Showing posts with label 24 Frames blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 24 Frames blog. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Hollywood PR gambit or simply returning a favor? Brent Lang in TheWrap: Robert Downey Jr. Urges Hollywood: 'Forgive Mel Gibson'; But some NEVER will

Hollywood PR gambit or simply returning a favor? Brent Lang in TheWrap: Robert Downey Jr. Urges Hollywood: 'Forgive Mel Gibson'; But some NEVER will

Given the Hollywood-based news media's fascination for constantly recreating the same old narratives over and over again with different faces -it's not just Hollywood studios that like remakes- esp. their version of re-birth or redemption -regardless of whether it's factually either- it'll be interesting to see next week how talent-friendly, lowest common denominator TV shows like Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood and the like treat this story from Friday night, since there are a LOT of hard feelings in the Los Angeles entertainment industry about Mel Gibson, and an awful lot of people who have no intention of letting Gibson feel he's socially acceptable again in either polite society or the film industry.

Even people who usually try their best to stay "above it all" and not take sides if it's bad for business or ratings.
But the Mel Gibson issue is different.

Not that you'd know it from what your read in most U.S. newspapers or magazines -much less ones in South Florida- but there are a lot of smart and savvy TV program/network producers in LA who usually try their best to act agnostic editorially about some entertainment/celebrity stories they run that are clearly banal or self-serving but let them fly anyway, because they are, at heart, well, harmless.

But on this subject, they might just put their feet down and say, essentially, "Nope, I won't accommodate you, Mel Gibson. I won't allow you and your reps to finesse us in to giving you a one-sided forum to plead your case for public redemption.
Nope, first you must actually say that you're sorry publicly, specifically say what you're sorry about and then show some genuine remorse over an extended period of time.
Don't call us, we'll call you."

The conundrum of course, is how do you really ever know if a once hugely-popular actor like Gibson who has said and done what many people believe are some truly reprehensible things -consistently- is showing true remorse?
Or, frankly, is even worth trying to salvage?

Sometimes, despite your past history with talented-but-troublesome people, you have to let people with a documented history of 'burning bridges behind them' stay on the outside looking in, if for no other reason than self-preservation, so that you yourself aren't burned in the future. (Completion bonds exist for a reason, no?)

There are a lot of successful industry people who no longer are interested in being in the "Mel Gibson business,' no matter how artistically creative or financially reasonable the project he pitches sounds.
He's dead to them.
Period.

Someone else in LA will have to give him a rope or ladder to crawl out from the entertainment 'Phantom Zone' he's exiled in, but it won't be them.
They're throwing him an anchor, not an olive branch.

Over the weeks and months to come, we are all going to come to know just who those people are in Hollywood who put principles over profit.


TheWrap
Robert Downey Jr. Urges Hollywood: 'Forgive Mel Gibson'
Published: October 14, 2011 @ 11:50 pm
By Brent Lang
It was supposed to be Robert Downey Jr.’s night, but somehow Friday’s American Cinematheque Award ceremony became all about Mel Gibson.

When the evening’s honoree took to the stage at the Beverly Hills Hilton to accept his doorstop, he had a clear message for Hollywood.
Read the rest of the article at:

Also writing with some insight on this story was reporter Julie Makinen of the L.A. Times at their 24 Frames film blog.

24 Frames blog
Los Angeles Times
Mel Gibson gets a boost from Robert Downey Jr.
October 15, 2011 | 12:34 am

The slow but methodical rehabilitation of Mel Gibson in Hollywood took another step forward Friday night, courtesy of Robert Downey Jr.

Dozens of famous faces who've performed onscreen with Downey or directed him -- among them Gibson, Jodie Foster, Gary Shandling, Michael Douglas and Jon Favreau -- gathered to pay tribute to (and roast) the "Iron Man" star at the Beverly Hilton as he received the 2011 American Cinematheque Award.

Read the rest of her take at:

And in case you forgot, as you watch the videos below, of his Good Morning America interviews with ABC News Diane Sawyer from October 12th and 13th 2006, recall that this was BEFORE the most recent scandal involving former Gibson love interest Oksana Grigorieva, whom he took up with even before officially divorcing his wife, Robyn.


Mel Gibson Accounts for his Drunken Anti-Semitic Tirade (Part 1 of 2)

Mel Gibson Accounts for his Drunken Anti-Semitic Tirade (Part 2 of 2)

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Robert Redford will play Branch Rickey in Jackie Robinson film written/directed by LA Confidential Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland; but who plays Jackie?

Jackie Robinson Pictures, Images and Photos

This is among the best bits of news that I have heard all year.
Really!

