By Behind The Scenes TV on Nov 16, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
In “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” Nicolas Cage portrays a cop of unwavering commitment: He never lets his duty to protect and serve stand in the way of a hard-core drug binge.
As a homicide detective policing the Big Easy’s toughest precincts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he snorts cocaine at crime scenes, [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Oct 27, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
As ABC finds itself up against the final, unimaginable wrap-up season of their hugely successful island tease-athon, Lost, it seems to have found a new Atlas on whom it can rest its global expectations.
The new show is FlashForward, another mysterious, sci-fi-ish thriller based on the 1999 novel by Robert J. Sawyer. Fundamentally, it entertains a scenario where [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Oct 23, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
SAW VI
Director: Kevin Greutert
Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston
Studio: Lionsgate
The Plot: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.
CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT
Director: Paul Weitz
Stars: Chris Massoglia, John C. [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Oct 13, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Back in the ’90s, F. Gary Gray was the go-to guy for some of the top rappers including Ice Cube, who brought him onboard to direct his early comedy Friday. Fourteen years later and Gray’s latest movie, his seventh, is Law Abiding Citizen, a two-handed psychological thriller starringGerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, that harks back to Gray’s earlier movie The Negotiator but shows [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Oct 6, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Watch out, Matt Damon – Jim Carrey’s coming through.
The comedian has promised to gain 40-50 pounds for his role as Curly in “The Three Stooges” — more than the 30 Matt put on for “The Informant!” — and he showed off a chubbier figure on Thursday night at UCLA’s
Weight wasn’t the only thing Jim’s added to his look [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Aug 31, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Jonathan Houser had an idea.
The 30-something filmmaker was teaching production at the Seattle Film Institute. His students were having a difficult time with storyboarding, an element of filmmaking which Houser describes as a way to perceive how your film may look.” Or, to put it another way, “You sit down, you draw, you think and [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Aug 19, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 15, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
ABC’s “Lost” and “Grey’s Anatomy” racked up big online auds in May. CW’s “Gossip Girl” had a big month too, according to online vid viewing stats for May just released by Nielsen VideoCensus.
Undoubtedly, season-finale fever drove auds to check out the cliffhanger cappers of the ABC dramas, as well as other shows that made the [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 12, 2009 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3
Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, John Travolta
Studio: Columbia Pictures
The Plot: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day’s work for dispatcher Walter Garbe (Washington) into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime (Travolta).
IMAGINE THAT
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church
Studio: Paramount [...]