Monday, September 1st Gossip Girl (CW) -- season 2 (24 episodes) One Tree Hill (CW) -- season 6 Tuesday, September 2nd 90210 (CW) -- *The Shield (FX) -- season 7 (13 episodes) True Blood (HBO) (12 episodes) Monday, September 8th Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX) -- season 2 Tuesday, September 9th Monday, October 13th My Own Worst Enemy (NBC) Coming in 2009 -24 season 7 (January 2009,Prequel Tv-Movie 24:Exile airs on November 23) (FOX) -Nip/Tuck season 5 part 2 (January 2009,8 episodes) (FX)
Wednesday, September 3rd
Sons of Anarchy (FX)
Sunday, September 7th
Tuesday, September 16th
House (FOX) -- season 5
Thursday, September 18th
*Smallville (CW) -- season 8
Monday, September 22nd
*Boston Legal (ABC) -- season 5 (13 episodes)
Wednesday, September 24th
Knight Rider (NBC)
Sunday, September 28th
Californication (Showtime)
*Final season
-Battlestar Galactica season 4 (final) part 2 (Early 2009,10 episodes) (Sci Fi)
-Tudors season 3 (8 episodes) (Showtime)
Saturday, August 30, 2008
2008-09 fall schedule
Friday, August 29, 2008
The Shield Season 7 Trailer,Episode 1 Clips
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Vic Confronts Shane The Shield Season 7 Episode 1
Vic and Shane together again.... The Shield Season 7 E1
Supergirl to appear in one episode of Smallville this season-First Season 8 Trailer
by Robert Greenberger,ComicMix
At the Toronto FanExpo this past weekend, Laura Vandervoort confirmed she would appear in a single episode of the eighth and final season of the CW’s Smallville. Television’s Supergirl also made mention that there had been talk of her character once being considered for a spinoff series. She merely said it didn’t pan out without providing any details.
She did admit to being a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan so working alongside Spike, James Marsters, was a thrill. When she was just beginning her career, she wrote series creator Joss Whedon about wanting to audition for the show, something he remembered when they finally met.
Smallville, with new villains and the same old romantic triangles will return September 18.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Babylon A.D. Director Mathieu Kassovitz Describes a Disastrous Production
By Clayton Neuman,blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner
August 25,2008
Mathieu Kassovitz is pissed off. The French auteur, who first made waves in 1995 with La Haine, is supposed to be celebrating the passion project he's been nursing for the past five years. Instead -- the week before Babylon A.D. hits theaters -- he is nursing a grudge. "I'm very unhappy with the film," he says. "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience."
The film, starring Vin Diesel, is an adaptation of the French novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec. It tells the story of a mercenary (Diesel) in the year 2019 who is hired to transport a woman and her guardian from Eastern Europe to New York. "The scope of the original book was quite amazing," says Kassovitz. "The author was very much into geopolitics and how the world is going to evolve. He saw that as wars evolve, it won't be just about territories any more, but money-driven politics. As a director it's something that's very attractive to do."
Diesel emphasizes the movie's theme of smuggling people across national borders. "This whole thing that's happening in Georgia right now is so fresh that no one has even asked about it yet," he says. "We're coming into an age where borders are closing, and I think that our society will be numb to it because of our freedom in the virtual world, our freedom in the Internet."
But according to Kassovitz, Babylon A.D. fails to deliver any of these messages. "It's pure violence and stupidity," he admits. "The movie is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will mean the future of our planet. All the action scenes had a goal: They were supposed to be driven by either a metaphysical point of view or experience for the characters... instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24."
So how did a premise steeped in real-world relevance fall so far off track?
The film's production was reportedly riddled with problems, from vast delays to budgetary concerns to weather setbacks. Kassovitz points to the studio, "Fox was sending lawyers who were only looking at all the commas and the dots," he says. "They made everything difficult from A to Z." The last stroke, Kassovitz says, was when Fox interfered with the editing of the film, paring it down to a confusing 93 minutes (original reports were that 70 minutes were cut from the film; Kassovitz says the number is closer to 15). Diesel too was astounded at the film's length. Having just completed production of the fourth installment of The Fast and the Furious, he had not seen a cut of the film in six months. "Am I even in the movie any more, or am I on the cutting room floor?" the actor joked. Fox could not be reached for comment on this story.
