Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I like Peter Bart's brief 11.19 profile of 34 year-old movie financier and Relativity Media honcho Ryan Kavanaugh more than the also-recent one by Chris Jones in Esquire. I prefer Bart's because he mentions that Kavanaugh is "a moderate drinker [whose] driving is sufficiently erratic to provoke occasional run-ins with the cops" and who "can joke about melodramatic...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Peter Bart of Variety informs us that the movie Red Dawn is going to be remade. He liked it even less than Carol and I did. I think I remember us leaving after about forty-five minutes or so. The jingoism was loud, clumsy and inane. Bart explains what happened: Peter Bart: MGM, for example, is recrafting a curious ’80s movie called "Red Dawn," and...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... Learn that following “Hogan’s” success, Ruddy was invited to a meeting with Robert Evans and Peter Bart at Paramount, where he pitched his 15-page treatment for 1974’s “The Longest Yard” and his idea for “Little Fauss and Big Halsy,” and walked away with a three-picture deal. Learn the writers of “Stalag 17” sued CBS over “Hogan’s” while Ruddy was in New York producing “The Godfather.”...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Learn that following “Hogan’s” success, Ruddy was invited to a meeting with Robert Evans and Peter Bart at Paramount, where he pitched his 15-page treatment for 1974’s “The Longest Yard” and his idea for “Little Fauss and Big Halsy,” and walked away with a three-picture deal. Learn the writers of “Stalag 17” sued CBS over “Hogan’s” while Ruddy was in New York producing “The Godfather.”...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... of National Geographic Adventure , as well as Vogue editrix Anna Wintour and former Variety editor Peter Bart . Other top winners of the day included Food Network Magazine 's win for Best Launch and Fortune , which nabbed the Best Feature award for its "Three Days that Shook the World" piece on the economic collapse of last fall. BusinessWeek won for Best Investigative &...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... movies. (A little of both?) * The lion of Hollywood has been a bit mangy for a long time now. Peter Bart reports that MGM is about to be sold and the whole thing, 4,000 titles and all, is worth about $1.5 billion, which would be a lot of money to you and me but to a once mighty film studio sure sounds paltray. One factor, even the older titles in the library ain’t what they used to...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Peter Bart: Studios insist that the future belongs to franchises -- One question keeps reasserting itself: What ever happened to "indie" cinema?
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Peter Bart: Don't let the toxic times, ruin a great gig -- Rich, I trust that you are prepared, not only for the highs of the job, but also for the hazards.
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... attached to star. On top of that it mentions the project is on "the immediate horizon." What Peter Bart's article fails to mention is Flying Tigers will be directed by John Woo, which means this is a reunion for the Mission: Impossible II star and director.As a matter of fact, it is actually John Woo's attachment that became the big news back in July of 2009 when reported on a Chinese...
