Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy December 16, 2008 12:46 pm
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SCI FI’s new 10-part Battlestar Galactica web-series is now online. The Face of the Enemy premiered last Friday afternoon and will be posted on SCIFI.com at 12PM Eastern every Monday and Wednesday up through the on-air return of the series on January 16, 2009.
“The Face of the Enemy” follows the action and suspense inside a stranded Raptor carrying a group of passengers, including Lt. Felix Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) and a Number 8 Cylon (Grace Park). When passengers suddenly start dying in alarming ways, fear, panic and chaos erupt within the confines of the small ship as suspicion grows that there is a killer among them. Michael Hogan (Col. Tigh) and Brad Dryborough (Lt. Hoshi) also star.
Here’s the full schedule:
- Friday, December, 12: Chapter 1
- Monday, December, 15: Chapter 2
- Wednesday, December, 17: Chapter 3
- Monday, December, 22: Chapter 4
- Wednesday, December, 24: Chapter 5
- Monday, December, 29: Chapter 6
- Wednesday, December, 31: Chapter 7
- Monday, January, 5: Chapter 8
- Wednesday, January, 7: Chapter 9
- Monday, January, 12: Chapter 10
SCI FI also released a new poster advertising the new season of Battlestar Galactica. Which I have posted to the right. Click to enlarge
Watch the first two episodes after the jump.
Hugh Jackman to host Oscars December 16, 2008 11:57 am
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Actor Hugh Jackman (“Australia”, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”) has been tapped to host this year’s Oscar telecast on February 22, 2009. Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, producers of the awards show, called the Australian actor “a consummate entertainer and an internationally renowned movie star.”
“He also has style, elegance and a sense of occasion,” Mark and Condon said in a joint statement. “Hugh is the ideal choice to host a celebration of the year’s movies — and to have fun doing it.”
Jackman had the following to say in a statement:
“Thirty years ago when I was in Sydney watching Johnny Carson host the Oscars with my family, I never imagined that I’d one day have the chance to be up on that stage myself,” Jackman said. “I am very grateful to the Academy for giving me this opportunity. And, excited to be working with Larry and Bill on what I know will be a fun and memorable celebration.”
The 81st Annual Academy Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, February 22nd on ABC.
Knowing Movie Trailer December 16, 2008 11:41 am
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Summit Entertainment has released the first full-length trailer for Alex Proyas’ upcoming sci-fi thriller Knowing. Watch it embedded below.
Watch the trailer in high definition at Apple.com
Synopsis
Academy Award® Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming true. In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.
Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB KOESTLER. But it is Caleb’s father, professor JOHN KOESTLER (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the document’s chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Ted’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.
With the reluctant help of DIANA WAYLAND (Rose Byrne) and ABBY WAYLAND, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, Ted’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster—and the ultimate sacrifice.
Knowing hits theaters on March 20, 2009.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, December 14, 2008 December 15, 2008 5:19 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, December 13, 2008 December 14, 2008 6:28 pm
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New Wonder Woman Images + Q&A With Alfred Molina December 13, 2008 6:27 pm
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Warner Bros. has released several new images from their upcoming straight-to-video DC Universe animated original movie Wonder Woman.
Also, click through the jump to read a new Q&A with actor Alfred Molina, who voices Ares in the film.
Synopsis
Produced by the multiple Emmy® Award winning animation legend Bruce Timm, Wonder Woman is an origin– story and features a stellar celebrity voice cast including Keri Russell (Waitress, Felicity), Nathan Fillion (Desperate Housewives), Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2), Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Rosario Dawson (Sin City), Oliver Platt (The West Wing) and David McCallum (NCIS). Wonder Woman begins on the mystical island of Themyscira, where a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons resides. They have raised Princess Diana, a daughter of stunning beauty, extraordinary strength and incredible fighting prowess. Diana possesses a host of super human powers granted to her by the gods and goddesses of Olympus and her strength and stamina are unparalleled. When Air Force fighter pilot Steve Trevor crash lands on the island, the rebellious and headstrong Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying Trevor back to civilization. Meanwhile, Ares (the God of War) has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazons and has decided to exact his revenge by starting a world war that will destroy them all. It is up to Princess Diana to save her people and the world by using her gifts to become the ultimate Wonder Woman. http://www.wonderwomanmovie.com
Wonder Woman hits DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def on March 3, 2009.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Friday, December 12, 2008 December 13, 2008 6:16 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, December 11, 2008 December 12, 2008 7:36 pm
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Two New Photos from Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds December 12, 2008 12:19 am
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Filmz.ru has two new photos from writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s remake of Inglourious Basterds.
