Showing posts with label Warner Brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warner Brothers. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

...Charlie Sheen

WINNING! Is one of my favorite things to say, but is Charlie Sheen losing? Only Dr. Drew wants to know this. Why? Well today Charlie Sheen was officially fired from his job on "Two and A Half Men". Warner Bros. Television released this statement, "After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen's services on 'Two and a Half Men,' effective immediately. Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen's statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Bros. Television have decided to discontinue production of 'Two and a Half Men' for the remainder of the season. Charlie was either upset or peeved by the news, this was his response, "I got a text or something. Here's another thing -- these guys are such yellow cockroaches that they didn't even have the decency to call me. I put 5 bill[ion] in their cheap suit pockets and another half a bil' in what's-his-cheese's pockets and this is the... respect I get? It's just deplorable and they should be ashamed of themselves!" He blamed the firing on his bosses not understanding the actor rather than on his recent media blitz saying, "Whatever. I guess if you can't process a guy, or realize his value, you must terminate him. That's real high-brow thinking, really evolved thinking. I don't know. It is what it is. I'm more worried about my children [Bob and Max] right now than any of this nonsense, you know." What is next for Charlie? Maybe a major lawsuit, "They exercised such a cheap move and [this is] so silly and so transparent and... it's so juvenile. It is the work of infants. It is the work of silly infants and it's just -- if this is what it had to come to, to get me out of those silly shirts, then so be it. So maybe I'll wear one, just on the final day when I go and remove all of their bazillions." I understand why he was fired, but I think there was a better way to handle this. I would have let him finish the season, he would have "moved away" or "died" at the end of the season, just to have everything come together a little better when they introduce a new character to replace him. I just hope that they do not get a new character to replace him who will be playing him. How later and dumb would that be? I did not like it when they did it on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", and even though I do not watch this shows, never....not even once, I will not like it here either. Everyone is trying to make money off of Charlie. Every entertainment news outlet is all over this. His life: his past, his present, his future. Shirts, mugs, etc. are using his phrases to sell as much merchandise as possible. I believe Charlie wanted to leave, he was over this show and he was just in it for the money now. I see this show just ending. Lots of money will be lost and Charlie will probably receive some of the money that he is seeking, though that contract could have a lot of loopholes or some iron clad clauses. What makes things worse is when Charlie was in trouble in Colorado for allegedly hitting his wife, holding a knife to her neck and threatening to kill her, the studio and the producers stood by him. Now he goes on a few rants and insults them and they fire him. That says a lot about them and who they really care about...themselves. I am giving Charlie Sheen a Digit Up because no matter what he did, and he did A LOT, he was always himself, good or bad.

Friday, February 25, 2011

...Warner Borthers

Warner Brothers suspended Two and a Half Men yesterday, but who cares, they have done something actually horrible. Warner Brothers is remaking a great movie, a modern classic even, "The Bodyguard", are you serious!?! Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner should protest this until they get their way. This movie does not deserve to be ruined by a remake. The new movie will be more up to date with things we deal with, "In the remake, the story would be updated so that the man would be a former Iraqi war vet trying to protect his client against an Internet world, in which stalkers can track stars on Twitter, Gawker Stalker, Google Maps and countless other sites." Yet again Hollywood is running out of original ideas, actually they ran out of ideas 3 years ago. The remake of "Arthur" will be out later this year and after that fails I hope Warner Bros. gets the picture and puts this movie on hold. Although they have not cast anyone to play the rolls yet, I have a feeling that Channing Tatum is going to be the new bodyguard. Until then though they will be receiving a Digit Down.