrew Warne.
Each of the 2008 Breakthrough Award recipients will be presented with AiF’s Golden Boomerang award as an acknowledgment of their achievements as Australia’s brightest young talents emerging in Hollywood.
Australians in Film was founded in May 2001, to celebrate and support the work of Australian film and TV makers, Los Angeles based Australians in Film has held nearly 100 screenings, premieres and special events and currently has over 500 members. Australians in Film Ambassadors include Australian Oscar-winning actors Cate Blanchett (The Aviator 2005), Nicole Kidman (The Hours, 2002), Russell Crowe (Gladiator, 2000) and Geoffrey Rush (Shine, 1996), Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson (Braveheart 1995, The Passion of the Christ, 2004) and 30 other internationally known stars and film-makers including Hugh Jackman, Fred Schepisi and Naomi Watts.
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The Heath Ledger Scholarship is named in honor of Ledger who was an Ambassador for AiF before his untimely death in January 2008 |
Source: AiF
Los Angeles-based Australians in Film (AiF), the preeminent organization for expatriate Australians in the entertainment industry, is holding its fourth annual Breakthrough Awards to honor up-and-coming Australian actresses Abbie Cornish (Stop Loss) and Mia Wasikowska (In Treatment) on June 5, 2008, it was announced today by Susie Dobson, president of AiF. As part of the organization’s program to support emerging talent from Australia, Dobson also announced that AiF has established the Heath Ledger Scholarship Fund which will be presented annually to a young Australia-based actor to help them pursue their dream in Hollywood. The first Scholarship recipient to receive a financial contribution from AiF will be announced in 2009.
The Heath Ledger Scholarship is named in honor of Ledger who was an Ambassador for AiF before his untimely death in January 2008 and has the full support of the Heath Ledger family.
“Australians in Film is pleased to recognize the efforts and talents of Australia’s newest faces who are already proving they are on their way to join the ranks of the high-profile Australian talent working in Hollywood,” comments Dobson. “We are also thrilled that we will be able to assist burgeoning Australian talent launch their career in the States to become potential future recipients of a Breakthrough Award.”
The Breakthrough Awards’ exclusive invitation-only evening will again be held poolside at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills and will be attended by 150 of Hollywood’s elite. The Master of Ceremonies will be Showtime Australia’s award-winning, Hollywood-based entertainment correspondent, Andrew Warne.
Each of the 2008 Breakthrough Award recipients will be presented with AiF’s Golden Boomerang award as an acknowledgment of their achievements as Australia’s brightest young talents emerging in Hollywood.
Australians in Film was founded in May 2001, to celebrate and support the work of Australian film and TV makers, Los Angeles based Australians in Film has held nearly 100 screenings, premieres and special events and currently has over 500 members. Australians in Film Ambassadors include Australian Oscar-winning actors Cate Blanchett (The Aviator 2005), Nicole Kidman (The Hours, 2002), Russell Crowe (Gladiator, 2000) and Geoffrey Rush (Shine, 1996), Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson (Braveheart 1995, The Passion of the Christ, 2004) and 30 other internationally known stars and film-makers including Hugh Jackman, Fred Schepisi and Naomi Watts.
1 JUNE 2008.- FUNNY MEL, FROM THE MEMORY TRUNK
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3 JUNE 2008.- FROM A FRENCH MAGAZINE
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3 JUNE 2008.- VIDEO
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3 JUNE 2008.- SCREEN SHOTS
Mel Gibson is the most versatile of this generation
Mel Gibson, pound for pound, not only ranks as one of Hollywood's greatest actors, he's also the most versatile of this generation because of his award-winning producing and directing skills in such hits as Braveheart and Passion of the Christ.
Granted, he's fallen out of favour with most big screen aficionados over the past five years because of his well-documented problems with drinking - and the media. However, that's unfair to what he truly means to his fans.
I first watched Mel on the big screen in the original Mad Max movie, which came out 30 years ago. Arguably, it's the best "comic book" movie which never came from a comic book.
Mad Max is a thrill-a-minute ride, basically because Gibson is larger-than-life in each frame of this sci-fi classic. The movie has been a mystery for years, not because of the plot - but because of what happened behind the scenes.
American companies which bought the movie for North American distribution decided Gibson's accent, which some women have called the sexiest in Australia's history, wasn't good enough to be understand.
Thirty years later, we still wonder why, for some reason, he was dubbed in American English as the Road Warrior, but his presence could not be matched in this thrill ride.
You wouldn't change Sir Laurence Olivier in Hamlet, but you take Mel's voice out of Mad Max?
