I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but it all appears to be part of Lego Dimensions, which might be a movie and sees lots of different Lego worlds join together to fight something, maybe with the help of Community’s Joel McHale.
Articles by Rob Buckley
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- James Purefoy joins Equity
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- New trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies
Australian TV
- The Horizon and Top Knot Detective being developed for TV
International TV
- Drama adaptation of music documentary Muscle Shoals planned
Internet/Canadian TV
- Netflix renews: Between
UK TV
New UK TV shows
- Brittas Empire to return?
- Neil Cross developing Sapphire and Steel remake
- S4C green lights: political drama Byw Celwydd
- ITV green lights: dramatisation of Tutankhamun tomb discovery
New UK TV show casting
- Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester to star in BBC One’s Undercover
US TV
- Sundance renews: Rectify
- Teaser trailers for season 2 of Fargo
- Tuesday ratings
New US TV shows
- Teaser trailer for Showtime’s Billions [NSFW]
- Universal developing: adaptations of The Machine, El Pantera with Warren Ellis
- A&E green lights: hip-hop crime drama The Infamous
- DirectTV green lights: comedy You Me Her
New US TV show casting
- Susan Sarandon joins Epix’s Graves
- Christina Hendricks to be replaced on Showtime’s Roadies
- Christopher Russell and Dylan Playfair to star in ABC Family’s Gorgeous Morons
The Weekly Play
Nostalgia corner: Ace of Wands (1970-72)/The Wednesday Plays: Dutch Schlitz’s Shoes/Mr Stabs (1984)
There can’t be many TV characters that have managed to endure for 15 years, on and off. There must be even fewer still who were villains and played by different actors. Even fewer of them must have appeared in children’s TV shows and been set up for their own spin-off series. And even fewer have had children imitating them in playgrounds.
But to do all of that and to appear in no fewer than three unrelated TV shows? That surely must be unique.
So spare a thought for Estabse, an immortal member of ‘the Brotherhood’, servant of Beelzebub and prodigious user of ‘hand magic’, for his journey is indeed both unique and fascinating.
It begins in Ace of Wands, in itself a fascinating and unique show warranting an entry in Nostalgia Corner, before moving over into The Wednesday Play and two different anthology series: Shadows and Dramarama. Are you prepared to meet Mr Stabs?
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Internet TV
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- Toks Olagundoye joins Castle
- Kelly Rowland joins Empire
- Cornelius Smith Jr promoted to regular on Scandal
New US TV shows
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- Teaser for Fox’s The X-Files revival
New US TV show casting
- Rhys Darby joins Fox’s The X-Files revival
Film
There’s been an Ant-Man premiere for ants
No, really. There has.
Today Empire Cinemas threw the world’s first ever film premiere for ants with a screening of Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man for the leafcutter ants at London Zoo. Bringing the action to the ants with a miniature screen, two speakers, eight seats, branding board, red carpet and popcorn; London Zoo’s leaf-cutter exhibition was transformed into a small-scale cinema for this special unique event.
The leafcutter ants, which can grow up to 1cm in size in their lifetime, attended the film in true premiere style and posed with their leaves for photos in front of the brilli-ant Empire Cinemas miniature branding board and red carpet. The hard-working insects then proceeded to crawl over the seats, popcorn holders and even the screen before the film began. No ants were harmed at the premiere.
Ant-Man, with its stellar cast including Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and Judy Greer, tells the story of a con man with the ability to shrink in size but grow in strength, who must help his mentor protect the secret of his Ant-Man suit and pull off a heist that will save the world. The film, which screens in Empire Cinemas from July 17th (available in IMAX 3D format in Birmingham and Basildon), was produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Disney.
Jon Nutton, Marketing Director of Empire Cinemas said, “It’s been fantastic working with London Zoo to create the world’s first ever film premiere for ants. With the nature of the film, we wanted to do something special for its launch and we hope the ants enjoyed the premiere as much as our customers enjoy the film in the cinema and in IMAX.”
ZSL London Zoo’s Head of BUGS, Dave Clarke said: “The leafcutter ants here at ZSL London Zoo, of which the soldiers can grow up to 1cm in length, use their amazing strength to transport cut pieces of leaf and flowers to turn it into mulch for their nests. Their behaviour is exactly the same as in the wild where their custom-built exhibit features a rope course to take them from station to station, but the ants also got to explore a new habitat in the form of the miniature cinema. They told us they are hoping the film is brilli-ant, and not an ant-i climax….”
PR stunt it may have been, but I bet it was 1,000 times better to watch than Zoo.
