Yes, a story about Lindsay Lohan on this website
I’ve expressed my undying love for the rawest film industry reporter out there, Nikki Finke, once or twice in the past. Unlike so many websites out there that live and breathe on the basis of advertising money from the studios, which undoubtedly plays into their consistently positive coverage of Hollywood movies, Finke’s website contains no advertisements by the studios.
As such, when a story breaks, she’s able to give the straight dope on it. Yesterday she reported that Lindsay Lohan had been dropped from the upcoming movie The Manson Girls for a variety of reasons, the biggest of which is that no one wants to work with her nowadays. It is set to be directed by the very talented and surely very demented (in a good way) Matthew Bright, who directed the two Freeway movies as well as the Ted Bundy biopic that First Look put out several years ago. The movie’s five week shoot, combined with its producers including Elie Samaha, Donald Kushner, and Brad Wyman, suggests that this was (and will when they get a new lead) likely to go direct-to-video.
So what is the career low for Lohan at this point? I Know Who Killed Me? Getting bitchslapped in writing by Robert Altman? Or getting dropped from a movie like The Manson Girls?
The very first response to Finke’s post sums it up pretty well, and made me laugh heartily.
Maover.
God bless you anonymous Internet poster.
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