Sit down, Stand Up, Get the Heck out

Think have figure out why Jake is sitting for Stand Up 2 Cancer. They are saving the standing up for Sept. Jake will be a part of the telethon that will be on all four major networks in the US.
Jake actually made two PSA's for Stand Up To Cancer. In this one with Scott Cooper he talks about how cancer touched his life.



and if you haven't seen it, here's the shorter version that he did in conjunction with Major League Baseball.



Stand Up To Cancer has provided funding and support for some of the most innovative and exciting cancer research that is currently happening in the US. Over the past two years, government support has been held flat and in some cases reduced in medical research due the current economic situation, that's why Stand Up To Cancer is so important.

Now for the Get the Heck Out

David O. Russell has seen the light,writing on the wall,bottom line fact that Nailed will never get off the shelf. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting: "Russell has withdrawn from the $26 million production after one-on-one negotiations with financier Ronald Tutor, who controls rights to the movie with Pangea Media Group CEO David Bergstein, broke down.

Neither Tutor nor Russell would go into detail about why they could not come to an agreement, but THR has learned that Russell apparently was not happy that producers Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher of Red Wagon Prods. were being squeezed to cut their fees in half.

In a statement to THR, the producers characterized the concessions as "unfair" and "unprofessional.""

"This has been a painful process for me," Russell told THR on Tuesday. "The multiple production delays and stoppages, which were caused by David Bergstein and preceded Ron Tutor's direct involvement with me, have now spanned two years, and the circumstances under which the film would now be completed are much different on several fundamental levels than when we embarked several years ago. I, unfortunately, am no longer involved in the project and cannot call it 'my' film. I wish Ron Tutor well."

Read the rest here. Hollywood Reporter

What does it all mean? Well it means that Tutor and Bergstein will bring in another director to finish the movie. That the outcome and look of the movie is at their mercy discretion. That Jessica Beil and Tracy Morgan are under contract to finish up the last scene never shot and don't get any more compensation and may have to do so. That movie may become something that the actors, the writers and the director never envisioned.

The question is how do you promote this? Is Jake contractually obligated to? Talk about awkward.

"Yeah I did this a couple of years ago but this is not the movie that I worked on. This is something else." " Me? and the monkey? Now that's a story"