Inglourious Basterds hits theaters in 2009.
The Unborn International Poster December 12, 2008 12:13 am
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Empire Magazine has debuted the international poster for writer/director David Goyer’s The Unborn. Click to enlarge.
The Unborn hits theaters on January 9, 2009.
Golden Globe Awards Announced December 11, 2008 11:59 pm
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced their nominations for The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The awards will take place Sunday, January 11, 2009 on NBC starting at 8 PM ET. Check out the nominations for both movies and television, after the jump.
New Photo for Alex Proyas’ Knowing; Trailer In Theaters This Weekend December 11, 2008 11:49 pm
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Summit Entertainment has released a new still from Alex Proyas’ upcoming sci-fi thriller Knowing. Click to enlarge. A new trailer for the film is expected in theaters this weekend.
Knowing hits theaters March 20, 2009.
Source: /Film
New Dragonball Evolution Posters December 11, 2008 11:41 pm
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IGN has four new posters for 20th Century Fox’s Dragonball Evolution. Click the above image to check them out.
Dragonball Evolution hits theaters on April 8, 2009.
Bryan Fuller Talks Heroes + John Glover Cast as Sylar’s Dad December 11, 2008 7:17 pm
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Entertainment Weekly got a chance to chat with Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) who’s returning to the show as a consultant. Fuller talked a bit about the show’s new volume, titled Fugitives, which kicks off on February 2nd:
It really is a fresh start. All of the characters are back in their real lives. You see Peter as a paramedic. Claire is looking for colleges. We get away from the world of formulas and quasi-magic.
Yes. Episodes 14, 15 and 16 are amazing. The whole “Fugitives” arc starts out very strongly, and then it gets a little dense in the middle in terms of the mythology. So I came in right at the point where everybody was realizing, “Oh, we’re getting too dense here and we need to put faces on stories because there is no face to a formula; there is no face to saving the world.” So it’s turning this big ship back into a character stream, and everyone on the writing staff shares that desire. We need to get back into a character place, because that’s where this story started: Very clean, superhero metaphors to everyday life. That’s the path that we’re taking. But it is a big ship so it’s going to take a little while to turn it.
You can read the rest of the interview at Entertainment Weekly.
Entertainment Weekly is also reporting that NBC has just cast John Glover (Smallville) to play Sylar’s father on the series.
“When Sylar meets his father, he’s going to see a path ahead of him that he doesn’t want to take,” says a source. “He has a lot more in common with his father than he realized.”
Joby Harold In Negotiations to Write Atlantis Rising December 11, 2008 7:09 pm
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Writer/Director Joby Harold is in negotiations to write the adaptation of the comic book Atlantis Rising for DreamWorks. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are producing for DreamWorks alongside Platinum Studios Chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who created the original Atlantis Rising five-part series.
“As a writer, Joby has an amazingly strong understanding of how to take genre seriously, which is prerequisite No. 1 for us when it comes to these kinds of movies,” said Kurtzman.
“In all the classic versions of this kind of movie, the threat is always from the stars,” Orci said. “The idea that it’s somehow our cousins who went off in a different path of evolution who have been here, literally, underneath our oceans. … That’s fascinating, the idea of secrets right under your nose.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Broadcast TV Ratings for Wednesday, December 10, 2008 December 11, 2008 6:34 pm
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Will Ferrell’s ‘Bush’ Show to Air on HBO December 11, 2008 6:21 pm
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HBO will be airing a live telecast of Will Ferrell’s Broadway show You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush next spring. The cable special will be directed by Marty Callner, who has directed prior HBO comedy specials including those for Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams and George Carlin.
An exact date hasn’t been confirmed yet, but it’ll likely air sometime near the end of ‘You’re Welcome America’ on broadway (the limited run ends March 15th).
Source: Variety
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry to Voice Enterprise’s Computer in Star Trek December 11, 2008 6:14 pm
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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry will be reprising her role as the voice of the Starship Enterprise computer in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming film Star Trek. Roddenberry has voiced the role in four of the six Star Trek television series and three films.
