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• ‘Hancock’: $17.1M Thurs, $41.3M So Far
• Watch Strike.TV Video! Online Network Created During WGA Strike Gets Real
• Peter Chernin Needs To Answer For This…
• What A Waste Of A Tree…
• ‘Hancock’ Soars To $17.3 Mil Wednesday
• UPDATE: Ellen Page Exits WMA for ETA: “She Just Never Made A Connection…”
• SAG/AMPTP: Nothing New Until Monday
• 20th Fox Responds To Outpour Of Anger: “We Are Passionate About Film History”
• Will Smith’s ‘Hancock’ Off To Fast Start: Dramedy Soars To $41.3M In 2.5 Days; Predicted $100+M High For July 4th Wkd
• SAG vs AFTRA: Now PR Firms Will Battle
• WGA Toon Writers To ‘Sit Down, Shut Up!’ Scribes: “We Are All Part Of This Fight”
• AMPTP’s Strike Fear-Mongering in Trades
• A Meaningless L.A. Times Film Survey…
• WHAT A DAMN SHAME! 20th Fox To Close One Of The Last Studio Research Libraries
• “Trash-Talking With Harvey Weinstein”
• Tick-Tock: AMPTP Makes “Last Best Offer” Before SAG Contract Expires At 12:01 AM
• COUNTDOWN TO JUNE 30TH: The Details They Don’t Want You To Know
• Warner Bros Will Embrace ‘The Women’
• SAG’s Alan Rosenberg Publicly Confirms My “Calm Down, No Strike Steps” Report
• Filmgoers Wild For ‘Wall-E’ And ‘Wanted’: Angelina Jolie Posts Best Opening Ever; Lonely Droid Debut Is Pixar’s 3rd Biggest
• COUNTDOWN TO JUNE 30TH: Calm Down. There Will Be No Strike Sequel. But When Will Hollywood Ever Get Back To Work?
• Sony Pic’s Van Galder & Weinstock Upped
• Shame On Toby Emmerich…
• Wkd Prediction: Robot $70M, Angie $40M
• ‘Wall-E’ Orbiting Best Picture Oscar Nod?
• FCC To Curb Product Integration On TV: WGA Calling For “Real Time” Disclosure
• ‘Hancock’: $115M Over Fourth Of July?
• Wasserman’s Slam Dunk At NBA Draft
• Obama Hardly A “Hollywood Candidate” — And Not Necessarily Sumner Redstone’s
• Billy Crystal Has Exited ICM
• Newspaper Publisher/Philanthropist Endows UCLA Center For Costume Design
• Goldstein On Finke; Finke On Goldstein
• Big Actor vs Big Actor SAG-AFTRA Inanity
• “Mark Canton Wants A Word With You…”
• ‘Sit Down, Shut Up!’ Final Showdown Between IATSE Toon And WGA Writers
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• UPDATE: Reality TV Sale Price $500 Mil? Mark Burnett “Seriously” Talking To IMG; Already IMG Execs Fawning All Over Him
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• Hollywood Hose-Down Who’s All Wet This Week

• Will the [Crappy] WGA Deal Go Down? Don’t be surprised if writers revolt over this one

• Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus Golden Globes: Going, Going, Gone

• Disaster in the Making The longtime Hollywood maxim is that he who loses his temper first loses.

• Strike By The Minute Hallelujah. The haggling has begun.

• Strike Fix Talks Unproductive “Game of Chicken”

• Secret Agent Men How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

• On a Collision Course Why TV showrunners could be the collateral damage of this writers’ strike

• Deals, Lies and Back Channels Why the WGA strike is a bigger mess now than ever

• WGA Strike Q-and-A The 411 on the “Holloween” fear and loathing

• Strike Happy The writers want it, the moguls want it… what a bunch of idiots

• Hollywood’s He-Man Woman Haters Club Charter member Jeff Robinov to get rewarded

• I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

• Moonves Should Pull the Plug on Kid Nation A mogul with no conscience

• The Worst Talent Deal Ever Jim Carrey succumbs to voodoo economics

• Agency Clients, an Old Coot, and Counting Chads What’s making news while Hollywood vacations

• The Hollywood Reporter’s New Editor Is she a get or just an also-ran?

• Nasty, Nasty, Nasty ICM and Ed Limato viciously call it quits

• Grey the Transformer Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

• They Must Be High Hip NBC Hemp, MySpace Duo, Cruise Control

• Evan Almighty Is In Need Of A Miracle Is the big-budget sequel going to hell?

• Fade to Black If HBO doesn’t wise up, it could get whacked

• That Zucks! NBC’s CEO screws up network shakeup

• Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters, Dream Deals and Ingénues Things to chew on this Memorial Day weekend

• No More Monday Nights at Morton’s Remembering a Hollywood legend

• The Blockbusters Cometh It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless…

• High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

• Across an Alternate Universe A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

• Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

• Dangerous Liaisons More hanky-panky than a whorehouse in LAT opinion section

• Bearing the Scars of Oscars For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

• Goodbye Baquet, Hello O’Shea The Chicagoan comes out fighting

• The Scars of Oscars Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

• Brad Grey’s Performance Less Than Golden Mogul earns scorn, not envy, at Globes

• Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances Hollywood starts new year with a bang

• Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007 Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

• It’s a Wonderful Life? Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

• ’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

• Screenwriters in the Shit While Akiva Goldsman fiddles, more accomplished movie scribes burn

• Bond and Gagged A flock of singin’ and hoofin’ penguins flip off 007

• Stars Get Caught in Hirsch’s Hornets Nest Names drop and accusations fly as Barry goes to trial

• Blood from Stones The diamond cartel’s campaign against Leo’s upcoming movie gets dirty

• Deal Or No Deal Broad, Burkle, Geffen… when it comes to the Times, whose briefcase is bigger?

• Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood’s Frenzied Fall Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

• It’s Ugly Out There Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties

• Dean of Sycophants All the news the Times should be covering and isn’t

• Baquet’s Billionaire Boys’ Club Is Dean of Arc playing a dangerous game with the Times’ integrity?

• Cash and Carrey Jim firing his agent is juicier than any episode of Entourage

• The Mouse Who Whored Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

• Savage TV From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem, Reality TV goes wild

• War of the Worlds Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

• The Iceberg Cometh Inside ICM’s “Project Beta”

• Too Fast and Too Furious Not just Mel, but sanctimonious Hollywood, too

• Brokespoke Alp Jake Gyllenhaal’s ride to nowhere?

• Go Johnny Go Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

• Moguls Will Be Moguls At Camp Allen Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

• Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters It’s gonna be a long, hot summer in Hollywood

• The Passion of the Cash Da Vinci Cannes the world

• TV’s Promiscuous Bitches The creator of Grey’s Anatomy on women, sex and her hit show

• Screwing the TV Viewer The CW Network is the bastard child of The WB and UPN

• Who Hates Their MTV? How the rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks

• Oh Shit! The Vultures Are Circling CAA picks off Steinberg’s prime NFL meat

• Pellicano’s Rat Pack Loose Lips and Sinking Ships

• Two Tonys Is One Too Many for Mogul Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

• Oscar Hangover Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

• How Gay Will Oscar Go? Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

• Blame Ovitz When Art Started Imitating Hollywood