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Movie News: Eva's New Learning, X-Men and More | Today's News: Our Take | 10/22/2007
Eva Longoria and ex-flame Jason Biggs investigate allegations against an elementary-school principal (Rob Corddry) in the comedy Lower Learning.... Also per the Reporter, Angela Bassett and Noah Wyle have joined the Rod Lurie thriller Nothing But the Truth.... Crooner Chris Isaak is a sex- and alcohol-obsessed father in an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Informers.... According to Variety, a May 1, 2009, release has been set for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman and perhaps... read more
Comings & Goings: Mad Men, Viva Laughlin | Roush Dispatch | 10/18/2007
You could get vertigo tonight, scaling the heights of the finale of Mad Men on AMC, and then plumbing the depths of the tone-deaf misfire that is Viva Laughlin, premiering on CBS in the plum slot after CSI before moving to Sundays. There, only those with the most morbid curiosity to watch a show’s slow yet hopefully quick death are likely to follow (unless every critic I know is totally off the mark).First, a salute to the best and most fascinating new show to arrive on TV this year (and... read more
In the Works: Mark Burnett Has Amne$ia, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 8/20/2007
Reality guru Mark Burnett has sold to NBC a midseason show called Amne$ia, in which contestants are quizzed on key events from their lives, TV Week reports. For example: "Do you remember producing a show called On the Lot?".... The Hollywood Reporter reports that ABC Family has greenlit a pair of comedy pilots: Happy Campers, chronicling a family's cross-country road trip, and Roomies, about a group of friends living together. (Apparently the title Friends was taken.).... CBS has inked a... read more
Ask Matt | 8/20/2007
Just wondering about your take on Viva Laughlin. Is it really as bad as some of the critics are making it out to be, or is it the musical aspect that some people just can't stomach? I'm quite intrigued by all of the CBS promos for Viva ? Hugh Jackman! Melanie Griffith! I'm there for at least the first few episodes! read more
Live CBS Upfront Coverage | Ausiello Report | 5/16/2007
3:46: CBS' Upfront starts in 15 minutes and I'm lost. Does anyone out there know how to get to Carnegie Hall!? Ba-dum-bum. 3:48: I've got an awesome seat right in the center. Some might say I have a birds-eye view of the stage. Ba-dum-bum.3:53: CBS is young and hip — and they've got a DJ spinning records in front of the stage to prove it!3:57: You haven't lived until you've heard CBS' NFL theme song remixed with "We Will Rock You."4:00: Showtime! Oooh, we're starting with a musical number!... read more
CBS Announces Its Fall Lineup | First Look: Hottest Fall TV | 5/16/2007
CBS announced today its 2007-2008 Fall Prime-time lineup, featuring five new series: one comedy, three dramas and one reality program. These freshman series will join the 17 returning programs on the current CBS lineup, which helped the network win the 2006-2007 season in viewers and adults 25-54, continuing its multi-year winning streak. The five new series feature bold and creative concepts, including Viva Laughlin, where drama is accented by iconic music; Cane, starring Jimmy Smits as the... read more
CBS Sneak Peek: Swingers, Geeks and Vampires, Oh My! | First Look: Hottest Fall TV | 5/14/2007
CBS on Monday began tipping its hand, ordering several new shows.On the drama front, there is Cane, starring NYPD Blue alum Jimmy Smits as the head of a Latin-American family in the rum biz; Moonlight (FKA Twilight), starring Alex O'Loughlin as a P.I. who is, by the way, a vampire; Viva Laughlin, a Hugh Jackman-produced import of a BBC series, concerning a family man who dreams of opening a casino in Laughlin, Nevada; and Swingtown, an Ice Storm-esque look at couples swapping partners in the... read more
Ask Matt | 3/19/2007
Any early thoughts on Hugh Jackman's CBS project Viva Laughlin? The musical/drama seems like a very ambitious project! read more
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Bad Mojo in The Prestige | Ask FlickChick | 2/26/2007
Send your movie questions to FlickChick.The Illusionist and The Prestige: Two Hollywood movies about turn-of–the-century magicians in one year — how'd that happen? Not that it's unusual for competing projects about the same or similar subject matters to go into development, but rarely do both stay the course: A star drops out, financing dries up, someone blinks and then there's only one film left. This week's DVD Tuesday pick is The Prestige, which isn't to say The Illusionist is a... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/31/2007
Last week, in the wake of the second batch of Idol, ABC opted to shuffle its Wednesday lineup, moving The Knights of Pro read more
Hugh Jackman Captains CBS Cruise-ship Drama | Today's News: Our Take | 11/27/2006
Per Variety, CBS has made a script commitment to Voyages, a "Rashomon-style" drama revolving around passengers on a high-end cruise line, to be exec produced by Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman. And by "high-end," they mean one not susceptible to mysteriously disappearing passengers, broken-down propulsion systems, mass gastrointestinal illnesses or the like. Then again, that kinda robs us of all the good story lines, no?Am I the only one with the Love Boat theme in their head now? read more
At the Movies: Clive Barker Raises New Hell | Today's News: Our Take | 11/9/2006
Per Variety, Clive Barker is writing and producing, but not directing, an update of 1987's Hellraiser. Barker, touting this as more than a remake, says, "There are areas where I think we can be a lot more intense and a lot scarier".... Hugh Jackman will produce and star in an adaptation of the Robert Littell novel The Amateur, which 24's Evan Katz will pen.... Eminem hopes to play gunslinger Palladin in Paramount's big-screen take on the 1950s TV Western Have Gun Will Travel.... Russia has... read more
In the Works: More Spy Drama from 24 Creators | Today's News: Our Take | 10/18/2006
24 cocreators Robert Cochran, Joel Surnow and Howard Gordon have secured a pilot commitment from Fox for NSA Innocent, about an average joe recruited to spy for the NSA.... Also per Variety: CBS has spent seven figures on a pilot for a U.S. adaptation of BBC's Viva Blackpool, a "mystery-musical miniseries" about a small-time casino owner who tries to launch a Las Vegas resort. Hugh Jackman will exec-produce the series and guest in the pilot.... ABC is eyeing a drama centered on the post-Katrina... read more
At the Movies: Buffy's Spike Finds Love | Today's News: Our Take | 9/28/2006
Per the Hollywood Reporter, James Marsters will play the best friend of Hilary Swank's late husband in the romantic drama P.S., I Love You.... Scarlett Johansson is Mary Queen of Scots in a biopic focused on the title character's legendary catfights with Queen Elizabeth I of England.... Per Variety, Hugh Jackman is joining William Baldwin, Henry Winkler and Lisa Guerrero in A Plumm Summer, an indie about two kids trying to solve a puppet's kidnapping.... Twentieth Century Fox has picked up film... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/27/2006
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Today's News: My Take | 3/22/2006
Fran Drescher will play one of Eric McCormack's ex-girlfriends in Neil LaBute read more
Today's News: My Take | 3/17/2006
Whale Rider's Keisha Castle-Hughes has been cast as Mary in Nativity, a look at the Virgin Mary's life bef read more
Today's News: My Take | 11/21/2005
Jessica Simpson is in talks to star opposite Dane Cook in Employee of the Month read more
FlickChick | 9/29/2005
Has Julian McMahon ever in the running to be the next Bond? He's the only actor I can think of who'd be as perfect a fit read more
Ask Matt | 9/23/2005
Oh, my Lord in Heaven, this is the worst thing I've ever seen. Earth, Wind and Fire?? Elle read more