An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
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Monday’s Bourne-free news
Doctor Who
- First two episodes of season six to be shot and set in Utah [spoilers]
Film
- No Jason Bourne in The Bourne Legacy
- Trailer for Peter Weir’s The Way Back
British TV
- BBC to cut S4C budget by £4m
US TV
- CSI:NY ratings up 12%, Blue Bloods down 10%, Outlaw the same
- Thursday night comedy slumps
- NBC picks up supernatural spy script from 300 writer
- ABC picks up Suburgatory script
- ABC Family orders pilot for What Would Jane Do
- Kathryn Erbe returns for L&A:CI
- Jaimie Alexander to recur on Nurse Jackie
- Trailer for the 200th episode of Smallville
Friday’s scary janitor news
Film
- Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen to star in Resistance
- Anil Kapoor joins MI: 4
- Rachel Weisz and Emily Blunt to play sisters
- Ray Liotta joins Wanderlust
- Chelsea Handler joins This Means War
- Trailer for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
British TV
- Ridley Scott to exec produce BBC1 adaptation of Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High Castle
- BBC3 looking for serious drama [subscription required]
- Cast of BBC Scotland’s Field of Blood announced
- Scottish parliament calls for BBC Alba on Freeview
US TV
- Sons of Anarchy gets a fourth season
- Haven gets a second season
- Defenders, Law & Order: LA drop, The Whole Truth picks up
- Smallville producers working on The Last Hope with McG
- Ed Begley Jr to guest on Off The Map
- Danny Trejo to play a janitor on Modern Family
- Richard Chamberlain to guest on Chuck
- Burt Reynolds developing a sitcom with Loni Anderson
- Fox developing Chameleon
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How to woo Katherine Heigl
I’ve a lot of time for Katherine Heigl. She’s cute, she’s funny, she gives good copy, she’s a feminist – what more could you ask for?
Okay, it makes me feel very old to know that she was Gerard Depardieu’s daughter in My Father: The Hero…
…Steven Segal’s daughter in Under Siege 2…
…and was one of the ‘teens’ in Roswell (here, along with fellow cast members Life Unexpected‘s Shiri Appleby and CSI: Miami‘s Adam Rodriguez. Now I feel even older).
But I can live with that.
All the same, I do wish her rom coms could be a little less predictable. Here’s a little documentary on how to woo Katherine Heigl in one her movies. Notice how it’s all a seamless narrative flow, despite being assembled from clips of Knocked Up, 27 Dresses and The Ugly Truth – and yes, I have seen all these movies. Don’t ask me why.
Inception – the 1950s Hitchcock trailer
What if Alfred Hitchcock rather than Chrisopher Nolan had made Inception? Well, here’s a hint of what it would be like
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