Keeping Up With Lindsay #2 (please put all Lohan news here)

[Boomer]

Shock: Lindsay Lohan Isn’t Completely Drunk All The Time

Hecklerspray.com By Stuart Heritage on Friday, May 7, 2010

This is turning out to be quite the week for Lindsay Lohan. First she lands a film role and now this?
It’s a miracle. You see, in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Lindsay Lohan claimsthat she doesn’t have any problems with d***s or alcohol or prescription medication. And that’s great. It means that, instead of being an almost-unemployable actress whose life has been ruined by an addiction to d***s and alcohol, Lindsay Lohan is simply an almost-unemployable whose life has been ruined by the fact that she’s just a bit of a wanker. That’s much better.
We can’t wait to see where this sudden upswing will take Lindsay Lohan next. Maybe she’ll mend her broken relationship with her father. Maybe she’ll find true love again. Maybe she’ll be able to walk in a straight line for more than five yards without toppling over like a gruesome wino. The sky’s the limit!
We mean it, this has been a really good week for Lindsay Lohan. Admittedly any week that doesn’t end with a car crash, an arrest, a public fight with her dad, a high-profile sacking, a botched fashion line, a humiliating Twitter outburst or the sight of her lying face-down in a puddle of dribble and vomit in the doorway of a nightclub with her knickers around her ankles is a good week for Lindsay Lohan. But, still, this week has still been pretty great.
Why? Because the trailer for her new movie Machete has been released, and it looks quite good, although that might just be because she’s only in it for about a millisecond. And it looks like Lindsay Lohan has scored another movie role, although it’s in a harrowing movie about a p*rn star who was beaten up and raped a lot and then died young. And now Lindsay Lohan has revealed that she doesn’t have a d**g or alcohol problem in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. This is shaping up to be Lindsay Lohan’s best week of all time!

 

[nita-karoliina]

Ha, ha ha..^ That made me smirk

 

[sethii]

Remember that photographer who shot the gross pictures of her covered in blood? They're now working together on Inferno. No sign of any other crew members

Originally posted May 7th 2010 12:05 AM PDT by TMZ Staff
Lindsay Lohan rolled over to what she called a "dingy, shady, weird hotel" in the middle of Burbank, California last night -- but it wasn't on her personal time ... she was there to work. Lindsay --with a photog in tow -- hit this old Travelodge for an intentionally grimy photoshoot for her upcoming Linda Lovelace biopic.
Looks dirty.

tmz

Is that Ali walking behind them?

 

[isa.b.elle.]

^so one of the directors/(producers or whatever..) of the movie should be the "mastermind" behind that terrific gun-blood etc.. shoot?!?!ummmm...nice.
btw. she looks nice in that pics,let's hope that for the movie she's ll be banned from doing lip's injections

 

[Boomer]

^ This movie is starting to look like it's "Super Boss Hit Bound"...I may try to put some money into it...Let's see- I have, I think, $8.37 in the bank- that should get me in... B)

 

[isa.b.elle.]

^yeah that sum it's probably gonna make you the major investor...now everything it's in your hands

 

[Boomer]

^ That's right- see you on the Red Carpet!! And I'm definitely sitting at Lindsay's table for the Golden Globes, that way we'll be sure to have plenty of booze... and maybe I can hit on Dina, what the Hell..

 

[isa.b.elle.]

^yes Dina it's gonna be the second investor and the PR girl..anyway i predict you'll have a lot going on..Oscar,premiers all around the world, international awards..probabily even one from the Cinematheque francaise ( ) and much much more...so good luck to you and don't forget about your friends here!

 

[sethii]

Boomer, here are your co-workers

Director/Writer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3727009/
Producer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1217712/

 

[Boomer]

^Let's see here... Producer: Wali Razaqi..from Kabul, Afghanistan...Has two male rottweilers - Rex & Spike... I see...
Ummm, let me call my good friend Pete "The Squid" from Staten Island- see if he will go with me to our first meeting...I assume they have set up production offices at the Travel Lodge they are using for the Lindsay photos...

 

[sethii]

Another industry insider speaks out about the dangers of hiring her.

latimes.com
The Lindsay Lohan maelstrom, pulling filmmakers into its currents
May 5, 2010 | 6:27 pm

As Lindsay Lohan's tabloid troubles continue to create a vortex of disaster, there's one type of personality dragged into Lohan's troubles that doesn't get much ink: the directors who've had to work with (or around) her.

Perhaps no one better embodies an instance of Lohan collateral damage than Chris Sivertson. A young genre director who showed nothing but promise after his gritty thriller "The Lost" drew a slew of accolades a few years ago, Sivertson found himself in movie jail after the release of his next film, "I Know Who Killed Me," which starred Lohan.

You can't blame studios for not wanting to give Sivertson another shot after "Killed Me," a muddled mush of a mystery about dark secrets, brutal beatings and identical twin sisters.

But you can't blame Sivertson for the mush, either. Lohan, who actually played the two lead roles, built a veritable skyscraper of trouble on the set, with numerous stints in rehab and other breakdowns. A shoot that was supposed to take a little more than a month lasted four months. "Most days we wouldn't know what happened [with her]," Sivertson recalls. "We just found out that day." Forget quality cinema -- it was a Herculean challenge just to get the film made. "At some point it became 'how can I complete the movie.' That was my one and only goal: not to have it fall apart." (Sivertson's general tenor, it should be noted, was that he sincerely liked Lohan and working with her and doesn't want to point fingers at anyone but himself for the final product.)

