PETER F****ING BERG?? Who made The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights, and The Rundown?

THAT'S WHO'S GOING TO BE DIRECTING THE NEW DUNE MOVIE???

Pardon me if I'd hoped for somebody who wasn't so bloody US-centric. Ridley Scott, say, or maybe Guillermo del Toro.

I saw The Golden Compass a couple of days ago...and all I was thinking when it finished was: What the hell kind of ending was that?

Edward Norton has left State of Play, and Ben Affleck is in talks to replace him as the congressman who is caught up in a murder conspiracy being investigated by an old friend, a journalist, played by Russell Crowe. ( Read more... )

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CALLUM KEITH RENNIE JOINS THE CAST OF THE X-FILES 2 THE MOVIE, WHAT??? (Coming Soon) [imdb]

kenorland, Edward has been cast! And they went with a Brit as we hoped: Robert Pattison, of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Summit Entertainment, under News)

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Saw the supernatural action-drama Gabriel today - about an "Arc" angel tasked with singlehanded battling the "Fallen" and restoring the Light to Purgatory (better get used to those nouns, buddy, if you want a chance in hell of following the story) - and was pleasantly surprised, consideringly what little hopes I had for it going in. ( spoilers )

Was reading a paperback just before walking into my Economics exam today (papers on Adam Smith and Keynes; it was good), and remember just why Terry Pratchett's The Fifth Elephant, after Jingo and The Truth, is my favourite of the Discworld books. It's a real knuckle-biting espionage thriller, in the manner of Graham Greene or Le Carre (or as ( Read more... )