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Lead singer of Garbage, Shirley Manson, will join the regular cast of the The Sarah Connor Chronicles season two as Catherine Weaver, the CEO of a cutting-edge high-tech company, described as the "anti-Sarah Connor". Warm, earthy, and smart, she's the sort of woman that wears all white and walks around without shoes. (THR, SpoilerTV)
Red band trailer for the Coen brothers' comedy Burn After Reading, starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, and Tilda Swinton. [imdb]
Ray Winstone and Jonah Lotan are set to star in David Milch's (Deadwood) new pilot for HBO, Last of the Ninth. A gritty drama set in 1972 in the NYPD, the project centers on Joe Dalton (Lotan), a young Vietnam veteran who joins the department as an undercover cop. There, veteran detective John Giglio (Winstone) takes him under his wing. (THR)
A new video podcast for Baz Luhrmann's Australia is up at Apple, this time focusing on the beautiful costumes for the film designed by Catherine Martin. [imdb]
Spoilery details about the Caprica pilot script (the prequel to Battlestar Galactica) at E!Online:
'As densely written and layered as any novel, this script feels original and, most important, deeply thoughtful.'
The cast of Caprica features Eric Stoltz, Paula Malcomson, Esai Morales, Polly Walker, Alessandra Toressani and Avan Jogia. [imdb]
IGN interviews Joss Whedon about his new show Dollhouse, which will air on Fox in 2009:
'When I spoke to [Tahmoh Penikett], he was the first person tomention Never Let Me Go, the novel, just from hearing the premise of Dollhouse. The beautiful sadness of that novel so suffuses what we're trying to do, and it was so beautiful when he brought it up that I just knew this guy [was right]. And it follows my rule with Nathan [Fillion]. Hire a Canadian! They're gentlemen and they're very tall.'
Roger Ebert blogs about Robert Downey Jr's performance in Iron Man:
'Some superheroes speak in a kind of heightened, semi-formal prose, as if dictating to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Not Tony Stark. He could talk that way and be Juno's uncle. "Iron Man"doesn't seem to know how seriously most superhero movies take themselves. If there is wit in the dialog, the superhero is often supposed to be unaware of it. If there is broad humor, it usually belongs to the villain. What happens in "Iron Man," however, is that sometimes we wonder how seriously even Stark takes it. He's flippant in the face of disaster, casual on the brink of ruin.'