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Houseguests have caused my household (avg residents: 2; current residents: 6) to exceed its monthly bandwidth - and it's only mid-July! So, please excuse me if I don't comment much for the rest of the month, or if I'm a bit late with my news updates. Everything is going. very. very. slowly. And that's after I've disabled loading of pictures on Firefox.
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Teaser trailer for Terminator: Salvation. Unlike most premature teaser trailers for summer films (I think filming on Terminator 4 only got under way a month or two ago?), this one actually shows some really arresting images, and I like the grungy, spooky guerilla-war mood it creates. Props especially for showing the post-Judgement Day future during the daytime, which I don't think any of the other films have ever done before. Depending on how it takes to upload on my current dial-up speed, I might post some caps a bit later. Christian Bale is John Connor, and the cast also includes Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Anton Yelchin, Common and Helena Bonham Carter. [imdb]
Trailer for The Spirit, adaptated from the Will Eisner comics by Frank Miller. It stars Gabriel Macht, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Paz Vega, Jamie King, Eva Mendes and Stana Katic. [imdb]
New teaser for the science fiction/Viking film, Outlander, starring Jim Caviezel, John Hurt, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman and Sophia Myles. [imdb]
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall will star in the music-based drama, Crazy Heart, about a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic country music singer (Bridges) who is able to get his life and career back on track through his relationship and experiences with a female reporter (Gyllenhaal). (Coming Soon)
The Resident Evil franchise continues with the CG-animated Resident Evil: Degeneration, which has its own website up and running. Say what you like about Resident Evil - I like me a post-apocalyptic story that brings back the bloody and dangerous mother goddess figure as leader of humanity.
Hayley Atwell (The Line of Beauty) has been cast as the female lead in the reinvented The Prisoner, a 6-part mini-series based on the cult 1960s show. Jim Caviezel plays Number Six, a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "the Village". Ian McKellan also stars as Number Two. Atwell says: “[My character] is the love interest, but it also is someone who is working for a very important corporation. And she’s not what she seems… She turns up in the village blind, and with a number. And you don’t know whether it’s a joke, or if she’s in a parallel world.”(MTV Movies Blog) [imdb]
Marcia Gay Harden will join the cast of the award-winning Damages in a recurring role, playing a rival attorney. (Televisionary) [imdb]
Second Sight, the BBC mini-series that starred Clive Owen as a police investigator who is slowly going blind, is being remade as a movie. (Cinematical)
Jace at Televisionary takes a look at the partially re-cast and re-shot pilot, as well as the second episode, of HBO's True Blood, a supernatural drama based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris:
'If there was a way to skip the first episode (which does, unfortunately, set up the series) and watch the second, I would definitely advise you to figure that out. The second episode is a clearer realization of Charlaine Harris' novels, blending together backwoods humor, underworld menaces, and homespun wisdom into a much more appealing package and we're given a much clearer sense of Sookie's world and how each of the characters interact.'
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Teaser trailer for Terminator: Salvation. Unlike most premature teaser trailers for summer films (I think filming on Terminator 4 only got under way a month or two ago?), this one actually shows some really arresting images, and I like the grungy, spooky guerilla-war mood it creates. Props especially for showing the post-Judgement Day future during the daytime, which I don't think any of the other films have ever done before. Depending on how it takes to upload on my current dial-up speed, I might post some caps a bit later. Christian Bale is John Connor, and the cast also includes Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, Anton Yelchin, Common and Helena Bonham Carter. [imdb]
Trailer for The Spirit, adaptated from the Will Eisner comics by Frank Miller. It stars Gabriel Macht, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Paz Vega, Jamie King, Eva Mendes and Stana Katic. [imdb]
New teaser for the science fiction/Viking film, Outlander, starring Jim Caviezel, John Hurt, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman and Sophia Myles. [imdb]
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall will star in the music-based drama, Crazy Heart, about a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic country music singer (Bridges) who is able to get his life and career back on track through his relationship and experiences with a female reporter (Gyllenhaal). (Coming Soon)
The Resident Evil franchise continues with the CG-animated Resident Evil: Degeneration, which has its own website up and running. Say what you like about Resident Evil - I like me a post-apocalyptic story that brings back the bloody and dangerous mother goddess figure as leader of humanity.
Hayley Atwell (The Line of Beauty) has been cast as the female lead in the reinvented The Prisoner, a 6-part mini-series based on the cult 1960s show. Jim Caviezel plays Number Six, a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "the Village". Ian McKellan also stars as Number Two. Atwell says: “[My character] is the love interest, but it also is someone who is working for a very important corporation. And she’s not what she seems… She turns up in the village blind, and with a number. And you don’t know whether it’s a joke, or if she’s in a parallel world.”(MTV Movies Blog) [imdb]
Marcia Gay Harden will join the cast of the award-winning Damages in a recurring role, playing a rival attorney. (Televisionary) [imdb]
Second Sight, the BBC mini-series that starred Clive Owen as a police investigator who is slowly going blind, is being remade as a movie. (Cinematical)
Jace at Televisionary takes a look at the partially re-cast and re-shot pilot, as well as the second episode, of HBO's True Blood, a supernatural drama based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris:
'If there was a way to skip the first episode (which does, unfortunately, set up the series) and watch the second, I would definitely advise you to figure that out. The second episode is a clearer realization of Charlaine Harris' novels, blending together backwoods humor, underworld menaces, and homespun wisdom into a much more appealing package and we're given a much clearer sense of Sookie's world and how each of the characters interact.'