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"Star Trek Into Darkness": Enter Alice Eve
22 May 2013 12:45 AM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Screenwriter Damon Lindelof has tweeted an 'apology' to fans offended by a revealing scene involving English actress, Alice Eve's character 'Carol Marcus', in "Star Trek Into Darkness".
In the film Eve is revealed in her underwear before changing into a space suit, as an homage to actress Sigourney Weaver's 'Ripley' character in "Alien":
"I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress," tweeted Lindelof. "...what I’m saying is I hear you, I take responsibility and will be more mindful in the future..."
Actress Alice Eve first appeared in UK TV dramas including BBC's "The Rotters' Club" and "Agatha Christie's Poirot".
Her work also includes the features "Stage Beauty" (2004), "Starter For Nothing" (2006) and "Big Nothing" (2006), "She's Out of My League" (2010), "Sex and the City 2" (2010), "The Raven" (2012), "Men In Black 3 »
- Michael Stevens
“Apartment 4E” Ready For Visitors
21 May 2013 3:18 PM, PDT | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
Russell Leigh Sharman’s passion project, Apartment 4E is Now Out on DVD (as of May 21st), courtesy of Rlj Entertainment. The “urban” thriller stars Nicole Beharie (in Fox’s upcoming Sleepy Hollow). Here’s a press release:
Los Angeles (May 16, 2013) – One Village Entertainment, an Rlj Entertainment (Nasdaq: Rlje) brand, announces the release of the urban thriller film, Apartment 4E (formerly known as Small of Her Back), available on DVD on May 21, 2013 at an Srp of $14.98. Starring Nicole Beharie (42, Shame) and Christopher Domig (Second-Story Man), the film was written and directed by Russell Leigh Sharman.
Piper (Beharie) is a beautiful, intelligent young woman with everything to live for…but she’s trapped in a dark world of her own making. Deeply troubled, desperate and clutching a handgun, Piper has not left her apartment in a long time, and when there’s a knock on the door, she will face a »
- Andy Greene
John Travolta Is Criminally Inclined In The Forger
8 May 2013 6:36 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
It’s a John Travolta kind of day. How long has it been since we said That? All kinds of exciting things are happening in Travolta-land and none of them include Battlefield Earth or weird allegations of sexual misconduct! First, there’s the announcement that Joe Johnston will direct Travolta in the Gotti biopic. Now we have news that the star will playing a very different type of criminal in Philip Martin’s heist movie The Forger.
The Forger is all about Ray Cutter (Travolta), an art prodigy turned petty thief who buys his way out of prison in order to spend time with his ill son. Things go wrong, of course, and he’s forced to do ‘one last big job’ for the guys that helped him get out of prison.
The story sounds pretty standard, but the proof will always be in how it’s carried out. Travolta »
- Lauren Humphries-Brooks
John Travolta As Petty Thief In The Forger!
7 May 2013 1:32 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Can’t wait to see John Travolta as a second generation petty thief! We’ve just learned that Pulp Fiction star is set to play the male lead in an upcoming The Forger movie which comes from director Philip Martin and is described as a dynamic classic heist movie. That should be enough for the beginning of this report, now click continue to find more details! BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning director Philip Martin, (who stands behind titles like Hawking and Agatha Christie’s Poirot), will direct The Forger from a script written by Richard D’Ovidio, which centers around Travolta’s character: …a former child art prodigy and second generation...
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- Jeanne Standal
The Daily Beast: "Broadchurch: This British Murder Mystery Will Be Your Next Television Obsession"
22 April 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | Televisionary | See recent Televisionary news »
British murder mystery Broadchurch, heading to the U.S. later this year on BBC America, is a worthy successor to Forbrydelsen. My take on ITV’s tantalizing thriller, which wraps up tonight in the U.K. Over at The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature, "Broadchurch: This British Murder Mystery Will Be Your Next Television Obsession," in which I review ITV's sensational murder mystery Broadchurch, which stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman and which will head Stateside later this year on BBC America. Not to be missed! The British have an insatiable appetite for crime fiction, whether it appears in print or on television screens. Putting aside the twee tea cozy mysteries of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot, however, these thrillers are not only taut but also bleak depictions of the psychological fallout from murder: tracing, as novelist Ruth Rendell has done so well in her work, »
- Jace Lacob
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Novels #1 Ten Little Aliens, By Stephen Cole
10 April 2013 2:41 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection. Eleven Classic Adventures. Eleven Brilliant Writers. One Incredible Doctor.
The first Doctor novel to be selected for reprint as part of Doctor Who’s golden celebrations is Stephen Cole’s Ten Little Aliens from 2002, which sees the Doctor, Ben and Polly arrive on a hollowed-out moon where they discover the corpses of the ten most dangerous criminals in the universe, all frozen in time.
The new introduction gives a brilliant new insight into this novel, with Cole admitting he was obsessed with Agatha Christie at the time of planning (he was then editing a Christie part-work magazine) and thought Christie meets Starship Troopers would be a smash hit. And reader, he was right.