To be fair, Kassovitz doesn't entirely hate the film. "I like the energy of it and I got some scenes I'm happy with," he says. "But I know what I had -- I had something much better in my hands but I just wasn't allowed to work." That the movie follows on the heels of such strong summer scifi options, will also prove challenging. "Babylon will probably have a good first weekend, but the second weekend we're going to lose 30%," says Kassovitz. "I don't see how people who went through all these amazing blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Iron Man this summer will take it."
Diesel says that a director is always in the difficult position of being held accountable for a film's success or failure. "It's hard," he says. "Filmmaking is such a collaborative effort you can't look to one person." Where does Kassovitz look? "I should have chosen a studio that has guts," he says. "Fox was just trying to get a PG-13 movie. I'm ready to go to war against them, but I can't because they don't give a s--t."
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Michelle Rodriguez returns to Lost
By Kona Gallagher,Tv Squad
Lost may be the twistiest-turniest show on TV, but there is still one thing you can always depend on: death is never the end. Producers have proven this once again by announcing the return of the late LAPD officer, Ana Lucia. Michelle Rodriguez, who played Ana Lucia during Lost's second season, wasn't exactly the most popular character the drama has ever had, so I doubt her resurrection was the result of a rabid fan uprising.
Rodriguez, of course, isn't the first deceased "Tailie" Lost has brought back. Cynthia Watros, who played Libby, appeared in one of Michael's visions last season. Rodriguez's return is fueling speculation that Mr. Eko, who met his untimely demise at the (hands?) of the smoke monster, may also return in some form.
U.S Box Office August 22-24
| # | Title | Aug 22 - 24 | Aug 15 - 17 | % Chg. | Weeks | AVG | Cumulative | ||
| 1 | Tropic Thunder | $ 16,272,195 | $ 25,812,796 | -37.0 | 2 | $ 4,854 | $ 65,839,915 | ||
| 2 | The House Bunny | 14,533,702 | 1 | 5,355 | 14,533,702 | ||||
| 3 | Death Race | 12,621,090 | 1 | 4,985 | 12,621,090 | ||||
| 4 | The Dark Knight | 10,542,424 | 16,379,293 | -35.6 | 6 | 3,333 | 489,416,885 | ||
| 5 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | 5,661,456 | 14,611,273 | -61.3 | 2 | 1,640 | 24,999,054 | ||
| 6 | Pineapple Express | 5,452,163 | 9,808,295 | -44.4 | 3 | 2,081 | 73,780,191 | ||
| 7 | Mirrors | 5,010,663 | 11,161,074 | -55.1 | 2 | 1,881 | 20,211,066 | ||
| 8 | Mamma Mia! | 4,314,840 | 6,096,250 | -29.2 | 6 | 1,855 | 124,469,900 | ||
| 9 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | 4,177,950 | 8,205,720 | -49.1 | 4 | 1,725 | 93,921,245 | ||
| 10 | The Longshots | 4,080,687 | 1 | 1,953 | 4,080,687 |
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Fringe Trailer-Pilot Script Details
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Fringe is the fourth TV series co-created by J. J. Abrams (Felicity, Alias, Lost)and also his fourth collaboration with co-creators Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman(Alias, Mission Impossible III, Star Trek). It is produced by Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. Television, and deals with a research scientist named Walter Bishop(who Orci describes as "Frankenstein mixed with Albert Einstein"),his son,and a female FBI agent who brings them back together. The show is being described as a cross between The X-Files, Altered States and The Twilight Zone.Like Abrams' previous TV shows,it will have an overarching mythology.A two-hour, $10,000,000 pilot was produced.Jeff Pinkner will serve as executive producer/showrunner.
