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16 articles from 2009
Jessica Rabbit: She's Just Drawn That Way
31 October 2009 10:08 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »
Producer/director Robert "Back To The Future" Zemeckis is looking for a follow-up sequel to his Who Framed Roger Rabbit feature-length live-action/toon hybird, developing a new screenplay with original Rabbit writers Peter S. Seaman and Jeffrey Price, for a 3D update. "I.ll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability," said Zemeckis. "The digital tools, performance capture... I.m starting to think about Roger Rabbit." Released in 1988, from co-producer Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, the $70 million, live-action/animation feature grossed $329,803,958 worldwide. Based on the novel "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" from author Gary K. Wolf, the film starred actors Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd, Kathleen Turner and Joanna Cassidy, set in 1947 Hollywood, where cartoon characters, aka 'toons' interact with the studio system of Classical Hollywood cinema. Premise follows private investigator 'Eddie Valiant' caught up in a mystery that involves 'Roger Rabbit', »
Sex Ed: The Series – The Future of Television Development?
3 August 2009 1:32 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Last night I was invited to a screening of a pilot for a television series as part of the Independent Television Festival, and it might just be a peek into the future of television development. Directors and feature films have been going down this road for years, and you've seen the results. Festivals like Sundance and SXSW swell with independent films, studios get into bidding wars for the hot movies, directors get plucked from the indie freshwater stream and dunked into the saline-rich waters of the studio ocean, and the wheels of film-industry keep on turning. But what about television? It's an expensive landscape to develop in, but Sex Ed: The Series was created solely as a spec pilot, and creators Tamela D'Amico (director/producer) and Ernie Vecchione (writer) shot it in 11 days using Panasonic HD cameras, and put together a fairly impressive cast that includes Joanna Cassidy of Blade Runner and Six Feet Under fame »
- Kevin Kelly
'Flying' ready for flight
27 July 2009 1:57 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
The indie drama "Flying Lessons" has a cast now. Christine Lahti, Maggie Grace, Hal Holbrook, Cary Elwes, Jonathan Tucker and Joanna Cassidy have been cast in the story of a young woman coming to terms with her father's suicide when she returns to her small town. First-timer Derek Magyar will direct from a screenplay by Thomas Kuehl. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Benjamin Statler is producing, Mark Johnson ("My Sister's Keeper") is executive producing. Filming is scheduled to begin Aug. 24 in Santa Ynez, California. Magyar, an actor whose credits include "Boy Culture" and "Star Trek: Enterprise," is the son of Dezso Magyar, who ran the American Film Institute for 14 years and is now a film professor at Chapman »
- Adnan Tezer
Lahti, Grace, Elwes, Tucker and moore in "Flying Lessons" indie.
27 July 2009 5:14 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Christine Lahti, Maggie Grace, Hal Holbrook, Cary Elwes, Jonathan Tucker and Joanna Cassidy have been cast the indie drama "Flying Lessons." The story tells of a young woman who coming to terms with her father's suicide when she returns to the small town of her origin. First time director Derek Magyar will helm from the writing by Thomas Kuehl. Benjamin Statler is producing. Filming is scheduled to begin Aug. 24 in Santa Ynez, California. »
Derek Magyar to Direct Flying Lessons
26 July 2009 6:05 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
According to The Hollywood Reporter first time director Derek Magyar will be helming Flying Lessons.
Starring in the film will be Christine Lahti, Maggie Grace, Hal Holbrook, Cary Elwes, Jonathan Tucker and Joanna Cassidy. The story examines how a young girl deals with the death of her father when she returns to her small town.
The screenplay was written by Thomas Kuehl.
Flying Lessons should go into production on August 24 in Santa Ynez, Calif.
