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An update on the potential Constantine sequel - will it ever happen? Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura spoke to IGN UK:
"I wish I knew the answer to that," he says. "That would really be a Warner Bros. executive question. I know all the filmmakers want to try to make number two. We love the character. We're hoping that we can find a way to make even, I'll say, a darker, harder version of it. We're not at that place yet where we really have the ability to get that done, but I know Keanu wants to play that and all of us think that there is a natural, new and darker adventure with Constantine."
So the sequel idea isn't dead, but don't buy your tickets quite yet. And also, be prepared for the possibility of more changes to the original comic in the case that the sequel actually does get a green light
Two promotional images of Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Henry VIII) and Henry Cavill (Charles Brandon) for season 2 of Showtime's historical drama, The Tudors. (popbytes)
Rachel Weisz will star in Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel The Lovely Bones. [imdb]
Michael Barthel's paper, "It Doesn't Matter Which You Heard": the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (via Said the Gramaphone) is an interesting read:
What's fascinating about all this is not simply the song's ubiquity on TV dramas--it's that it's used in the exact same way every time. Songs can be used sincerely, ironically, as background shading, as subtle comment, as product placement. But "Hallelujah" always appears as people are being sad, quietly sitting and staring into space or ostentatiously crying, and always as a way of tying together the sadness of different characters in different places. In short, it's always used as part of a "sad montage."
And I loved this little comment:
(There is an entire paper to be written about the Gilmore Girls teen-drama diaspora, what with all of Rory's boyfriends that have gotten their own shows.)
William Hurt joins the cast of The Incredible Hulk, taking over from Sam Elliott's as Gen. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, the father of Betty Ross (Liv Tyler). Edward Norton plays Bruce Banner. (Coming Soon) [imdb]
Petrelli's Eleven - cut to mimic the trailer of Ocean's Eleven. Very funny. (via bantha_fodder)
Heroes season 2 spoilers: Sylar will become a series regular, says a rep for actor Zachary Quinto. And Kristin at E! Online who recently reported a casting rumour involving David Anders, is now hearing that we'll be meeting a new character who has been alive for 1000 years - she predicts that this would be Kane, Anders' character. *flails* I did call that one, didn't I? It fits with the TV Squad report earlier which described Kane as "a charming womanizer who has a soul that seems to be older than he appears to be." _abulafia has already dubbed him "Sark as fanon!Methos", and I agree that it would be fantastic.
If you haven't been keeping up with the Heroes comics on the official website, HeroesRevealed has all the comics to date as jpg files linked from a single page.
The Olgas for Ernest Giles, a 1985 landscape by Brett Whiteley (the esteemed Australian artist who looks disconcertingly like the Ronald MacDonald man) has sold in Sydney for nearly $3.48 million, a new record for the highest price paid for a local work at auction. Deutscher-Menzies auctioneer Marie Geissler says: "Here we have this brilliant painting which personifies the artist's fantasy about the inland of Australia in a way. He sexualised the landscape in a way no other artist has ever done before, in Australian terms anyway." (ABC News, Articulate)
