Denzel stops by the TODAY Show to discuss “The Book of Eli”
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Warner Bros. help the premiere of the new film “The Book of Eli” staring Denzel Washington in LA. More pics below, Check it Out!
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Denzel Washington and Will Smith will work together for the first time on a remake of the Black Cinema classic Uptown Saturday Night, according to sources.
Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier starred in the original 1974 comedy, which centers on two friends who lose a winning lottery ticket on a night out and set out to recover it. Will’s production company, Overlook Entertainment, picked up the remake rights to Saturday Night in 2002. The former Fresh Prince star considered teaming up with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence before settling on double Oscar winner Denzel. Poitier directed the first Saturday Night, which featured Harry Belafonte and Richard Pryor in supporting roles.
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Denzel has a new film gearing up to hit the box office names The Book of Eli. You can check out the trailer below.
At this point in his career his profit splits has to be something crazy. Actors of his caliber are starting to do back in deals where, versus receiving their standard $20 million plus up front they will take around $7-10 million and share in the revenues which could profit them in the $40-60 million range.
I haven’t seen any of Denzel’s figures disclosed of his profit splits on films, but I know it has to be crazy.
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Well it seems Denzel Washington will be taking a break from the big screen and going to the stage to star in Fences; a Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play written by August Wilson.
The Scott Rudin and Carole Shorenstein Hays-produced Fences is expected to open in April and run all the way through July at a yet to be determined theater.
We haven’t seen Zel in anything within this past year or so and it seems like we probably won’t be seeing him on the big screen with this new play taking up his time.
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Denzel is back at it again. Due out January 15th, 2010, The Book of Eli definitely looks like another hit.
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I really don’t get what is going on in Hollywood. The movie business is one of the only thriving industries in the midst of this recession yet actors, producers, writers, and directors are all experiencing pay cuts. I can understand employees of struggling industries receiving pay cuts but this isn’t adding up to me. Its like every industry is looking for any reason to under pay employees or talent. The LAtimes cover this story in full detail check it out:
It wasn’t so long ago, after putting in years building up his career, that Denzel Washington finally cracked the $20-million star salary club. But now he’s taking a sizable pay cut to star in the upcoming 20th Century Fox film “Unstoppable” after the studio threatened to pull the plug on the picture in order to get its costs down. David Fincher used to make $8 million to $10 million per picture, along with a nice piece of first-dollar gross, as an A-list director. But he’s taking considerably less money — and no first-dollar gross — to get his new Sony Pictures film, ”The Social Network,” off the ground.
The same goes for “Dinner for Schmucks” star Steve Carell and director Jay Roach. They may be two of the top comic talents in the business, but the duo aren’t getting their usual salary quotes for the upcoming Paramount movie. When Julia Roberts told Disney she wouldn’t cut her salary to star in the recent comedy “The Proposal,” the studio bailed on Roberts, hiring Sandra Bullock for even less than what it had offered Roberts. The movie turned out to be one of the summer’s biggest comedy hits.
What’s going on here? In Hollywood, whenever a studio executive would sit down to negotiate with an agent for an actor, writer or filmmaker, one of the first questions volleyed across the table was: What’s your client’s quote? If you’d written, directed or starred in a big hit, or even enjoyed a couple of modest successes in a row, your quote went up. And unless you ran off to make some nutty labor-of-love indie film where everyone committed suicide in the third act, your salary level was assured. That quote stuck like glue. Even after a few stinkers, a big star could still get their $15- or $20-million fee.
Not anymore. Read More…
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It was a star studded affair as celebs came out to support Denzel Washington and John Travolta’s The Taking of Pelham 123
Carmeloand his wifey MTV’s LaLa was accompanied by Kim Kardashian and Brittany Gastineau.
Kim K.gives the pavarazzi a solo
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