Boundless and Bare: New BREAKING BAD Teaser Is Pure Poetry
We’re just 12 days away from the first of Breaking Bad‘s final episodes (Aug. 11) and this moody teaser trailer sets the tone for what we’re about to witness. Using Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias, this Heisenberg poetry reading is decidedly not what you’d expect to hear at your local coffee shop’s open mic night. The way Bryan Cranston says “Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” gets straight to the heart of who Walter White has become…. and where he’s going. Check it...
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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Is ‘Definitely’ Coming Back
As one of the strongest defenders of Arrested Development‘s fourth season (it may be my favorite), any word on the continuation of the series is good news. But something this definitive is great. At Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy conference last week, Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos asked Mitch Hurwitz if they were going to do more Arrested Development. Hurwitz one word reply says it all: “Definitely.” There’s long been talk of an Arrested Development movie, post-season four, and it seems like a fifth season of the show, with a movie or a limited run mini-series, is inevitable at this point. Netflix did earn 3 Emmy nominations thanks to the series, including Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Jason Bateman. The streaming video service has too much invested in the program to let it fade away, even if the show didn’t...
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MTV’s SCREAM Series Gets REVENGE/CRIMINAL MINDS Writers – Big 6 Morning Report
MTV announced that it was adapting one of the greatest slasher films of all time, Scream, for the small screen about a year ago. And this week at TCA we learned that Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin have been hired as writers for the show. The pair have previously worked on Revenge, Criminal Minds and The Event. (Variety) NBC is planning a few big event miniseries, including one about the life of Hillary Clinton from the White House to her time as Secretary of State, a new adaptation of The Tommyknockers and an adaptation of Rosemary’s Baby. (The Wrap) At the weekend box office, The Wolverine came in #1 with a weak $55 million, though it did gross over $141 million worldwide. (Deadline) Diablo Cody is directing a movie and new photos from the film, Paradise, have been released. (/Film) According to Alec Baldwin, he turned down an offer...
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Ryan Gosling & Zac Efron Up For Roles in STAR WARS: EPISODE VII? – Big 6 Morning Report
Well, Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII may be about to get 100 times hotter. Both Zac Efron and Ryan Gosling have reportedly been names mentioned in connection with the roles of Han Solo’s son and Luke Skywalker’s Son, respectively. The two actors, it’s worth noting, both got their starts at the Mouse house. (Latino Review) The Venice International Film Festival announced its line-up for the 2013 fest, including screenings of new films from Terry Gilliam, Hayao Miyazaki, David Gordon Green and Xavier Dolan. (The Playlist) Gwyneth Platrow and Ewan McGregor have joined David Koepp’s upcoming crime thriller Mortdecai, which stars Johnny Depp as a rogue art dealer (?) who must find a painting that contains the passcode to a bank account filled with Nazi gold. (Variety) Jason Sudeikis has confirmed that he is not returning to SNL. (Deadline) It looks like...
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Joss Whedon on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Place In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Making a TV series that has to come up with something new, week after week, for something like 24 episodes a season is a lot different that making a movie. But what if that TV show had to co-exist in the same universe as a movie series? It’s not easy. Like trying to explain how Agent Coulson, who was thought to have died in The Avengers, came back to life for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Well, Joss Whedon chatted with The Wrap about how the upcoming ABC series will fit in the grand scheme of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: “I have to make sure that I don’t overstep…. At the same time, it’s such a different mandate in terms of where we are in the Marvel universe… The Avengers are the epicenter… This is the peripheral. These are the people that don’t get...
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GAME OF THRONES In Memoriam Says Goodbye To The Characters We’ve Lost
In what may be one of the most inspired videos to come out of Comic Con, the Games of Thrones team put together the ultimate In Memoriam segment for the dozens (hundreds?) of characters lost in the first three seasons of the series. Surprisingly and in spite of the use of Boys II Men music, I kept it together the whole way through… even when they paid tribute to the Stark family’s two dead dire wolves, the hardest losses of them...
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