Have you ever seen Roger Ebert give his Wagging Finger of Shame? He usually bestows the non-honor on movie companies when they pull any variety of stunts that somehow cheat filmgoers. Over at Cinematical, we need to come up with a name for our own version of the Finger, because it seems like lately there are an awful lot of excuses to call the industry out on shady practices. A couple of days ago, we broke the story that Paramount had inexplicably decided not to screen this weekend's Aeon Flux for critics; angry comments from potential Flux consumers ensued. Then today, we learned that Universal is threatening legal action against a blogger for encouraging his readers to email their scripts to Uni executives. It's not all bad, though; we also recently learned that both the producers and the studio execs behind a potential sequel to Independence Day decided not to put the kibbosh on the project, because, in the screenwriter's own words, to make a sequel "for the money ... [is] not the right reason." Ethics in Hollywood? Must be a temporary blip.Cinematical wags its finger at studio misjudgements
Have you ever seen Roger Ebert give his Wagging Finger of Shame? He usually bestows the non-honor on movie companies when they pull any variety of stunts that somehow cheat filmgoers. Over at Cinematical, we need to come up with a name for our own version of the Finger, because it seems like lately there are an awful lot of excuses to call the industry out on shady practices. A couple of days ago, we broke the story that Paramount had inexplicably decided not to screen this weekend's Aeon Flux for critics; angry comments from potential Flux consumers ensued. Then today, we learned that Universal is threatening legal action against a blogger for encouraging his readers to email their scripts to Uni executives. It's not all bad, though; we also recently learned that both the producers and the studio execs behind a potential sequel to Independence Day decided not to put the kibbosh on the project, because, in the screenwriter's own words, to make a sequel "for the money ... [is] not the right reason." Ethics in Hollywood? Must be a temporary blip.