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Very much looking forward to the stage production of The Ladykillers, at the Playhouse in Liverpool (before it transfers to the West End).
I haven't seen the film starring Alec Guinness - indeed, hadn't even heard of it until I got these theatre tickets. I'm not going to look for it until after the play, though.
Interesting article here about the reworking and reinterpretation of the film for the stage.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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Mon, 14 November 2011 17:57 |
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Catherine Fisher's next book:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/catherine-fisher/ghost-b ox.htm
Has anyone seen any more info on this? Interviews, articles - that sort of thing? If so - please share!
More (possible) TV Westerns:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/fox-buys-wyatt-earp-western- from-alex-kurtzman-roberto-orci-dating-comedy/
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/cbs-to-reboot-western-the-ri fleman-with-laeta-kalogridis-chris-columbus-and-carol-mendel sohn/
(Note: At this rate I'm not quite sure what I have posted links to and not, so if there is a repeat, it's not that I'm so overly keen that I cannot stop myself from mentioning it over and over, just merely that I'm a poor confused person... ) At this rate, it would be exceedingly odd if none of these got made - odd, though Perfectly Possible, of course. 
Some trailers, then:
The Adventures of Tintin:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hot-tv-trailer-the-adventure s-of-tintin/
Snow White and the Huntsman:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hot-teaser-trailer-snow-whit e-and-the-huntsman/
And then - of course -
The Hunger Games:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hot-trailer-the-hunger-games /
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Thu, 17 November 2011 17:08 |
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Julia - I'm glad it's that good - I'm really looking forward to it more now.
For anyone interested in more stories set in the world of "Elantris":
http://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/1361502912413818 88
And, from Brandon Sanderson's newsletter, about the possibility of a Mistborn-movie:
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The last of Poirot?:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15726320
And the treilers are coming in fast & furious:
Mirror, Mirror (yes, more Snow White):
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hot-trailer-mirror-mirror/
Brave:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hot-trailer-pixars-brave/
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Tue, 22 November 2011 12:41 |
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Thank you for those kind and heartwarming words, blondviolinist! I must confess that I do wonder sometimes, and try to encourage myself by looking at the views on the thread and thinking that hopefully that means somebody is interested. (And also to shut up my "Little Voice" who insists on trying to convince me that nobody could possibly be interested in anything that I have to say - ever. But I've become quite good at ignoring it - practise makes perfect. ) But I do understand - I mean, if one has nothing more to say - or add - than "oh, that's nice", I probably wouldn't comment either.
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Tue, 22 November 2011 19:16 |
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Oh, I'm so glad! Thank you, Shalea! You both encourage me to try even harder to find something, and not to slack off.
Well, I've found a few things (I like to wait until I've found 2-3 items at least - it's more fun that way, I think.)
Well, first, as I noted elsewhere (and just in case someone may have missed that particular thread), Patricia C Wrede has "turned in the copyedit for The Far West", the third book in the trilogy.
http://pcwrede.com/blog/reactions/
Casting news for Spielberg's Lincoln biopic:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/david-oyelowo-joins-steven-s pielbergs-lincoln/
(not, again, to be mistaken for the one where he's killing vampires... well, I think it was vampires? Hmmm... well, some kind of the undead, anyway... )
Asa Butterfield has been cast as Ender in the Ender's Game-movie:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hugo-star-asa-butterfield-th e-choice-for-enders-game/
(He can soon be seen in the forthcoming Scorcese movie Hugo)
Christmas at the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/christmas/
And finally, another spooky trailer for The Woman in Black:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hot-trailer-the-woman-in-bla ck/
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Tue, 29 November 2011 17:21 |
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Garth Nix
http://www.garthnix.com/
has some info on his forthcoming book "A Confusion of Princes" (scroll down to see it), but what really caught my interest was this:
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I’m writing CLARIEL: THE LOST ABHORSEN at the moment. It is set about 300 years before the events of SABRIEL, in an extremely settled era of the Old Kingdom, where is almost no threat from the Dead or Free Magic, and the Abhorsens are considered something between an archaic remnant of worse times and municipal rat-catchers. Clariel will probably be a 2013 release.
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I've only read "Sabriel" (so far), but I find the thought of a historical novel set in that world quite intriguing...
