BY Carl DiOrio

{Hollywood Reporter} - Dramatically underscoring the need for movie-side execs to review slates following the long writers strike, Paramount on Wednesday bounced six films to new dates and moved two unslotted films to next year's calendar.

Other distributors were scrambling to complete similar reviews of their upcoming productions to determine what can or can't be delivered on scheduled dates. In some cases, films will move because of talent issues, but many film projects have been frozen in time when script rewrites weren't completed before the 100-day scribe walkout.

BY Nick Holdsworth

{Variety} - Producers of Russia’s most expensive ever film, Fedor Bondarchuk’s $40 million adaptation of cult Soviet sci-fi novel “The Inhabited Island” are holding back from international sales, despite intense interest from Berlinale market buyers.

BY Anne Thompson

{Variety} - I'm as fond of the Indiana Jones franchise as anyone, and Harrison Ford making fun of his age when he is obviously in superb condition could be a fun running gag for boomers like me. But Lucas and Spielberg are smart enough to know that you have to throw in some new stuff to keep a series like this alive. Bringing back Karen Allen and adding Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone and Cate Blanchett is a good start, but....

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For independent filmmakers, George A. Romero is one of the great culture heroes. Back in the 1960s, this Pittsburgh resident (he went from NYC to Carnegie Mellon U.) reared himself up and decided he was going to make movies with no studio connections, film school education, or even a New York based advertising career. He just jury-rigged a crew, a cast, and sets found throughout the Pittsburgh environs and made his cheap genre film, "Night of The Living Dead." That film not only became a cult classic but it kick-started the zombie phenomenon and influenced every generation of filmmakers since, whether in the horror realm or beyond.