Unheard of then, and not done since.
Gibson, with every stitch of his leather jacket, owned the movie from the first time we saw him on screen in his battle with the Toecutter's gang of vicious bikers, who battle Max on a thrill ride straight to the hell of the Aussie outback of the future.
Gibson shed his leathers to work in Gallipoli and the Year of Living Dangerously. Those two performances along solidified him as the World Sexiest Man in People, but he didn't rest on his laurels.
The Lethal Weapon series was his next era – four films which made so much moolah at the box office most of Gibson's fans forgot he was a struggling, actor just a few years before.
These hits were followed by Braveheart, a movie so good critics gave it bad reviews because Gibson did turn into Olivier.
After a short return to the action genre, he became a megastar for the fourth time in his life with Passion of the Christ, a project which not only explored his faith in all-too-literal detail, but caused Christians across the globe to re-look at what Jesus meant to them.
So, here we are in 2008. Mark my words, friends, Gibson will be back soon.
I can't wait for his next chapter. Maybe Mad Max IV?
Jeffrey Bento-Carrier is sports editor of the Bugle-Observer and a longtime film buff.
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Mel Gibson is the most versatile of this generation |
Mel Gibson, pound for pound, not only ranks as one of Hollywood's greatest actors, he's also the most versatile of this generation because of his award-winning producing and directing skills in such hits as Braveheart and Passion of the Christ.
Granted, he's fallen out of favour with most big screen aficionados over the past five years because of his well-documented problems with drinking - and the media. However, that's unfair to what he truly means to his fans.
I first watched Mel on the big screen in the original Mad Max movie, which came out 30 years ago. Arguably, it's the best "comic book" movie which never came from a comic book.
Mad Max is a thrill-a-minute ride, basically because Gibson is larger-than-life in each frame of this sci-fi classic. The movie has been a mystery for years, not because of the plot - but because of what happened behind the scenes.
American companies which bought the movie for North American distribution decided Gibson's accent, which some women have called the sexiest in Australia's history, wasn't good enough to be understand.
Thirty years later, we still wonder why, for some reason, he was dubbed in American English as the Road Warrior, but his presence could not be matched in this thrill ride.
You wouldn't change Sir Laurence Olivier in Hamlet, but you take Mel's voice out of Mad Max?
Unheard of then, and not done since.
Gibson, with every stitch of his leather jacket, owned the movie from the first time we saw him on screen in his battle with the Toecutter's gang of vicious bikers, who battle Max on a thrill ride straight to the hell of the Aussie outback of the future.
Gibson shed his leathers to work in Gallipoli and the Year of Living Dangerously. Those two performances along solidified him as the World Sexiest Man in People, but he didn't rest on his laurels.
The Lethal Weapon series was his next era – four films which made so much moolah at the box office most of Gibson's fans forgot he was a struggling, actor just a few years before.
These hits were followed by Braveheart, a movie so good critics gave it bad reviews because Gibson did turn into Olivier.
After a short return to the action genre, he became a megastar for the fourth time in his life with Passion of the Christ, a project which not only explored his faith in all-too-literal detail, but caused Christians across the globe to re-look at what Jesus meant to them.
So, here we are in 2008. Mark my words, friends, Gibson will be back soon.
I can't wait for his next chapter. Maybe Mad Max IV?
Jeffrey Bento-Carrier is sports editor of the Bugle-Observer and a longtime film buff.
5 JUNE 2008.- NOBU
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5 JUNE 2008.- "EDGE OF DARKNESS" OBTAINS WEAVER
The films include "Edge of Darkness" starring Mel Gibson
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Source: Variety
If the top movie stars plan to keep working after June 30, they may have to resign themselves to living in what agents are calling "Waiverland."
That means they'll sign onto one of the 300 waiver deals that the Screen Actors Guild has been carving with indie producers. These deals will allow features to continue shooting after June 30 if there's a strike by agreeing in advance to adhere to whatever deal SAG negotiates.
The prevailing sense among studio toppers is that a strike's unlikely, and a few projects currently shooting -- "Transformers 2," "Terminator Salvation," Eddie Murphy starrer "A Thousand Words" -- have a built-in hiatus so shutting down won't be costly. Several other tentpoles -- Roland Emmerich's "2012," Sony's "Da Vinci Code" sequel "Angels and Demons," Disney's "Prince of Persia" and Universal's "Nottingham" -- are set for late summer on the presumption there won't be a strike.
The stars and studios are nonetheless gearing up for the worst possible scenario. The current number of waivers is triple what SAG had signed three months ago -- and an indication there will be a modicum of feature shooting in the coming months.
