Smeagirl Girllum also sends along word that Sean Astin has canceled his planned trip to Dragon*Con due to a scheduling conflict. [More]
Day: August 4, 2007
Smeagirl Girllum writes: The NYC Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting recently spoke to Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, stars of HBO’s new “Made in NY” show, Flight of the Conchords. The conversation is the MOFTB’s first “Made in NY” podcast. [More]
Washington, Aug 3 (ANI): Michael Imperioli is all set to become a part of the star- laden cast of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones’, a film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel. The Emmy award winner will be seen with Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz and Ryan Gosling, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The film is the story of a girl, Susie Salmon, who is brutally raped and murdered. But after death, she continues to watch her family from heaven. [More]
Star actors in Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron’s latest film move to Wellington in October for their performances to be incorporated in fantasy worlds created by the Weta workshops.
Showbusiness newspaper Variety reported that Cameron had added two more cast members to the science fiction film Avatar, Stephen Lang and Michelle Rodriguez, who have joined Australian actor Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Wes Studi and CCH Pounder.
“In October, the company will move to Wellington close to Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital, which is supervising the film’s visual effects,” Variety reported today. Thirty-one days of live-action photography will be carried out on Weta’s soundstages. [More]
Last Monday Sir Ian McKellen was on the telly in his star turn in Extras. “I said to Peter Jackson, ‘you do know I’m not really a wizard?”‘ he said, to Ricky Gervais’ character. Now here he is in Melbourne where, the next night, I will watch his King Lear strip away the layers until he stands naked and tormented before us. His Lear got a standing ovation and he put his hand over his heart as he took his bow. Now, I do know he is not really a king but for 3 1/2 hours I believed he was. That’s the confusing, wonderful magic of acting. His Lear, and in almost everything written about it this is mentioned with varying degrees of rude innuendo, gets his pants off. This seems to be some big deal, but it’s not, he sighs, to him. [More]