Yahoo news reports:
Octomom
“Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman has signed agreements for each of her 14 children to earn $250 a day to star in a reality television show.
The contracts filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court guarantee the children will collectively earn about $250,000 over three years. The contracts require a judge’s approval.
European production company Eyeworks has inked the deal with Suleman. Eyeworks lists “Breaking Bonaduce” and “The Biggest Loser” among its television credits.
The show is slated to begin filming Sept. 1, according to the documents.
The payments outlined in the contracts say Suleman’s kids will collectively earn $125,000 for 36 days of shooting in the first year of production, $75,000 for 21 days in the second year and $50,000 for 14 days in the third year. Any extra shooting days will be compensated at the same rate.
The contract also states that 15 percent of the gross compensation will be deposited by Eyeworks into a “Coogan Trust Account,” as required by California law. The monies can’t be touched until the children turn 18 or become legally emancipated.”
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Twilight
Our friends over at Hollyscoop.com report that Stephanie Meyer, the writer of the Twilight series, is being sued by a former college friend from Brigham Young University. Stephanie is being sued for plagiarism of the Twilight series!
The person who is suing Stephanie is her former college buddy, Heidi Stanton. Heidi filed a lawsuit against Stephanie in Utah last Tuesday, April 14th. Heidi states in the papers, “Quite frankly, I was shocked when I began watching the movie [Twilight] with my husband last week. I immediately told him that she got that idea from me! I wrote a fictional short story with the same ideas when we were in college together.”
But Stephanie says that the Twilight series ‘came to her in a dream back in 2003.’ She completed Twilight three months later.
Hollyscoop.com also sadly reports that “Production of New Moon has since been “put on hold” until the case is resolved.” It’s scheduled for release in November 20, 2009.
Maybe that’s why the cast is out partying!
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Popular True Blood fan site, Trueblood-online.com was pressured by HBO to remove a story. The original story was brought to you here at ThecounT.com, and it featured our writer Lisa Mason Lee.
Lisa Mason Lee on set of True Blood
ThecounT.com recently wrote a story about Lisa’s experience on the HBO show True Blood. The story pictured Lisa in costume and it detailed the overall pleasant experience she had working on the True Blood production. After the story was published on ThecounT.com, numerous True Blood fan sites reprinted it for their readers enjoyment.
These fan sites keep track of the auditions/casting calls, show listings and everything else under the moon relating to True Blood. For instance, ThecounT.com story did not even mention what episode Lisa is going to appear in, but somehow several fan sites figured it out.
Our inside source revealed exclusively to ThecounT.com, that an HBO rep contacted the Trueblood-online.com fan site and demanded that the ‘Lisa Mason Lee on True Blood’ story be retracted, to which Trueblood-online.com promptly complied!
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According to one of our close inside Hollywood sources, a “Jackass” spin-off movie of the character “Party Boy,” is in the works.
Chris Pontius
You know who Party Boy is! Played by Chris Pontius, Party Boy goes to random places, turns on a boom box, strips down to his underwear and dances to the music!
Our inside source said, “Talk of the film is happening, but that is it for now. There is development and progress but nothing is set in stone yet.”
We hope Johnny, Steve-O, Jeff, Bam and the rest of the crew come back for this one!
We will keep you updated as soon as we hear more!
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