Thursday, 8 March 2012

Start Searching: Misha Collins Returns to Supernatural

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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

VIDEO: Dustin Lance Black's Star-Studded '8' Reading through

"8," a abide by Academy Award-champion Dustin Lance Black ("Milk"), went viral on Saturday evening inside a La reading through which streamed survive YouTube and it is available these days for viewing. Black's drama is attracted in the transcripts from the 2010 federal trial "Perry v. Schwarzenegger," where the American Foundation for Equal Privileges tried to overturn Proposition 8 which prevents lgbt couples from getting married to in California. Several large-title celebs including Kaira Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, and Chris Colfer read an altered version from the play that made its debut inside a one-evening performance on Broadway last fall. Black told Entertainment Weekly he removed a few of the "redundant" legal arguments in the original version and developed the plaintiffs' side. He described, "I felt following the NY version which i desired to be aware of litigants more...[so] I added more personal tales. Really, ultimately, it is the personal tales that change individuals minds."Take advantage of Reiner directed the reading through and, together with Black, is among the founding board people from the American Foundation for Equal Privileges, among the primary organizations behind the Prop 8 situation along with the evening's performance. Reiner told the AP that more than 200,000 people viewed the live stream. He added that Black condensed days of trial transcripts into this play because groups funding the defense of Prop 8 have effectively avoided video tracks from the 2010 federal trial from being broadcast. In Feb, the Nine Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, but anti-gay marriage advocates are anticipated to accept situation to some greater court. Watch video from the event below.

First Look: Let The Voice's Battle Rounds Begin!

Queen Latifah The CW is joining in on the reality music competition series circuit with a new unscripted show from Queen Latifah. The Star Next Door will feature a nationwide search for undiscovered artists on the brink of stardom. Superstar mentors, including Gloria Estefan and John Rich, will venture out to where the talent is to prepare them for the chance to represent their home city live in front of America. Queen Latifah and The Biggest Loser's Dave Broome will executive-produce the series. Pilot Season: Get the scoop! The network has also ordered two other reality series: Breaking Pointe will go behind the scenes of competitive ballet company Ballet West. Kate Shepherd and Bill Langworthy will executive-produce. The Catalina, executive-produced by Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey, will follow the young and wild staff at a South Beach, Fla. hotel. As previously announced, the network has also ordered Oh Sit!, a high-stakes game of musical chairs in which 20 contestants race head-to-head through five physically demanding eliminations as they compete for a chair. Phil Gurin, Richard Joel and Deena Dill will executive-produce. Check out our list of TV's most fashionable characters "One of my first goals here at The CW was to increase the number of hours of original programming, both throughout the season and during the summer," said CW President Mark Pedowitz. "With these four new reality series, we're launching our biggest summer schedule yet which will boost our circulation during the summer months and provide us with a promotional platform for our fall launch." Premiere dates have not yet been announced. Do any of these shows sound interesting to you?

Monday, 5 March 2012

Doug Ellins Pilot 40 Not Moving Forward At Cinemax

EXCLUSIVE: Cinemax has made the decision not proceed with 40, the comedy pilot from Entourage creator Doug Ellin. The only-camera ensemble initially revolved around four long term buddies — performed within the pilot by Erectile dysfunction Burns, Michael Rapaport, Michael Imperioli and Adrian Pasdar — who help one another navigate existence at 40, which is not all they expected so that it is. Following the pilot was shot within the fall, Cinemax and Ellin required a stab at reworking the project with rewrites, however the network ultimately elected to not proceed. Ellin is under a general deal at Cinemax and can still develop for that pay cable network. Additionally to 40, younger crowd executive created the Cinemax drama pilot Da Brick this past year, which remains in contention.

