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In celebration of the international nature of Pixar’s Cars 2, Disney/Pixar has released four vintage-style posters – each linked to the Grand Prix in four famous cities including: London [above], Paris, Porto Corsa and Tokyo [following the jump].

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USA Network’s untitled Burn Notice Prequel has added Kiele Sanchez [The Glades] and Chandra West [The Gates] to its cast. The two-hour event movie will delve into Sam Axe’s past – focusing on his last operation as a Navy SEAL. West will play a a sexy, fun woman named Donna whom Sam has begun seeing while Sanchez will play a humanitarian with a food relief effort.

The prequel – written by Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and directed by Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan – takes place in 2005, when Sam is deployed to check out the situation when some Colombian rebels make things hot for the military platoon stationed there.

John Diehl [The Shield] has signed on as Rear Admiral Lawrence, Sam’s commanding officer. RonReaco Lee [The Shield] will portray Dr. Ben Delaney, founder of a non-profit clinic in Colombia.

The Burn Notice Prequel is set to air this spring.

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Sam Axe, Bruce Campbell’s character on the hit USA series Burn Notice, is getting his own his own made for Television movie.

BURN NOTICE -- Pictured: Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe -- USA Network Photo: Justin Stephens

Sam Axe is a handsome, good natured, but deadly when he needs to be, former Navy Seal and Military Intel Operative who works with Michael Westin (series star Jeffrey Donovan) On USA’s Burn Notice. On January 24, 2011, USA began production on a prequel movie follows Sam Axe to Colombia on his last Navy SEAL assignment prior to his retirement.

 

No air date for the movie is set yet.

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BURN NOTICE -- "BLIND SPOT" Episode 411 -- Photo by: Glenn Watson/USA Network

When the Burn Notice Movie begins shooting in January, there will be a familiar face behind the camera as well as in front. Series star Jeffrey Donovan has been tapped to direct the prequel film that stars Bruce Campbell in his role as Sam Axe. Burn Notice creator Matt Nix will provide the script.

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Despite having what is sometimes referred to as a blue sky filter, the USA Network has a number of programs that really stretch that description. Foremost amongst them is Burn Notice [Thursday, 10/9C]. The series returns this week with Eyes Open, an episode that picks up with Michael Westen [Jeffrey Donovan] in far less than his usual top condition – but there’s a missing bible and a coded list of the persons responsible for burning him and, well, he can’t let a little thing like a hole in his clavicle [his words…] keep him from taking care of business. And then there’s this seemingly unrelated explosion…

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Season two of Burn Notice ended with Michael Westen [Jeffrey Donovan] making a perhaps not so clean break with Management [John Mahoney], head of the clandestine government agency that burned him. This after learning that the very agency that burned him had protected him from his enemies – and seen to it that the police hadn’t interfered while he was helping others.

Friends & Family, the first post-Management protection episode, found Michael being trundled off to jail – once he’d swum back to Miami Beach from his aborted helicopter ride. Not only had Management stopped protecting him, someone made the police and, apparently, foreign agencies aware of him – and his location.

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On June 2, I had the opportunity to take part in a Q&A session with Matt Nix, creator of the USA Network hit, Burn Notice [Thursdays, 9/8C]. He discussed everything from the show’s spycraft to upcoming guest stars and how writing adjusts to casting, among other things.

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