Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'universalpictures'
May 2, 2006
- Falling debris has fallen from the under-construction new New York Times building at Eighth Avenue and 41st Street and hit a car. Early reports say the debris was some sort of pipe. And not only that, it went through the car's sunroof. NY1 says that two people were injured, including a small child. Oh, dear. - An FBI agent was killed when his motorcycle crashed into a bus on the Upper East Side......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"February 10, 2005
If the juicy excerpts and stories about James B. Stewart's Disney expose book, Disney War, weren't enough, today's NY Times article about seals the deal. This book must be made into a movie:The book is full of examples in which [Disney chairman and CEO Michael] Eisner turned against those he was close to before deeming them disloyal or too ambitious... In one such case, when Mr. Eisner was head of Paramount Pictures in the early......
Continue Reading "Business Etiquette Ideas From Disney"September 11, 2003
After being caught in development hell for three years, it looks like Dave Eggers' autobiography, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, is on its way to the big screen. Universal Pictures is picking up rights to the book from New Line, and Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) will be developing the project. Interestingly, Nick Hornby and D.V. DeVincentis (screenwriter of Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity) adapted the book. If the NBC-Vivendi Universal merger goes through,......
Continue Reading "A Heartbreaking Movie"