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'Inbetweeners' star for new BBC comedy
15 July 2009 7:10 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Inbetweeners star James Buckley will appear in a new BBC comedy later this year, it has been announced. The seven-part series, titled Fresh, is set on a fictional UK university campus and follows a group of students as they embark on a new life away from home. Buckley, who played Jay Cartwright in the E4 teen comedy, is joined in the cast by Jonathan Bailey, Danny Morgan and Joanna Cassidy. The show originally launched online last year in five-minute episodes. The television version will continue where the internet series left off (more) »
- By Dan French
DVD Review: Take a Bite Out of ‘The Hunger: The Complete First Season’
22 June 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “The Hunger” is one of the more unusual entries in the history of the TV anthology series, a personal favorite sub-genre of this writer raised on “The Twilight Zone,” “The Outer Limits,” “Tales From the Crypt,” and “Amazing Stories”. It has amazing star power, a loose relation to a great ’80s horror movie, and enough thrills to entertain, but has been largely forgotten by TV history.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0 “The Hunger” aired in syndicated form from 1997-2000. It is not directly based on the film of the same name but does feature some loose relations - horror theme, David Bowie hosted season two, and the Scott brothers (Ridley and Tony, who directed the film “The Hunger”) produced.
The Hunger: The Complete First Season was released on DVD on June 16th, 2009.
Photo credit: E1 Entertainment
The first season of the show was hosted by Terence Stamp and, while it has some significant storytelling flaws, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
TV Review: TNT’s Overly Earnest ‘HawthoRNe’ Won’t Cure Summer TV Blues
16 June 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – TNT’s medical drama “HawthoRNe” would have felt overly generic in any month of the year, but debuting in the same one as Showtime’s far darker, subtler and more entertaining “Nurse Jackie” does the show no favors at all. Jada Pinkett Smith executive-produces and stars in a well-intentioned program with a good pedigree (John Masius of “St. Elsewhere” is one of the producers) but one that feels like a relic of a bygone era of more manipulative television.
Television Rating: 2.0/5.0 The premiere of “HawthoRNe” introduces us to the title character, Nurse Christina Hawthorne, on the one-year anniversary of her husband’s death. Hawthorne is the Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital, leading a group of nurses against two-dimensional doctors always trying to screw them over and patients who need them to survive.
Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Vartan.
Photo credit: Erik Heinila/TNT
The first episode of “HawthoRNe »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Taking a Dose of Drama with the Cast of Hawthorne
12 June 2009 2:26 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
TNT has forged a solid reputation for dependable dramatic programming over the past few years, and, although they have some of the biggest shows on cable TV right now, with The Closer, Saving Grace, Raising the Bar and one of my personal favorites, Leverage, there is always room for one more hit on the slate. It looks like TNT will have that additional hit series when Hawthorne, which stars Jada Pinkett Smith as Chief Nursing Officer Christina Hawthorne and Michael Vartan as Chief of Surgery Tom Wakefield, premieres on Tuesday, June 16 at 9 Pm Et on TNT ( for my full review of the pilot episode, which was pretty damn good, folks). I was lucky enough to be invited to a press conference for the new show, where stars Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan answered a few questions from a small group of reports. Here's what they had to say about »
Paz Vega in the Human Contract Trailer, DVD Release Date
18 May 2009 10:19 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Paz Vega is a major star in Spain, but she’s never really caught on in the States despite being in a number of Hollywood films as the female lead. Unfortunately her latest movie, “Human Contract” isn’t going to help in that regard, because the film is going straight to DVD June 30 courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film is a pretty spicy little drama, because let’s face it, when you think Jada Pinkett Smith, you think spicy little dramas. Okay, maybe not so much, but the trailer sure sells the sex pretty hard. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The film is Rated R, so one supposes there will be follow-through with all the teasing. A highly successful but personally tortured ad businessman (Jason Clarke) has his life turned upside down after meeting a free-spirited, mysterious beauty (Paz Vega), who tempts him to explore reckless love Starring Jason Clarke, »
- Nix
Another 'Roger Rabbit' Movie Being Thought Of
29 April 2009 9:57 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
A sequel to 1988 fantasy comedy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" could be brewing. Talking to MTV News, director Robert Zemeckis offered an interesting scoop of the matter when he confessed that he is indeed toying with the idea to bring the ill-behaved rabbit back to the big screen.
"I'll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability - the digital tools, performance capture - I'm starting to think about 'Roger Rabbit'," the 56-year-old Academy Award-winning helmer stated. Still when pressed further on the potential film's details, the "Beowulf" director responded with a rejection, "I can't give you more details."