Even if there's no SAG strike, the major studios will probably need a few months to slot in production starts, so indie projects will dominate activity in the late summer and early fall.
SAG and the AMPTP held their 22nd day of talks Tuesday, adhering to the usual no comment about the substance of negotiations, and they plan to resume bargaining today. SAG's most recent message to members noted that gaps remain in half a dozen areas, including online clip consent, product integration, DVDs, force majeure and new-media jurisdiciton.
Randall Emmett, a producer on the "Bad Lieutenant" remake, told Daily Variety, "Nobody wants a strike, and there's optimism a settlement is near, but this SAG waiver allowed us to set a July 8 start date, and it's a godsend to us."
Some of the key titles that have obtained waivers:
- "Edge of Darkness," directed by Martin Campbell and starring Mel Gibson. Graham King's GK Films is financing. William Monahan wrote the script. It's set for an early fall start.
- Oliver Stone's George W. Bush drama "W," starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks. Moritz Borman is producing with Bill Block and Jon Kilik. Block's QED Intl. is financing the film, which began lensing a month ago.
- "My One and Only" starring Renee Zellweger and Chris Noth and directed by Richard Loncraine. Raygun Prods., Artfire Films and Merv Griffin Entertainment are producing.
- "Big Eyes," with Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski directing. Kate Hudson and Tom Haden Church star. Bona Fide Pictures Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are producing.
- "Labor Pains," with Lara Shapiro directing a Capitol Films castoff in which Lindsay Lohan stars as girl who fakes pregnancy to get ahead. Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millennium and Overnight are producing.
- "Pandorum," a sci-fi space thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster and directed by Christian Alvert. Overture and Constantine are producing.
- "Bad Lieutenant," starring Nicolas Cage. Werner Herzog is directing, and Edward R. Pressman and Emmett are producing; Nu Image/Millennium Films is financing.
- "Killing Pablo," with Joe Carnahan directing and Bob Yari producing for an October start.
- "Brooklyn's Finest," with Antoine Fuqua directing Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle. Nu Image/Millennium's financing.
The Film Department, Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's year-old shingle, made the first major announcement three months ago by disclosing it had reached pacts with SAG for nine pics, including Bart Freundlich's romantic comedy "The Rebound," starring Catherine Zeta-Jones; "Law-Abiding Citizen," a thriller starring Gerard Butler, which starts production Aug. 11; and WWII thriller "Brothers in Arms," to be directed by Marcel Langenegger and set for late summer/early fall in the Czech Republic. "Without the waiver, nobody could start a movie that wouldn't finish by the end of the month, and you couldn't get a completion bond," Lerner told Daily Variety. "The way they looked at it, as long as you don't do an upfront deal with a studio, you are treated as an independent, and that got us a waiver. We're happy to have it, but I'll never understand why SAG would strike, or why the Writers Guild did a few months ago."
The uncertainty over a possible SAG strike has also unsettled the TV biz -- evidenced by the unusually high volume of skeins that are actively shooting in an effort to bank as many fresh segs for the 2008-09 season as possible before a possible actors strike.
More than a dozen broadcast network skeins -- including CBS' "CSI" and "Cold Case"; Fox's "24" and "House"; NBC's "Heroes," "Chuck" and "ER"; and ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" and "Dirty Sexy Money" -- are in production at a time when casts and crews of most shows are on their second month of spring/summer hiatus.
SAG still hasn't set a strike authorization vote -- a step that would be required for a strike, along with a 75% endorsement in such a vote.
But the prospect of an actors strike hitting after the current SAG contract expires spurred a ramp-up in feature production at the majors last year and earlier this year. Production schedules have been designed so that most shooting's completed by mid-June -- with insurers insisting they won't issue completion bonds for projects that can't be completed by that deadline.
During its strike, the WGA signed more than 20 interim deals as a way of gaining leverage over the congloms. Companies agreed in advance to adhere to terms of the guild's final contract agreement.
The first WGA interim pact was signed in late December by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants. The guild eventually signed Lionsgate, RKO, Marvel, Weinstein Co., United Artists, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Spyglass Entertainment, Media Rights Capital, Jackson Bites, Film Department, Intermedia and Mandate.
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The films include "Edge of Darkness" starring Mel Gibson . |
Source: Variety
If the top movie stars plan to keep working after June 30, they may have to resign themselves to living in what agents are calling "Waiverland."
