An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
Friday’s blobby news
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Film
- Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite to star in adaptation of Brighton Rock
- Rob Zombie to remake The Blog
- Emile Hirsch to star in horror, college years version of Hamlet
- Maggie Grace in talks for Tom Cruise’s Wichita project
- Martin Freeman and Mandy Moore reunite for Swinging with the Finkels
- Trailer for The Men Who Stare At Goats
- Daniel Craig to star in Dream House
British TV
- More4 acquires Hung
- Frankie Boyle gets his own C4 pilot
- Cheri Taylor takes over as head of comedy commissioning at the BBC
- Julian Fellowes to write ITV period drama Downton Abbey
- CBBC family drama The Lost Christmas to star Eddie Izzard
US TV
- Brandon Routh to appear in multiple episodes of Chuck
- TNT orders third season of Leverage and second season of Hawthorne; Saving Grace to end next summer
- Christian Clemenson joins CSI: Miami for at least two episodes
- Laura Linney in pilot for Showtime about cancer called The C Word
- Michael Hogan and Alexis Denisof to guest on Dollhouse
- Fox plans TV version of Heathers
- Campbell Scott joins Damages as a regular
- Rescue Me to end in 2011
- A&E acquires Lifetime
