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18 items from 2013
Starz Announces January 2014 Premiere for Pirate Drama Black Sails; First Poster Released
7 May 2013 9:45 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Starz has announced a premiere date and unveiled the first poster for the Michael Bay-produced pirate drama series Black Sails. The show takes place 20 years before the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island and centers on Captain Flint (the deceased pirate who literally put the treasure in Treasure Island) and a young Long John Silver as they fight for the defense of notorious criminal haven New Providence Island. The series has been slated for a January 2014 premiere, and it should make for a nice pairing with the network’s period-centric Da Vinci’s Demons, which premiered to successful ratings earlier this year and has already been renewed for a second season. Hit the jump to check out the first poster and two teaser videos for Black Sails, and click here to watch the debut trailer. The series stars Toby Stephens, Luke Arnold, Zach McGowan, Toby Schmitz, »
- Adam Chitwood
Danica Patrick told to 'shut up and race' by driver David Gilliland
23 April 2013 7:49 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Danica Patrick, the former Indy car driver turned Nascar driver, receives a lot of attention, for her activities both on and off the track. Like Yahoo Sports, some might say the attention is "far out of proportion to her actual racing statistics."
It's not that she's a bad driver. She's not. But every little comment, every wrinkle in her love life garners far more attention than that of any other driver's.
Case in point -- according to USA Today, during the Stp 400 in Kansas City over the weekend, she said to her team over the radio, "[David Gilliland] tries to take me out every time. Tell his spotter that I'm coming after him if he does it again. In fact, I might just do it right now."
She didn't make these comments to the press, or on Twitter or something. She made them to her team, over their radio headsets. But the »
- editorial@zap2it.com
First Trailer for Michael Bay’s Series ‘Black Sails’
17 April 2013 9:17 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Starz has unveiled a first look at Black Sails, its newest series set to debut in Spring of 2014. Executive produced by Michael Bay, the show takes place 20 years prior to the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island and centers on Captain Flint and a young Long John Silver as they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day. Expect pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, not to mention top of the line production values. The pilot was directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers) who also directed the pivotal episode of Game of Thrones titled “Blackwater.” The eight-episode series was created by showrunner and executive producer Jon Steinberg (Jericho), and stars Toby Stevens as Flint and Luke Arnold as the young Silver. Watch the trailer below.
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- Ricky
First Trailer for Michael Bay’s Starz Series Black Sails
17 April 2013 9:42 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Starz recently launched the new drama series Da Vinci’s Demons from executive producer David Goyer, but today the network has unveiled a first look at one of its other new shows set to debut in 2014: Black Sails. Executive produced by Michael Bay, the drama series takes place 20 years before the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island and centers on Captain Flint (the deceased pirate who literally put the treasure in Treasure Island) and a young Long John Silver as they fight for the defense of notorious criminal haven New Providence Island. Based on this early trailer, it’s very clear that the show is influenced by the monster success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Black Sails does promise to have a swell production value, but it's too early to tell how fascinating the characters are. Since filming is still underway in Cape Town, »
- Adam Chitwood
Gypsies, tramps and thieves, bloody 'Black Sails,' Starz's Pirate adventure trailer here!
17 April 2013 6:34 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Starz has a rollicking swashbuckling bloody good time ahead mateys, as the first-look trailer for Black Sails, Starz.s upcoming pirate adventure series executive produced by Michael Bay, is a-hoy. Enough with the nautical blather. The eight-episode series created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levin is slated to air next year. The time period is twenty years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson.s Treasure Island and chronicles the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men, including Long John Silver (Luke Arnold). Starz' description says that these men fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its time period. This is a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and »
- April Neale
Extended Thoughts on ‘Muppet Treasure Island’
6 April 2013 2:00 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Brian Henson
Written by Jerry Juhl
Starring Tim Curry, Kevin Bishop, Jennifer Saunders, Billy Connolly
It is, admittedly, strange to criticize a movie adaptation of a well-worn classic for being too faithful. Some movies, of course, are too stuck on the books or plays they’re adapting, unable to break free from the tethers of the previously written word. But most often, we want our movie versions of beloved stories to be very much like those stories. Otherwise, what’s the point? Sometimes, however, the more faithful an adaptation is, the less successful it is as a movie. We have to remember that a book and a movie may tell the same story, but they can never tell it the same way. This point got lost in the shuffle during the Harry Potter franchise, but it’s pertinent: whatever experience you had reading those books, »
- Josh Spiegel
Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 90: ‘Muppet Treasure Island’
6 April 2013 2:00 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Yarr, mateys! We caught you with yer pants down, didn’t we? Yes, just because your pirate crew took an unexpected vacation last week doesn’t mean we’re not back this week with cannons at the ready! Today, Josh, Mike, and Gabe head back to the high seas, but not with the Pirates of the Caribbean! No, this week, we join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and more of the Muppets with the 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island! And prepare to be shocked–your fearsome Captain is the most positive one of all! How could Mike and Gabe not love the goofiness onboard the Hispaniola? How could the silly humor and Tim Curry’s over-the-top performance as Long John Silver not be enough for them? Find out on the new show!
