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Could be the writers’ strike, could be the IRS, could be something else, but Axium International, a firm that handles payroll and other financial matters for major-studio and independent film productions, abruptly shut its doors today and told its employees to go home.
The Hollywood Reporter quotes sources as saying company president […]

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Actor and writer Eric Bogosian has an insightful take on why the AMPTP is taking such a hard line against the WGA that I’ve seen yet. He e-mailed his hypothesis to top entertainment industry reporter Nikke Finke, and it’s up on her blog.
Bogosian says, in essence, that entertainment producers are worried about how […]

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Okay, yes, I’m being sarcastic, but you have to understand. All too often when I was a youngster, my father would come home from work to find my brothers and me lying on the floor, watching “The Three Stooges” or “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” whereupon he would ask in a sneering tone, “What intellectual, […]

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