Indiana Jones 4 to begin filming in June January 2, 2007 11:45 pm
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The fourth film in the Indiana Jones saga (currently untitled) will begin filming in June of this year.
The David Koepp penned script will be directed by Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford will star. Frank Marshall will serve as producer, while George Lucas and Kathy Kennedy will serve as executive producers.
Though casting has not begun yet (with the exception of Ford as Indy) both Ford and Lucas have gone on the record stating they hope to have Sean Connery reprise his role as Indy’s father. Lucas said: “we are writing him in whether he wants to do it or not.”
There is still no exact release date set for the movie, but it’s expected to be released sometime in May of 2008.
Source: — [The Hollywood Reporter] — Can you dig it? Fourth ‘Indy’ in ’08
Court TV pulled from DISH Network (video included) January 2, 2007 9:59 pm
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Court TV has been taken off DISH Network’s channel lineup, effective 12:01 AM Monday, January 1, 2007. Both parties say they failed to come to terms on a new carriage agreement.
Turner said that EchoStar (the parent company of DISH Network) is “unwilling to pay…the standard industry rate”, but are willing to work with the company to return the channel to the roughly 12 million DISH subscribers capable of receiving the network.
EchoStar’s Eric Sahl, senior VP of programming for DISH responded, calling Turner’s asking price “unreasonable” adding “It is not fair to ask our customers to pay a DBS premium for a channel owned by the second largest cable operator, Time Warner.”
The Biography Channel will fill the gap left by Court TV while negotiations continue between the two sides.
Turner, in the meantime, began airing a television spot urging their viewers to call DISH Network and register their dissaproval with the loss of the channel. You can view the video of the commerical below.
ABC green lights tv version of “Mr and Mrs. Smith” January 2, 2007 9:58 pm
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In development for a while, Variety is reporting that ABC has given to go ahead on a small-screen version of the hit Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie film Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
The script was originally ordered back in January of 2006. The series will be overseen by Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg as director and writer, and they will be joined by Dave Bartis as executive producers.
“ABC has been amazing in terms of giving us time for development,” Kinberg said. He also added that the plan is to get the pilot out by March.
The show will be more comedic than the feature with a little more darkness, saying: “It’s essentially ‘Married … With Children’ with guns,” Kinberg said. “The show takes all the marital issues a couple has and blows them up to action-genre size.”
So rather than fight about who forgot to pack the toothpaste, “They’ll bicker over someone forgetting to pack the detonator,” he said.
This wil be the second time a TV version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith was attempted, there was a 1996 version of the show that lasted less than 2 months on CBS. It starred Scott Bakula and Maria Bello.
Source: — [Variety] — ABC gets with ‘Smith’
Bravo renews Top Chef January 2, 2007 9:58 pm
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Bravo has renewed its top-rated food competition program Top Chef for a third season.
Among comparable food programs on cable, Top Chef is the top rated among adults 18-49 (1.224M) and women 25-54 (755,000).”The second season of ‘Top Chef’ has outperformed even our highest expectations both in ratings and the quality of this non-fictional competitive drama,” says Bravo President Lauren Zalaznick. “We look forward to discovering another group of culinary talents with the same passion for food and cooking with commanding personalities that make ‘Top Chef’ a must see every Wednesday night.”
The second series returns tomorrow (January 3) for the first of five remaining second season episodes. The program is up 56% in the key demo viewers compared to its first year (786,000 to 1.224M).
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