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Here’s an interesting little tidbit for you aspiring screenwriters.  20th Century Fox has made a deal with a co-oop of writers including Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, John August, and Stuart Beattie (among others) where the writers will receive $300,00 upfront for a script (minimum) PLUS offering them 2.5% of the gross if the film makes it through production and is released.  That’s right folks, Fox is paying the guys responsible for Charle’s Angels: Full Throttle and PotC: Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End up the whazoo!  I don’t know about you, but I’m dusting off my old screenplay and faxing it off to Fox as we speak!

Mel Gibson (he of Braveheart and Lethal Weapon fame) is having himself a bad week.  Gibson was arrested over the weekend for driving drunk at 80 mph down the Pacific Coast Highway.  Not to stop there Gibson flew into a tirade of anti-Semitic remarks (one of the arresting officers was Jewish) just to make sure the evening was a complete press disaster.  This isn’t Gibson first altercation with the Jewish community.

In 2004 Gibson’s Passion of the Christ was widely criticized as being anti-Semitic.  Over the week Gibson made two public apologies for his behavior and remarks, “I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words…I am not an anti-Semite.  I am not a bigot.”  Gibson has promised to get help and enter a program of recovery and has asked for the assistance of the Jewish community “in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from.”  On Tuesday ABC announced they were scrapping Gibson’s Holocaust mini-series, a pet project of the star which he has been working on for over two years.