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In every deal like this there is always plenty of language written in for "this deal will become voided if party A does any other this list of 100 things or if party B does any other this other list".

For example, remember when Activision sued Viacom?

Be careful... R. Kelly has become accustomed to the buzzing of the flies circling his nether-regions, and may grow suspicious when they fall silent at the hand of your camera. Though the footage he tends to provide is probably worth the risk.

I thought Raimi was busy with Freddy vs Jason vs Ash. How does he have the time to recycle the same idea in so many ways?

That article you cited is misleading in that it says "Disney and Pixar have sealed a deal" which implies a new contract, but it actually talking about the last three movies of the 5 picture deal signed in 1997.

Didn't you hear? Ashlee Simpson's songs are the preference of the karaoke set!

This is an old, old topic. It was widely discussed in the aftermath of the Mitchell brothers trial for a murder that happened in 1991. Some observers felt that the use by the prosecution of a sophisticated (for the time) animated recreation of their version of events unduly swayed the jury.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Dammit, I keep promising not to respond to AC's. Oh well...

BZZZZZZZT!!! WRONG! Pixar started out as the computer animation division of Lucasfilm. Steve Jobs came on board after he bought Pixar from Lucas

Maybe they will add Geena Davis to their board?

(Davis is a member, never attends meetings however)

Remember way back in the good old days, before piracy, when a movie like Finding Nemo could really move DVDs out the door? Boy, it's too bad nowadays, that more recent releases have such dismal sales.

Poor George. Your pain must be unbearable.

I thought I would spew out a few links to reviews of the movie if you want to see what movie critics have to say...

Hollywood Reporter
NY Times (requires registration)
ReelTalk Reviews
ComingSoon.net
E! Online (with trailer)

You know even more that you have provoked people when far more famous bands campaign to get rid of you.

--
24 wars since WW2: Creating fear so rich people can profit.

Jornada Nas Estrelas III: À Procura De Spock

Tripulantes viajam para o Planeta Genesis, condenado à destruição total e enfrentam um sangüinário guerreiro

>the Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California

that sounded fake (the idea of an old folks home for tv stars), so I looked it up - sure enough...

http://www.mpsc839.org/_Benefits/Benefits_h/gethel p.HTM

The Motion Picture and Television Fund was founded in 1921 by a group of Hollywood industry pioneers such as Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, will Rogers, Cecil B. DeMille and Irving Thalberg. The MPTF opened the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills in 1940. They operate health centers in Woodland Hills, Toluca Lake, Hollywood, West Los Angeles and Santa Clarita, staffed by physicians recently rated #1 in southern California by Blue Cross.

also came across obits on Kelly (honestly didn't know he had died)
http://obits.com/kelleydeforest.htm
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,4899,00.html

I was surprised to learn that he was in a bunch of westerns before doing trek:

Prior to donning the blue shirt that was the sign of a Starfleet medical officer, Kelley wore another kind of uniform--a cowboy get-up. He worked extensively in TV westerns of the 1950s and '60s, piling up credits on shows such as Rawhide, The Virginian and Zane Grey Theater.

Land Shark

Ok, one more time...

>Aren't XM and Sirius satellite radio also available over the Internet - about $10 a month?

Nooo, not over the internet, that is....

And they're both completely and utterly illegal in Canada. Period.

>BBC.co.uk is free

Uggghhhh... It's like AM. But WORSE! And more expensive to run!

>Muzak services Canada I would think.

Hell no. Totally illegal to pay for Muzak here.

>What gives???

Canada has media under a soviet style grip. Only in Canada can you be silenced for, well, being Howard Stern. Okay, probably in some other countries too.

The Canadian Broadcast Standard Council ruled that Q-107 violated local code by airing Stern shows that contained allegedly racist comments slurring African Americans and Jews and sexist references about sharks eating women.

yeah, because u2 isn't still making any headway in the world of music. oh wait, they were nominated for a ton of grammy's and won 7 of them for that album. yeah, you'd probably never hear about their stuff being released... ;P

seriously though, i don't think it is a stunt, but maybe that is wishful thinking.

methods and apparatus for encouraging viewers to pay attention to television programs, commercials in particular, by offering viewers some incentive to watch

You can try Survivor, Baywatch or the The Simple Life

I think you're confusing iPods with Jeri Ryan.

Huh? He didn't say anything about taking it to a sex club.

Something tells me... ...that the winner is just going to have a really hot, photogenic girlfriend ;)

You mean, perhaps like Mick Jagger and former "Page 3 girl" Jeri Hall?

No, like Jack Ryan and Jeri "Seven of Nine" Ryan. Now those are pictures that I want to see!

Dude, Schwarzenegger's surgery was done to correct a congenital heart defect. In other words, it's a problem he was born with.

Weightlifting itself doesn't do anything bad to your heart. What damages your heart is overdosing on anabolic supplements, and taking advantage of your accelerated metabollism to eat all kinds of foods that clog your arteries.

Slashdot needs to interview Natalie Portman.

...the twins came into being.

(note: yeah, bring on the comments about the perverts now... i don't care. They're legal! Woo hoo!)

Ok, at first I thought this was another in a long line of trolls..

