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Late Show Exit Interview with Tom Hanks
Biff Henderson conducts an exit interview with “Late Show” guest Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks Watched Toy Story 3 Before Reading The Script
“They did an interesting thing on this one. They did not send us a script. They showed us a complete story reel of the entire movie, with storyboards moving from one to the next, and the people up at Pixar recorded some voices with some music and sound effects. Tim Allen and John Ratzenberger and I went in a movie theatre, watched the reel and said, ‘This is great, let’s get to work!’” – from Empire
Third Da Vinci Code film announced

Ron Howard’s big screen adaptation of the Da Vinci Code prequel Angel’s & Demons won’t hit theaters until May 15th, but Columbia Pictures is already moving forward with a third film in the series. Now you might be asking yourself: “How can there be a third film when a third book has yet to be released?” Good question. Well author Dan Brown has announced that the next installment of the Da Vinci Code series of books. Titled The Lost Symbol, the new novel will be published in the U.S. and Canada by Doubleday on September 15th 2009 with a first printing of 5 million copies. That number is about half of an average Harry Potter book, which is to say – a lot. – From SlashFilm
Tom Hanks IS Major Matt Mason
Universal will develop “Major Matt Mason,” a live-action feature based on the vintage Mattel action figure. Pic will be developed as a star vehicle for Tom Hanks, and Graham Yost will write the script. The toy line originated in 1966; Mason led an astronaut team that worked on the moon and lived in a space station. The toy was a hit in the buildup to the first manned moon mission. Mattel retired the line in the 1970s. When Mattel execs Tim Kilpin and Barry Waldo came to Playtone for a meeting, they brought an arsenal of the Matt Mason figures. Hanks came armed with his own. – from Variety
Tom Hanks to switch on repaired Large Hadron Collider. Wait, what?

Tom Hanks, the actor and star of Forrest Gump, will turn on the Large Hadron Collider, designed to recreate the ‘Big Bang’, when it is finally repaired. The machine is designed to simulate the “Big Bang”, which started the universe 15 billion years ago, by smashing subatomic particles together at energies never before achieved. – from The Telegraph
The New Hollywood Blacklist
The Screen Actors Guild’s battle over its strike authorization has taken an especially nasty turn, thanks to a suggested boycott of eight actors who are up for SAG awards. The proposed boycott came to light after a significant number of SAG members received a pair of anonymous emails forwarded by national board member Frances Fisher. The two emails proposed that the SAG members withhold their award votes for the eight thesps because of their public support for the opposition to the authorization vote. Nearly 2,000 SAG members — including George Clooney and Tom Hanks — have declared that they oppose the authorization due to the nation’s current financial crisis. In her email, Fisher said the letters were forwards and asked that her name and email be removed if the recipient chose to forward the letters. In a response issued Friday, former SAG president and current board member Richard Masur compared the anonymous email to a blacklist and called on Fisher to repudiate it. – From Variety
The fight over the impending SAG strike has gotten uglier, now with an anonymous emailer urging the Hollywood community to awards-boycott eight well-known actors who do not support a referendum that would authorize a strike. The fight over the impending SAG strike has gotten uglier, now with an anonymous emailer urging the Hollywood community to awards-boycott eight well-known actors who do not support a referendum that would authorize a strike. Variety reports that vocal strike authorization supporter Frances Fisher recently forwarded an email, to a “significant number” of Screen Actors Guild members, which encourages voters to cast their SAG Awards ballots for anyone but the several notable nominees who have publicly opposed the union’s possible strike, some citing the troubled economy. – From Gawker
It’s Tom Hanks vs. Mel Gibson as SAG Splits Into Strike Camps
I’m waiting for someone to write a screenplay about this whole thing.
All work and no contract has made members of the Screen Actors Guild a surly bunch. While support for an actors’ strike was already running thin thanks to the industry-wide burnout still being felt from the 100-day writers’ strike in 2007-08, the current state of the nation’s economy—not to mention the just-underway awards season—has Hollywood up in arms over what could be another potentially disastrous work stoppage. – From Yahoo
In the ballroom of a Manhattan hotel Monday night, the two halves of an increasingly ugly marriage continued to dance around the issues that divide them, with neither side willing to concede a single point, much less find common ground. The contentious and at times bitter meeting capped a roller-coaster four days for SAG, in which opposition to the guild leadership’s call for strike authorization has crystallized. Earlier Monday, a group of nearly 150 well-known actors — including Oscar winners George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, Sally Field, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron and Morgan Freeman — sent a petition urging the authorization vote to be called off. – From THR.com



