Finally, someone at the Punisher: War Zone premiere asked Lexi Alexander the big question -- what the hell was all that "taking your name off the film" talk? Give a hand to SciFi Wire for doing so.

Alexander's answer managed to confirm and deny the post-ComicCon drama that surrounded Punisher: War Zone. "No, no, I never was going to take my name off the film. Let me say this. Harry Knowles [of Ain't It Cool News] is one of the greatest people I know. He's a great supporter of mine. I'm his biggest fan, not because he supports filmmakers, [but] because I think he fights for film ... I think in this case, what happened is when the first trailers came out, I think he knew and he's been told there was kind of trouble. So he wrote, "F--k, they should have just let her do it, and she was pushed aside." [That is] true. He did write the right thing, and he stood up for me and for this film. I think that each Internet site that took it on brought it to a new level ... [What Knowles wrote] really is the correct thing. I was never fired, and I never wanted to take my name off. "

What Knowles wrote (if I have the right piece) was this: "Lexi Alexander has been kicked to the curb -- part of that treatment was her "honeymoon" from Comic Con. However, there's more totally awesome wedding gifts that Lionsgate has given the blushing bride. She's off the movie and wrapped up in a non-disclosure clause - so we won't be hearing from her anytime soon, UNLESS THINGS CHANGE RADICALLY." That explains the deafening silence -- though I'm curious how one can be "pushed aside," yet remain unfired. However that works, it's clear Alexander kicked ass, made the Punisher she wanted, and is getting rave reviews from the film geeks for her trouble. There's nothing like a happy ending.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/89165?ns=guardianpageName=Money%3A+Tracker+warning+ahead+of+rate+decisionch=Moneyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Mortgages+%28Money%29%2CProperty%2CBorrowing+and+debt%2CBanks+and+building+societies%2CMoney%2CHousing+market+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CUK+news%2CInterest+rates+%28Money%29%2CInterest+rates+%28Business%29c5=Personal+Finance%2CInvestments%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CProperty+Mortgages+and+Interest+Ratesc6=Staff+and+agenciesc7=2008_12_03c8=1128025c9=articlec10=GUc11=Moneyc12=Mortgagesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FMoney%2FMortgages" width="1" height="1" //divpAt least half a million tracker a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/mortgages"mortgage/a customers may not see their repayments fall in line with this week's expected a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/interestrates"interest rate/a cut, it was predicted today./ppThat figure could more than double if the UK's largest lender, Halifax, implements a clause in its home loans allowing it to change borrowers' rates./ppThe Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) is widely expected to reduce the base rate by between 0.5% and 1% when it announces the result of its two-day meeting tomorrow. But clauses in some tracker mortgages will mean lenders no longer have to pass on the cut to their customers, while those on standard variable rate (SVR) deals are also unlikely to benefit from the full reduction./ppDespite the fact that tracker deals automatically move up and down in line with the base rate, some have so-called floors or collars which state that lenders will stop passing on rate cuts once the base rate falls below a certain level./ppOn Nationwide deals a collar kicks in when a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/01/mortgages-property"official interest rates fall below 2.75%/a, while on a Skipton or Yorkshire building society tracker the cut off point is 3%./ppRay Boulger, senior technical manager at mortgage broker John Charcol, said up to 1.2 million people - a sizeable proportion of the estimated 3.9 million who have tracker deals - may not see the full reduction passed on to them./ppHe said up to 600,000 people had tracker mortgages with lenders such as Nationwide and Skipton, while up to a further 600,000 have a tracker deal with Halifax, which may choose to exercise its option not to pass on the rate cut in full./ph2Halifax/h2pThe small print in Halifax's mortgage gives it the option not to pass on all or any cut once the base rate falls below 3%. It tells customers: "We can also change the tracker margin to your disadvantage, but only at a time when the tracker base rate is less than 3% per year. /pp"By 'to your disadvantage' we mean increasing the tracker margin where it is positive or zero, reducing the tracker margin where it is negative, or changing a negative tracker margin to a positive one." /ppHowever, comments made yesterday by a representative of the City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), suggest the bank could be in trouble if it a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/dec/02/mortgages-banks"tries to implement the clause/a./ppJon Pain, the FSA's retail markets managing director, told the Council of Mortgage Lenders annual conference that while tracker interest rate collars could be a legitimate term of a mortgage, "it can only be if it is clear and unambiguous to the consumer, and is consistently and prominently spelt out in the initial KFI [key facts illustration] and offer document throughout the sales process"./ppA spokesman for the FSA said it would not comment on individual companies, but it seems likely Halifax will be under pressure to pass on any reduction in full. /ppIf it doesn't, Boulger said it could face a legal challenge from borrowers. "I had a call last week from one borrower with a large Halifax lifetime tracker mortgage who said he would do just that," he said./ph2Standard variable rates/h2pBorrowers on SVRs are also unlikely to benefit from the full reduction. Lloyds TSB, which also lends under the Cheltenham Gloucester brand, is the only major lender which links its SVR to the Bank base rate. /ppIts terms and conditions pledge that its SVR will never be more than 2% above the base rate, which means it could fall as low as 4% if the MPC does opt for a full 1% cut./ppLast month, a number of major lenders were quick to reduce their SVR by the full 1.5% after coming under pressure from the government, but many others only passed on smaller cuts./ppOverall, 87 out of 95 lenders with an SVR passed on some of the reduction, but 57 did not pass it on in full, with some only reducing their rates by 0.25%. The Woolwich, Barclays' lending arm, has not passed on anything./ppLouise Cuming, head of mortgages at moneysupermarket.com, said: "If we see a 1% cut to [an overall rate of] 2%, it will be very, very difficult for lenders to pass that on./pp"They have to have an eye on profitability and 2008 has been about lenders wanting to get profit rather than volume lending."/ppBoulger agreed, saying that if rates were cut by 1% he would expect lenders to pass on between 0.25% to 0.5% to SVR customers, unless the government puts pressure on the major lenders to pass on the cut in full again./ppIf the MPC cuts interest rates by 0.5% and lenders pass on the reduction in full it would save borrowers with a typical £150,000 mortgage around £43 a month, while a 1% reduction would reduce monthly repayments by £85./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/mortgages"Mortgages/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/property"Property/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/debt"Borrowing debt/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/banks"Banks and building societies/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/housingmarket"Housing market/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/interestrates"Interest rates/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interestrates"Interest rates/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vFowmOJr7LLH_KbczF13xURKTeE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/vFowmOJr7LLH_KbczF13xURKTeE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p