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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:59 pm
USA Network’s Burn Notice continued its hot streak last night with the summer finale drawing a series high 7.59 million viewers. The show also averaged a very solid 2.1/7 A18-49 rating/share and an equally impressive 1.7/6 A18-34 rating/share.
Lead-out Royal Pains also did very well last night — although it fell short of series [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Jay Chou has been cast in the role of Kato in Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet. The actor replaces Stephen Chow who was originally on tap to play the role but bowed out shortly after deciding against directing the project.
“It’s an overwhelming experience to take on a role made famous by Bruce Lee. [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Warner Brothers and the producers behind The Dark Knight and 300 are working on a futuristic version of Robin Hood. Atlas Entertainment and Hollywood Gang will produce the untitled project, with commercial director Nicolai Fuglsig — who pitched the project — signed on to direct.
Little is known about the plot, but THR’s Risky [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Paramount Pictures and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have tapped Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the screenplay to Mission: Impossible IV. Applebaum and Nemec are the creators of the new ABC series Happy Town and previously created October Road and the recent U.S. version of Life on Mars for ABC.
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Universal Pictures has released the trailer for writer/director Nancy Meyers’ upcoming comedy It’s Complicated. The comedy stars Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Head on over the jump to check out the trailer.
Synopsis
Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Although Robert Rodriguez’s planned Barbarella remake was not to be, Universal is still moving forward with their plans to remake the property. The studio has tapped Joe Gazzam to write the screenplay with Robert Luketic attached to direct. Original producer Dino De Laurentiis is on board to produce along with his wife, Martha De Laurentiis [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Shawn Ryan, executive producer of the canceled CBS series The Unit, said that there was more to the show’s cancellation than just low ratings:
“Listen, if the show had been owned by Paramount and ‘Medium’ had been owned by 20th Century Fox, we’d be making the fifth season of ‘The Unit’ now,” Ryan [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on August 7, 2009 at 11:14 pm
A fairly remarkable thing happened in Sunday morning news this past weekend. For the first time in 10 years — since June 27, 1999 — ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos beat NBC’s Meet the Press in both total viewers and Adults 25-54 . ‘This Week’ drew 2.8 million viewers and 980,000 A25-54, while [...]