Film

An archive of blog entries about films and film production.

Tuesday’s “Manimal movie, a second US Pulling and P Diddy goes to Philly” news

18 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

  • A Town Called Mercy gets best ratings for Doctor Who since 2010

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, with Helen Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes et al

Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

New US TV shows

  • Howard Gordon sells Vigilant superhero show to Fox
  • Laura Prepon and Taylor Schilling to star in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black
  • ABC having another go at adapting Pulling
  • The CW adapting Embrace
  • ABC Family orders pilots of Terminals, Phys Ed and Continuing Fred
  • Annie Potts to star on Paging Dr. Freed

Friday’s “More Episodes, Toby Stephens is a pirate, German remakes and Mandy Patinkin’s soul” news

14 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

  • Ross Noble to play a clown in Stitches
  • Sequels to Ted and The Bourne Legacy planned
  • MGM acquires rights to Metro 2033

Trailers

  • Trailer for 13 with Sam Roley, Jason Statham, Ray Winstone and Mickey Rourke
  • Trailer for Mama with Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

International TV

  • RTL to remake The New Adventures of Old Christine

UK TV

US TV

New US TV shows

Film

Google will now calculate an actor’s Bacon number for you

13 September 2012 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

Kevin Bacon

Everyone knows about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon by now. In case you’re not everyone, here’s how it works. The theory is that everyone in the world (well, actors at least) is separated by no more than six other actors from Kevin Bacon. The number of degrees of separation of that actor from Kevin Bacon gives you that actor’s ‘Bacon number’. So if the actor is in a movie with Kevin Bacon, their Bacon number is 1; if the actor appears in a movie with someone who’s been in a movie with Kevin Bacon, their Bacon number is 2; and so on.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon has become a party game for film nerds but now Google has ruined it for everyone who has a smartphone. All you now have to do is type “Bacon number” followed by the actor’s name and Google will not only tell you the Bacon number of that person, it’ll also tell you how it worked out that number.

As a test, I typed in the names of some this ere blog’s favourite actors. Here are their Bacon numbers according to Google – turns out they’re all twos, apart from Audrey Fleurot:

  • Ali Larter: 2
    Ali Larter and Bruce McGill appeared in Obsessed
    Bruce McGill and Kevin Bacon appeared in National Lampoon’s Animal House
  • Joanna Page: 2
    Joanna Page and January Jones appeared in Love Actually
    January Jones and Kevin Bacon appeared in X-Men: First Class
  • David Tennant: 2
    David Tennant and James McAvoy appeared in Bright Young Things
    James McAvoy and Kevin Bacon appeared in X-Men: First Class.
  • Richard Armitage: 2
    Richard Armitage and Elijah Wood appeared in The Hobbit: Part 1
    Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon appeared in Beyond All Boundaries.
  • Amber Heard: 2
    Amber Heard and Emma Stone appeared in Zombieland
    Emma Stone and Kevin Bacon appeared in Crazy, Stupid, Love.
  • Scarlett Johansson: 2
    Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray appeared in Lost in Translation
    Bill Murray and Kevin Bacon appeared in Wild Things.
  • Audrey Fleurot: 3
    Audrey Fleurot and Omar Sy appeared in Intouchables
    Omar Sy and Robert De Niro appeared in Micmacs
    Robert De Niro and Kevin Bacon appeared in Sleepers.

Give it a try with some of your favourites and let us know the answers below.

Thursday’s “US The Bridge, Heathers TV show, Krister Henriksson in the West End and a Donald Glover comedy” news

13 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Trailers

  • Trailer for The Oranges with Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney and Oliver Platt

Theatre

  • Wallander‘s Krister Henriksson to star in and co-direct West End production of Doktor Glas

Canadian TV

US TV

New US TV shows