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Scarlett Johansson to direct adaptation of Truman Capote’s Summer Crossing

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Amber Heard and Zac Efron to star in Autobahn
Michelle Yeoh joins Crouching Tiger 2
Anna Kendrick joins Wish I Was Here

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Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim
Trailer for Last Vegas, with Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas

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BBC2 working on Cold War season

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SyFy red lights: Warehouse 13 with six-episode final season
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BSG‘s David Eick joins Falling Skies as new show runner
Amazon gets streaming rights to NBCU shows
Samantha to appear in second season of The Carrie Diaries
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USA green lights: Sirens remake and Playing House to series, pilot of Love Is Dead
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Aron Eli Coleite replaces Allan Heinberg on The CW’s Amazon
Josh Friedman joins Crossbones
Teaser for CBS’s Under The Dome

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Bradley Cooper joins Chef, Scarlett Johansson joins Jon Favreau’s Chef, Jon Favreau’s Chef gets a cease-and-desist notice
Peggy Carter to be focus of Marvel short

Film casting

Philip Seymour Hoffman joins God’s Pocket
Josh Gad joins Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here
Michelle Williams, Joel Edgerton to star in remake of The Double Hour
Chris Pine, Amanda Seyfried, Chiwetel Ejifor to star in Z for Zachariah adaptation

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Trailer for Riddick with Vin Diesel and Katee Sackhoff

International TV

Australian government gives ABC and SBS an extra A$120m

UK TV

BBC1 developing detective series based on Anne Holt’s books [subscription required]
Casting on BBC1’s Truckers
Tuesday’s ratings: Frankie gets 4.6m viewers

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TBS and TNT to offer live streaming
Tuesday ratings

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Sarah Shahi to be a regular on Person of Interest

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CBS red lights: NCIS: Red

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Michael Rapaport and Mary Elizabeth Ellis leave CBS’s The Millers

London in 1927 – in colour

15 May 2013 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

By 1927, film was not new. It wasn’t even a novelty. But it was monochrome and as a result, every bit of news footage and virtually every photograph taken during the 1920s was monochrome. Weirdly, as a result, we tend to think of the 1920s as actually being monochrome.

Yet there were pioneers of colour film working at the time, including William Friese-Greene, who allowed his son Claude to shoot a series of travelogues using the colour film techniques he was experimenting with. And here below is the London travelogue. Weirdly, despite the obvious huge changes in terms of transport, traffic, etc, by being in colour, suddenly 1927 doesn’t seem so remote anymore. In fact, it’s sobering to think that the footage shot here is about as distant from us in time as the construction of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar’s Square was when William Friese-Greene went passed it.

[via @thejimsmith]

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Film casting

Mandy Patinkin joins Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here
Catalina Denis to star in Banlieue 13 remake Brick Mansions
Chris Pine joins Joe Carnahan’s Stretch

Trailers

Trailer for The Congress, with Robin Wright, based on Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress
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Paul Abbott writing Victorian cop show No Offence for Channel 4
Monday’s ratings: The Fall has biggest BBC2 drama debut for five years

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