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asian invasion

Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Ready to Join Other Hollywood Players Outsourced to India

Months of speculation over whom DreamWorks might be courting to help underwrite its ugly exit from Viacom ended late Tuesday when The Wall Street Journal reported that Reliance ADA Group, a massive Indian conglomerate, is close to sinking $500 million to $600 million into Steven Spielberg's breathless bid for autonomy. As presumed, the deal would expedite David Geffen's eventual departure from the DreamWorks fold and allow Spielberg to keep the DreamWorks name, if not the projects currently in development with Paramount/Viacom — alas, Transformers 2 stays behind. CEO and Spielberg right hand Stacey Snider would follow as well.

The rest of the picture is still taking shape, but after the jump we have a few educated guesses as to where things might land — and it looks curiously like Bollywood.

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8:50 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By STV
2,793 views, 10 comments

Latest by n/a: Let's try this again . . . Here is a sneak peak at the first film which will be released under the NEW Dreamworks/Reliance venture - + Watch video more »

mogul giveaway day

Play the 'DreamWorks Free to Good Home' Sweepstakes

They say nobody in Hollywood knows anything, which is true in just about every situation but the one facing DreamWorks and its partners at Paramount — a pair about as likely to split in acrimony within the year as Nikki Finke is to wheeze "TOLDJA!" when it happens. Patrick Goldstein today offers a rough primer for the 'Works/'Mount divorce, with enough oversights and elisions to make it dispensable (for starters, whither UA in the potential coupling of DreamWorks and MGM?) but thought-provoking enough to ask: Where will the 'Works wind up? More »

3:50 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By STV
877 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm going to hate me for saying this but Dreamworks should call up Sergey Brin. Dreamworks gets backers with deep pockets and huge discounts on advertising. Google gets a revenue stream, the opportunity to build another digital distribution business, and more »

Having long ago elected Barack Obama the President of Hollywood, how will the industry react to Hillary Clinton's win in California's Democratic primary? Disappointed kingmaker David Geffen, despite having prematurely predicted victory for Obama, is not yet abandoning ship, even if DreamWorks partner Steven Spielberg is stubbornly sticking out a passionless political marriage with Clinton. Indeed, maybe it's time Geffen starts thinking about his next move, like sitting down with Maureen Dowd for another one of those fun interviews before all of his friends start getting crazy ideas about jumping on the Hillary bandwagon. [Slate]

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on richness

Redstone, Geffen, Spielberg Again Make Forbes' List Of The Obscenely Wealthy


As we can think of no better way to kick off a sunny Friday morning than by contemplating the staggering wealth of the Hollywood multibillionaires who can buy and sell all of us like so much cattle, we spent some time with The Forbes 400, the magazine's ranking of the absolute richest of the American rich, to check in on how some of the industry's best-monied overlords are growing their intimidating cash hoards.

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8:46 AM on Fri Sep 21 2007
By Mark
2,066 views, 1 comment

Latest by Lysergic Asset: While I admire Sumner Redstone's fortitude and business acumen (and his wife's seeming devotion), $7.6 trillion couldn't get me to share a bed with him. more »

power lesbians

W Mag To Throw Coming Out Party For Rubyfruit Mafia

Today's Page Six previews W's upcoming story on the rapidly growing membership of the all-female Velvet Mob splinter group the magazine has dubbed the Rubyfruit Mafia, a faction whose influence grows each time one of the industry's power-lesbians makes the brave choice to step out of the closet:

THE lesbians of Hollywood seem to be multiplying as they come out of the closet. "Call them the Rubyfruit Mafia," W magazine says in its latest issue. Movie producer Nina Jacobson said she didn't know of one other openly lesbian executive in Los Angeles in the early '90s when she told a colleague at Universal Studios, "I actually am not straight."
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10:24 AM on Wed Sep 12 2007
By Mark
4,432 views, 6 comments

art

Graffiti Artist Reveals The Actual Reason David Geffen Won't Return Your Calls

You may at some point in your local travels have stumbled upon the art of prvtdncr: Working primarily in spraypaint on somebody-else's-building, the sloganeering graffiti artist throws up provocative phrases that are meant to hold a magnifying makeup mirror up to certain, unseemly facts about the true nature of Hollywood. As our friends at The WOW Report point out, BUTT magazine's current L.A.-themed issue devotes eight pages to some of his creations, including a less-than-generous sentiment regarding the Most Powerful Gay in the Universe. More »