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Starring
Kirk Acevedo
Tomas Arana
Blair Brown
Joshua Jackson
Jasika Nicole
John Noble
Charlotte Rampling
Lance Reddick
Anna Torv
Mark Valley
First Look at FOX's "Fringe" Pilot Script SPOILER WARNING
www.televisionaryblog.com
October 19,2007
With Fringe, from Warner Bros. Television and Abrams' Bad Robot shingle, the dynamic duo of Kurtzman and Orci have created what can only be described as a millennial take on that seminal FOX series The X-Files, albeit with an added dose of humor and a taut mythology that serves as an undercurrent for this supernatural/crime procedural.
So what's Fringe's pilot script about? Good question. The teaser, in true Lost fashion, opens with a turbulent passenger flight from Hamburg, Germany to Boston. But lest you think that the plane crashes onto a deserted and possibly haunted island in the middle of nowhere, something else just as terrifying occurs. One passenger--referred to in the script as "Troubled"--injects himself with an insulin syringe pen and within seconds, his entire body begins to liquify. The contagion quickly spreads among the entire cabin as both passengers and crew members' bodies begin to melt. The plane itself lands safely at Logan Airport under radio silence. Cut to a cheap hotel where FBI Agent Olivia Warren (think Keri Russell) finishes a tryst with her secret lover and fellow agent, John Scott. They're summoned to the airport to await CDC inspectors as the plane shows no sign of life and the windows are caked in blood.
Pretty ominous, no? Things just get weirder from there. A suspicious exchange between two Middle Eastern men and a white guy out at a storage facility right after the plane landed is called in to the FBI and Olivia and John are sent to investigate. There they discover a lab filled with chemical equipment, canisters of unknown gas, jars of mutated animals and other horror movie detritus. Olivia goes to call for a chemical transport team when John spies a man inside the lab. A man who happens to look just like "Troubled." He gives chase, Troubled pulls out his mobile phone, punches in a few keys and detonates the lab. John is enveloped in a cloud of chemicals while Olivia is thrown backwards by the blast.
When she comes to, she's in the hospital and John is clinging to life. His entire body has become almost crystalline, his skin almost like glass, translucent and diamond-hard. Quickly losing hope that she'll lose the man she loves, Olivia tracks down the only person who could possibly help, a genius scientist named Dr. Walter Bishop (think Patrick Stewart), who engaged in research in the 1970s and 1980s that involved substances similar to that which caused John's condition. One problem: he's been in a mental hospital for the last seventeen years. Second problem: he's not allowed any visitors other than family... and his only family is his estranged son Peter, a genius misfit and nomad currently working in Baghdad. Olivia tracks down Peter, coerces him into helping her (there are some dangerous people looking for him), and gets Walter released. Together, this troika must work together to figure out a way to save John, track down the killer, uncover his link to Bishop's experiments, and prevent this from happening again.
I won't reveal anymore (sorry, spoiler junkies!) but suffice it to say, the above description is only the first two acts of a labyrinthine two-hour pilot. Along the way, there are car chases, explosions, secret cabals, shady mega-corporations, and things extraordinary, inexplicable, and unbelievably cool. As for the title? It refers to Walter Bishop's specialty: Fringe Science. Before his incarceration (there's a mystery there, BTW), Bishop investigated things like teleportation, astral projection, mutation, mind control. Otherwise known as things that conventional science can't explain. But one thing is for sure. Events like what happened aboard that plane in the pilot's opener are happening with a greater frequency and the world's governments have noticed this alarming trend, even coining a term for these anomalies: The Pattern.
I read Fringe's pilot script with a feverish passion, devouring each and every plot twist and turn. This is a hugely ambitious project and smacks of Kevin Reilly's positive influence over FOX: it's intelligent, controversial, and populist at the same time, filled with memorably abrasive characters, gruesome horror, and tongue-in-cheek humor. It's House meets The X-Files with The Twilight Zone and some of the British series Eleventh Hour thrown into the mix.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Warner Bros. Confirms Superman Reboot
SuperheroHype.com
August 22,2008
Just a few days after this article was posted, Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov has told The Wall Street Journal that the studio is going to be reintroducing Superman. We assume this will be similar to how Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk was a reboot of Ang Lee's Hulk. Here is what the article says:Warner Bros. also put on hold plans for another movie starring multiple superheroes -- known as "Batman vs. Superman" -- after the $215 million "Superman Returns," which had disappointing box-office returns, didn't please executives. "'Superman' didn't quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to," says Mr. Robinov. "It didn't position the character the way he needed to be positioned." "Had 'Superman' worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009," he adds. "But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all."
