Two excellent casting projects going on at Jossip HQ.

The first comes from Stereohyped, which has put together the all-star roster of actors who will be needed in the movie of Barack Obama's life. Hint: Will Smith is the lead. Check it out

And second comes from Mollygood, where editor Cord Jefferson, who's been likened to Niko Bellic, casts somebody other than himself as the lead in the Grand Theft Auto movie, along with a score of other lowlifes. Spoiler: Ivanka Trump's agent will be getting a call. Check it out

Michael Hollick, who voiced Grand Theft Auto IV's Niko Bellic, and provided the body for the character, earned a measly $100,000 for 15 months of voice over work since late 2006. He's upset, of course, since the game has sold millions of copies and raked in over $600 million so far for Rockstar Games and parent Take-Two Interactive.

You already know whose side the New York Times Seth Schiesel is on, because he editorializes the situation in this way (emphasis ours): "Mr. Hollick was paid only about $100,000 [...] with zero royalties or residuals in sight."

To some, earning $100k for a little over a year's work – for speaking into a microphone – might not be a situation of "only" getting six-figures.

Then again, Hollick's voice and likeness have been used to reap huge profits, and had this been a film or television series, he'd be getting a much larger share of things.

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The Parents Television Council, which has nothing better to do than complain about what the letter "F" might represent, is also showing itself to not even have a clue about what it's criticizing anymore. Moving beyond TV, the PTC also has its stake on video games, namely the awesomely violent Grand Theft Auto IV.

PTC public policy director Dan Isett claimed to have played the game, which made him an expert on decrying it.

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