While nothing is certain yet on the possible new installment of "Roger Rabbit" movie, the original 1988 "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" has successfully rekindled an interest in the golden Age of American animation. Combining the use of traditional animation and live action with elements of film noir, »
- AceShowbiz.com
2009 Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Stay Cool" - Images added to the gallery.
24 April 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
See images from the Michael Polish-helmed comedy "Stay Cool" written by Mark Polish. The cast includes Mark Polish, Hilary Duff, Winona Ryder, Jon Cryer, Josh Holloway, Sean Astin, Chevy Chase, Marc Blucas and Joanna Cassidy. The film is produced by the Polish brothers along with Jonathan Sheldon and Janet Dubois. See all the images here! What's it about? Mild-mannered Henry McCarthy (Mark Polish), an accomplished author, returns home to give the commencement speech at his high school. But even after 20 years, it feels like he never left. Henry stays in his old room, perfectly preserved with '80s artifacts, and a luggage mishap leaves him no choice but to squeeze into clothes still hanging in his closet...read more at the Tribeca Film Festival site. »
2009 Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Stay Cool" - Images added to the gallery.
24 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
See images from the Michael Polish-helmed comedy "Stay Cool" written by Mark Polish. The cast includes Mark Polish, Hilary Duff, Winona Ryder, Jon Cryer, Josh Holloway, Sean Astin, Chevy Chase, Marc Blucas and Joanna Cassidy. The film is produced by the Polish brothers along with Jonathan Sheldon and Janet Dubois. Mild-mannered Henry McCarthy (Mark Polish), an accomplished author, returns home to give the commencement speech at his high school. But even after 20 years, it feels like he never left. Henry stays in his old room, perfectly preserved with '80s artifacts, and a luggage mishap leaves him no choice but to squeeze into clothes still hanging in his closet »
2009 Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Stay Cool" - Images added to the gallery.
24 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
See images from the Michael Polish-helmed comedy "Stay Cool" written by Mark Polish. The cast includes Mark Polish, Hilary Duff, Winona Ryder, Jon Cryer, Josh Holloway, Sean Astin, Chevy Chase, Marc Blucas and Joanna Cassidy. The film is produced by the Polish brothers along with Jonathan Sheldon and Janet Dubois. Mild-mannered Henry McCarthy (Mark Polish), an accomplished author, returns home to give the commencement speech at his high school. But even after 20 years, it feels like he never left. Henry stays in his old room, perfectly preserved with '80s artifacts, and a luggage mishap leaves him no choice but to squeeze into clothes still hanging in his closet »
Roger Spottiswoode: The Hollywood Interview
12 April 2009 12:32 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Director Roger Spottiswoode.
Neglected Gems of the 1980’s: Roger Spottiswoode Remembers Under Fire
by Jon Zelazny
Editor's Note: The following article appeared on EightMillionStories.com in 2008.
The name may not ring a bell, but Roger Spottiswoode has been directing feature films for nearly thirty years, including popular hits like Turner and Hooch (1989), Air America (1990), and the James Bond adventure Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as well as outstanding made-for-cable dramas like And the Band Played On (1993), Hiroshima (1995), and Noriega (2000).
2008 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his remarkable third feature Under Fire, which starred Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman as journalists covering the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua.
It’s generally a given that every Hollywood movie endures a long, tortuous road to find financing, but not Under Fire. It had a long, hard road as well… but only after the film had been completed. Roger Spottiswoode and I spoke by phone:
You began your career as an editor, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Gays of our Lives (January 12, 2009)
11 January 2009 5:37 PM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
In this edition of Gays Of Our Lives, we introduce “In The Spotlight,” a new recurring feature where we examine in depth a particular series, character or storyline of gay interest.
First up, Casualty’s Dr. Toby De Silva, played by Matthew Needham, who bid goodbye this past week to the long running BBC medical series after a story arc during which the character struggled not only with his sexuality, but with his decision to become a doctor as well.
When Toby first joined the show in September 2007, his conflict over whether or not to be a doctor was quickly apparent as we learned that his overbearing parents had forced him into medicine. And while his relationships with women were rare, fleeting and usually disastrous, there hadn’t been much of an inkling regarding Toby being gay – at least not until he was found in bed with Ben Harding (Mark Letheren »
- dennis
2009 | 2008
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