Saturday, 3 March 2012

Pilot Season: Julia Stiles Plots Return to TV on NBC's Midnight Sun

Josh Dallas, Ginnifer Goodwin He loves her. He loves her not. Once Upon a Time has pulled fans of star-crossed lovers Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) and Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) back and forth all season long, as the couple would reunite, only to break up again. Does the show actually have a plan for the iconic couple? We chatted with Once bosses Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis to find out. (And they answered a bunch of other burning questions too!) First Look: Sebastian Stan goes Mad on Once Upon a Time You keep bringing Mary and David - aka Snow White and Prince Charming - together only to have them break up again. Do you actually have a bigger plan for them? Kitsis: The whole idea of the show is that Storybrooke is cursed. Their love is so strong it keeps pulling them together no matter how hard we try to keep them apart. Of course, the curse has to keep them apart. I love that the audience is mad that David cheated, but he's married to Snow White [Laughs]. In Storybrooke, he has all this guilt of cheating on Kathryn (Anastasia Griffith), but the truth is, that's the curse. Horowitz: Is he cheating on Snow White by being with Kathryn? To us, there's a level of complexity we're trying to build with these relationships and making nothing easy for our characters. The last we saw of Snow White in the fairytale world, she had erased her own memories. When will you pick up that story again? Kitsis: [This Sunday's episode] takes place right after the Huntsman released her, so before she's attained all her banditry skills. In fact, there's a scene you'll see, where Red (Meghan Ory) teaches her how to track. Episode 16 [picks] up directly after the episode where she drank the poison. What can you tell us about Kathryn's disappearance? Horowitz: It's a mystery and it is one that is resolved this season. Kitsis: That's going to take us into the end run of the season. Horowitz: David and Mary Margaret are really fighting a curse to be together and this is another element of that. Kitsis: This will definitely test them... [Also], Kathryn's disappearance is going to take up a lot of Emma's (Jennifer Morrison) time and test her emotionally. Once Upon a Time: Who's the Evil Queen's former love? Will other characters start to wake up? Kitsis: I would say I'd be pissed if something didn't happen like that. It is a difficult thing. The curse is a strong curse. It can't just be easy. I think we're going to explore those questions definitely going forward. In Sunday's episode, we'll see August (Eion Bailey) spark something within Red/Ruby. Is that his goal in Storybrooke? Kitsis: It's like what Henry (Jared Gilmore) said in Episode 2, "It's magic, people don't remember." So when you say to Ruby, "How long have you worked at Granny's?" She's like, "Forever," because she has no conception of time. Once [August] puts it in her head, "Well, why do you?" She's like, "Why do I?" Horowitz: It's a snowball effect, which is to say that [when] Emma arrived in the pilot, the clock started ticking and things started to change. One of the changes is August arriving. There's a lot of things that have changed in Storybrooke, and they've mushroomed out to things like Ruby at the start of [Sunday's episode] and those affects will continue. Will we finally learn what horrible thing Snow did to the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) by the end of the season? Horowitz: Oh yeah. Kitsis: That is its own episode, and that will be Episode 18. That is the episode where you'll find out why the Evil Queen hates Snow White so much. Might Regina ever change her mind about the curse? Horowitz: I suppose anything is possible. Kitsis: She enacted it in such an emotional place that she wasn't thinking clearly. She came here and probably got a little bored. Now that Emma is here, it's reawakened her passion of revenge and anger. She's protecting her son. I don't think she fully understands what she did. I don't think she understands the repercussions and she's beginning to lose sight of even why she did it. Once Upon a Time's Lana Parrilla: Why the Evil Queen became so evil Is there a way to undo the curse? Horowitz: Every curse can be broken. Kitsis: It's just how. Horowitz: And yes, that is something that will be explored. What can you tell us about Regina's mother, played by Barbara Hershey? Kitsis: Evil is not born, it's made. Her mother has a specific viewpoint about the world. Horowitz: Hopefully, you'll get a great insight into Regina and why she is the way she is. Now that we've seen a gentler Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle), is he maybe not as bad as we think? Kitsis: He's a complicated man. It depends where you line up with his interests. He has an agenda and it's whether you're in the way of that agenda or not. A lot of these characters have gray areas. There is some humanity in him. Horowitz: There's an exploration [in Episode 19] of more about him and his son and what happened there that may hopefully shed a little more light. Once Upon a Time: Lost's Emilie de Ravin attempts to tame the Beast What can you tease about Belle's (Emilie de Ravin) return? Kitsis: She's got a nice little scene in Episode 14. She's sitting up there with the person who loves her [and] not realizing that. That would be someone I would not want to piss off. She's going to be back more toward the end of the season. Was having Belle end up in the psych ward a nod to crazy squirrel baby Claire of Lost? Horowitz: I wouldn't say so much a nod as we felt really confident Emilie could pull it off. Kitsis: We had the idea early in the season to have Belle in the insane asylum, and then when we were talking about who would be the perfect Belle, because... Belle is a strong character, and so we're like, "Oh, it's Emilie." Then we actually debated changing the ending because of the squirrel baby, and then we thought, "No, let's surge. Squirrel baby again!" Will we meet anymore villains? Horowitz: In [Sunday's episode], we'll learn who the Big Bad Wolf is. We want to leave the door open for exploring more and more classic villains as we go forward. But that's one example of something coming up. What can you tell us about Season 2? Kitsis: We think we have some really unexpected and surprising characters that we would like to explore next year that I don't even think people are thinking about. Once Upon a Time airs Sundays at 8/7c on ABC.

