The Guardian, the dramatic legal TV series starring Simon Baker, on DVD with the First Season in a 6 disc set, including all 22 first season episodes. In stores now from Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment, but you can win a copy here at Screenhead!
The Guardian is truly a captivating legal drama starring Simon Baker (The Mentalist), is available now on a six-disc DVD set featuring all 22 riveting first season episodes from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment.
When a hotshot corporate lawyer has a run-in with the law and is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service, he becomes The Guardian – a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances. The Guardian garnered a host of industry acclaim with Simon Baker earning a Golden Globe nomination for the lead role.
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Uh-oh, folks…we’ve got some serious problems here. Seems that virtually all the early buzz around the trailers and such for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has been almost universally negative. And worse yet, Paramount will be running critics’ screenings for the sci-fi actioner, but they’ll only be running them about a week before the movie opens, leaving in some cases precious little time to release reviews ahead of deadline.
For those of you out there who don’t follow the industry, or aren’t film critics like myself, if a studio won’t put up a movie for critics’ screenings, that generally means they’re not counting on it to do very well. They want to get one big weekend out of it to try and get its shooting budget back, but then word of mouth–not to mention the delayed critics’ reaction–will kick in and pretty much sink repeat business.
The excuses are already flying hot and fast around this one’s nigh-inevitable financial castigation, including my personal favorite: “We wuz trying to beat the writer’s strike!”
Way to pass the buck, fellas…anyway, we won’t have too much longer to wait to see just how this one turns out–you know I’ll be hitting this one opening day for you.
Paramount Pictures has laid off of 31 production staffers, including some division heads. Among the execs leaving the Melrose lot are Georgia Kacandes, head of physical production and Guy Stodel, head of the Paramount Vantage unit. Ben Cosgrove, Senior V.P. of production and Dan Levine, Exec V.P. of production, were also let go, along with casting chief Gail Levin and Aimee Shieh, head of Paramount’s New York literary office.
The focus on cost-cutting within Paramount was noticeable in the staff cuts as well in Tuesday’s report by the Financial Times that Paramount has approached Sony and Fox about a potential partnership with either studio that would unite the production and distribution functions of their home video operations however, the studios would maintain separate sales and marketing teams.
Paramount’s sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen earned $60.6 million at the box office yesterday, clearly scoring the best opening day for a Wednesday at the domestic box office. The former record-holder was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that brought in $44.2 million in July 2007. I am banking on the fact that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will break Transformers 2 score this July. Any takers?
Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams agreed to produce Mission: Impossible IV together at Paramount for a 2011 release.
That means Cruise and Paramount both are working together again. According to Variety, Summer Redstone, big studio head, says Cruise is “a great actor and a good friend.”
The Mission sequel adds to Paramount’s assortment of sequels, which includes Star Trek 2 and Transformers. 3
The reteaming may slow down some other projects of Abrams and Cruise. Abrams is responsible for steering the Star Trek sequel, while Cruise recently committed to an untitled movie (formerly called Wichita) for 20th Century Fox that will be directed by James Mangold and co-star Cameron Diaz.
“To Boldly Go…”
Looks like Paramount Pictures is gearing up for May 8 release of its Star Trek franchise take-off, the studio is firing ahead with a sequel, and has hired three writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay.
J.J. Abrams may or may not direct, but is onboard to produce the follow-up alongside his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk.
No story line is in place yet; I suspect if a story were in place, it would be hush-hush. However, the trios of writers need to deliver by Christmas for what would likely be a summer 2011 release.
According to Variety, as for potential storylines, Kurtzman stressed that the writing team will wait to take a cue from fan reaction about which direction to go.
Paramount Pictures today announced an extension of its agreement with Bad Robot Productions to run through 2013. The studio was founded by J.J. Abrams, a popular director, and long-time colleague, producer Bryan Burk, in July 2006.
"Today’s announcement is meaningful to me in many ways," said Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO, Paramount Pictures Corporation. "Bad Robot was one of the first deals we made to help rebuild the studio. J.J. has since become part of the fabric of Paramount and we look forward to continuing our fruitful creative collaboration for many years to come."
The two first collaborated to release Cloverfield last year. They are currently working on the upcoming Star Trek film, after which they will begin production of Morning Glory in June.
Paramount and DreamWorks have set a release date for Transformers 3 on July 1, 2011. The purpose of jumping the gun, according to Variety, is to get the hot spot in July before a competitor nabbed it. After all, the calendar is filling up.
No handshakes with director Michael Bay or franchise stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. Nothing has been done about hiring a writer for the third installment. Just the release date has been set.
Ashton Kutcher is once again tackling a comedy, as he is being reported to have joined the cast of Traded, an upcoming football comedy in the works at Paramount Pictures.
The film will center on a superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year old middle school geek who magically trades bodies and then learn lessons about humility and courage.
The most recent draft was written by David Stem and David Weiss. It was originally being developed by Dreamworks, but was handed over to Paramount last fall.
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Films purchased the pitch for the comedy How Could You Do This to Me? 
Miranda Cosgrove of Nickelodeon’s ”iCarly” and “Drake and Josh” is the potential star of the comedy project.
Cosgrove will play a teen who feels that the divorce of her parents has improved her life. When mom and dad appear to be rekindling sparks, their daughter feels threatened and tries to break them up, according to Variety.
Cosgrove is very popular with kids 6-11. “iCarly” has also generated a booming website and a top-selling album.
My daughter certainly enjoys her show.