How Golden is Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s payday?
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are denying the RadarOnline report that there are 16 million reasons why they agreed to host the Golden Globes for each of the next two years.
The website claimed the two will be paid $4 million each per year in the deal. But their publicity people say “the dollar figure that Radar has printed is greatly exaggerated.”
I wonder. They didn’t reveal any other dollar figure. And the ratings for this year’s show, with those two hosting, did jump 28 per cent among viewers age 18 to 49 from the numbers for the previous year, when
Ricky Gervais was in charge. The site also says Tina ’n’ Amy asked for, and were given, a “huge perks package,” including use of NBC’s private jets. So far, nobody’s denied that part.
Much as we all love Poehler, I see NBC has put her clever sitcom Parks and Recreation on hiatus. Four episodes will air in November (two on Nov. 14, two on Nov. 21), but then the show — in its sixth season — will be off the air until January.
This is explained as an effort to put on specials to build up a leadin audience for a new series, Sean Saves the World. But it still isn’t a good omen.
Man, these Avatar sequels and prequel, or whatever they are, already sound like they’re off to a shaky start, script-wise: Deadline. com, which knows about this stuff, says director James Cameron is going to revive Steven Lang’s character, the baddie, Col. Miles Quaritch.
If you saw the first one — and who didn’t? — you may recall that Col. Quaritch was last seen severely dead, with an arrow, shot by Zoe
Saldana’s character, through his chest.
But the website quotes Cameron as saying: “Steven was so memorable in the first film, we’re privileged to have him back. I’m not going to say exactly how we’re bringing him back, but it’s a science-fiction story, after all.”
He added that Lang is “a gifted actor, who’s also become a good friend.”
Lang is 61.
Ronan Farrow, son of Mia and, errrr, someone, has provided a little more comment on his mom’s admission, to Vanity Fair mag, that he might be the child of Frank Sin
atra rather than Woody Allen: “I wasn’t there, so I don’t have a lot more to offer,” he told extratv.com. “Of course, it is a distraction, but I take it in stride. Look, we all have our family’s histories to bear.”
He seems like a pretty cool guy, actually. Something about his cheekbones says Mia to me. What parentage do you see in that face?
Tim Burton and Warner Bros. are negotiating to make a sequel to his 1988 cult classic Beetlejuice. Thewrap.com had the exclusive.
The original starred Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and the teenage Winona Ryder. If you’ve never seen it, you’ve got a treat in store.