Film
- Frank Miller's Ronin gets optioned
- Spiderman 4 looks like it's going ahead
- As does the adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Choke
- John Cusack will star in a Jan de Bont action thriller
- Young X-Men?
- Rowan Atkinson is Mr Micawber in Peter Howitt's David Copperfield
- And Martin Freeman is Rembrandt in Peter Greenaway's Nightwatching
Commercials
- Mena Suvari is next up to face the 'Orange film funding board'
Theatre
- The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns to the West End from June 12
British TV
- ITV1 revamps its web site and introduces all sorts of video on demand fun [free registration required]
- No more SMS voting for Big Brother?
- ITV is planning a drama 'inspired' by The Wire [free registration required]
- Channel 4 is going to decrease spending on US shows [free registration required]
US TV
- A&E is now making that Andromeda Strain mini-series
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May 2, 2007 | Reply
Although I really enjoy (or downright love) all of Chuck Palahniuk's novels, my favorite is Survivor but that project went bye-bye after the events of the World Trade Center attacks.
Martin Freeman and Peter Greenaway? I'll definitely have to see that!
May 3, 2007 | Reply
Not a fan of the Orange ads; and just as many Brits call them chips instead of fries, don't many Americans call mobile phones "cellphones"? (Which is actually a more logical name, since phones technically aren't mobile - apart from the one in the Direct Line commercials.)
May 3, 2007 | Reply
Since I'm boring, I'll quote Wikipedia: "Technically, the term mobile phone includes such devices as satellite phones and pre-cellular mobile phones such as those operating via MTS which do not have a cellular network, whereas the related term cell(ular) phone does not."
I won't start on hybrid WiFi/mobiles, Wimax, micro-cell and other phones, cos that would be even duller.
The Orange ads have been off the boil a bit of late, though. They've never been as good as "Make me bleed!"
May 3, 2007 | Reply
Iko: yes, yes, yes. I'm so glad that someone else loves CP's "Survivor". I loved reading that one of his best.
May 3, 2007 | Reply
Plus Mena Suvari's place as the ultimate American cheerleader has been upended by a fragile thing from Texas. And as well as George W. Bush, there's also Claire Bennet to consider.