Thursday, 23 February 2012

CG Monsters, Villains Star in A Little More Coherent Wrath from the Leaders Trailer

Forget John Carter's questionable budget worries and terrible monitoring for any minute Wrath from the Leaders continues to be threatening to become the very first large biff of 2012 because it was introduced, thanks largely to the poorly received predecessor, Clash from the Leaders. The sequel's initial Marilyn Manson-designed trailer did not help, either, but Warner Bros. have fortunately stiffened things (and stopped residual on Mike Worthington's Kenny Forces 'do) for any new trailer that really promises some fantastic CG creature work. Cause the lava monster thingy! Wrath from the Leaders accumulates 10 years following the occasions of Clash, with Perseus (Worthington) drawn on once more by Zeus in order to save the planet, this time around in the dubious Leaders and Olympian plotters we glimpsed in Immortals. (Thanks for your primer, Tarsem!) This time around around Rosamund Pike is along for that ride because the warrior full Andromeda, in addition to folks like Toby Kebbell and Bill Nighy. This trailer firms some misconception a little, explaining the setup (Liam Neeson's Zeus is under attack!) and packing a lot of CG creature checks the length of one minute . 5. Honestly, that's shaping as much as function as the draw of the Jonathan Liebesman-helmed follow up. All I wish to see is a few credible lava smoke monster giant action. The films never get individuals men quite right. Wrath from the Leaders will debut March 30. [via ComingSoon]

Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling To Visit Adult With New Novel

The Harry Potter series made author J.K. Rowling certainly one of Britain’s wealthiest people and today the author is able to tread new literary territory together with her new book targeted toward grown ups. Publication for that new novel and additional particulars are now being stored under systems until later this season, but Rowling stated with the book’s writer Little, Brown and Company the new novel she's most probably still writing is a departure from Potter: Although Ive loved writing it just as much, my next book can be really dissimilar to the Harry Potter series, that has been released so superbly by Bloomsbury and my other marketers all over the world. The liberty to understand more about new territory is really a gift that Harry’s success has introduced me, and knowning that new territory it appeared may well progression to possess a new writer. I'm delighted to possess a second posting home in Little, Brown, along with a posting team that'll be an excellent partner within this new phase of my writing existence.” Little, Brown writer David Shelley is going to be Rowling’s editor and can publish the untitled novel in great britan, while Michael Pietsch, Executive V . P . of Little, Brown and Company, accountable for publication within the U . s . States. “Tim Hely Hutchinson, Ursula Mackenzie and that i, and also the whole team at Little, Brown within the United kingdom, together with our co-workers David Youthful and Michael Pietsch at Little, Brown in the united states, are thrilled, honoured and proud to become posting J.K. Rowlings new book,” Shelley stated inside a statement through the Little, Brown Book Group site. “For me, basically, it's a personal and professional dream become a reality to become dealing with J.K. Rowling. She is among the best storytellers on the planet, and i'm searching forward enormously to helping bring her new novel for grown ups to her fans and lovers, and also to presenting her conntacting new visitors around the world. Released between 1997 and 2007, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter number of seven books offered over 450 million copies in 200 areas and 74 languages worldwide. J.K. Rowling was symbolized by Neil Blair from the Blair Partnership.