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| CAN’T ... OVERCOME ... EFFECTS ... OF SOLAR ... ALIEN: William Shatner recently made headlines with his reality series Invasion: Iowa -- in which he told a small town that he was shooting a cheesy sci-fi movie there, but was actually punking them. Meanwhile, the once-and-future Capt. Kirk has been talking for months about directing Alien Fire, a "drive-in style" Saturday night flick for the U.S. Sci-Fi channel about evil aliens from the Sun (no, not the one you’re reading, the one that makes you go blind if you look at it during an eclipse). Well, Alien Fire is underway in Hamilton with Nicholas Brendon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) starring, but Shatner is not involved. John Terlesky is directing the film, which was written by Judith Reeves-Stevens, an ex-writer-producer for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Three possibilities: (a) creative differences, (B) Shatner was punking us, or © solar aliens got him. |
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| It all sounds a bit stange, but I hope it works out for Nick I'd sit through it to support him :) I thought his pilot Kitchen Confindential had been pick up has it been dropped??? |
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| Sarah Michelle Gellar is set to star in and Marcus Nispel will helm vidgame adaptation "Alice" for Universal Pictures. Based on a twisted take of the Lewis Carroll classic, project was originally developed at Dimension. The fractured fairy tale, adapted by Erich and Jon Hoeber, picks up Alice after her home has been destroyed and her family killed.... |
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| Based on a twisted take of the Lewis Carroll classic... |
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| 'Wonderland' role for Buffy's Sarah Buffy actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is to star in a big-screen update of Alice In Wonderland. The 28-year-old has signed up for the lead role in Alice, which follows Lewis Carroll's heroine after she grows up. But movie giant Universal Pictures is not adapting Carroll's classic books, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Instead, Alice will be based on a US shoot-em-up computer game of the same name, in which the heroine wipes out the baddies with razor-sharp playing cards, exploding Jack-in-the-boxes and deadly croquet mallets. The game was released in 2000 and became a worldwide bestseller. It portrays Alice as a disturbed young woman consigned to a mental asylum following the death of her parents. She returns to Wonderland and encounters all the old characters, from the Mad Hatter to the Queen of Hearts. But Wonderland is now a dark and threatening world and she must battle to escape alive. Gellar, 28, was the star of TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer and has appeared in films including Scooby-Doo, Cruel Intentions and The Grudge. Alice will be directed by Marcus Nispel, who was behind the recent remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. |
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| The 28-year-old has signed up for the lead role in Alice, which follows Lewis Carroll’s heroine after she grows up. But movie giant Universal Pictures is not adapting Carroll’s classic books, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Instead, Alice will be based on a US shoot-em-up computer game of the same name, in which the heroine wipes out the baddies with razor-sharp playing cards, exploding Jack-in-the-boxes and deadly croquet mallets. The game was released in 2000 and became a worldwide best-seller. It portrays Alice as a disturbed young woman consigned to a mental asylum following the death of her parents. She returns to Wonderland and encounters all the old characters, from the Mad Hatter to the Queen of Hearts. But Wonderland is now a dark and threatening world and she must battle to escape alive. Gellar, 28, was the star of TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer and has appeared in films including Scooby Doo, Cruel Intentions and The Grudge. Alice will be directed by Marcus Nispel, who was behind the recent remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Thanks breakingnews.iol.ie |
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| From Moviehole.net - 2005-06-22nd - (as Willow Rosenberg on Buffy & Angel) Former "Buffy" star Alyson Hannigan is following in the footsteps of former co-stars Danny Strong and Marc Blucas by putting her hand up to star in a film spoof. The lass behind Witchy Willow has signed to star in an untitled comedy that will take the Mickey out of romantic comedies. Hannigan, who recently guest-starred on "Veronica Mars", will play the lead role, with Eddie Griffin playing her father. Adam Campbell, Fred Willard and Hannigan’s "American Pie" co-star Jennifer Coolidge co-stars. Campbell plays her romantic interest, with Coolidge and Willard playing his parents. Written and directed by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg (the co-writers of "Scary Movie"), the film started rolling earlier this week in Sunny LA. |
