Trade Round-Up: Cojo Gets Talk Show, We Pray For Death
· Sex and the City creator Darren Star will make his feature directing debut (I think that's what they're saying) with the romantic comedy 100 Weddings, in which a war reporter has to cover wedding before...sorry, we already can't bring ourselves to care. [THR]
· The MPAA estimates that piracy could cost the business $15 billion over the next four years. Assuming, naturally, that people would actually want to pay for the shit Hollywood product they're stealing if it weren't free. [THR]
· British Columbia's entertainment productions are falling on hard times. Can't we just send them back Mike Myers in a win-win situation for both countries? [Variety, sub. req'd.]
· Steven Cojocaru shoots a talk show pilot for Paramount Network Television. Please kill us now, resurrect us, and then kill us again to make sure we stay good and dead before we ever lay an eye on this abomination. [THR]
· Fox is figuring out how to use Red Sox triumph to their advantage. Early plans to kidnap the Cardinals and force the Sox to play the Yankees again may face some logistical problems. [THR]
· Fox teams up with Ice Cube and Futurama co-creator David X. Cohen for an animated series about the early days of
rap called Grandmaster Freak & the Furious 15. We're thinking Josie and the Pussycats meets Fat Albert, but with 40s and blunts. [Variety,sub. req'd.]