Sentences with phrase «writers strike»

It will also air three reality series (two of them hoping to bolster Friday nights; in fact Fox will be airing only unscripted series Thursday through Saturday, which may come in handy if the rumored writers strike hits Hollywood in October).
The list goes on, and other writers strike similar themes.
In spite of his executive producer status, supported the 2007 - 08 writers strike by refusing to perform nonwriting duties, such as editing and casting for his programs.
Due to an impending writers strike producer Moustapha Akkad wanted the script to be finished in a quick time period.
While most of the entertainment industry was entangled in a messy writers strike during the beginning of 2008, the Broken Lizard guys decided to get together and make another movie independent of the studio system.
17 — 27 January 2008 Market The shadow of the seemingly never - ending writers strike was looming over Sundance this year (we didn't yet know...
I like (and will continue to use) the term «indie publisher» or «indie writer» to talk about writers striking out on their own into the publishing world and starting their own presses.
One of BioWare's more accomplished writers strikes out on their own, Bobby Kotick gets elected to Coca - Cola's board of directors, and more!
(in which case, we need to get the WGAE Writers Strike resolved!
And then the writers strike hits and it falls apart: Marty and Leo go off and do Shutter Island, and I'm devastated.
Continuing today's exciting news from the Republican side of our little presidential campaign, Bruce Reed notes in Slate that Rudy Giuliani's official blog seems to be acting in sympathy with Hollywood writers — except that instead of the writers striking, it's the readers.
Researchers got input from over 400 college students in the spring of 2008, when a writers strike meant no new TV shows.
Heroes Season 2 was still a good series but due to the writers strike was completley cut in it's tracks by only an 11 episode run.
It is a shame the writers strike happened and affected the show at this point because season 2 ended in such a powerful way.
The writers strike is most likely the reason this season didn't quite live up to it's potential.
Shame that the writers strike killed the rest though.
After hitting a snag due to the writers strike the picture is scheduled to begin filming this June in Europe.
Directors Ethan Coen, left, and Joel Coen scoop top award Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America for No Country for Old Men, giving them the inside track for the same honour at the Academy Awards — assuming the Oscars go ahead amid the writers strike.
Come the season one hiatus, which was very long due to the writers strike at the time, Jonathan Frakes got married to Genie Francis.
«Back to You» started - out with positive reviews and decent ratings (including 9.5 million viewers for the premiere), but it hit a road block after its 7th episode: The Writers Strike.
Though the writers strike caused problems, the film had script problems that should have been sorted out long before (this is a Bond film where the plot revolves around a utilities contract), and Forster's handling of the action was fairly poor, despite the presence of «Bourne» action supremo Dan Bradley as second - unit director.
The shoot had been hampered by the 2007 writers strike, and as a result, critical responses were decidedly more mixed than they'd been for «Casino Royale.»
There won't be a writers strike, thanks to a tentative new deal reached by Writers Guild negotiators and representatives from the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
There have been a lot of video game movies in recent years of varying qualities, but one game that seems almost perfectly suited for the cinema experience is Konami's «Metal Gear Solid» and now that the writers strike is over, De Luca and Columbia Pictures can get back in gear (ha ha) and move forward with bringing the game to the big screen.
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