Star Trek hits theaters on May 8, 2009.
Source: Variety
The Dark Knight Sells 3 Million Units on DVD and Blu-ray December 11, 2008 6:06 pm
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In its first day of release this past Tuesday, 
Warner Bros’ The Dark Knight sold 3 million copies on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States, Canada and the UK. 600,000 of those copies were Blu-ray, the most ever for the format, beating the record previously held by Marvel/Paramount’s Iron Man, which sold 260,000 Blu-ray discs. That disc went on to sell 500,000 in its first week. The Dark Knight could be on pace to sell 1 million copies on Blu-ray by week’s end.
Sources: Video Business and The New York Times
New Terminator Salvation Photo December 11, 2008 5:51 pm
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The LA Times Hero Complex blog has a new photo from McG’s upcoming film Terminator Salvation. Click to enlarge.
Terminator Salvation hits theaters on May 22, 2009.
Nine, Not Seven, Seasons of Desperate Housewives? December 11, 2008 2:43 pm
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TVGuide.com has learned that during a cake-cutting ceremony marking the 100th episode of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, series creator Marc Cherry announced his desire to have the show on the air for nine seasons, two more than he previously announced back in February of 2007 when Cherry inked a four-year deal with ABC Studios.
Daniel Craig on the Future of James Bond December 11, 2008 2:29 pm
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Daniel Craig says he’s ready to begin work on another Bond film. In an interview with ComingSoon.net about his next film, Edward Zwick’s Defiance, Craig opened up about the reception to Quantum of Solaceand his plans for another installment. Here are some highlights from the interview:
ComingSoon.net: The critical reaction to “Quantum of Solace” was somewhat different than that for “Casino Royale.” Did that surprise you?
Daniel Craig: No, because “Casino Royale” was based on a novel and we’re always going to have that. When you do a movie like that, where the basis of a story is really strong and also the momentum of it, everyone thought that it was going to be sh*t. So when it wasn’t, they were all just completely surprised. I think that “Quantum of Solace” is as good a movie as “Casino Royale.” I think that the difference is that last time people were surprised by the fact that they enjoyed it. The fact is that we get reviews in newspapers that we’d never had reviews in before. Certainly with the Internet we get seven and a half million reviews, which are all worth looking at, obviously.
CS: Do you think that calls to go to work on the next one will come a little quicker after the huge success of “Quantum?”
Craig: I haven’t heard anything – but then I’m not answering my phone.
CS: What more do you want to do with Bond? What other parts of him would you like to explore?
Craig: Well, I genuinely think we’ve got a blank page now. We’ve finished this story off. “Quantum of Solace” was exactly the right thing to do. We started something with “Casino Royale” and we wrapped it all up with “Quantum of Solace.” We’re ready to begin again and we can do what we want.
Quantum of Solace is performing on-par with Casino Royale and has grossed $510.6 million worldwide ($152.7 million domestically and $357.9 million overseas). Casino Royale grossed $594.2 million worldwide–$167.4 million domestically and $426.8 million overseas–when it was released in 2006.
Dragonball Evolution International Trailer December 11, 2008 2:11 pm
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The international trailer for 20th Century Fox’s Dragonball Evolution has been released online. Watch it embedded below.
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Dragonball Evolution hits theaters on April 8, 2009.
Shyamalan’s Cast for The Last Airbender December 11, 2008 2:05 pm
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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that M. Night Shyamalan has found his cast for The Last Airbender, his live-action adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon series:
After an open casting call in Texas, Shyamalan discovered karate star Noah Ringer and offered him the part of Airbender’s 12-year old hero, Aang, an Avatar with superpowers who must stop the Fire Nation from destroying the world. Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone has been asked to play Aang’s pal Sokka, while Nicola Peltz (Deck the Halls) will star as his sister Katara. Genial singer Jesse McCartney, meanwhile, is negotiating to play against type in the role of the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko.
The Last Airbender hits theaters on July 2, 2010.
New Photo from Kick-Ass December 11, 2008 1:03 pm
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AICN has a report from the London set of Matthew Vaughn’s big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book series Kick-Ass and the report includes the first official photo of Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist. Click the image for a closer look, and to read AICN’s set report.
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