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prophecy girl - June 11, 2005 03:47 PM (GMT)
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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.


Maria - June 11, 2005 05:33 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (prophecy girl @ Jun 11 2005, 03:47 PM)
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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.


I think your quote at the bottom sums it up PG "The world is definately doomed". I would see it though just to support him. If all fans supported 100% their Buffy / Angel actors, the ratings would go up, which means they might get carried on leading to possibilities for better roles?

That's my theory anyway! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Krazy - June 11, 2005 06:41 PM (GMT)
Glad Nicholas has got some form of w**k but this doesn't seem like it will be much help career wise. ;)

buffy_fan1 - June 12, 2005 12:26 PM (GMT)
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???

Krazy - June 12, 2005 05:15 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (buffy_fan1 @ Jun 12 2005, 12:26 PM)
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???

I think it's been picked up though only a Pilot has been made yet. :)

prophecy girl - June 12, 2005 05:33 PM (GMT)
well it seem NB only made horror (pinata) or SFX films .... for the moment

anything serious that won't end up straigh to video :ponder:

John Brawn - June 14, 2005 07:15 PM (GMT)
Here is a link to Alyson's new sitcom which I have borrowed from Shona. Hopefully it is legal to post it here as well. It seemed to me to be totally tragic so why she picked up this project escapes me completely. Why on earth is she wearing an eyepatch? After the genius of Buffy I wonder if it is easy to lose focus and a sense of real quality compared to dross. Michelle came a real cropper as well with Eurotrip but hit the mark with Six Feet Under so maybe there is hope. sk

http://www.canwestmediasales.com/televisio...met_mother.html

prophecy girl - June 15, 2005 09:42 AM (GMT)
it could be good .... finger crossed

Krazy - June 15, 2005 03:01 PM (GMT)
Not to sure about this but Alysan was one of the better actresses on the show so there is hope.

Maria - June 15, 2005 03:47 PM (GMT)
It seems too cheesy to me!

buffy_fan1 - June 15, 2005 10:28 PM (GMT)
I never thought eye patches were sexy until now :lol: Is Alyson one of the main members of the cast? if that makes sense? How big is her role? It does seem a little strange but let not forget we are viewing this clip is out of context the programme itself could be good but you need to see a couple of episodes to know whats what. The first time someone told me about Buffy they said she’s a teenage girl who hunts vampires I didn’t get it until I had seen for myself. The rest as they say is history! I'm a little cynical but sometimes it’s easier to get a job once you have as an actor I guess it about staying in the public eye. Perhaps she’s doing this until something better comes along? Maybe being naive but I would have thought after her success with Buffy and things like American Pie Series that she would have a lot of job offers?

Good Luck Alyson!

prophecy girl - June 16, 2005 08:40 AM (GMT)
just wonder why the eye patch seem so big (if you compare to the one xander had) :ponder:

prophecy girl - June 21, 2005 08:42 AM (GMT)
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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....


/ :unsure: do anyone ever played "alice" game and can tell us what kind of game is it ? horror? investigation? ...

goth willow fan - June 21, 2005 08:45 AM (GMT)
American McGee's Alice is like um... the best way to describe it is Alice on acid.

prophecy girl - June 21, 2005 08:55 AM (GMT)
right .... ok .... oh dear :fear: :lmao:

Maria - June 21, 2005 11:08 AM (GMT)
I don't get it? :blush:

Mehitabel - June 21, 2005 05:50 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (prophecy girl @ Jun 21 2005, 08:42 AM)
Based on a twisted take of the Lewis Carroll classic...

You mean even more twisted than the Rev Dodgeson's original books? I know he wasn't on acid, but I think there's a telling claret+laudenum mix in there that we should be told about (and what IS that caterpillar smoking anyway?)

buffy_fan1 - June 21, 2005 06:54 PM (GMT)
sorry for being thick but is it a video game or a film :shrug: I have to agree with Mehitabel think the original was twisted enough :lol: It seems like an odd choice of project but she does like to try differnet things.

The last watcher - June 22, 2005 12:58 AM (GMT)
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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.