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| Hannigan's Bigger Slice Of Pie Alyson Hannigan is still best known for being a good substitute for apple pie in the American Pie series, but her star is on the rise. She's taking the lead in an untitled romantic comedy written and directed by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg who've had great success with the Scary Movie franchise. Annoyingly they won't reveal anything about the plot, but shooting is already underway in Los Angeles. Newcomer Adam Campbell co-stars |
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| ^I've just posted that news One thread for all of the cast is probably a better idea than one for each of the cast seperately, especially when you consider that there are some cast members who we hear nothing about for months at a time |
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:ermm: :blush: opsie yeah where did NB go? :ponder: |
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| comedy pilot, about a bad-boy, down-on-his-luck chef (Bradley Cooper) who takes over at a top New York restaurant and must fight off all the urges of his former lifestyle. |
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| The film follows a mother, who comes home to find her daughter in the process of committing suicide. She fails to save her daughter and with the aid of her son, investigates the cause of her daughters last words before her death ("Beware of the experiment"). The duo uncover a conspiracy involving an experiment called "The Unholy Trinity," which involves Nazi witchcraft that our very own government smuggled into small-town Pennsylvania following World War II. |
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| :lol: speaking of which, Amber Benson is going to appear as a guest on The Inside :) |
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| The Inside Story How Fox’s newest series, "The Inside," found its way to television and reinvented the crime drama along the way. BY MY ROUGH COUNT, there are 13 procedural crime shows on network television right now; they represent the only significant dramatic challenge to the plague of reality television that has descended on our landscape. Consider that the four networks have 77 hours of primetime space to fill every week (ABC, NBC, and CBS each have 21 hours, Fox has only 14 hours). A few of these hours are taken up by news magazines, such as Dateline, Primetime Live, and 48 Hours. Most of the hole is filled with entertainment programming. These days, "entertainment" has become synonymous with "reality," which is synonymous with "bottom-feeding, fame-obsessed trash." So virulent is the reality outbreak--some 26 strains of it air every week--that conventional-scripted series have been reduced to an afterthought. Consider this: Network television features only a few more half-hour sitcoms than it does hour-long procedural crime dramas. Yet the overall quality of these cop shows is so rickety that it would not be unfair to suggest that proliferation of crime--think Crossing Jordan, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Numb3rs, etc.--has become a plague in its own right. So why on earth would you want to watch the latest procedural crime drama, The Inside? (Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. on Fox) Well, for starters, because it’s great stuff. And for seconds, because it’s run by TV genius Tim Minear. And for thirds, because despite the fact that the characters are all FBI agents, The Inside isn’t really about solving crime. THE HISTORY OF The Inside has been compelling in itself. Originally created by Todd and Glenn Kessler, the series was brought to Fox in September 2003 by big-time movie director Kathryn Bigelow, who directed the show’s pilot. Variety described the show thusly: One-hour drama will revolve around a 23-year-old woman who poses as a 16-year-old high school student in order to investigate a drug ring. Complications arise as she has to navigate the world of high school all over again and slowly becomes emotionally attached to the person she’s supposed to be investigating. . . . "This is a slice of Middle American life, with the social structure of high school, teenage cliques and how people relate to their parents--all under the filter of a really interesting law enforcement story," [producer David] Nevins said. To make matters worse, the beautiful 23-year-old federal agent (Rachel Nichols) was supposed to be supervised by another young, beautiful agent (Peter Facinelli). One critic dubbed The Inside--not unfairly--a "distaff 21 Jump Street." Just what the world needed. Then, in September 2004, something curious happened: The executives at Fox looked at the pilot they had just spent $3 million dollars creating, and realized it was junk. And then, something miraculous happened: The executives at Fox