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• OBITUARIES: Guy McElwaine

  - 2008-05-09

  GuyMcElwaine, 71, a Hollywood agent who represented several famous music acts, died April 2 at his Bel-Air, Calif., home, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. In the 1960s, McElwaine owned a management and public relations company whose clients included Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty and The Mamas and The Papas....

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• 'Employability' should survive but with conditions

  - 2007-07-25

  When Lindsay Lohan emerges from her latest scandal, Hollywood will be waiting for her. Lohan is set to star as a courtesan in Dare to Love Me, with filming to begin in late September, says Michael Sands, a spokesman for film company Bowline Entertainment. "If she...

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• Fortress Global Investigations and Security in Great Neck hires

  - 2007-04-27

  Fortress Global Investigations and Security in Great Neck announced that attorney Andrew O'Connell will manage its Washington office. O'Connell had been counsel to the chairman of Morgan Creek Productions.

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• Verwend nest

  - 2006-10-01

  Sterren zijn in Hollywood niet heilig. Dat blijkt maar uit de snoeiharde brief die Lindsay Lohan afgelopen juli ontving van James G. Robinson, baas van Morgan Creek Productions, de productiemaatschappij van haar nieuwe film Georgia Rule (Garry Marshall, verwacht 2007), nadat ze wegens 'uitputting door de hitte' niet verder kon...

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• Fonda praises executive for writing letter to Lohan

  - 2006-09-14

  Jane Fonda praised a studio executive's recent scolding of Lindsay Lohan for her absences on the set of their film, "Georgia Rule." "I think every once in a while, a very, very young person who is burning both ends of the candle needs to have somebody say, 'You...

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• Newsmakers | Producer slams 'spoiled child' Lohan

  - 2006-07-29

  Is Lindsay Lohan ill? An illin' partyer? Or "a spoiled child"? So, she collapses from heat exhaustion Wednesday on the set of Georgia Rule. Sympathy all around. Working 12 hours on a motion picture is no picnic. But Lindsay's boss, James G. Robinson, has no sympathy for the...

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• Morgan Creek in the 'Ballpark'.(Morgan Creek Productions, 'Our Lady of the Ballpark')(Brief article)

  - 2006-04-07

  Morgan Creek has purchased Ron Shelton and John Norville's spec "Our Lady of the Ballpark," with Shelton attached to direct. "Ballpark" centers on a slumping, egotistical New York Yankees pitcher who tries to resurrect his career in the comically corrupt...

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• Morgan Creek fields 'Touchback' drama.(Morgan Creek Productions)(Brief article)

  - 2006-03-27

  Morgan Creek has bought the script "Touchback" by Don Handfield with David Nutter attached to direct. High-concept drama centers on a man in his late 20s who was the star of his high school football team, but whose career was ended when...

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• Top US independent film producers: six producers participated in films with total budgets of $200m+.(Focus)

  - 2005-10-01

  * PG rating is most profitable for US films, whereas PG-13 accounted for 50 per cent of all top 100 movies * Pacific Data Images earned over $600m at the box office in 2004, while seven producers earned over $300m in gross box office revenues...

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• Blatty sues over sequel to 'Exorcist'

  - 2005-06-10

  William Peter Blatty, the author of the best-selling novel "The Exorcist" who also won an Academy Award as screenwriter of the 1973 film adaptation of his book, has sued the producer of two "Exorcist" sequels, Morgan Creek Productions, for breach of contract. The suit, filed in Los Angeles...

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