By Behind The Scenes TV on Jul 23, 2008 in Filmmaking, In-Production | 0 Comments
Lisse Grullemans had her eye on a blue and gold striped dress by Derek Lam, but could only lust in vain. It hung outside her Boston office at Barneys New York for weeks until the costume designer from “The Proposal” came calling.
“They got it for Sandra Bullock,” Grullemans recalled. “She loved it.”
While no one’s filming [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jul 2, 2008 in Filmmaking, In-Production | 0 Comments
Have you gone on the internet in the last 36 hours? Are you a man, woman, or child who has, at one point, expressed even a passing interest in motion pictures? If so, I’d wager that 90% of you have already been forwarded the link to the beyond bad-ass trailer for the new James Bond [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 18, 2008 in In-Production, News | 0 Comments
The Catholic church has finally got one back against Dan Brown, the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, by banning the use of Rome’s churches for the filming of the follow-up.
Filming of Angels & Demons, starring Tom Hanks, has been under way this month in the Italian capital, but requests to shoot scenes in [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on May 27, 2008 in Actors, In-Production, News | 0 Comments
Robert Knox, an 18-year-old actor set to appear in the next Harry Potter film, was fatally stabbed outside a London pub on Saturday.
According to British media reports, the actor was part of a brawl that sent five males to the hospital, including a 21-year-old who was arrested on suspicion of murder after being treated for [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on May 22, 2008 in Actors, In-Production | 0 Comments
He did say he would be back, but whether he can combine being the 38th governor of California and a relentless killing machine is another question. For when three new outings of the Terminator series were promoted at Cannes this week the makers refused to say whether Arnold Schwarzenegger would feature.
Production of the next instalment [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on May 12, 2008 in Filmmaking, In-Production | 0 Comments
The Screen Actors Guild on Friday pulled its members, including the stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel, from a movie being directed by David O. Russell after producers of the film failed to keep sufficient funds to pay actors in a union-mandated account.
The independently financed film, “Nailed,” halted production but is expected to resume shooting [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on May 2, 2008 in Actors, Directors, In-Production | 0 Comments
Peter Jackson set the bar for amusing meticulousness pretty high when he fired Ryan Gosling from The Lovely Bones for being too fat. Now, though, according to Website Flicks.co.nz, production on Bones has been halted, pricelessly, because of a feud between the easygoing filmmaker and his art director over what the movie’s version of heaven [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Apr 24, 2008 in Actors, In-Production, News | 0 Comments
James Caan has left the political comedy “Nailed” after a dispute led him to storm off the set, and it all seems to have centered on a cookie.
The trouble started last Wednesday on the first of Caan’s two days of shooting the role of a U.S. speaker of the house who chokes to death on [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Apr 22, 2008 in Directors, In-Production, Summer 2008 | 0 Comments
X-Files creator Chris Carter and regular franchise writer Frank Spotnitz brought two things to their panel at New York Comic Con yesterday evening: (1) A teaser-trailer for the out-in-July film The X-Files: I Want to Believe that was too short and sharply edited to reveal anything substantial plot-wise (though it did feature the sight of [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Apr 17, 2008 in Actors, Filmmaking, Hollywood, In-Production | 0 Comments
Edward Norton isn’t speaking. The star of The Incredible Hulk, the new $150 million adaptation of the Marvel comic-book series, would normally be chatting up the press this time of year, promoting his big summer movie. Instead, the 38-year-old Oscar nominee has declined repeated interview requests, following a disagreement he had with his producers over [...]