Since the box office explosion of Tim Burton’s Batman feature adaptation in 1989, the major Hollywood movie studios have attempted to exploit the comic book / graphic novel in feature adaptations of hordes of previously dormant franchises. In the past twenty years, there have been many such films and sequels, not to mention many other […]
Television: Actress Danneel Harris Gets A Series Pickup & A Husband All in One Weekend
Actress Danneel Harris (bottom left) is having a very good month of May. It started out with the stunning 31 year old actress being once again included in the Maxim Hot 100 List, this time coming in at #72 on the Hot List. This weekend she had her new NBC pilot series, Friends With Benefits […]
TELEVISION: Turner Adds Lawyer Buddy Series Franklin & Bash for TNT; ‘80s College Comedy Glory Daze for TBS!
The buddy lawyer series Franklin & Bash [pictured above ], starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar (NYPD Blue, TNT’s Raising the Bar) and Breckin Meyer (Heroes), has been given a ten episode order by TNT, while TBS has given and eight episode order to the one-hour comedy series Glory Daze, a 1980s-set college comedy. Series details follow the […]
TELEVISION: NBC Filling Gaps With Five New Shows: Law & Order: Los Angeles, The Cape, Outlaw, Harry’s Law, Friends With Benefits!
The dramatics that followed the much heralded arrival – and ignominious departure of The Jay Leno show put NBC in a delicate situation. Besides having a host of underperforming regular series to either cancel or shore up, they also had an extra five hours of primetime to fill. So, over a very busy pulot season […]
Television: Burt Reynolds to Guest Star in Season 4 of Burn Notice
Burt Reynolds, best known for playing loveable scoundrels like Bandit in the 1977 homage to the CB/ Trucker craze “Smokey and the Bandit”, will guest star as a former CIA operative who gives Jeffrey Donovan’s character Michael Westen a glimpse into his own future on the upcoming 4th season of USA’s spy drama, “Burn Notice.” […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Robin Hood – Too Long; Too Grim and Too Much!
I can’t even begin to chart the historical inaccuracies of Robin Hood [which are the only things that Ridley Scott’s bloated origin story has in common with those Robins who have gone before] which makes all of the film’s efforts to evoke a real time and place kind of pointless. So Robin Hood is working […]
Smallville’s Latest Season Ender Airs Tonight!
Smallville is a prime example of why I’m not a very good television reporter. I don’t have the patience to watch a lot of shows on a weekly basis, so I Tivo entire seasons and sit down and have Marathon sessions. I watched all 19 eps of Legend of the Seeker last week and have […]
Chuck and V both Renewed!
No one has been more down on Chuck this season than me, but the last 5 or 6 episodes have reminded me why I really like the show. I’m hoping that with a 13 season pick up they can get right to the point and not give us 9 episodes of filler. I’m really starting […]
Still have Mapathy? More Call of Duty Maps Coming!
The first set of new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Maps didn’t solve our severe case of Mapathy, so the Doctors at Activision have given us an appointment for June 3rd to give us another shot in the arm with a brand new set of Maps with The Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 […]
HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Elmore Leonard and Graham Yost Talk About FX Hit Justified!
It’s not everyday you get to take party on a teleconference Q&A with a legend, I recently had that opportunity on a call with creator of the FX series Justified [Thursdays, 10/1C], Graham Yost and the man whose work provides the source point for the series, Elmore Leonard [both pictured above with star Timothy Olyphant] […]
TELEVISION: Work Begins on Six-Part Prequel to Star’s Spartacus This Summer!
What do you when your show has been picked up for a second season before the first one even airs and your star winds up with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma? If you’re the creative team behind Spartacus: Blood and Sand, you come up with a prequel that uses many of your other cast of characters.