movieline.com - 6/11/2009
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Rumors are flying today that G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra director Stephen Sommers has been fired off the film and locked out of the editing room following "the lowest test score ever from an audience in the history of Paramount." How much is fact and how much is fiction? We decided to get to ...
latinoreview.com - 6/11/2009
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latinoreview.com —
Over on Don Murphy's message boards , forum
poster Endtimes chimes in on what really happened before,...
during and after the production of G.I. Joe: So the story goes like this- after a test screening wherein the film tested the lowest score ever from ...
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News: Sommers Fired From G.I. Joe. Half The Battle Has ...
firstshowing.net - 6/11/2009
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firstshowing.net —
This sounds like the kind of story we'd
usually hear coming from Fox, but this time it's...
Paramount. A user on the Don Murphy Message Boards (via Latino Review ) has posted an unverified story detailing a behind-the-scenes fiasco regarding the ...
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Rumor: Stephen Sommers Fired Mid-Way Through G.I. Joe?
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Lorenzo di Bonaventura Responds to G.I. Joe and Stephen Sommers Rumors
FirstShowing.net —
... I asked Paramount if they could provide a reference that I could get in touch with who would confirm that the test screening scores weren't that bad. Obviously that wasn't going to happen, but it was worth a shot. Movieline published a different report as well that doesn't seem to fall in line with either side of the story. "According to our sources, though, Sommers is not off the picture. Test screenings on G.I. Joe happened months ago and though the studio was dissatisfied, one source doubts that the film could have reached the NRG depths of past ...
G.I. Joe Director Wasn’t Fired and the Movie Will Still Suck. Today in Film Bloggery 06/11/09
SpoutBlog —
Neither of the two firings getting a rise out of film bloggers this week appears to be of any concern. According to Movieline, Andrew Sarris will still be contributing, as a freelancer, to the movies section of the New York Observer, and Stephen Sommers will still be contributing, as a director, to the shittiness of G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra. While the first of these supposed dismissals probably isn’t (unfortunately) of interest to most readers out there, I’m ...
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra rumours
Filmstalker —
... was given total freedom to make the film and that he "melted down" and made "the biggest bomb in many a moon". In fact the story goes as far to say that some people are looking to jump ship from the project as we type and read because they're seriously scared that they could be made scapegoats and this project will really harm their careers. Sounds all nice and dramatic doesn't it? Just what the internet needs. Movieline comes in with another from one of their sources, it seems that they are saying Stephen Sommers is not off the project, he's still there and working on it. ...
G.I. Joe Fracas
Thompson On Hollywood —
... Fact: the Internet tends to pile on to dramatic negative stories, whether or not they are true. That is the case with the rumor about Paramount taking director Stephen Sommers off summer movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. ...
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