Film

An archive of blog entries about films and film production.

Events

Glorious Friday’s glorious news

16 March 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Billie and David



Doctor Who

  • Stephen Fry didn’t have the time to finish his Doctor Who episode
  • David Tennant drops in on Pipes at the theatre
  • Doctor Who and Torchwood have turned Cardiff into one of the top 10 tourist destinations in the UK. You mean it wasn’t before?

Film

  • Cate Blanchett is in Indiana Jones 4
  • More Watchmen info. The ‘girls’ are going to be sexier apparently
  • Jackie Chan says Brett Ratner doesn’t know much about directing action
  • There’s a script for Trainspotting 2

Commercials

British TV

  • Stephen Fry’s Kingdom gets a second series before the first has even aired.
  • Not got digital yet? If you live in Whitehaven, you’re screwed

US TV

Thursday’s bright and sunny news

15 March 2007 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Doctor Who

  • A little bit too much time on your hands? How about building a replica TARDIS with working arcade game inside it then? Full instructions await!
  • Billy Piper’s Belle de Jour is happening. No one will notice though because it’s on ITV2 [free registration required]



Film

  • A sequel to Superman Returns has been pushed back since Bryan Singer’s decided to direct something else in the interim
  • Jake Gyllenhaal is rumoured to be playing Captain Marvel in Shazam! No word on whether he’s going to pass himself off as a 13-year-old kid
  • Images and scene descriptions from Transformers
  • Mad Max 4 is on, but without Mad Mel

Art

  • Tutankhamun’s treasures will be on display in Britain for the first time in 30 years in The O2 in November

British TV

  • ITV Play may have been replaced by ITV2+1 (that’s not ITV3, BTW), but a movie channel may be the long-term replacement [subscription required]
  • Saturday Live: series one is coming to DVD on 16th April
  • Gareth Hunt has died [free registration required]

US TV

  • Get NBC shows on demand on your cell phone
  • Raquel Welch is joining Jeffrey Tambor’s pilot
  • Dean Cain’s working his way back on to proper television with a pilot. Plus other casting news
  • The Saint is being remade by TNT
  • Prison Break‘s creator promises season three will be brutal. Yey?
  • David Duchovny’s show has been given the go-ahead by Showtime
  • CBS has picked up Jason Biggs’ pilot I’m In Hell
  • Zooey Deschanel talks about Tin Man
  • That big gay ST:TNG episode is finally to be made as part of the New Voyages
  • All the actors from The Nine appear to have found jobs

Wednesday morning news

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Doctor Who

Comics

  • Captain America not dead, as predicted?

Film

  • Hayley Atwell is the new Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
  • John Waters is making a kids’ film
  • The inevitable (and partially justified) nitpicks of 300 by historians begins

    There’s going to be a Transporter 3

British TV

US TV

  • Interviews with the Heroes cast by Kristin
  • Bravo has bought Television Without Pity
  • Dr Evil aka Viacom has finally sued YouTube/Google for $1 billion
  • Michael Shanks is guest starring on 24
  • Lost, Scrubs, Smallville and CSI: Miami spoilers on Ask Ausiello

Tuesday’s news

13 March 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Ooh. No train to catch today. Time for some leisurely news.

Film

  • Talks are on for Constantine 2. Why?
  • Gerard Butler is to be Snake Plissken in an Escape from New York remake. Maybe.
  • Watchmen stuff

Commercials

  • Oh goody. Another Coke Zero ad, this one with Wayne Rooney. Sounds better than the last one, though. [free registration required]

Theatre/Doctor Who

British TV



US TV

  • Which shows are doomed and which shows are coming back next season
  • An interview with Malcolm McDowell about his appearance in Heroes
  • A great big blow-by-blow account of a crucial scene in the next episode of Heroes
  • Spoilers from Kristin, including an unexpected promotion to series regular for one Heroes character next season; some deceased Lost characters are back in flashbacks; plus Ugly Betty stuff.
  • Life on Mars has been pushed back, because they’re having trouble finding a lead.
  • Moves are afoot to cut back on the Law & Order franchises
  • Eliza Dushku comes back to Fox for a soapy drama about nurses
  • Christina Applegate, Jean Smart and Amy Brenneman get pilots. Plus Melanie Griffiths gets a recurring role in Viva Laughlin!
  • So Rob Morrow, Fisher Stevens and Chad Lowe go skiing. And they get lost. It’s not a joke, but it is funny.

Monday morning news

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Have a good one?

Doctor Who

  • John Barrowman will be meeting horses this month and signing Torchwood audio books in April
  • Russell T Davies talks to the Telegraph about his work, the fourth series and leaving Doctor Who (maybe), among other things

Film

  • Simpsons and Futurama movie talk from Matt Groening
  • A Captain Marvel film is being written by John August
  • Dougray Scott will co-star in Luc Besson’s adaptation of the HItman video game
  • Casting for the new St Trinian’s movie includes Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Russell Brand

British TV

  • Skins will be back, unfortunately
  • There’s going to be a special Inspector Morse weekend on ITV3, as well as a concert at the Albert Hall, to celebrate the show’s 20th birthday.

US TV

  • Another UK format crosses the Atlantic: BBC3’s “give teenagers a baby to look after” show Baby Borrowers is to become a comedy for NBC.
  • Jenna Elfman does for authors what Tom Cruise did for sportsmen with new Darren Star show Literary Superstar
  • Kristin meets Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes
  • Windows users can watch Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver’s new show, The Riches, online at AOL TV before it airs.
  • Potentially big, Watchmen-esque spoiler for Heroes
  • Oliver Platt joins the cast of the US version of The Thick of It. Plus more casting news
  • Dexter stuff, including second season spoilers