Ellen Page Defects, Fox's Archive Withers and the Moguls Hit Ketchum, Idaho

Inglorious Bastards and ungrateful bitches

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Meanwhile, I’ve heard it costs between $750,000 and $1 million a year to keep the library open. But what the film community loses is priceless access to archive material by art directors, costume designers and others.

“I cannot tell you how serious this is to the below-the-line people and creatives around town,” said a source on the Fox lot who uses the library. “I guess Fox has to tighten its belt — or is it a noose?” So let’s get creative. Rothman’s show Fox Legacy could embrace the library, and maybe even shoot the show there to help underwrite it. That’s a win-win situation.

Camp Allen Kept IDs of Presenters Secret

Speaking of Big Media bosses, the 26th annual Allen & Co. investor conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, hosted by Herbert Allen Jr. really kept an unprecedented lid on the identities of the speakers and panelists this year. No doubt, that was because of security reasons since Jordan’s King Abdullah II will speak to the confab.

As for Hollywood, Jeff Katzenberg of DreamWorks Animation and Intel’s Paul Otellini will make a joint presentation inside the Opera House (so expect a sophisticated dog-and-pony show about the much-heralded 4-D technology). Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos round out the list of presenters. There also are several panels which have less to do with Hollywood than ever before.

Meanwhile, the Screen Actors Guild placed a full-page ad to run July 9 in the Ketchum-based Idaho Mountain Express newspaper because the actors can’t seem to get the Big Media moguls to even acknowledge their existence during the stalled contract talks, with the AMPTP representing the movie and TV CEOs.

According to SAG prez Alan Rosenberg, “This media conference is the place where significant deals get made. We wanted to remind the entertainment-media leaders in attendance that there is another important deal to be made.” Like the moguls are really going to pick up the local newspaper when they barely read the Los Angeles Times.