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- Josh Spiegel
Someone Has Been Found To Play Inxs Frontman Michael Hutchence In Aussie TV Biopic/Miniseries
5 April 2013 7:24 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Here’s an Australian project that has potential to draw some interest in the television scene down under. In December, it was reported that Australian network Seven had commissioned production company Shine to make “Never Tear Us Apart,” a miniseries based on the '80s rock band Inxs. Now, the lead role of late frontman Michael Hutchence has been cast -- Luke Arnold will play the troubled singer. Arnold has had a career in his native Australia, but will be seen by U.S. audiences for the first time in the upcoming Michael Bay pirate series “Black Sails” as a young Long John Silver. Inxs apparently has a saga to be told, with the relationship between Hutchence and bandmate Andrew Farriss being at the center of the story. The four-hour, two-part miniseries will reportedly chart the band’s rise to the top, a terrible motorcycle accident involving Hutchence, and his »
- Tess Hofmann
Someone Has Been Found To Play Inxs Frontman Michael Hutchence In Aussie TV Biopic/Miniseries
5 April 2013 7:24 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Here’s an Australian project that has potential to draw some interest in the television scene down under. In December, it was reported that Australian network Seven had commissioned production company Shine to make “Never Tear Us Apart,” a miniseries based on the '80s rock band Inxs. Now, the lead role of late frontman Michael Hutchence has been cast -- Luke Arnold will play the troubled singer. Arnold has had a career in his native Australia, but will be seen by U.S. audiences for the first time in the upcoming Michael Bay pirate series “Black Sails” as a young Long John Silver. Inxs apparently has a saga to be told, with the relationship between Hutchence and bandmate Andrew Farriss being at the center of the story. The four-hour, two-part miniseries will reportedly chart the band’s rise to the top, a terrible motorcycle accident involving Hutchence, and his »
- Tess Hofmann
Luke Arnold To Play Michael Hutchence
4 April 2013 7:33 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Aussie actor Luke Arnold ("Winners and Losers") is in negotiations to play late Inxs frontman Michael Hutchence in the upcoming two-part mini-series "Never Tear Us Apart: The Inxs Story" on the Seven Network.
The four-hour saga traces the band’s rise and the aftermath of Hutchence's death. Shooting begins in Melbourne later this year.
Arnold is presently playing young Long John Silver in the Michael Bay-produced "Treasure Island" prequel series "Black Sails" which premieres on Starz in early 2014.
Source: Deadline »
- Garth Franklin
Luke Arnold To Play Michael Hutchence In Shine’s Inxs Biopic ‘Never Tear Us Apart’
4 April 2013 1:51 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Aussie actor Luke Arnold, who’s starring in Michael Bay’s pirate adventure Black Sails, is in negotiations to play late Inxs frontman Michael Hutchence in Never Tear Us Apart: The Inxs Story. Shine Australia is producing for Oz’s Seven Network. The two-part, four-hour saga traces the band’s rise and the aftermath of Hutchence’s 1997 death. Shooting is slated for Melbourne later this year. Arnold is currently in Cape Town playing Long John Silver in Starz‘ eight-episode Black Sails that’s set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. He’s repped by Wme, Caliber Media and Lmcm in Australia. »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Review: Cinebook Graphic Novels
13 March 2013 3:01 AM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Cinebook are a comics publisher that specialise in European fare. I’ve been lucky enough to receive a handful of their latest titles for review. The selection seems to cover pretty much every genre of boy’s own-style adventure you could think of, from space opera to World War II tales, via pirates and spies, stopping off at Viking and cowboys. Without further ado, let’s dive in.