4:43 PM on Fri Aug 17 2007
By Seth
2,392 views, 6 comments

Latest by gwendolyn: I would also have some coffee before I attempted to spell 'Geffen' - yes, I would. more »

relationships

Brad & Steven & Sumner & David

Following Thursday's controversy-kickstarting BusinessWeek story "Paramount and DreamWorks: Splitsville?," in which it was suggested that a strained relationship between Steven Spielberg and Paramount might cause the director and his partners to jilt Brad Grey's DreamWorks-dependent studio empire when Spielberg's contract expires late next year, has seemingly induced much pants-soiling from within the walls of the Melrose lot. Hoping to halt the spread of further bowel failures over the rumored state of the DW/Paramount union, votes of confidence have been issued by Spielberg and David Geffen, who took breaks from their filmmaking and shuffleboard-playing duties, respectively, to (at least temporarily) envelop Grey in a warm, reassuring hug. In a story about the alleged looming split, Var's Peter Bart passes along Geffen's regards for the Paramount team:

Geffen himself, calling from his yacht, insisted Friday that "Steven and I are very happy with the performance of Paramount's marketing and distribution teams in handling our films." He cited Rob Moore and Jim Tharp, among others, as contributing to the success of such DreamWorks-Paramount releases as "Transformers" and "Disturbia."
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1:02 PM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By Mark
1,823 views, 3 comments

Latest by sassypants: Indiana Jones 4 is filming in Connecticut??????? more »

seann william scott

Seann William Scott Comfortable With His Victoria's-Secret-Model-Banging Heterosexuality

Defamer readers might recall a post from late last July regarding a NY Daily News sighting, which put Most Powerful Gay in the Universe David Geffen on the arm of Seann William Scott, aka That Dude Who Managed To Spin Stiffler Into A Reasonably Successful Movie Career That Peaked Two Years Ago, at an L.A. gay bar. A mere nine months later, Page Six is happy to offer the real scoop on the actor, with a clarifying item that doesn't at all feel like a publicist-planted tip about the hyper-heterosexual, Victoria's Secret-model-fucking habits of their not at all gay—but entirely comfortable with the concept!—client: More »

11:18 AM on Fri Apr 13 2007
By Seth
5,325 views, 15 comments

Latest by BabylonSister: Seann and Deanna have been quietly dating for 2 years, and NOW they're groping each other publicly over the soup du jour? Thank god he was laughing about those gay rumors, and that they didn't bother him at all! more »

gays

David Geffen Seizes Top Spot Of Gay Power List

Congratulations are in order for Velvet Mafia don David Geffen, whom Out magazine has named the Most Powerful Gay in the Universe, a title he will likely hold until the day his lifeless body is buried beneath the Carbon Beach sand he so dearly loves. NY Magazine has reproduced Out's entire Power 50 list, which includes Hollywood Gays of Note (we're ignoring the ones from less interesting industries) from the diverse worlds of talk-show hosting (#3 Ellen DeGeneres and #6 Rosie O'Donnell), superproducing (#18 Scott Rudin), evil agenting (#31 Bryan Lourd of CAA), superhero-movie directing (#32 Bryan Singer), soap-opera writing (#40 Marc Cherry), and glass-closeted Oscar-collecting (#43 Jodie Foster). All lower-charting Power Gays should immediately submit their full-page tributes in the trades recognizing Geffen's achievement before inventory sells out; those shut out because they waited too long will undoubtedly be subject to the DreamWorks mogul's bloody reprisals for their failure to publicly pledge their fealty in a timely fashion. More »

10:28 AM on Wed Apr 4 2007
By Mark
5,670 views, 13 comments

Latest by Gallant Patsy: And #17 ahead of AndrĂ© Leon Talley? oh, HELL NO. Wrong for every reason. I can smell the methbreath outta StuporMario Jr. from here. more »

david geffen

Malibu Multimillionaires Facing the Classy Problems Of Supergentrification

With the recent plagues of fire and ice sent down by annoyed local landowner God utterly failing to dislodge beach-hogging Malibu squatter David Geffen from his oceanside compound (His view was totally fucking ruined by Geffen's place), residents of the sleepy community now find themselves helpless against the whims of the mogul and the ten-figured pals who seek to slowly annex the entirety of The 'Bu. Yesterday's NY Times discussed Geffen and "software giant" Larry Ellison's acquisitions of the Casa Malibu Inn and Malibu Beach Inn, respectively, which they plan on transforming into the kind of places in which the merely wealthy might feel uncomfortable: More »

