It's Fortune's turn to weigh in on the Future of Hollywood in These Tough Times and Richard Siklos says a "big-deal agent" told him that " 'Everybody's putting their tail between their legs. It's hard to get deals done.'  More worryingly, one senior TV executive posited to me: 'I can almost guarantee that you're going to see major cuts across our businesses.' " Bottom line: the movie industry will be fine for the next couple of years, partially because the town just saw a boom outside financing but the downturn will still hurt everyone with TV costs "under immense pressure" as both viewership and ad sales weaken. It ends with the requisite silver lining: "If ever there was a time when Americans wanted the diversions of movies and television, it is now." [Fortune]

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The animated film has a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the disdain of Aint' It Cool News: "Star Wars is an ailing, dying beached whale of a property, too large to ignore but left too long in the sun to save," Massawym writes."And the stench is unimaginable." CHUD's Devin Faraci adds: " 'Clone Wars' is terrible. It's awful in a way that makes the Prequel Trilogy seem sort of good, that makes you almost yearn for the return of Jar Jar Binks.' " Writes Roger Ebert: "The last thing this movie needs is a Jabba the Hutt sex scene."