The article also talks about Warner Bros. adapting other DC properties over the new few years. "By 2011, Mr. Robinov plans for DC Comics to supply the material for up to two of the six to eight tent-pole films he hopes Warner Bros. will have in the pipeline by then," it says. Those projects will likely be about single characters at first, and will be darker much like The Dark Knight:
With "Batman vs. Superman" and "Justice League" stalled, Warner Bros. has quietly adopted Marvel's model of releasing a single film for each character, and then using those movies and their sequels to build up to a multicharacter film. "Along those lines, we have been developing every DC character that we own," Mr. Robinov says.
Like the recent Batman sequel -- which has become the highest-grossing film of the year thus far -- Mr. Robinov wants his next pack of superhero movies to be bathed in the same brooding tone as "The Dark Knight." Creatively, he sees exploring the evil side to characters as the key to unlocking some of Warner Bros.' DC properties. "We're going to try to go dark to the extent that the characters allow it," he says. That goes for the company's Superman franchise as well.
The studio is set to announce its plans for future DC movies in the next month. For now, though, it is focused on releasing four comic-book films in the next three years, including a third Batman film, a new film reintroducing Superman, and two movies focusing on other DC Comics characters. Movies featuring Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, and Wonder Woman are all in active development.
We'll let you know as soon as the studio has announced its plans for future DC movies.
Friday, August 22, 2008
My Own Worst Enemy Trailer
NBC's promotional material states that in the show:
Henry Spivey (Christian Slater) is a middle-class efficiency expert living a humdrum life in the suburbs with a wife, two kids, a dog, and a minivan. Edward Albright is an operative who speaks 13 languages, runs a four-minute mile, and is trained to kill.... Henry and Edward are polar opposites who share only one thing in common—the same body. When the carefully constructed wall between them breaks down, Henry and Edward are thrust into unfamiliar territory where each man is dangerously out of his element. My Own Worst Enemy explores the duality of a man who is literally pitted against himself, a la Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde. And it raises the question: who can you trust when you can't trust yourself? The series is produced by Universal Media Studios. Jason Smilovic is the executive producer.David Semel is the director and executive producer. Wikipedia
Smallville-Maxima cast
By Matt Mitovich ,TVGuide
The CW's Smallville has landed the second half of its upcoming villainous one-two punch. Charlotte Sullivan, who recently starred in the Canadian series/SOAPnet import MVP, is coming on board as Maxima, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
The arrival of Maxima, who will debut in the season's fourth episode, gives Tom Welling's Clark Kent two new toughies to deal with, coupled with Sam Witwer's imminent introduction as Davis Bloom a.k.a. Doomsday.
Who/what/from where is Maxima? According to the Wiki/Superman canon, she's the oldest child of the royal family of the planet Almerac. (Random anagram alert: Caramel!) Her purpose on Earth is to find a suitable mate — which more than explains why she finds herself in a liplock with not one, but two Smallville gents shortly after her arrival!
Maxima and Superman are genetically compatible, meaning she can give him what no Earth woman (save for Kate Bosworth?) can — children. Her powers historically have included mind control, strength, enhanced stamina and the occasional psionic beam shooting from her peepers.
Release date shift for Quantum of Solace
Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, announced yesterday that it will release Quantum of Solace on November 14th in North America.
