Doctor Who
- Rusty 4 Catherine Zeta
- David Walliams
- Cameos in Christmas special [spoilers]
- DT wants a musical version of the show
Film
- Trailer for Obsessed, starring Ali Larter, Idris Elba, Beyonce and Ali Larter. Did I mention Ali Larter's in it?
- Jack Ryan franchise reboots
- Stephen Chow no longer directing The Green Hornet
- Baz Luhrmann acquires rights to The Great Gatsby
- Frank Miller to make Buck Rogers
- Mmm. Ali Larter
Theater
- Jeremy Piven leaves Speed the Plow over 'high mercury count'
British TV
- ITV axes Passage to India remake
- ITV to screen Jean Charles de Menezes drama
- Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss writing a pilot for a modern-day Sherlock Holmes starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman
- Desktop download version of iPlayer for Mac and Linux in beta
US TV
- Kristin Chenoweth joins Legally Mad
- Office workers moonlighting to create new shows
- Casts for pilots
- Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay to exec Cocaine Cowboys for HBO
- HBO picks up two new comedies as well
- Michael Chiklis working on series for FX about financial fraud
- Comedy Central picks up Secret Girlfriend
- Oh Ali. When will you be mine? Oh. Did I say that out loud?
December 19, 2008 | Reply
I love it when a trailer for a thriller shows you absolutely everything so that there are no nasty surprises when you see the actual film.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
I wish Russell T. Davies would just shut the fuck up about Doctor who and who could/should be a "possible future Doctor". I realise that his run isn't done yet, but the decisions made aren't his, and he appears to still be trying to 'direct' the show's future, then quickly saying "but obviously that's nothing to do with me".
I don't get the excitement behind a female lead for this show. I also suspect that if it were to happen, it could be a tipping moment (although, admittedly, the regeneration would be interesting).
Also, I shudder at the line "The big climax is mine, all mine". Sounds again like Davies is working himself into a near-sexual frenzy, and I hope he can - for once - actually reel himself in. The best Who is subtle. The aliens used to be infiltrators. Now, there are so many universe-threatening invasion fleets that the entire thing's becoming boring by trying to 'top' itself every series.
I'd sooner see the tenth Doctor 'die' in trying to save one person's life in a heroic manner than by trying to save "every universe that's ever existed, and even the ones that haven't," which is probably what Davies is going to engineer.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
"The big climax is mine, all mine""
Unless it's a hint that the Doctor's going to regenerate in Griff Rhys Jones or Joanna Page
December 19, 2008 | Reply
Handy that, isn't it? And isn't it good to see old movie scripts being recycled? Fatal Attraction really hasn't had much attention of late.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
My favourite film genre has always been "evil psycho sex bitch gets her come-uppance".
December 19, 2008 | Reply
They do need punishing.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
That may have come out wrong.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
Your Honour, in the matter of "Larter v Buckley", may I present Exhibit A to explain why the plaintiff seeks a restraining order.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
I'm with Craig on that sentiment. Every time I read one of those interviews with RTD, I get the feeling he's trying to back Moffatt into a corner.
And with his exlamation that the climax is all his, okay - maybe he has full control over what may be involved, but I'm thinking he'll have to work with Moffatt for a graceful transition.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
I was merely pointing out that sexually aggressive women who don't let men get away with their misdeeds always end up getting put back into 'their place' in Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, etc, as a demonstration of the privileged positions of men within patriarchy and that the women who challenge it and refuse to stick within their traditional passive sexually available but unassertive role in society must be insane and need to be punished.
Personally, I'd love to watch a movie in which sexually aggressive, evil psycho bitch woman has affair with the hero, the hero realises that she's 1,000 times more interesting than his dull as ditchwater partner and decides to ride off into the sunset with the slightly demented one. Or where evil psycho bitch causes loving partner to leave the hero and he's left all alone at the end, realising that perhaps he shouldn't have screwed around.
There, that should have me covered (the plaintiff's the first one right. On the strength of Obsession, I'd say I don't want to be stalked by Ali Larter. Or is that fictional?)
December 19, 2008 | Reply
"Personally, I'd love to watch a movie in which sexually aggressive, evil psycho bitch woman has affair with the hero, the hero realises that she's 1,000 times more interesting than his dull as ditchwater partner and decides to ride off into the sunset with the slightly demented one. Or where evil psycho bitch causes loving partner to leave the hero and he's left all alone at the end, realising that perhaps he shouldn't have screwed around."
You'd have thought there'd have been more of that after The Last Seduction - but sadly no.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
I know. Too dark for most people though and I think the watered down Jade (with David Caruso - his attempt at a movie career, I recall) screwed it up for everyone and was the backlash renormalisation.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
I was merely pointing out that sexually aggressive women who don't let men get away with their misdeeds always end up getting put back into 'their place' in Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, etc
Basic Instinct? The same Basic Instinct where Sharon Stone literally gets away with murder, in keeping with the movie's penchant for letting unlikeable characters - in this case the main ones - live to shag another day while all the sympathetic ones (Stone's girlfriend, Michael Douglas's partner, Jeanne Tripplehorn's doctor) wind up dead?
As for Obsessed, the presence of Beyonce Knowles means I will never, ever, EVER see it.
December 19, 2008 | Reply
E! just aired the trailer. Presenter: "Note to self: Never hit on Jay-Z" (aka Mr. Beyonce).
December 19, 2008 | Reply
Stone: Everyone she loves dies and she's left with Michael Douglas in a v-neck - punishment enough, surely, even if she hadn't end up doing Basic Instinct 2 as further penance. Plus sexually aggressive = unlikeable or crazy formula
Stone's girlfriend: gets murderously jealous, tries to kill Michael Douglas and drives her own car off the road and dies. Not that sympathetic really and demonstration that jealous women (particularly lesbians) deserve to die
Jeanne: Sexually active, slightly lesbian, slightly jealous and therefore killed off.
December 20, 2008 | Reply
Everyone she loves dies
...and she either kills them or is indirectly responsible for their death.
December 20, 2008 | Reply
Well, her hubby dies in the ring, and there's no real suggestion that she drugged him or poisoned him to make him lose. There's also only a suspicion she killed her parents for their money. It also makes little sense within the screenplay for that to be the suggestion since the implication of various lines of dialogue is that she's killing because of the pain she's suffered from her previous losses.
But even so, by the end, sexually aggressive, bisexual, murderous polygamous woman becomes monogamous, tamed, non-murderous heterosexual, so she's back in her place. Well, until Basic Instinct 2.
Take your point about Beyonce though. Liked her in Goldmember, but not anything since.
December 20, 2008 | Reply
It also makes little sense within the screenplay
We're talking about Joe "I'll have my brilliant lawyer fall in love with the man she's defending and go to bed with him, in flagrant violation of all her professional ethics, and risk getting disbarred" Eszterhas here. Sense doesn't come into it.
Sadly true about the stereotypes though; no wonder there were protests. (And while I avoided the sequel, they never did explain what happened to Nick...)
January 7, 2009 | Reply
I know this is random and late but I do recall renting 'Jade' from the vid store some years ago. It was distinctly bonkers and very forgettable for it's detail. And is the DJ Caruso who has recently done something - Eagle Eye, perhaps? - none other than our most favourite woodentop?
January 7, 2009 | Reply
Different. He's Daniel John Caruso. No one would trust David Caruso to direct. But it was Eagle Eye.
January 7, 2009 | Reply
I have to say, even from the trailers, I just had the fears that it COULD just be a Caruso-'will-I-ever-grow-up-to-be-a-real-actor?'-of wooden fame in the directoral chair... Shudder.