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Category: Movies
06:27:50 - Tuesday 07 February 2012
Super Bowl XLVI Most Watched TV Program Ever Sports television couldn’t have gotten off to a better start to the year than last night’s Super Bowl. NBC had the game, the most-watched event in TV history. A total of 111.3 million viewers tuned in to see the team from the nation’s largest...
05:23:37 - Tuesday 07 February 2012
Young actresses Mackenzie Foy ( The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 ) and Joey King ( Crazy, Stupid, Love ) have been cast with Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor in the Untitled Warren Files Project. Produced by Peter Safran and Tony DeRosa-Grund and based on a...
02:25:46 - Tuesday 07 February 2012
EXCLUSIVE : I’ve learned that ABC Family is moving ahead with a series order to Bunheads, its drama pilot from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. It will join another new ABC Family series that was picked up last week, comedy Baby Daddy . I hear that the cable network’s 2 other...
01:52:05 - Tuesday 07 February 2012
EXCLUSIVE :Robert Rodriguez is teaming with producer Alexander Rodnyansky to hatch a sequel to the 2009 action film Machete . Titled Machete Kills , the film is the second in a planned trilogy with what, for my money, is the best ever trailer tag line: “This time, they fucked with the wrong...
01:18:09 - Tuesday 07 February 2012
Brett Ratner is set to direct and executive produce Fox ‘s spy drama pilot written by Karyn Usher ( The Playboy Club ). The procedural thriller centers on the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself. She encounters a mysterious rogue...
23:58:18 - Monday 06 February 2012
With pilot pickups almost completed, the focus shifts to casting them. Every year, there are a dozen or so name actors that attract 90% of the early pilot offers until the thesps pick a project or pass on all. After fielding multiple offers, some of the most sought after actors this year already...
23:00:49 - Monday 06 February 2012
EXCLUSIVE : After the first three films made at Warner Bros by Todd Phillips’ Green Hat Films banner grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, he has been re-upped to a new first-look deal that keeps him on the lot until the end of 2013. Phillips has been based at the studio since 2005, after he...
22:45:31 - Monday 06 February 2012
EXCLUSIVE : River Road Entertainment optioned screen rights to The Age of Miracles , a first novel by Karen Thompson Walker that sold in a 7-figure deal to Random House and 24 international territories. Hanna scribe Seth Lochhead has been set to write the script. The film will be produced by...
22:02:56 - Monday 06 February 2012
EXCLUSIVE: Young Australian actors Brenton Thwaites and Indiana Evans are following in the footsteps of Christopher Atkins & Brooke Shields and Brian Krause & Milla Jovovich as the leads of The Blue Lagoon , Lifetime’s contemporary remake of the 1980 romance/adventure movie...
21:58:53 - Monday 06 February 2012
Unless you happen to be from Chile, you might not have ever heard of director Nicolas Lopez. But chances are you soon will. After creating the top grossing Chilean films in both 2010 and 2011 with Que Pena Tu Vida and Que Pena Tu Boda, the director is next moving on to helm Aftershock, the newest...
21:58:39 - Monday 06 February 2012
That would seem to be the case according to a survey from Best Buy, landed by the web site The Verge, on a day that’s been filled with Apple TV speculation. The site says that Best Buy offered survey participants an opportunity to “be one of the first” to get a 44-inch Apple HDTV for...
21:58:00 - Monday 06 February 2012
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attacks the LDS Church for selling guns . Judge: Four more months to determine if Jared Loughner is sane enough to stand trial . Clint Eastwood's Detroit ad wasn't filmed in Detroit . Syrian violence causes world leaders to fidget with concern . Former JFK intern...
21:21:26 - Monday 06 February 2012
Ah, the bogus takedown. The latest is that apparently the NFL somehow and for some reason took down Chrysler's Clint Eastwood Super Bowl commercial from YouTube . Pretty much every advertiser put up their commercials on YouTube, and it's unclear why or how the NFL might claim any sort of...
20:27:16 - Monday 06 February 2012
While Clint Eastwood 's stirring "Halftime In America" ad for General Motors has been the feel-good success story of the annual Super Bowl Look-At-Me Advertising Pageant (and Football Game)™, another car commercial is engendering more negative feelings. Chevrolet 's post-Mayan...
19:35:56 - Monday 06 February 2012
New ‘Spider-Man’ Footage To Screen In Global Sneak Peeks Feb. 6 Sony’s coordinated effort to offer sneak peeks of new footage of its The Amazing Spider-Man is already attracting fans for today’s noon PT kickoff. Tickets to the events — at New York’s Regal Union Square, Los Angeles’...
19:27:18 - Monday 06 February 2012
EXCLUSIVE : Law & Order: LA standout Corey Stoll has joined the cast of Netflix’s first original series, David Fincher’s drama House Of Cards starring Kevin Spacey. The political thriller, based on Michael Dobbs’ novel and the 1990 British series it spawned, stars Spacey as Rep....
18:45:34 - Monday 06 February 2012
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Maya Kenig’s directorial debut Off White Lies . The 2012 Berlinale Generations sidebar debut centers on news stories and family events that Kenig experienced as a young mother during the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon. The feature, in...
18:44:13 - Monday 06 February 2012
Sanaa Lathan and Glee heartthrob Jonathan Groff have landed new regular roles on the second season of Starz’s drama series Boss . The Lionsgate TV-produced series stars recent Golden Globe winner Kelsey Grammer as ruthless Chicago mayor Tom Kane. Lathan is finalizing a deal to play Mona,...
18:40:04 - Monday 06 February 2012
American director Abel Ferrara told France’s Le Monde newspaper that he will make a film about disgraced French politician and former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Gerard Depardieu will play Strauss-Kahn, who resigned after he was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York....
18:31:12 - Monday 06 February 2012
Hollywood has caught Q&A fever as I have now learned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has plans to keep the Q&A spirit alive year-round and not just ”in season”. Academy regulations loosening rules that used to forbid members from attending filmmaker...