I was going to post "Its supposed to be Stephen King you idiot! Or was it Larry King..."

But this looks legit, a quick google search turned up several articles, including one which actually doesn't require an infuriating online registration:

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14285,00.htm l?tnews

Yes, E online, that bastion of stone solid, accurate information...

Regardless, it appears the parent post is not a troll.

Well it would kinda help if you didn't look and act like this guy.

Eisner turned Disney around in the eighties...

...authored an internal memo at Paramount in 1982 that read: "We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective." -- (eonline)

Monopoly indeed. Look at some of the press articles from the DiscLive site. CC and DL have been going to toe to toe for a while with this. Of course, from this one article, it is clear that CC clearly has the upper hand: "But who will have final say over these recordings? Simon says, "As the promoter/venue owner we do not need special permission from the promoter/venue owner to record shows."

I can see CC refusing mechanical licenses to to DL as they are the 'owners' of most of the venues.

Note that DiscLive has applied for a patent too:
"DiscLive has developed a patent pending proprietary technology that enables the mass-production of CDs and DVDs within minutes of the end of a concert."

As a frequent gatherer of legal live recordings, I think the prior art is with the fans, as they are the ones who have been plugging into soundboards and passing out free CDs immediately after a show that allows live recording, since the day laptops came with burners in them. One just need to look at a site like FurthurNet to see the hundreds of legal recordings available for download (their software and registration required to download), many of which were issued immediatley after the show.

Enter the coffee cure. "With the enema you can bring out the sad cells or--whatever it is--even stronger." At one point, Jackson says she needed an enema two days in a row to cleanse some particularly pesky sad cells. - e!online

I don't think Shatner's been much good at anything since his wife died. Frankly, I don't blame him... if my wife died, I'd probably be a bit aimless as well.

All of that said, Shatner's milked the Star Trek thing long enough. Milking a role 10 years after a show ends might be ok for awhile, but the original Star Trek has been gone for a LONG time. The Johnny Carson show was as good as Star Trek, but you don't see Carson showing up everytime someone opens the curtains.

He's had a full life - he should stop embarrassing himself. There's nothing unique about a 1-role actor. He's a nice guy, but really... bury the role, and try something else.

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for this man. : )

... was because Seth MacFarlane's old school headmaster got the sponsors of the show to pull out.

Of course it's total BS, but he's the real person to blame for this, not the Fox execs, as such. What could they do? No money, no deal, right?

BTW, Family Guy rocks! Go Family Guy! :-)

that may be, but Seth McFarlane has been quoted as working on new Family Guy:

... at the very least it [the new series] will be on Cartoon Network, which is great, because at the end of the day, that's where we built our biggest fan base.

"The Family Guy" Coming Back

This will probably be modded OT but I think something should be said.

Here's the original post (including the missing financial context and Google link) that I wrote up shortly after reading the article at midnight last night when the New York Times site is updated.

Hollywood's Rising Fascination With Video Games

The New York Times Technology's Laura M. Holson writes about a growing trend: Hollywood movie directors making videogames. The reason? Big money, sometimes even more than they made from the movies they directed. Peter Jackson missed out on the bonanza from the Lord of the Rings trilogy but will have creative control of Ubisoft's King Kong movie tie-in. John Woo's (Face/Off, Mission Impossible 2, Hard-Boiled) Tiger Hill Games and Sega have a 30-person team developing a heist game (maybe a Metroid title too?). Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien, Gladiator) and Tony Scott (Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State) are in talks with major game executives. Finally, the Wachowski brothers raked in millions from the Enter the Matrix game, which Warner Brothers declined to back. Determined not to miss more opportunities, the studio founded Warner Games, led by Monolith co-founder and ex-CEO Jason Hall. What if the games are better than the movies they are based on?

Admittedly, it's a bit long and deserves some necessary editing (substituting the IMDB link for the directors' respective filmographies and movie credits for example).

When I logged in early this morning, the post was rejected and in mid-afternoon simoniker posted the story (1 of only 2 today - it's after 6:30 PM as I write this comment). It's entirely possible - though somewhat unlikely considering the sequence of events - that simoniker stumbled on the article by himself and wrote it up entirely by himself.

In the past I've largely ignored that fact that many articles submitted when simoniker was editing invariably are rejected and then - often very similar or identical text - are posted uncredited.

I'm not the first person here to take notice of the pattern or to point this out.

It's not about the Karma or complaining that something wasn't posted, or anything of that sort because I've been maxed out on Karma for a long time, I have lots of submitted items posted, and probably even more rejected because someone else thought to submit it before me. Rejected posts aren't the problem.

It's about common courtesy and respect for the readers and the people who make Slashdot work.

Slashdot works because of the people who take the time to write in and let their fellow readers know about items of interest to geeks everywhere. It's more than a little irritating to take time to do a write-up on a holiday weekend, have it rejected and then see a nearly identical (less so in this particular case) item uncredited.