For his climactic scene, in which Lohan's characters figure prominently, Sivertson didn't have the star on set. He tried to postpone the shoot but finally couldn't delay it anymore. So he located his inner MacGyver: He shot the scene with a body double and then grafted on Lohan's face in post-production.

Actor and Sivertson collaborator Marc Senter, who planned to spend just a weekend on set but got drawn into the drama, noted dryly: "It was an interesting experience" (though he, too, says he genuinely likes Lohan and was touched one day when he walked into her trailer and found the actress watching Sivertson's "The Lost".

The director indeed got through it, but the movie, a mid-budget thriller, flopped, drawing poor reviews and grossing only $7 million.

Now Sivertson is trying to get back in the game. He's written and is getting set to direct an independent drama called "Brawler," about the underground culture of fighting on shipping boats off the coast of New Orleans. Senter will star, as will a fighter-cum-actor named Nathan Grubbs. The story concerns two brothers, both fighters, of different temperaments and styles. Sivertson crafted the story out of the raw material of real-life fighters whom he's spent months hanging out with on the Mississippi.

But after a Lohan-class disaster, it's a twisty road to respectability. Unable to find a studio who was willing to make the movie or the money from an already strapped financing world, Sivertson, Senter and Grubbs rustled up money for the microbudget (it will cost less than $1 million) by going to some wealthy individuals in and around New Orleans.

The movie does seem to have the requisite commercial elements, with mixed martial arts and other types of stylized fighting only gaining in popularity with young audiences. And one gets a genuine sense of enthusiasm from everyone involved with the project. They're getting to make a movie, and on their own terms. Still, had Lohan's life taken a different turn, Sivertson's career might have too.

So would the director have handled the Lohan situation differently, perhaps by not casting a potential source of trouble in the first place?
"I look at an actor who's had a difficult past on a case-by-case basis. A filmmaker just needs to sit down with them more than once and get to know what their goals and priorities are." One only hopes producers on Lohan's new film make a similar calculus.
--Steven Zeitchik

latimes.com

 

[Boomer]

^ That's a sobering piece...Maybe I better re-think my involvement too...the rottweilers and all...plus, Pete the Squid seems to be "in the wind" as they say, something about human remains found in his backyard...all a big misunderstanding, I'm sure...

 

[farou7a]

A shoot that was supposed to take a little more than a month lasted four months. "Most days we wouldn't know what happened [with her]," Sivertson recalls.

Marilyn did this during her last movie days too

 

[Boomer]

^ I remember that...and they said when she did show up, she always had a thermos full of screwdrivers to get her through the morning..sad...

 

[farou7a]

they didnt complete that movie did they?

oh God i hope LiLo doesnt go that way. its a tough journey back.

 

[Boomer]

^ No, the producers actually fired her when it was half done- which no one ever heard of happening before...Title was Something's Got to Give...She was actually rehired right before she died but never got back to work. They shut it down and it was never finished... they lost millions on the thing...

Note to Lilo: Mayilyn was ten times the star you have ever been; it can happen...

 

[farou7a]

Oh yeah, shes no MM.. no point behaving the way she did, if it is intentional!

RIGHHHHHHT thats the name! I knew it was a name of an existing movie too.. Ahhh.. I wish they had finished

 

[sethii]

^Let's see here... Producer: Wali Razaqi..from Kabul, Afghanistan...Has two male rottweilers - Rex & Spike... I see...

You may want to rethink that $8.37 investment. Turns out 2 other producers on this movie have never even heard of 'Wali Razaqi', and the director says that he is not a producer.
Something tells me there will be a lot of photos and footage leaked of Lindsay during this production.

UPDATE: Lohan movie 'Inferno' sets off internal firestorm

May 7, 2010 | 1:38 pm


We thought Lindsay Lohan's life was full of drama--but it turns out that the people behind her new movie "Inferno" are creating some commotion of their own.

On Tuesday, we reported that Lohan has signed on to play Linda Lovelace in a new movie about the troubled life of the late '70s p*rn star. The word came from Wali Razaqi, who says he is a producer on the film. Razaqi also told us that Bill Pullman was attached to the project to star as Hugh Hefner, but now says he was "misinformed" and that the actor will not be in the movie after all, which Pullman's manager confirmed.

Ever since our story was published, we've also been bombarded by messages from two other filmmakers, Chris Hanley and Jordan Gertner, who say they've never heard of Razaqi and that they are the rightful producers on the project. Razaqi maintains he is a producer on the film and says his company's name has been on the "Inferno" script that's been sent around town for months.

The film's director, Matthew Wilder, says Razaqi is an old friend who has been involved with the movie, but says Hanley and Gertner are the "bona fide" producers.

This all sounds like a messy producer squabble to us -- one which we'll leave up to the Producers Guild of America to arbitrate down the road -- although it does highlight the chaos of the indie-film world, where even a seemingly innocuous word like producer can be a relative (and loaded) term.
The important point in all of this is that Lohan will star in the project.

Perhaps ironically, for once it's her movie -- and not the actress herself -- that's creating a stir.

latimes.com

 

[isa.b.elle.]

^now i guess if we will ever see this movie..

 

[misspistol]

Um....I wonder if she's actually read up on Linda Lovelace? She was forced to prostitute and do p*rn and once had sex with a dog (no lie).