The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of The Screen

Warner Brothers has given a release date for “The Great Gatsby”… again. The film was originally scheduled to be released at Christmas, but the studio canceled that release date to take the film back into production for some spicier special effects. Now, Gatsby fans will just have to wait until next May. [LA Times]

Tim Burton, the mastermind moviemaker behind “Beetlejuice” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” opened up to the New York Times‘s Dave Itzkoff. [NYT]

After the kerfuffle over the departure of Ann Curry from TODAY, the show’s Matt Lauer’s likability rating has fallen 25 percent. [New York Daily News]

The News also reports the show’s executive producer, Jim Bell, may be up for a big promotion. [New York Daily News]