As we witnessed at Christmas, the Eleventh Doctor can do a mean Sherlock Holmes impersonation, but William Hartnell’s Doctor Is Hercule Poirot. He sits at the back of the room, »
- Matt Holsman
Miptv Briefs: ITV Studios Nabs ‘Poirot’ Pre-Sales; Fremantle Shops ‘Blake’s 7′; KidsCo Acquires ‘Matt Hatter Chronicles’; Venevision International & More
9 April 2013 1:25 AM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Refresh for latest… ITV Studios Global Entertainment has secured pre-sales for the 13th and final series of ITV Studios’ iconic detective drama Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Based on crime writer Agatha Christie’s famous novels, series 13 of Poirot has been acquired by eight broadcasters worldwide: Tmc (France), ABC (Australia), Prime (New Zealand), Chungwa (Taiwan), Latvian Television, Rtv (Slovenia), Hrt (Croatia), Sanoma (Hungary) and Digiturk (Turkey). Wgbh in the Us will co- produce and air two of the Poirot films – The Big Four and Dead Man’s Folly. The deals were brokered by David Wilcox, VP North West Cluster; Jennifer Ebell, VP South East Cluster; Nancy Wang, Senior Sales Executive, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan; Dan Edwards, Senior Sales Executive, Australia and Jemma Losh, Sales Executive, New Zealand for ITV Studios Global Entertainment. FremantleMedia is launching sales here in Cannes on the remake of Blake’s 7. Developed by Syfy, the 13-part »
- NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
Wme Signs Agatha Christie Estate
1 April 2013 12:07 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
The Agatha Christie estate has signed with Wme for representation. Wme will work closely with Acorn Productions Ltd, which acquired a 64% stake in Agatha Christie Ltd in February 2012, and with the Agatha Christie family, who hold the balance of 36%, to mine the British author’s properties for television, film and digital media. Christie is one of the most popular and prolific mystery writers, writing more than 80 novels and short story collections and 19 plays — many of which have had film and TV adaptations. Her estate holds ownership of iconic characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, both of whom have spawned successful television franchises, and also includes an expansive media library. Christie has sold more than 2 billion books and continues to sell over 3 million books worldwide every year. She authored the most popular mystery novel of all time, And Then There Were None. Trivia question for Christie buffs: What was And Then There Were None »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Agatha Christie Estate Inks With Wme
1 April 2013 11:58 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Wme has signed the Agatha Christie estate for representation.
The tenpercentery will represent all facets of her estate, expanding its reach across TV, film and digital media. Besides the Christie family, which has a 36% stake in the name, Acorn Prods. owns the remaining stake and Wme will work closely with both to help develop the many properties that come with the British mystery scribe’s name.
These include more than 80 novels and short story collections, 19 plays and an expansive media library. It also holds ownership of well-known characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, which have both become successful TV franchises.
This pact is another major signing for Wme, which earlier this year signed Oprah Winfrey for representation. »
- Justin Kroll
Agatha Christie Estate Inks With Wme
1 April 2013 11:58 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Wme has signed the Agatha Christie estate for representation.
The tenpercentery will represent all facets of her estate, expanding its reach across TV, film and digital media. Besides the Christie family, which has a 36% stake in the name, Acorn Prods. owns the remaining stake and Wme will work closely with both to help develop the many properties that come with the British mystery scribe’s name.
These include more than 80 novels and short story collections, 19 plays and an expansive media library. It also holds ownership of well-known characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, which have both become successful TV franchises.
This pact is another major signing for Wme, which earlier this year signed Oprah Winfrey for representation. »
- Justin Kroll
Rewind TV: The Lady Vanishes; It's Kevin; Our Queen – review
23 March 2013 5:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The BBC's remake of The Lady Vanishes distanced itself rather too well from Hitchcock's classic film
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Our Queen (ITV1) | ITV Player
Who can say why the BBC suddenly decided to remake The Lady Vanishes, though it must have seemed a fair bet that only film buffs – and perhaps not the ones in the habit of dropping by for Call the Midwife at this time on a Sunday night – would remember more than the opening credits of the original 1938 Hitchcock adaptation (scrolling jerkily over a railway hobbyist's layout of a station and hotel nestling in the snow-capped Balkans, which must have looked almost real at the time). In the event they avoided plot familiarity by cunningly going back to the forgotten 1936 novel (The Wheel Spins) by Ethel White, thus dispensing with Hitchcock's gunfight at the end, his comic characters and egregiously providential turns of fortune. »
- Phil Hogan
Rewind TV: The Lady Vanishes; It's Kevin; Our Queen – review
23 March 2013 5:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The BBC's remake of The Lady Vanishes distanced itself rather too well from Hitchcock's classic film
The Lady Vanishes (BBC1) | iPlayer
It's Kevin (BBC2) | iPlayer
Our Queen (ITV1) | ITV Player
Who can say why the BBC suddenly decided to remake The Lady Vanishes, though it must have seemed a fair bet that only film buffs – and perhaps not the ones in the habit of dropping by for Call the Midwife at this time on a Sunday night – would remember more than the opening credits of the original 1938 Hitchcock adaptation (scrolling jerkily over a railway hobbyist's layout of a station and hotel nestling in the snow-capped Balkans, which must have looked almost real at the time). In the event they avoided plot familiarity by cunningly going back to the forgotten 1936 novel (The Wheel Spins) by Ethel White, thus dispensing with Hitchcock's gunfight at the end, his comic characters and egregiously providential turns of fortune. »
- Phil Hogan
Foyle's War returns – in a world of prefabs and rations
9 March 2013 4:21 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
One of television's favourite detectives, Dci Christopher Foyle, is back – and now he's in the thick of the cold war
One of Britain's favourite television detectives, Dci Christopher Foyle, is poised to return to television this month after a lengthy absence. But instead of sleuthing in the second world war, he will be tackling crime during the cold war.