That means they'll sign onto one of the 300 waiver deals that the Screen Actors Guild has been carving with indie producers. These deals will allow features to continue shooting after June 30 if there's a strike by agreeing in advance to adhere to whatever deal SAG negotiates.
The prevailing sense among studio toppers is that a strike's unlikely, and a few projects currently shooting -- "Transformers 2," "Terminator Salvation," Eddie Murphy starrer "A Thousand Words" -- have a built-in hiatus so shutting down won't be costly. Several other tentpoles -- Roland Emmerich's "2012," Sony's "Da Vinci Code" sequel "Angels and Demons," Disney's "Prince of Persia" and Universal's "Nottingham" -- are set for late summer on the presumption there won't be a strike.
The stars and studios are nonetheless gearing up for the worst possible scenario. The current number of waivers is triple what SAG had signed three months ago -- and an indication there will be a modicum of feature shooting in the coming months.
Even if there's no SAG strike, the major studios will probably need a few months to slot in production starts, so indie projects will dominate activity in the late summer and early fall.
SAG and the AMPTP held their 22nd day of talks Tuesday, adhering to the usual no comment about the substance of negotiations, and they plan to resume bargaining today. SAG's most recent message to members noted that gaps remain in half a dozen areas, including online clip consent, product integration, DVDs, force majeure and new-media jurisdiciton.
Randall Emmett, a producer on the "Bad Lieutenant" remake, told Daily Variety, "Nobody wants a strike, and there's optimism a settlement is near, but this SAG waiver allowed us to set a July 8 start date, and it's a godsend to us."
Some of the key titles that have obtained waivers:
- "Edge of Darkness," directed by Martin Campbell and starring Mel Gibson. Graham King's GK Films is financing. William Monahan wrote the script. It's set for an early fall start.
- Oliver Stone's George W. Bush drama "W," starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks. Moritz Borman is producing with Bill Block and Jon Kilik. Block's QED Intl. is financing the film, which began lensing a month ago.
- "My One and Only" starring Renee Zellweger and Chris Noth and directed by Richard Loncraine. Raygun Prods., Artfire Films and Merv Griffin Entertainment are producing.
- "Big Eyes," with Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski directing. Kate Hudson and Tom Haden Church star. Bona Fide Pictures Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are producing.
- "Labor Pains," with Lara Shapiro directing a Capitol Films castoff in which Lindsay Lohan stars as girl who fakes pregnancy to get ahead. Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millennium and Overnight are producing.
- "Pandorum," a sci-fi space thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster and directed by Christian Alvert. Overture and Constantine are producing.
- "Bad Lieutenant," starring Nicolas Cage. Werner Herzog is directing, and Edward R. Pressman and Emmett are producing; Nu Image/Millennium Films is financing.
- "Killing Pablo," with Joe Carnahan directing and Bob Yari producing for an October start.
- "Brooklyn's Finest," with Antoine Fuqua directing Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle. Nu Image/Millennium's financing.
The Film Department, Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's year-old shingle, made the first major announcement three months ago by disclosing it had reached pacts with SAG for nine pics, including Bart Freundlich's romantic comedy "The Rebound," starring Catherine Zeta-Jones; "Law-Abiding Citizen," a thriller starring Gerard Butler, which starts production Aug. 11; and WWII thriller "Brothers in Arms," to be directed by Marcel Langenegger and set for late summer/early fall in the Czech Republic. "Without the waiver, nobody could start a movie that wouldn't finish by the end of the month, and you couldn't get a completion bond," Lerner told Daily Variety. "The way they looked at it, as long as you don't do an upfront deal with a studio, you are treated as an independent, and that got us a waiver. We're happy to have it, but I'll never understand why SAG would strike, or why the Writers Guild did a few months ago."
The uncertainty over a possible SAG strike has also unsettled the TV biz -- evidenced by the unusually high volume of skeins that are actively shooting in an effort to bank as many fresh segs for the 2008-09 season as possible before a possible actors strike.
More than a dozen broadcast network skeins -- including CBS' "CSI" and "Cold Case"; Fox's "24" and "House"; NBC's "Heroes," "Chuck" and "ER"; and ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" and "Dirty Sexy Money" -- are in production at a time when casts and crews of most shows are on their second month of spring/summer hiatus.
SAG still hasn't set a strike authorization vote -- a step that would be required for a strike, along with a 75% endorsement in such a vote.
But the prospect of an actors strike hitting after the current SAG contract expires spurred a ramp-up in feature production at the majors last year and earlier this year. Production schedules have been designed so that most shooting's completed by mid-June -- with insurers insisting they won't issue completion bonds for projects that can't be completed by that deadline.