3:43 PM on Mon Apr 2 2007
By Mark
3,908 views, 4 comments

Latest by GorgeousGeorge: I remain puzzled by these billionaires' decision to make Carbon Beach their base of operations. Carbon Beach boasts quite possibly the smallest sand-to-ocean ratio of any beach in Malibu, and with Global Warming going the way it is, will probably more »

oscars

Oscar Party Round-Up: Slurry Sharon Stone Takes Your Bids

· Sharon Stone (who swept the Razzies!) brought the dominatrix-auctioneer routine she perfected in Berlin to Elton John's annual AIDS fundraiser, where "unsteady on her feet and slurring her words, [she] rambled, 'I've been sitting at my table with P. Diddy and Jon Bon Jovi, and I'm a little messed up.'" She did manage to coerce $4.2 million out of attendees, for auction items like a $65,000 soccer lesson from Dave Beckham, and $125,000 to have James Blunt promise he wouldn't perform all evening. [AP]
· Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men blog has updates and photos from the VF party, where they note a preponderance of "impossibly glowy women" and an extremely not-glowy Nikki Sixx. [VanityFair.com]
· Anderson Cooper and Daniel Craig shared a corner banquette at the VF party swapping secret agent tips, while party host Elton John planted a deep, passionate kiss on American Idol judge Simon Cowell, who couldn't help but gush all evening that "the little girl I once accused of being utterly forgettable and dressed like an overstuffed burrito had finally arrived!" [Towleroad]
· Enjoy TMZ's nausea- and seizure-inducing handheld camera footage of celebrities entering the Soho House after party, including "bushy-browed Martin Scorcese [sic] and a boob-a-licious Courtney Love." [TMZ] More »

10:55 AM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Seth
4,057 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: Anderson was probably trying to find out if the rumors about Danny Craig's big little monster are true. You know how likes to get to the "bottom" of things... more »

hillary clinton

Mrs. Clinton Goes To The Death Star


By now, everyone's aware of the shocking attacks DreamWorks mogul and Democratic primary fixer David Geffen made yesterday on Hillary Clinton, her intern-despoiling husband, the White House's substandard lodgings for billionaire rainmakers, and all that is good and holy about civilized political campaigning in an attempt to demonstrate that all of Hollywood has fallen prone at the feet of Barack Obama, ready to do the Chosen One's bidding. Now that most of the factually inaccurate, post-attack bickering has been dispensed with, Team Hillary is regrouping today, ready to launch a Hollywood counteroffensive that includes trips to fundraisers hosted by her own stable of local billionaires, and, ominously, a trip to the CAA Death Star. Says Var: More »

10:40 AM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Mark
4,439 views, 4 comments

Latest by MrPeepers: Sometimes I get the impression with all the graft, scheming and whatnot these dopes forget they're actually supposed to be serving the public. more »

obamamania

Obamamania: David Geffen Declares War On Hillary

Not content to demonstrate his Democratic kingmaking power by throwing a beachside cocktail party/Hillary Clinton effigy burning for Hollywood Chosen One Barack Obama on the pristine sand behind his Malibu compound last night, DreamWorks activist David Geffen granted the NY Times's Maureen Dowd an exclusive fireside chat, during which the power-mad billionaire stroked an overfluffed white cat while cackling his way through his plans to destroy his presidential-hopeful nemesis. The column is behind a subscriber wall, but here are some of the thoughts Geffen shared with Dowd about Hillary, Bill, the political hot water in which Steven Spielberg finds himself submerged for going along with the Obama fund-raiser, and his luxurious sleeping quarters: More »

10:59 AM on Wed Feb 21 2007
By Mark
1,558 views, 11 comments

Latest by zingbot: Looks like David Geffen also declared war on his eyelids and cheekbones. more »

obamamania

Obamamania: The Big Night's Finally Here!

Just in case your assistant has forgotten to pencil it into your calendar, tonight is the $2,300 per person fundraiser/pre-coronation ceremony for Barack Obama that begins at the Beverly Hilton and ends at David Geffen's Malibu compound (the parade from the hotel to the beach, during which kingmaking DreamWorks billionaires Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg will take turns carrying the senator on their shoulders, is expected to be spectacular), where Hollywood's hottest presidential hopeful will officially receive his much-anticipated reacharound from industry players who were able to scare up 20 well-monied Friends of Barry for the event. In an effort to keep out undesirables, only those who've ponied up their tribute will be allowed to join in the festivities. Reports the NY Times: More »