Forget the hesitation mentioned below, for many reasons, Robert Redford will definitely play the role of Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey.

For the non-baseball/People Magazine crowd it will also seem very logical -the matching bookend to 'The Natural.'
But the casting question remains: who will play Jackie Robinson and his wife Rachel?

Until I hear a better suggestion, I'm rooting for Michael B. Jordan, late of Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, both of which I love. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430107/


Los Angeles Times
24 Frames film blog
Robert Redford will play Branch Rickey -- or Bill Bryson
By Steven Zeitchik
June 1, 2011 | 5:17 pm

In April, Robert Redford tipped 24 Frames that he’d star in a movie about the relationship between Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey and second baseman Jackie Robinson. The film would be written and directed by “L.A. Confidential” writer Brian Helgeland, and produced and financed by Legendary Pictures, we wrote. The company squirmed at our posting on the subject, saying it was early days to talk about the film.

Read the rest of the story at:


Entertainment Weekly
Robert Redford is Branch Rickey, but who should play Jackie Robinson?
by Jeff Labrecque
April 7, 2011
Robert Redford has been talking about making a Jackie Robinson movie for seven years, and according to the Los Angeles Times, it’s finally in motion. Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale) will write and direct, focusing on the special relationship between the Hall of Fame player who broke baseball’s color barrier and Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey, who orchestrated the historic move with both pragmatic and noble intentions.
Read the rest of the article at:



What's my Line? Jackie Robinson




What's my Line? Branch Rickey



You can watch the original 1950 film in which he played himself, The Jackie Robinson Story with Minor Watson as Branch Rickey here on YouTube:


Meanwhile, the woes continue at Chavez Ravine

Los Angeles Times
Dodgers Blog
Attendance at Dodger Stadium continues to plunge
By Steve Dilbeck and The Times’ Dodgers reporters



I've been receiving the Ebbetts Field Flannels catalog for years and a customer since my days up in D.C., so check out their website for something that fits your style.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Sunday, after I pick-up Odin in Ásgarðr, he and I are seeing Kenneth Branagh's "Thor" at the AMC Aventura 24



Los Angeles Times "Hero Complex" video: ‘Thor’: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘great problem’ would be a sequel. Excerpts from conversation between Thor director Kenneth Branagh and star Chris Hemsworth and Geoff Boucher of the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/videobeta/0d01b8e2-9999-4f1a-aa8e-b27a985ea5c3/Entertainment/Hero-Complex-screening-of-Marvel-s-Thor-

Sunday, after I pick-up Odin in Ásgarðr, he and I are seeing "Thor" at the AMC Aventura 24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28film%29


Los Angeles Times
24 Frames blog
Critical Mass: 'Thor' swings his hammer and the critics scream
By Patrick Kevin Day
May 6, 2011 2:55 p
.m.

Bridges are the key theme of this weekend's "Thor," a film that bridges us from the doldrums of spring releases to the flashier, if not better, world of summer blockbusters. It also serves as another step in the bridge from the first "Iron Man" in 2008 to next summer's superhero all-star jam, "The Avengers." And within the film itself, a superhero actioner about the Norse god of thunder and his adventures in his home of Asgard and on Earth, a rainbow bridge connects the well-regarded Asgard sections of the film with the less successful Earth sections, set in Puente Antiguo, N.M. (which means "Old Bridge").

Read the rest of the post at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/05/critical-mass-thor-swings-his-hammer-and-the-critics-scream.html

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CBS News Sunday Morning video: Kenneth Branagh interviewed by CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner, May 1, 2011
Story at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/01/sunday/main20058747.shtml

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http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Exclusive-Interview-Kenneth-Branagh-brings-blockbust-Thor-to-life---VIDEO-121315789.html



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Kenneth Branagh on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 1
of 2, May 5, 2011.
http://youtu.be/ZryqdtI0SCc




Kenneth Branagh on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 2
of 2, May 5, 2011.
http://youtu.be/SKSq9XKBiS8


See also:
http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Exclusive-Interview-Kenneth-Branagh-brings-blockbust-Thor-to-life---VIDEO-121315789.html




Anthony Hopkins on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 1 of 3, May 3, 2011

http://youtu.be/jLpUJH1__nM



Anthony Hopkins on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 2 of 3, May 3, 2011.

http://youtu.be/Yq3fQKfHyZY



Anthony Hopkins on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 3 of 3, May 3, 2011.

http://youtu.be/ErlO6Q8HU54

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Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyKimmelLive



BBC's Planet Earth video set to Sigur Ros' "Glosoli" http://youtu.be/4HqcjgJCDuw