During its strike, the WGA signed more than 20 interim deals as a way of gaining leverage over the congloms. Companies agreed in advance to adhere to terms of the guild's final contract agreement.
The first WGA interim pact was signed in late December by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants. The guild eventually signed Lionsgate, RKO, Marvel, Weinstein Co., United Artists, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Spyglass Entertainment, Media Rights Capital, Jackson Bites, Film Department, Intermedia and Mandate.
5 JUNE 2008.- GREEN RUBBER GLOBAL
Among the famous minor shareholders of Green Rubber Global are Forbes vice-chairman Christopher Forbes as well as Hollywood stars Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson, who are advocates of conserving the environment.
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Source: Variety
Green Rubber Global Ltd, a tyre-recycling firm part-owned by Hollywood actor Mel Gibson, said on Thursday credit market conditions needed to improve for a possible listing in London or Hong Kong to go ahead this year.
The UK-based firm told Reuters it has increased the amount it hopes to raise in the pre-IPO funding stage to $20-$50 million, from an earlier $6-$10 million, ahead of a potential listing on London's junior Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in November.
"We will review our decision for a November listing in late August or early September," Andrew Murray-Watson, vice president of Green Rubber Global, said in an interview.
"The AIM market is particularly difficult to get on to at the moment. Closer to the time, we will take a view on whether market conditions have recovered sufficiently to warrant an IPO on AIM."
The firm, in which Malaysia's Petra Group owns 85 percent, has the rights to a technological process called De-Link that can "devulcanise" old tyres and convert them into reusable rubber.
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Source: Variety
Green Rubber Global Ltd, a tyre-recycling firm part-owned by Hollywood actor Mel Gibson, said on Thursday credit market conditions needed to improve for a possible listing in London or Hong Kong to go ahead this year.
The UK-based firm told Reuters it has increased the amount it hopes to raise in the pre-IPO funding stage to $20-$50 million, from an earlier $6-$10 million, ahead of a potential listing on London's junior Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in November.
"We will review our decision for a November listing in late August or early September," Andrew Murray-Watson, vice president of Green Rubber Global, said in an interview.
"The AIM market is particularly difficult to get on to at the moment. Closer to the time, we will take a view on whether market conditions have recovered sufficiently to warrant an IPO on AIM."
The firm, in which Malaysia's Petra Group owns 85 percent, has the rights to a technological process called De-Link that can "devulcanise" old tyres and convert them into reusable rubber.
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6 JUNE 2008.- AERIAL VIEW
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10 JUNE 2008.- GIBSON HASN´T BEEN BLACKLISTED BY HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS
"The only reason I didn't sell the movie, is I had to get a SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) waiver."
Source: Showbizspy (UK)
The producer of MEL GIBSON's new movie has hit out at claims the actor has been blacklisted by Hollywood studios.
Recent reports suggested King has failed to find a studio to distribute his new film Edge of Darkness, because major companies have turned their back on him .
But the film's Oscar-winning producer Graham King reveals this summer's impending actor's strike - due to take place during the planned Edge of Darkness shoot - is the real reason he hasn't sold the film.
King explains, "The only reason I didn't sell the movie, is I had to get a SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) waiver. If I had a distribution deal with a studio, I never would have gotten the waiver."
King also dismisses claims Gibson is hated in Hollywood: "I don't think so. We took the movie to Cannes. I sold the movie in Israel. It surprised the hell out of me."
Jim Wiatt, the chairman of Gibson's agency, William Morris, agrees with King, telling the New York Post, "It's not true that the studios won't work with Mel. He's been offered movies by Fox and Warner Bros. and others."
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The producer of MEL GIBSON's new movie has hit out at claims the actor has been blacklisted by Hollywood studios.
Recent reports suggested King has failed to find a studio to distribute his new film Edge of Darkness, because major companies have turned their back on him .
But the film's Oscar-winning producer Graham King reveals this summer's impending actor's strike - due to take place during the planned Edge of Darkness shoot - is the real reason he hasn't sold the film.
King explains, "The only reason I didn't sell the movie, is I had to get a SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) waiver. If I had a distribution deal with a studio, I never would have gotten the waiver."
King also dismisses claims Gibson is hated in Hollywood: "I don't think so. We took the movie to Cannes. I sold the movie in Israel. It surprised the hell out of me."
Jim Wiatt, the chairman of Gibson's agency, William Morris, agrees with King, telling the New York Post, "It's not true that the studios won't work with Mel. He's been offered movies by Fox and Warner Bros. and others."
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