This from MSN news.......why does 'normal again' spring to mind :ponder:

prophecy girl - June 22, 2005 08:33 AM (GMT)
:ponder: well maybe the producer saw it and like SMG acting




also

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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

rob - June 22, 2005 03:37 PM (GMT)
I had Alice for the PC, it was ok, should be a great film with SMG playing the role, she's the sort of type you'd imagine playing Alice imo :ermm:

Laura - June 22, 2005 09:40 PM (GMT)
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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.


It might be an idea to pin news threads and keep news on the cast together :ponder:

laughitupfuzzball - June 22, 2005 09:58 PM (GMT)
Good idea Laura there does seem a lot recently and it would stop threads getting duplicated too :)

LoobiLou - June 22, 2005 10:02 PM (GMT)
The only problem i have with this is if there's too many pinned threads any new threads get bumped off of the page fairly quickly :ermm:

Maybe a single thread for all news relating to the cast? S'up to you Alex :)

buffy_fan1 - June 22, 2005 10:05 PM (GMT)
Personally I love spoof movies cos I have a daft sense of humour :lol: Alyson seems to have a good sense of humour and likes to have fun and doesn't take herself too seriously which is a good thing :thumbsup: I look forward to seeing it :)

hey Laura I think putting news like this in one thread is great idea, what shall we call it? Scooby Projects? I'm sure you can think of something better! :thumbsup: :lol: :thumbsup:

prophecy girl - June 23, 2005 08:31 AM (GMT)
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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


so no clue about the plot, the title of the film :ponder: not helping

Laura - June 23, 2005 11:16 AM (GMT)
^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 :lol:

laughitupfuzzball - June 23, 2005 11:55 AM (GMT)
:lol: speaking of which, Amber Benson is going to appear as a guest on The Inside :)

prophecy girl - June 24, 2005 09:41 AM (GMT)
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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 



:ermm: :blush: opsie

yeah where did NB go? :ponder:

Laura - June 24, 2005 10:54 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (prophecy girl @ Jun 24 2005, 10:41 AM)
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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 



:ermm: :blush: opsie

yeah where did NB go? :ponder:

He has done a pilot (Kitchen Confidential) with Bradley Cooper (Will from Alias)

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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.

Doesn't sound great :ermm:

He has also done a movie called Unholy
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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.

prophecy girl - June 24, 2005 08:21 PM (GMT)
:ermm: unholy ........... could be interesting .... we will see

Maria - June 25, 2005 12:09 PM (GMT)
Ooh, I love spoof movies :thumbsup: I will definately be watching Aly's new one!!

They should make reference to her being a witch :thumbsup:

buffy_fan1 - June 25, 2005 04:19 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (laughitupfuzzball @ Jun 23 2005, 11:55 AM)
:lol: speaking of which, Amber Benson is going to appear as a guest on The Inside :)

I'm sure I've heard of the The Inside before but I don't really know what is :stoopid: help I hope they will show the episode in the UK :thumbsup: any word on what kind of character she will be playing?

PS I'm with you Maria I love spoof movies I can't to see whats it's like Good luck Alyson it's about time she was playing the lead :lmao:

prophecy girl - June 25, 2005 04:29 PM (GMT)
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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.


laughitupfuzzball - June 25, 2005 06:20 PM (GMT)
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:

Maria - June 25, 2005 06:22 PM (GMT)
J Argustus (Forgor Gun's real name!) doesn't seem to be up to much. No conventions, no films...... wher'd he go :shrug:

buffy_fan1 - June 25, 2005 10:37 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (laughitupfuzzball @ Jun 25 2005, 06:20 PM)
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:

oh my god Amber Benson in the uk and I can't go :cry: life is just not fair :cry:

prophecy girl - June 26, 2005 05:57 PM (GMT)
yep and there will be a buffy/angel night talk or something like that (adam busch, amber ....) on saturday

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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.


laughitupfuzzball - June 27, 2005 11:35 AM (GMT)
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:


jamiearmour - June 27, 2005 12:09 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (laughitupfuzzball @ Jun 27 2005, 11:35 AM)
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:

I don't think that Angel is the only show that they might be referencing :whistling:

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Anyone else feeling deja vu? :lmao:




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