http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com Film Industry, Movie and Entertainment News Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:46:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/29/dicaprio-exit-from-mel-gibson-viking-project-a-no-brainer/ http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/29/dicaprio-exit-from-mel-gibson-viking-project-a-no-brainer/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:58:04 +0000 Jay A. Fernandez http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/?p=13730 Early this morning, RadarOnline.com posted an article quoting an unnamed source "close to" Leonardo DiCaprio as saying that the "Inception" star would not be making the untitled Viking film he had planned to do with director Mel Gibson. No kidding. Really? While I don't want to trivialize the news value in RadarOnline's latest scoop outlining the miserable [...]]]> http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/29/dicaprio-exit-from-mel-gibson-viking-project-a-no-brainer/feed/ 11 http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/12/mel-gibson-will-work-in-this-town-again/ http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/12/mel-gibson-will-work-in-this-town-again/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:43:28 +0000 Andrew Wallenstein http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/?p=13542 The death of Mel Gibson’s career has been greatly exaggerated. Sure, a fresh wave of obituaries was to be expected in the wake of a string of contretemps that jolted even the most jaded observers of our scandal-saturated mediasphere.  At the end of a week that saw a new low in the never-ending tailspin that is the [...]]]> http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/12/mel-gibson-will-work-in-this-town-again/feed/ 39 http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/09/wme-drops-mel-gibson/ http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/09/wme-drops-mel-gibson/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:49:01 +0000 Jay A. Fernandez http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/?p=13516 Mel Gibson has been dropped by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. Earlier this week, the agency's Patrick Whitesell informed the actors' representatives that he would no longer be represented by the agency. Gibson's longtime agent, Ed Limato, died July 3, and a funeral will take place in New York next week. WME partner Ari Emanuel had previously expressed hostility [...]]]> http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/09/wme-drops-mel-gibson/feed/ 182 http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/01/05/guns-dirty-harry-commando-die-hard-platoon-advertising-billboards/ http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/01/05/guns-dirty-harry-commando-die-hard-platoon-advertising-billboards/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:51:36 +0000 Jay A. Fernandez http://riskybusiness.blogs.thr.com/?p=8755 I grew up on "Dirty Harry," "Commando," "Die Hard" and "Platoon" -- so I was never especially squeamish about gunplay and the exhilarating rush I got from watching bodies getting blown away in gleeful tsunamis of carnage. Fast forward through a dozen years of film reporting, the same anguished number of birthdays and fathering two kids [...]]]> http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/01/05/guns-dirty-harry-commando-die-hard-platoon-advertising-billboards/feed/ 7