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Mikaela:
--- Quote from: Susiebell on November 06, 2007, 09:17:23 am ---I wonder if you can get that done on the NHS! ;D
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Have a proocedure done to make Jake want to take advantage of you, you mean? ;) Nah.... it would surely have meant the total collapse of the NHS through overdemand in no time at all! ;D
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I don't understand from these press snippets whether someone is just *hoping* for Biel and Gyllenhaal to sign, whether they've tentatively accepted, or whether they have actually contractually signed on. Anyone here better at film-speak than me, who could enlighten me?
notBastet:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on November 06, 2007, 11:29:36 am ---Have a proocedure done to make Jake want to take advantage of you, you mean? ;) Nah.... it would surely have meant the total collapse of the NHS through overdemand in no time at all! ;D
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I don't understand from these press snippets whether someone is just *hoping* for Biel and Gyllenhaal to sign, whether they've tentatively accepted, or whether they have actually contractually signed on. Anyone here better at film-speak than me, who could enlighten me?
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it sounds that way to me too - that the writers, etc. hope for Biel and Gyllenhaal, but no word if they've actually agreed to do it...
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on November 06, 2007, 11:29:36 am ---
I don't understand from these press snippets whether someone is just *hoping* for Biel and Gyllenhaal to sign, whether they've tentatively accepted, or whether they have actually contractually signed on. Anyone here better at film-speak than me, who could enlighten me?
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I got this from The Answer Bitch at E! Online. Hope this helps...
by Leslie Gornstein
Jul 6, 2007
Ask the Answer B!tch
At want point is an actor committed to doing a movie role? You often hear that someone was signed on for a movie but backed out. I am specifically thinking of Anne Hathaway for the lead role in Knocked Up. You rock!
—Angela, Lafayette, Indiana
The B!tch Replies: Here's a little known fact: Celebrities, like cats, have floating collarbones. And like cats, they can use this trait to worm out of any situation at any time—including ironclad movie contracts, losing, at worst, a few million in the process. So, if during your nocturnal wanderings, you spot Christina Aguilera staring up at you from a sewer drain or a tiny spider hole, and she's peeping and mewing and asking you to get her out, remind her that as long as she can get her head and whiskers through the opening, she can rescue her own self.
Then walk away.
I say this because even after a star has promised—promised!—to shoot a movie, it doesn't always mean that'll happen. In 1993, an incensed film producer complained Kim Basinger had promised—promised!—to appear in his project Boxing Helena and that she broke her word.
There wasn't even a written contract, but in a subsequent lawsuit, a court ruled against Basinger to the tune of roughly $8 million. During testimony in that case, it was revealed that of Basinger's nine previous films, she had signed only two formal contracts.
I speak of an extraordinary case, of course. According to Jeffery Erb, whose company, FeverPitch Pictures, is producing Let the Game Begin with Adam Rodriguez, usually an initial payment seals a deal. More often, he says, an actor is officially on board upon the creation of a "short-form memo." That is sort of a letter of intent, stating an actor plans to appear in a movie and that producers can go ahead and announce that to the world while everyone works out a long-form contract.
Most of the time, the star approves the long-form contract a few weeks later, crossing all the t's and putting hearts over all the i's, and everything is grand. But occasionally, a deal goes sour somewhere between the short-form memo and the contract, and an actor, as Variety says, "ankles."
Maybe that's what happened in the case you mention involving Anne Hathaway. Officially, she left the movie after she'd been announced as the female lead, citing "creative differences."
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/answer/?uuid=23ccac3d-cbd3-4143-a874-9ace3a738909
Artiste:
Did Jake G. ever got away from doing a movie he had commited to do so?
Hugs!
Mikaela:
No idea whether Jake ever walked away from a role. That kind of thing isn't advertised, but in most cases kept under wraps and away from the public, I would suppose. It hardly makes for good publicity, - neither for film nor actor.
Thank you Leslie, that was interesting and I think it cleared things up. I take it then we're to surmise that Jake and Ms. Biel are in the stage after the short form memo has been prepared and "accepted", but before a long form contract has yet been signed.
(I remember the Boxing Helena Basinger debacle, now that I've been reminded of it....Never had the details though. And I also remember that such things can cut both ways; directors/producers walk away from contracts too. From my previous fandom life, I sure recall Peter Jackson booting Stuart Townsend out of the Aragorn role well after rehearsals to start filming the Rings trilogy had started in New Zealand.... and Viggo Mortensen signed on for a year and a half of swordfighting in New Zealand after being given a full day or so to contemplate jumping on that next plane south. And very recently Peter J. did it again - dismissing his lead actor from his upcoming movie. But I totally digress here....)
Your article also happened to highlight something entirely else for me: Which actress I'd like to take the female role, should Jessica Biel for any reason not end up with it. I'd *love* for Anne Hathaway to take that role!! She's beautiful and delightful and she's got great comic timing and presence and that special glint in her eyes IMO. I admit to thinking, every time my DVD player reaches "Noone's gonna love you like me, noone else, can't you see...." that Anne and Jake have *got* to be the most gorgeous "young Hollywood" actor and actress there is to be seen playing a traditional onscreen couple; - they look so good together. I'd *love* to see them do another film, one where they get *very* romantically involved, to be sure. :) (Preferrably one where Jake may remain moustache-less and Anne doesn't have to don blond wigs!)
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