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Screen Actors Guild Nominees 2011
The nominees for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards for outstanding performances in 2010 in film and television have now been revealed early this morning in Los Angeles by actresses Rosario Dawson and Angie Harmon.
Among the top SAG contenders are cast members of The Fighter – though leading man Mark Wahlberg didn’t make the cut, while supporting players Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Amy Adams did – and The King’s Speech, Black Swan and The Kids Are All Right (minus Julianne Moore).
Robert De Niro Reveals Future Film Plans
Robert De Niro has revealed that he is planning two sequels for ”The Good Shepherd,” his CIA drama.The original, which starred Matt Damon as a spy in the Cold War, grossed under $100 million in 2006.
Although the first was not a box office success, De Niro confirmed he is developing ideas for a second and third film.
He would like to make two sequels to CIA Cold War drama ”The Good Shepherd,” one bringing the action forward from 1961 to 1989, the other following its hero, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), up to the present day.
Actors Contract Expires; No Strike In Sight
The Screen Actors Guild Tuesday all but dismissed a ‘last and final offer’ from TV and movie producers presented just before the existing work contract governing its 120,000 members expired at 0701 GMT.The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said its proposal offered the 120,000 members of the industry’s largest acting union the same terms that it reached with the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the Directors Guild of America (DGA), and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), a smaller actors union.
The new deal offered actors up to 250 million dollars in additional earnings, according to an AMPTP statement, which also said that the movie and TV studios would refrain from locking out the actors while the union considers the offer. Continue Reading…
