An archive of blog entries about films and film production.
Film
The Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory
This is pure genius: what if Ferris Bueller was in fact a figment of Cameron’s imagination in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
Film
News
Friday’s “the French are upset” news
The Daily News will return on Tuesday 5th May
Doctor Who
- Set shots from the finale including the return of… [spoilers]
Film
- International trailer for GI Joe
- Lizzy Caplan and Crispin Glover join Hot Tub Time Machine
- Peter Dinklage joins Yvonne Strahovski in I Love You Too
- Set pics from Clash of the Titans
- Bruce Willis appearing in up to three action movies
British TV
- BSkyB gaining more subscribers despite downturn
- BBC trying to reconnect with former Grange Hill viewers
- Alex Kingston to star in ex-con family drama Hope Springs
- BBC2 to position dramas as major events of the week
US TV
- Disney/ABC join Hulu
- Canada added to piracy hotlist
- Mark Burnett to create international versions of Starz’s Head Cases
- Heroes and Prison Break most pirated shows
News
Friday’s “the French are upset” news
The Daily News will return on Tuesday 5th May
Doctor Who
- Set shots from the finale including the return of… [spoilers]
Film
- International trailer for GI Joe
- Lizzy Caplan and Crispin Glover join Hot Tub Time Machine
- Peter Dinklage joins Yvonne Strahovski in I Love You Too
- Set pics from Clash of the Titans
- Bruce Willis appearing in up to three action movies
British TV
- BSkyB gaining more subscribers despite downturn
- BBC trying to reconnect with former Grange Hill viewers
- Alex Kingston to star in ex-con family drama Hope Springs
- BBC2 to position dramas as major events of the week
US TV
- Disney/ABC join Hulu
- Canada added to piracy hotlist
- Mark Burnett to create international versions of Starz’s Head Cases
- Heroes and Prison Break most pirated shows
Thursday’s Primeval extinction news
Doctor Who
- Claire Bloom to appear in specials as… (spoiler alert) ?
Film
- Roger Rabbit: the sequel?
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
- Transformers 2 trailer
- Ricky Gervais’s Flanimals to be turned into 3D movie
- Tell No One to be remade
British TV
- Five Life Fiver rebranding grows audience 24%
- Judge John Deed axed
- Primeval to be cancelled over costs?
- S4C to get less money because of inflation drop
US TV
- ABC Family cancels Roommates
- Adult Swim to show UK The Office
- Pics from the Gossip Girl spin-off
Wednesday’s implausible Horne news
Doctor Who
- Another trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth
Film
- Adaptation planned of The Day They Stole The Mona Lisa
- Indie comic The Forgotten optioned
- Danny Huston to play Poseidon in Clash of the Titans
- Sony and Aardman teaming for two projects
- Men returning for Sex and the City 2
British TV
- Benidorm switching to hour-long format
- Unbelievably, Horne & Corden most successful ever first series of comedy on BBC3
US TV
- Stargate Universe inspired by Firefly
- Series regulars for Caprica and Sons of Anarchy
- Grey’s Anatomy‘s Ben Shenkman to appear in Burn Notice
- Rick Springfield joins Californication