8:25 AM on Tue Feb 20 2007
By Mark
5,008 views, 8 comments

Latest by Miss d: God - politics are such bullshit. Sadly - the way Fox News Alerts go - being seen with La Hilton may work in your favour... more »

dreamworks

Even Jury's $2.17 Million Can't Cure Jeffrey Katzenberg's Heartsickness

It's been a day full of big wins for the billionaires of DreamWorks SKG. Earlier, we pointed out that the California Coastal Commission granted David Geffen a much-needed ten-foot buffer between his Malibu Gay Mafia stronghold and the sun-worshipping Untouchables who dare to splay their unsightly forms upon his beloved, but distressingly public, stretch of Carbon Beach. Now word comes that bite-sized mogul and two-time intramural DreamWorks Animation wet t-shirt champion Jeffrey Katzenberg has tasted $2.17 million worth of bittersweet victory in a lawsuit against the rubber-pushing villains of Goodyear, whose faulty, leaking heating hoses did grievous damage to his Park City-adjacent vacation home: More »

2:58 PM on Thu Feb 15 2007
By Mark
900 views, 1 comment

Latest by Procrastinator, Esq.: Deer Valley is "Park City-adjacent"? Oh Mark, tsk, tsk. More like Park City is "Deer Valley-adjacent." Still, I bet it would be fun to annoy westsiders... Marina Del Rey could become "Baldwin Hills-adjacent"; Bel-Air, "Encino-adjacent"; and Hancock Park, more »

david geffen

David Geffen Granted Ten Foot Buffer Between Compound And Unwashed, Beachgoing Masses


Huzzah! The 24-year-long power struggle between Carbon Beach-hogging Malibu megamogul David Geffen and the unwashed masses dedicated to ensuring easy public access to the stretch of luxurious sand behind his compound is finally over! As you can clearly see from the helpful LAT graphic (floating head our value-add) illustrating the settlement reached yesterday between Geffen, the California Coastal Commission, and the public advocacy group People Against Billionaire Beach Hijackers, the DreamWorks partner agreed to open a 42-foot section of the sand he's previously closed off in exchange for being granted a ten-foot plebe-buffer that should help reduce the noisome odor of off-brand cocoa butter that often wafts from the baking flesh of commoners and onto to Geffen's deck, ruining many an oceanside meal. According to the Times, Geffen's attorney is heralding the detente as a "new era of understanding," one in which his client's formerly trigger-happy snipers will first fire a warning shot before gunning down tourists who wander uncomfortably close to their master's property line. More »

9:27 AM on Thu Feb 15 2007
By Mark
1,248 views, 11 comments

Latest by Miss d: Tiger> how about a Keanu one instead? more »

politics

Obamamania: Hollywood Will Take Its Sweet Time Before Crowning Its Democratic King, Thank You Very Much

It's a question threatening to tear Hollywood's most prominent, liberal-kingmaking billionaires apart at the gilded seams: Do they throw a fabulous fund-raiser aimed at continuing the spread Obamamania, the sensation sweeping the industry, or do they fall back into the calming, emasculating embrace of longtime Democratic stalwart Hillary Clinton, a tragically unsexy, but arguably safer, choice? The answer, of course, is, "Why can't we do both? We have so much fucking money that no one can tell us to make up our minds until we're good and ready," but Slate notes that a recent Robert Novak column seemed to imply that the officially unbetrothed Steven Spielberg's hosting of a Clinton event means that he's already decided to abandon DreamWorks partners David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg's desire to call forth from the heavens a deluge of showbiz cash that will carry their beloved Obama to an easy nomination: More »

3:58 PM on Tue Feb 13 2007
By Mark
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paramount

Sumner Says Brad Said Totally Mean Thing About What People Really Think About David!

Just in case you haven't yet had your fill of stories about the backbiting between Paramount emperor Brad Grey and the sneaky studio usurpers crouching not-so-quietly inside the DreamWorks Trojan Horse he bought a year ago, the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke reports that skeletal Viacom executive presence Sumner Redstone may have signed Grey's death certificate by letting slip at a cozy power-player dinner party a rather impolitic comment about why Dreamgirls found itself without a Best Picture nomination. Clasping your hand to your mouth while trying to suppress an outraged "Oh. No. He. Did. Int!" is completely optional as you read on: More »

5:25 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Mark
142 views, 7 comments

Latest by Tiger_Tanaka: Just play Joni Mitchell's "Free Man in Paris", paint some lamb's blood over your front door, and your pets/children will not be consumed by the natty, flinty-eyed mogul. more »

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