As a special one-off, I’m putting all the movies into a separate section this week, seeing as I’ve seen so many. They’ll be reunified next week, don’t worry, unless anyone petitions me otherwise. Or if I decide to go monthly with movie reviews.
Scarlett Johansson
Friday’s “Sky Atlantic to double UK content, Reelz order Barabbas and ScarJo returns to Broadway” news
The Daily News will return on Wednesday
Film
- Benedict Cumberbatch joins Twelve Years A Slave
Trailers
- Trailer for Premium Rush with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Theater
- Scarlett Johansson to star in Broadway revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Canadian TV
UK TV
- Sky orders character comedy showcase
- Universal acquires Prime Suspect (US)
- Sky Atlantic to double UK commissions to 50% of output
US TV
- Wednesday ratings: Hatfields & McCoys beats its own record
- Trailer for season four of White Collar
- Only 13 new episodes for Private Practice this year
- Katia Winter to recur on Dexter
- Trailer for season 2 of Boss
- Wil Calhoun joins Whitney as new showrunner
- Nurse Jackie gets a fifth season with former Dexter showrunner
New US TV shows
- Reelz orders Barabbas and acquires Bomb Girls
- Thomas Jane to play Bugsy Siegel in LA Noir
Film
Pictures from Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho
In case you don’t know, they’re making a movie about the making of the movie Psycho, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho. It’s got quite an impressive cast list, too:
- Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh
- James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins
- Jessica Biel as Vera Miles
- Helen Mirren as Alma Reville, Alfred Hitchcock’s wife
- Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock
- Toni Collette as Hitchcock’s trusted assistant, Peggy Robertson
- Danny Huston as screenwriter Whitfield Cook (a friend of Reville)
- Michael Stuhlbarg as agent and studio boss Lew Wasserman
- Michael Wincott as Ed Gein
- Ralph Macchio as screenwriter Joseph Stefano
- Richard Portnow as Paramount Studios boss Barney Balaban
- Wallace Langham as graphic designer Saul Bass
- Kurtwood Smith as Geoffrey Shurlock.
Now photos are emerging of what people look like in character. Here’s Hopkins as Hitchcock:
Not bad, huh?
Scarlett Johnasson (with optional umbrella for the shower scene?) as Janet Leigh
Jessica Biel as Vera Miles (obviously not in costume, though).
Hair looks a bit dodgy if you ask me. What do you think, though?
First clip from The Avengers: Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow
Scarlett Johansson, doing her thing. Some of the distances look off – naughty Joss Whedon – but pretty promising, no? At one point, they might even get Natasha Romanoff to speak Russian…
Australian and New Zealand TV
Child actors: nice to see Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes getting work in The Almighty Johnsons
Do you ever have those “Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?” moments when watching an actor in a movie, where eventually you realise that you’ve seen them when they were a child?
Evan Rachel-Wood in Practical Magic.
Who’s now been in True Blood, amongst other things.
Or Lukas Haas, that nice little Amish boy in Witness.
He was the crap gang member in Inception.
Then there’s Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel, who have been in everything and were in fact in everything when they were kids, too.
Then there’s Kirsten Dunst in Interview with a Vampire:
Who was in all three Spider-man movies and in Melancholia:
And of course Claire Danes was Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and is now doing very nicely for herself in Homeland:
Anyway, I’ve been having one of those moments while watching New Zealand show The Almighty Johnsons and finally, I’ve worked out where I’ve seen Keisha Castle-Hughes (aka Gaia) before:
She was, of course, the youngest person ever to receive a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars for Whale Rider all of 10 years ago now:
My how time flies, doesn’t it? (Of course, Cliff Curtis from Whale Rider has been finding work in the US with Trauma and now Missing.)
Here’s the trailer for it and after the jump, you can watch the whole movie – aren’t I good to you?