You probably know her as Slayer-in-Training Vi from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Mag from Dollhouse, or, if you’re a gamer, Codex from the long-running web series, The Guild. She’s a fine violinist and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Science for Mathematics. Plus, she was Billy’s crush, Penny, in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog – where […]
Category: Hollywood Insider
Lifetime’s Fairy Jobmother, Hayley Taylor, Speaks!
Lifetime is premiering a new reality series, The Fairy Jobmother [tonight, 11/10C, then, beginning November 4th, Thursdays, 9/8C], in which international career specialist Haley Taylor literally moves in which a number of families who have fallen on hard times and teaches them how to regain their self-confidence and find new jobs. Ms. Taylor recently took the time […]
Hollywood Treasure’s Joe Maddalen Talks Syfy’s Newest Unscripted Series!
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to take part in a teleconference Q&A session with Joe Maddalena, owner of Profiles in History, an auction house that deals in Hollywood memorabilia and is the subject of Syfy’s new unscripted series, Hollywood Treasure [Wednesdays, 10/9C]. The series of twelve half-hour episodes, run in two-ep blocks, has a […]
SAW 3D’s Carey Elwes and Betsy Russell Cuts it up with Michelle!
Everyone knows how much I hate this new trend of 3D movies. Instead of immersing you into the movie, I think it is a distraction, and distorts the image on the screen. With that said, for some weird reason, I’m kind of looking forward to catching Saw 3D this weekend. It’s ironic, and pretty amazing, […]
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, Michelle Talks with Director Tiller Russell!
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, a pulp western shot with graphic novel influence, and a eclectic cast featuring Kris Kristofferson, Jason Priestley, and Peter Dinklage among others has become a festival darling. The DVD has hit the shelves and I had a chance to talk with Director Tiller Russell. Here are some of the […]
New York Comic Con 2010 In Photos
Corey Feldman at New York Comic Con . Talked a lot about everything from Goonies II, Lost Boys, Corey Haim, and more. This year’s New York Comic Con was an odd duck. There wasn’t a big Hollywood presence this year, but for the first time they had the entire Jacob Center and sold out. I […]
Former ‘Venice’ Director Hope Royaltey Brings Soapy Drama to Twitter with The P@ssionate & The Privileged
Recently I had the pleasure of chatting with Hope Royaltey, season one Executive Producer/Director of the web series Venice, to discuss her exciting new online ventures FlagshipTV, an audience driven online interactive network, and The P@ssionate & The Privileged, the first (to my knowledge) Twitter based Soap Opera. It’s full of your favorite soapy elements […]
Hollywood Insider: Summer Glau Talks About Voicing Supergirl In The DC Comic Animated Movie-Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Summer Glau knows her audience. Whether as River Tam in Joss Whedon’s cult classic series and follow-up film, Firefly and Serenity, or as the indestructible android-from-the-future Cameron in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Glau has cornered the market on playing attractive and demure young females with the controlled and deadly power to destroy an opposing […]
Stargate Universe’s Ming-Na and Lou Diamond Phillips Talk Season Two!
Syfy’s Stargate Universe [Tuesday’s, 9/8C] has continued the tradition of Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis by going to a couple of places its predecessor’s did not: into a far darker and more dramatic presentation and onto an ancient Ancient starship called the Destiny. The result has required a larger, more varied and unusual cast – […]
OpenFilm’s Dmitry Kozko Tells Us how he hopes to Change the Film World!
OpenFilm is trying to do what others have, so far, failed to do – discover or create the next Indie Film hit. The folks behind OpenFilm have assembled an impressive board of directors that include several Oscar Winning Directors and Actors. The goal of the site is to be an platform for people to showcase […]
The League – Series Creators Jeff and Jackie Schaffer Talk Season Two!
It’s that time of the year once again – that time when every self-described expert tries to put together a winning fantasy football league team. Fantasy league participants range from the casual [select the players, deal with the results] to the extreme [preparing for the draft means ignoring friends and family and doing as little at work […]