Most people have had at least one experience of a pinhead boss taking credit for their work, and most people have tolerated it because they get paid to do their jobs and don't want to risk workplace wrath. Here, nobody's getting paid except the Slashdot editors, to whom none of us are accountable. The reader/reporters aren't getting paid and the virtual tip of the hat as thanks is the only reward. I've read people's compaints about a relative lack of submissions or stories in the Games section. If this type of behavior is the reason, it goes a long way to explaining why.

simonker, 'Stuff that matters' is part of Slashdot's slogan. The bottom line: Give credit where credit is due.

It matters.

http://www.tvtome.com/FamilyGuy/

and this:

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13622,00.htm l?tnews

Could it be...?

D.H.S. - The Series. ... a multimillion-dollar episodic series, will explore the inner workings of the Department of Homeland Security, teaming the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and National Security Administration (NSA) together with first responders such as local police, fire and safety administrators.

The series is being pitched to prospective networks and has the full support of President Bush and Tom Ridge. They love it. They think it is fantastic, say the series' producers at Steeple Productions. Not familiar with Steeple Productions? Well, perhaps you might find their four-episode Creation Vs Evolution series enlightening.

D.H.S. - The Series. ... a multimillion-dollar episodic series, will explore the inner workings of the Department of Homeland Security, teaming the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, and National Security Administration (NSA) together with first responders such as local police, fire and safety administrators.

The series is being pitched to prospective networks and has the full support of President Bush and Tom Ridge. They love it. They think it is fantastic, say the series' producers at Steeple Productions. Not familiar with Steeple Productions? Well, perhaps you might find their four-episode Creation Vs Evolution series enlightening.

Hollywood is full of fake shit. But let's force them to be explicit about what is fiction and what is real. The Golden Globes are awarded by an in-bred group of random no-nothing foreigners based in large part on who has given them the best perks that year. I think that the world's movie fans deserve better.

Why should we geeks care what 90 people, self-selected for a lack of integrity, think of the Lord of the Rings or anything else?

Hollywood is full of fake shit. But let's force them to be explicit about what is fiction and what is real. The Golden Globes are awarded by an in-bred group of random no-nothing foreigners based in large part on who has given them the best perks that year. I think that the world's movie fans deserve better.

Why should we geeks care what 90 people, self-selected for a lack of integrity, think of the Lord of the Rings or anything else?

Come to think of it, everybody else got Kuffs too.

Come to think of it, everybody else got Kuffs too.

This kind of movie ad campaign had already been done by Gattaca in 1997. It advertized in the NY Times, among other places, to have a method of genetically engineering children.

They even had a toll-free number to call, which was pounded heavily. I'm surprised anyone had the gall to copy this strategy... it had some considerably bad backlash, as far as I can remember.

It seems like the creators of the movie didn't care at all how the movie would look like.

They really had other things to worry about. I guess that explains everything, especially the dialogue and plot, obviously written in a hurry by someone completely absent-minded and concentrated on something else.

... and sleeps with the fishes.

Besides, if people are recording the movies in theatres, then won't the large reddish brown spots that flash in the middle of the picture make them useless and unviewable?

I guess JenniCam had its time and place. Now we can occupy ourselves with Paris Hiltonand Pamela Anderson leaked footage.

I guess JenniCam had its time and place. Now we can occupy ourselves with Paris Hiltonand Pamela Anderson leaked footage.

Are you telling me you can't relate to This?

Give it time, my son
You will come to like them soon
When you grow a pair

Just what I've been looking for from the morality-dictating retail king.

I will expect features like:
-Built-in browser prevents users from viewing maximmagazine.com, stuffmagazine.com and fhmus.com.
-Built-in MP3 software doesn't play songs with profanity in them, and will not play Sheryl Crow's second album at all.

Demonstrators: Free Tibet. free Tibet. Peter: I'll take it. Hello China? I have something you want but it's gonna cost you. yeah that's right. All the tea. I love this show! My favorite character has to be Stewie. Stewie: You! Cut my bread! [waiter cuts his bread] Stewie: Now cut my milk! Waiter: Uh, sir, it's liquid. Stewie: [slaps him] IDIOT! Freeze it, then CUT it! And if you ever question my authority again, I shall give you diaper duty! And believe me, I will not make it easy on you. The great thing about Stewie is that even though he's bent on world domination he still acts like a baby. Remember the end of the episode "A Road to Europe?" Anyway, another reason FG may have been cancelled: From Eonline.com The series was also the target of an advertiser boycott instigated by MacFarlane's former prep school headmaster, the Reverend Richardson Schell. Schell convinced several advertisers to abandon the 'toon, alleging that it contained anti-Semitic, racist and sexist content. Schell had previously asked MacFarlane to change the cartoon family's surname. Griffin was the same last name as that of Schell's assistant, Elaine Griffin. More than 125,000 fans fired back with their own online petition announcing their intention to boycott the network and its advertisers if the series was canceled, all to no avail. You can see the full article here

Story goes something like this ... Katzenberg worked at Disney for ten years, but like many others, didn't get on too well with Michael Eisner, and vice versa. He quit in 1993 to create Dreamworks SKG.

When Shrek was created, Dreamwork's first real feature animation, the character of Farquad (or Fuck-wad) was supposed to be Eisner, and Duloc (Farquad's Castle) is modelled on Disneyworld.