By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 29, 2008 in New Releases, Reviews | 0 Comments
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
Director: Justin Chadwick
Stars: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana
Studio: Columbia Pictures
The Plot: Two sisters (Portman & Johansson) vie for the affections of King Henry VIII (Bana).
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Director: Kent Alterman
Stars: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André Benjamin
Studio: New Line Cinema
The Plot: Jackie Moon (Ferrell), the owner-coach-player of the American […]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 29, 2008 in Awards, TV | 0 Comments
On Sunday, Feb. 24, the Academy Awards telecast earned its lowest audience rating on record, plummeting 21 percent from last year. Is the Oscars in crisis? And what, if anything, can the Academy do to turn the tide? EW.com spoke with Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
(Source: EW)
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 29, 2008 in Film Business, Hollywood, Internet, New Media, TV | 0 Comments
Eighty years after the 7 1/2 -minute cartoon “Steamboat Willie” helped launch the career of a certain iconic mouse, Walt Disney Co. has returned to its short-form roots with the debut of a digital studio that will develop original content for the Internet.
Stage 9 Digital Media, quietly in the works for two years, will be […]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 29, 2008 in Actors, Comics, TV | 0 Comments
Long before he went on stage and began to say “The Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV,” got arrested for it in Milwaukee and saw the battle over freedom of expression that it ignited rage all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, George Carlin had a different dream.
George Carlin loves to point […]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 29, 2008 in Film Business, Film Genre/History, TV | 0 Comments
J. Edgar Hoover was furious. ABC News anchor Frank Reynolds had just mocked him on the 6 o’clock evening news, and the network let him do it. Someone was going to have to pay for this. Reynolds would be investigated, and if ABC didn’t fire him, Hoover would yank one of their most popular shows […]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 28, 2008 in Actors, Commentary, Film Genre/History, Hollywood | 0 Comments
A 69-year-old Hollywood legend has just finished making his first film in Scotland. At the end of the production, the cast and crew group together to buy the star a special gift for the end-of-shoot party – a full Highland outfit, kilt, sporran et al. The star immediately strips to his underpants, in full view […]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 28, 2008 in Actors, Directors | 1 Comment
Shekhar Kapur was the last person to speak to Heath Ledger before his death. He tells Marc Lee about their close friendship and their plan to make a film together
When the Australian actor died aged 28 in New York last month, Kapur was devastated. He was the last person to talk to Ledger - on […]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 28, 2008 in Actors, Casting, Directors, In-Development | 0 Comments
Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley will play mental patients in the mystery drama “Shutter Island,” Martin Scorsese’s latest collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Max von Sydow has also joined the cast of the Paramount Vantage project, which begins production next week.
DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play two U.S. marshals who travel to a Massachusetts island to […]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Feb 27, 2008 in Awards, TV | 0 Comments
US television ratings for this year’s Oscars sunk to an all-time low, preliminary figures showed, as viewers turned their back on a ceremony dominated by dark, bleak films.
According to figures from Nielsen Media Research, Sunday’s three-hour-long ceremony at the Kodak Theatre averaged an audience of only 32 million viewers, the worst since records began in […]
