By Katey Rich
Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were the powerhouse producers behind Mirage Films, the production company with a first-look deal at The Weinstein Company. But after Minghella's death in March and Pollack's on Monday, the fate of the company is up in the air, writes The Hollywood Reporter. It's all speculation at this point, but the article suggests that Mirage products not attached to co-producers (such as the HBO movie The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and a remake of the German hit drama The Lives of Others) may be shepherded by the Weinsteins or Pollack's daughter Rebecca, formerly an exec at United Artists. It's at least good to know that, following the loss of two great filmmakers, there are people willing to make sure their last efforts will see the light of day.
The fact that the biggest movie release of the weekend is aimed squarely at women is sending box-office pundits into a panic. Variety reports that, while women all over the country are preparing to line up for midnight screenings of Sex and the City, men would "rather be shot than sit through the movie." The most optimistic numbers have Sex and the City making Devil Wears Prada kind of numbers, while those of us who are not box-office experts but know plenty of women feel confident that this movie will make way, way more money than anyone expects. Mark my words: Indiana Jones may even get a run for his money from four women in stilettos.
In America, when celebrities say stupid things in public, we either give them a reality show or, very occasionally, make them apologize on "Oprah." In China, though, one slip of the tongue can mean being banned for life. That's the fate facing Sharon Stone, according to The Reporter, who said at Cannes that the recent earthquakes in China were "karma" for China's treatment of Tibet. The country is now banning all of Stone's films, which means the country's teenagers will have a lot fewer options for the Friday night tradition of renting a movie just to make fun of it.
Wedding comedies seem to be the rage now, and with screenwriters running out of ideas for how to make nuptials entertaining, they're resorting to hostage situations. Variety reports that Touchstone will produce the spec comedy script Wedding Banned, about a long-divorced couple who kidnap their daughter on her wedding day to keep her from making the mistake of her life. All this, you know, instead of talking it out like grown-ups before the dresses were paid for.
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