Archive for October, 2007
Deborah Kerr dies
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Scottish film star Deborah Kerr passed away on Tuesday at the age 86 after having struggled with Parkinson’s disease for several years.
Born in Helensburgh in 1921, Deborah Kerr took up ballet at an early age, which brought her her [...]
Karl Urban and Chris Pine round up Star Trek XI cast
Cinema Blend writes that Karl Urban and Chris Pine have been confirmed as the new Leonard “Bones” McCoy and Captain Kirk in the upcoming Star Trek movie. New Zealand actor Karl Urban is best known for playing Eomer in The Lord of Rings trilogy and has also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick, Doom, Pathfinder [...]
Pusan International Film Festival ends
The Pusan International Film Festival, held in Busan, South Korea annually, closed yesterday. The winners in the competitive category New Currents are Life Track, a Chinese and South Korean co-production directed by Jin Guanghao, the Malaysian film Flowers in the Pocket, directed by Liew Seng-tat, and Wonderful Town by Aditya Assarat from Thailand. Flowers in [...]
Fisher Stevens cast as Minkowski on Lost
Hollywood Reporter writes that the mysterious character Minkowski, whom we heard tell Jack over the satellite phone that the Losties have a chance of getting rescued in the season three finale, will get a face when Lost returns in January. Fisher Stevens has been cast in the role and will be a recurring character on [...]
Simon Pegg and John Cho cast as Scotty and SuLu in Star Trek XI
Hot Fuzz writer and star Simon Pegg has been confirmed as the new Scotty and Korean actor John Cho will take over from George Takei as Hikaru SuLu in the upcoming Star Trek movie, which starts filming in November.
Pegg, who is a big fan of the Star Wars saga, is best known from horror comedy [...]
Battlestar Galactica season 4 teaser, Razor flashbacks, Caprica
A teaser for the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica has popped up online recently and can be seen on YouTube.
Season three left us with a major cliffhanger, with four important characters realizing that they’re Cylons, the burning question about who the fifth Cylon is, Starbuck coming back from Earth, which does exist in [...]
Ellroy adaptation underway: White Jazz casting news
Narc and Smokin’ Aces writer and director Joe Carnahan says on his blog that two characters - Junior Stemmons and Glenda Bledsoe - have been cast for the upcoming James Ellroy adaptation, White Jazz. No news on who the actors are, but Stemmons will be played by someone who also appeared in Smokin’ Aces. (Scan [...]
Revisiting Serenity: Universal considering sequel, says actor
It is definitely a great week for science fiction fans. First, there’s Deckard dreaming about electric unicorns on the big screen again and yesterday there was this:
“They had to put [the new Serenity DVD] out because they’ve been selling out of the other one and so Universal’s like ‘So, let’s do another one.’”
Moviehole’s Clint Morris [...]
Blade Runner: The Final Cut - in NY & LA theatres tomorrow
25 years after its original release, Blade Runner is back in select movie theatres in New York and Los Angeles on October 5. The Final Cut of the film will be released on DVD in December in several editions, some of which will include all the four previous cuts, footage that didn’t make it into [...]