I began with Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pellé’s Orbital 1. Scars. This is a sci-fi adventure, set in a future where humankind has recently been inducted into a pan-galactic Un-type organisation. Human Caleb and Mezoke of the Sandjarr race are paired together as part of the organisation’s spec-ops-cum-ambassadorial-peace-keeper branch (essentially like the Jedi in the Star Wars prequels), which is contentious due to the two species’ previous conflict. Pellé’s grimy and detailed artwork suggests a fully realised world and Runberg »
- Jack Kirby
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Announced
28 February 2013 1:00 PM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Go ahead. Get all those Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn jokes out of your system. Ubisoft has confirmed that the next Assassin’s Creed game, expected later this year, will be called Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Sadly it doesn’t seem to be about the early days of hardcore punk. Based on this image Black Flag clearly involves boats, and flags, and bearded men in hats. Maybe they’re pirates? Perhaps it’s connected to the Caribbean missions of last year’s Assassin’s Creed III. Perhaps it’s a bit of cross-marketing with my favorite fast food restaurant, Long John Silver’s. Expect more information next »
'Captain Flint' Unfurls "Black Sails"
23 February 2013 9:53 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Production continues in Cape Town, South Africa on the first episode of the upcoming 'pirate' TV series "Black Sails" from executive producer Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes, with Neil Marshall ("Game of Thrones") directing.
"...'Flint', the most brilliant and feared captain of all the 'Golden Age' pirates is commander of the ship 'Walrus'. Flint adds a young stranger to his crew who goes by the name of 'John Silver' who has stolen a map to a Spanish Treasure galleon that Flint is after.
"Threatened with extinction on all sides, he and his crew fight for the survival of 'New Providence Island', the most notorious criminal haven of its day - a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers..."
"Black Sails" is executive produced by Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Formm, created by showrunner, executive producer Jon Steinberg and co-executive producer Robert Levine. »
- Michael Stevens
Notebook Reviews: Raúl Ruiz's "Night Across the Street"
8 February 2013 8:41 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Sometimes I think Raúl Ruiz purposefully makes in-between-masterpieces, inconsistent but immensely interesting films engrossed in both the details and the big picture of elaborating with variations and digressions books, histories, myths and the director's own films; that masterpieces are a calculated anomaly, unusually vivid and vivacious crescendos of the on-going dream that is the master's body of work.
La Noche de enfrente (Night Across the Street), presented in last year's Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, is said to be Ruiz's last film, but I have a suspicion that more dreams will show up unexpectedly, like Bolaño novels. Coming after Ruiz's popular triumph Mysteries of Lisbon this new work may be bound for disappointment, as it resembles so many of the director's films of the 2000s that seem to exist as part of an elongated continuum of recollections, farces, reveries and skewed realities instead of works of punctuation, unexpectedly shouting out. (Mysteries inadvertently seems to be punctuated, »
- Daniel Kasman
10 Slasher Villains With The Highest Body Counts
2 February 2013 2:43 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
We all know there are some quite prolific horror movie killers out there. These guys are at the top of their game and have been in the Killing Kids business for a hell of a long time- whether through a personal choice or just because they have nothing better to do with their time.
Out of all the countless killers over the years though, there is bound to be a Number One out there who has racked up the most kills. So here we count down in order- the top ten killers with the most kills over their careers.
10. Pennywise The Clown – It
Film Appearances: 1
Kill Count: 9
This movie is the one reason why I cannot deal with clowns. I genuinely had to sleep with my bedroom light on after watching it for about two weeks.
Pennywise feeds on children and gains his strength from the fear of his victims- »
- Daniel McMurtry
Movie Marathon VI - The Muppets
10 January 2013 3:13 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Luke Owen takes in a Muppet movie marathon...
Where 3 guys (this time joined by girlfriends and children) watch franchise movies one after the others. This marathon is sponsored by pizza.
(This was back in December, so I’m a bit late on the report – sorry!)
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to get things started on the Muppet Movie Marathon (it sort of fits the theme).
The last five marathon meetings have been a bit morbid in tone. Four of them have been about teenagers avoiding death and the other was centred around the human race losing out to apes. With that in mind (and it being a festive season), we decided to go with something a bit lighter in tone – The Muppets.
Since I was a kind, I loved The Muppets and have always said that they can »
- luke-o
Pirates and Whores Splash Under "Black Sails"
7 January 2013 1:24 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Starz Entertainment reports that production has started in Cape Town, South Africa on the new 'pirate' series "Black Sails" from executive producer Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes, with Neil Marshall ("Game of Thrones") directing the first episode.
"...'Flint', the most brilliant and feared captain of all the 'Golden Age' pirates is commander of the ship 'Walrus'. Flint adds a young stranger to his crew who goes by the name of 'John Silver' who has stolen a map to a Spanish Treasure galleon that Flint is after.
"Threatened with extinction on all sides, he and his crew fight for the survival of 'New Providence Island', the most notorious criminal haven of its day - a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers..."
"Black Sails" is executive produced by Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Formm, created by showrunner, executive producer Jon Steinberg and co-executive producer Robert Levine. »
- M. Stevens
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