hired Tim Minear to salvage the project. Minear worked his way up the TV ladder as a writer on various shows until he made his mark on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, Angel. From there he executive produced the critically-lauded Firefly in 2002 before creating Wonderfalls last year. How good is Minear? It would not be rash to consider him one of the five best minds in television. Faced with the wreckage of the original pilot, Fox assured the Hollywood Reporter that Minear would "redevelop the series and write a new pilot script while keeping the premise about a young female undercover agent." Fat chance. Minear’s version of The Inside bears virtually no resemblance to the original. Gone are the drugs, the cliques, the parents, and the high school. Peter Facinelli, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the young Tom Cruise, has been replaced by the 62-year-old Peter Coyote. And instead of being a show about G-men chasing the bad guys, The Inside is now about the battle for a young woman’s soul. In the new pilot, which aired last week, we are introduced to an FBI Violent Crimes Unit, which operates out of the Bureau’s Los Angeles field office. The unit is lead by Supervisory Special Agent Virgil Webster (Coyote), a man from whom menace is projected in waves. When a member of his team turns up dead, Webster replaces her the next morning with Agent Rebecca Locke (Nichols), who is fresh from a stint as an analyst at the Department of Homeland Security. Locke is bright and self-contained, but she has a secret: As a child, she was abducted and held hostage for 18 months until she escaped from her captors. Webster observed her from afar and, without her knowledge, personally saw to it that she was accepted to the FBI Academy, even though her psychiatric evaluations should have kept her out. Agent Locke is the pretty face of The Inside, but the show is really about Webster. His subordinates despise him and suspect that he may be up to no good. His number two, the upright Paul Ryan (Jay Harrington), bitterly says that the unit tackles only the cases which Webster picks, and that they pursue them only to his satisfaction. "Which may or may not be to completion," Ryan explains. "He gets bored sometimes." The Inside has many virtues, not the least of which is an embarrassment of acting riches in the cast. In addition to Coyote’s cool devilry, there’s Adam Baldwin’s congenital malice as Danny Love (watch Baldwin masticate his chewing gum as if William Wrigley Jr. had murdered his father) and Katie Finneran’s pitch-perfect Melody Sim rounding out the squad. But the show’s most important virtue is its sense of off-kilter mystery--just a few episodes in we can tell that not everything is quite right with The Inside. There is the vaguest hint of the supernatural hanging about the show. Not quite Lost, not quite Twin Peaks, not quite The X-Files, there are, nonetheless, larger forces at w**k in Virgil Webster’s office. Let’s hope The Inside survives so that we can find out what they are. The Inside isn’t just great TV--it might even be good enough to save the procedural crime genre from its own success. The Inside airs on Wednesday, at 9:00 p.m., est, on Fox. |
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| Nick Brendon, Andy Hallett, Kelly Donovan (Nick's brother) and Adam Busch are going to be at Collectormania 8 in Milton Keynes. Friday 30th Sept - Sun 2 October. There will be a one hour Buffy & Angel talk with Amber Benson, Kelly & Andy Hallet & any other guests (Nick ?) £20 on Saturday at 5pm and live entertainment by Common Rotation at the MK Dons Football Stadium in the evening. Sounds great :thumbsup: |
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| Young, cute, bisexual Nathan (Cole Williams, last seen in the gay-brothers-in-love drama, "Harry and Max") and his friend Maggie (Amber Benson, aka Tara from TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") are on a journey through romantic getaway spots in the Napa Valley. Nathan is writing a travel article; Maggie is his companion. And while they both have boyfriends, the two are in the middle of a complicated love affair of their own. That's the plot of "Race You to the Bottom" (it only sounds like a porn title), the new indie drama soon currently making the queer film-festival rounds. And if it sounds a little like a certain critically acclaimed movie about relationship issues in the middle of California wine country, the resemblance is purely coincidental. Check your local queer-fest listings - but please, no sneaking in that flask. |
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| Re The Inside, good show, Jayne Epson is a writer on the show so more Buffy connection. Adam Baldwin stars :wub: and there was a small ref to Angel in the Pilot ( Wolfram security) Apparently in the next eps there a few more of these :lol: Tim Minear is a writer, credited as co - creator, Executive producer & Director As its Fox though, who knows how long it will last :fear: |