The eighth series opens in the New Mexico desert with an atomic bomb explosion, witnessed by a British professor and his wife. It then switches to a Russian stealing secrets from his embassy in London. Finally, it shows Foyle – still played with understated precision by Michael Kitchen – stepping off the boat and being asked to apply his detective skills to sniffing out an establishment traitor, with clues involving a homely Thermos flask and stolen radioactive material.
By the end of episode one, called The Eternity Ring, Foyle has agreed, with the trace of a smile, »
- Maggie Brown
'Easy A' Director Will Gluck To Explore The Disappearance Of 'Agatha' Christie
6 March 2013 9:54 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Back in 1920s England, the turnover of celebrity news was so glacial it would have put the modern Daily Mail out of business. So when it was reported that Agatha Christie, darling of bloodthirsty readers everywhere, had disappeared in the kind of mysterious circumstances one needs Poirot to investigate, a nation collectively held its breath. Christie had vanished upon discovering her husband’s infidelity, and, given her history of depression, a well-publicised manhunt was instigated. She resurfaced ten days later in a Yorkshire hotel, but in the absence of any later explanation, the events of her hiatus became the subject of widespread speculation. Nearly a century later, a spec script by Allison Schroeder (who carries a strike against her for the abominable “Mean Girls 2”), which fictionalises the events of the missing days, has been purchased by Paramount Pictures. Pitched, a little bizarrely, as “a female Sherlock Holmes meets ‘Romancing the Stone »
- India Ross
Death in Paradise: how on earth does this get so many viewers?
11 February 2013 6:54 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The BBC1 comedy crime drama pulls in eight million despite being cliche-ridden, Caribbean-flavoured nonsense. Who exactly is watching it?
Sometimes a hit show's blockbuster ratings are slightly baffling. Doc Martin was watched by 10m in its Noughties heyday and New Tricks has nudged towards that in recent years. Mrs Brown's Boys gets 8m and even approaches 5m for repeats. Emmerdale hovers around 7.5m yet no-one knows a single person who watches it. To that list, let's add Death In Paradise, which is currently pulling in close to 8m viewers an episode for its second series. Why? How?
Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie but filmed on the gorgeous real one of Guadeloupe, this featherlight BBC1 comedy-crime-drama follows uptight Met officer Richard Poole (Ben Miller), who flew in to investigate the death of a colleague but ended up staying on as police chief. So far, so standard "fish-out-of-water with hilarious consequences" fare. »
- Michael Hogan
Jessica Chastain In "W"
26 January 2013 4:44 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Sneak Peek actress Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), posing for the January 2013 "Art Meets Fashion" issue of "W" magazine, plus a red-band clip from her film "Jolene" :
In 2011, Chastain starred in seven features including "The Debt", "The Tree of Life", "The Help", "Coriolanus", "Take Shelter', "Wilde Salome" and "Texas Killing Fields".
She recently earned a 'Best Actress' Oscar nomination for her performance as 'Maya' in the military action feature "Zero Dark Thirty".
Chastain's first professional role was in 2004 for an updated "Dark Shadows" TV pilot, followed by guest spots in "ER", "Veronica Mars", "Close to Home", "Law & Order: Trial By Jury" and the UK series "Agatha Christie's Poirot.".
Since 2012, Chastain has represented the Yves Saint Laurent fragrance 'Manifesto'.
"Yves Saint Laurent is a brand that inspires me deeply," said Chastain.
"...With strong values that I cherish, such as an unwavering commitment, absolute love and feminine audacity..."
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- Michael Stevens
The growing nastiness of period crime drama
6 January 2013 10:00 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature Louisa Mellor Jan 7, 2013
The BBC’s Ripper Street marks a growing trend in TV period crime drama, which has turned from nice to nasty…
Contains mild spoilers for episodes one and two of Ripper Street
Time was when period detective drama meant spending fifty minutes or so in the company of a shrewd Oap solving aristocratic murders in picturesque country houses by drinking Earl Grey from china cups and gently probing the scullery maid. It was sanitised, sexless, and more doilies than Deadwood.
Of late however, period crime TV has evolved into something nastier. Twinsets, dastardly heirs and moustachioed Belgians are out, muckiness, dismemberment and gratuitous nudity are in. Looking ahead to new commissions from ITV and the BBC, the trend set to give Scandi-noir a run for its cosily attired money is for knobbing-and-knifing period crime drama. Forget Call The Midwife, we're talking Kill The Midwife, and leave »
- louisamellor
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