Archive for August 13th, 2007
Contrary to reports that emerged last week, Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell will not be joining the cast of Lost after all.
TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello has said that Bell has turned down the role because she didn’t want to relocate to Hawaii where the hit ABC series is filmed.
The original Lost casting report said that two new recurring roles, possibly becoming regular, had being offered to both Bell and Prison Break star Peter Stormare. Bell was to play a character named Charlotte, a woman ‘in her late 20s, attractive in a naturalistic and athletic way, precocious, loquacious and funny.’
Lost will return to television in early 2008 on ABC.
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Syfyportal reports that filming on season 4 of Doctor Who has been interrupted by a studio fire.
After production was temporarily relocated to the Cinecitta Studios in Rome to film an episode in which The Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna (Catherine Tate) come face to face with Caesar, disaster struck when BBC equipment was destroyed in a fire. Apparently damage at the studio was extensive (the same studio used to film the BBC drama Rome) but most of the crucial components were salvaged, which means that production on the episode can continue.
Doctor Who returns to BBC1 in the UK in early 2008, with its annual seasonal special airing first on Christmas Day.
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Ecranlarge via DarkHorizons reports that the movie adaptation of video game property Onimusha is in final preparation in Paris.
Apparently director Christophe Gans will move to China in October to oversee pre-production which includes the construction of sets and the manufacturing of costumes. Lensing will begin in March 2008 around Beijing and will entirely take place within the same studios where Zhang Yimou’s Hero was shot.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars director Dave Filoni has been explaining on the OS about his approach to making the upcoming CG animated series.
‘I always think of what we’re making as Star Wars Tales,’ explains Filoni, referring to the comic book series from the 1990s. ‘Those are stories explaining moral principle aspects of how the Star Wars characters relate in the Star Wars universe. It’s filling in details that the fans kind of wondered about. But it’s also telling a story for the mom that doesn’t know anything about Star Wars — that’s really what old Star Wars did‘.
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Edward Douglas via Comingsoon has revealed that the producers of the upcoming gunfest Shoot ‘Em Up are already planning a sequel.
Don Murphy, Susan Montford and Rick Benattar of Angry Films explained at the press junket for the upcoming first installment that the door has been left open to allow Clive Owen’s enigmatic gunman to return.
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Millennium Films has acquired the rights to make a new movie series based on Robert E. Howard’s mythical conqueror Conan the Barbarian reports Variety.
Paradox Entertainment prexy-CEO Fredrik Malmberg will produce with Millennium’s Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and George Furla. Millennium either will fully finance or partner with a distributor, with discussions to begin this week. The aim is to start production by spring 2008.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.