The film will begin its worldwide roll out on October 31.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
U.S Box Office August 15-17
| # | Title | Aug 15 - 17 | Aug 8 -10 | % Chg. | Weeks | AVG | Cumulative | ||
| 1 | Tropic Thunder | $ 25,812,796 | 1 | $ 7,777 | $ 36,845,588 | ||||
| 2 | The Dark Knight | 16,379,293 | 26,117,030 | -37.3 | 5 | 4,562 | 471,082,150 | ||
| 3 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | 14,611,273 | 1 | 4,233 | 14,611,273 | ||||
| 4 | Mirrors | 11,161,074 | 1 | 4,190 | 11,161,074 | ||||
| 5 | Pineapple Express | 9,808,295 | 23,245,025 | -57.8 | 2 | 3,193 | 62,740,789 | ||
| 6 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | 8,205,720 | 16,490,970 | -50.2 | 3 | 2,440 | 86,245,775 | ||
| 7 | Mamma Mia! | 6,096,250 | 8,208,580 | -25.7 | 5 | 2,200 | 116,013,715 | ||
| 8 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | 5,785,250 | 10,678,430 | -45.8 | 2 | 2,132 | 32,002,712 | ||
| 9 | Step Brothers | 4,807,904 | 9,128,662 | -47.3 | 4 | 1,816 | 90,695,938 | ||
| 10 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | 3,755,575 | 1 | 5,427 | 3,755,575 | ||||
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Moved to July 2009
Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that it has moved back the release date of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to Summer 2009. The sixth installment of the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and in the major international markets on July 17, 2009. The announcement was made by Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros.
Source:Market Watch
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly in renegotiation talks
By Nellie Andreeva,Hollywood Reporter
Aug 11, 2008
ABC Studios, which produces the ABC drama "Lost," has quietly started renegotiations with stars Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly to beef up their paychecks, currently at about $150,000 per episode.
However, word of the talks leaked out by Friday, prompting reps for some of the other regulars to call the studio to open their own renegotiations. The majority of the "Lost" supporting players are in the $80,000-90,000 per episode range.
U.S Box Office August 8-10
| # | Title | Aug 8 -10 | Aug 1 - 3 | % Chg. | Weeks | AVG | Cumulative | ||
| 1 | The Dark Knight | $ 26,117,030 | $ 42,664,219 | -38.8 | 4 | $ 6,489 | $ 441,628,497 | ||
| 2 | Pineapple Express | 23,245,025 | 1 | 7,567 | 41,318,736 | ||||
| 3 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | 16,490,970 | 40,457,770 | -59.2 | 2 | 4,365 | 71,048,920 | ||
| 4 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | 10,678,430 | 1 | 3,945 | 19,620,128 | ||||
| 5 | Step Brothers | 9,128,662 | 16,506,526 | -44.7 | 3 | 2,869 | 81,132,136 | ||
| 6 | Mamma Mia! | 8,208,580 | 12,615,515 | -34.9 | 4 | 2,570 | 104,144,505 | ||
| 7 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | 4,871,478 | 6,662,406 | -26.9 | 5 | 2,473 | 81,775,323 | ||
| 8 | Hancock | 3,317,450 | 5,087,756 | -34.8 | 6 | 1,469 | 221,726,791 | ||
| 9 | WALL•E | 3,140,083 | 4,603,179 | -31.8 | 7 | 1,465 | 210,206,582 | ||
| 10 | Swing Vote | 3,125,290 | 6,230,669 | -49.8 | 2 | 1,412 | 12,020,828 |
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Sneak Peek:The Road
Photo By Macall Polay, 2929/Dimension Films
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY
Imagining the end of the world is not easy, especially if you're not going to create one with a computer. But director John Hillcoat and filmmakers of The Road believe they discovered it in Pittsburgh.
"It's a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing," Hillcoat says. "But in winter, it can be very bleak. There are city blocks that are abandoned. The woods can be brutal. We didn't want to go the CGI world."
"We wanted the heightened reality in the book."
That book is Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winner of the same name. It's about a father and son who navigate a countryside devastated by an unnamed catastrophe.
The film, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and 11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee, also was shot in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans and on Mount St. Helens in Washington state for scenes of devastation.
But most of the film was shot in and around Pittsburgh.
Hillcoat found abandoned coal fields, a deserted amusement park and an 8-mile stretch of closed freeway as locations.
"It's tangible, the misery and hopelessness and the bleakness," Mortensen says. "It gives you much more to work with if you're filming in that world instead of a green screen.
"You have to bring a story to life in a movie in a way you don't have to in a book — even a book as powerful as that."
But Mortensen says that, like the book, the film adaptation is more than bleak imagery.
"I spoke with Cormac before we started shooting," he says. "I think what's made this story so universally loved is because it's really about protecting your child, no matter what the circumstances.
"At its core, it's a love story."
