Tuesday’s “Mia Maestro to star in The Strain and NBC heads for Siberia” news

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Trailers

  • Trailer for Cool As I Am with Claire Danes, James Marsden and Sarah Bolger

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  • Clip from Holliston, season 2
  • Trailer for Teen Wolf, season 3
  • Trailer for The Glades, season 4

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Friday’s “BBC2’s Cold War, Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut and Warehouse 13 and Nikita to end” news

Film

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Trailers

  • 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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Thursday’s “Scarlett Johansson and the duelling Chefs, Riddick returns with Starbuck and BBC1’s new Norse Noir” news

Film

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  • Trailer for Riddick with Vin Diesel and Katee Sackhoff

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London in 1927 – in colour

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]

Wednesday’s “Paul Abbott’s Victorian cop show, HBO’s gay friends dramedy and a Stanislaw Lem adaptation” news

Film casting

Trailers

  • Trailer for The Congress, with Robin Wright, based on Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress
  • Trailer for Richard Curtis’s About Time, with Domhnall Green, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy et al

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