In other news, the sequel to the latest Star Trek-movie is on track for May... 2013:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/star-trek-3d-sequel-will-deb ut-may-17-2013/
Well, we'll need stuff to do in 2013 too, won't we?
More on BBC's forthcoming Shakespeare movies:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/shakespeare-cast .html
An article on War Horse:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/hammond-war-horse-screens-an d-campaign-begins-can-spielberg-win-another-oscar/
About Bane, the villain in The Dark Knight Rises:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/tom-hardy-chris-nolan-speak- about-bane/
(Note: there is a case of strong language - it is asterisk-ed, but it is unmistakable, so thought I ought to mention it.)
And Peter Lord blogs about The Pirates!:
http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p 1169
Alas, for this update I have no trailer - it feels as if the post is... incomplete without one, but... what can one do?
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Sun, 11 December 2011 12:30 |
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cgbookcat1 - Oh, I can well believe it! I've only read "The Curse of Chalion" by her (so far), but I adored it!
Susan - That's great to hear! I have taped the first season, but haven't seen it yet, but by the (extremely few - as I did not want to spoil myself) glances I did cast on it, it looked like "quality" to me - I'm glad to hear it confirmed. Also, I hope that Swedish television sees fit to get the second series in a timely fashion. (I find it especially odd, though, sometimes when a channel doesn't bother to get later seasons in a series - like SVT did with Ashes to Ashes... which I haven't had time to watch either yet - I suppose I'll have to look for DVDs for the rest of it when I do get there?)
So, what else have I got? Hm... let's see...
Well, we now know who won't be directing Thor 2:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/director-patty-jenkins-exiti ng-thor-2-sequel/
(I don't recall if I mentioned her getting the job in the first place - and I must confess I'm to lazy to go back and check - but I thought that if I did, it now behoved me to mention that it has fallen through.)
A new Stan Lee super hero coming to film?:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/dan-gilroy-signs-on-to-pen-s tan-lees-chinese-superhero-pic/
(I think my state of mind could most accurately be described as "cautiously curious" - I think this could go either way, depending on how it was made... )
And a visit to the Aardman set:
http://www.empireonline.com/features/aardman-pirates-set-vis it/
And finally - it never rains but it pours! - trailerz:
The Pirates!:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/hot-trailer-the-pirates-band -of-misfits/
The Lorax:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/hot-trailer-dr-seuss-the-lor ax/
And finally, Madagascar 3:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/hot-teaser-trailer-madagasca r-3-europes-most-wanted/
(They're up to 3 already? I haven't even watched 2 yet... )
ETA - Edited to remove a news item I had already previously posted. ("If I only had a brain... " )
[Updated on: Sun, 11 December 2011 12:39]
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Mon, 19 December 2011 15:20 |
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And C J Cherryh's next book seems also to be on track - after some (technical) difficulties:
http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/?p=3339
http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/?p=3345
http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/?p=3349
http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore/?p=3355
And in other news -
Heartbreak in store for Doctor Who fans?:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16207688
A new Disney princess coming to TV:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/disney-unveils-new-princess- with-sofia-the-first-tv-movie-series/
An interview with Gary Oldman, where he mostly talks about Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, but also a little Dark Knight Rises:
http://www.movieline.com/2011/12/gary-oldman-on-tinker-tailo r-soldier-spy-mellowing-out-and-the-dark-knight-rises.php?pa ge=all
Did I mention this? (confused) Some Lone Ranger casting news:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/the-lone-ranger-lassoing-ori ginal-cast-as-tom-wilkinson-commits-to-villainy/
(I first noticed Tom Wilkinson in Martin Chuzzlewit - he was absolutely marvellous as Pecksniff! - so I certainly hope this is true.)
A little more on Downton Abbey:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/downton-abbey-christmas-spec ial-screens-in-london-more-to-come/#more-204580
(Amazingly, they are actually going to show the Christmas special here this year - that's unusually fast for Swedish television!)
So, back a little further in time - some 19th century crime - & similar:
Casting for BBC America's series Copper:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/anastasia-griffith-to-co-sta r-in-bbc-americas-drama-series-copper/
This sounds really interesting to me:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/usa-developing-drama-about-a mericas-first-female-detective-kate-warne/
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I really hope it goes to series!
And more true life crime - this time for the movies & about a serial killer:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/warner-bros-sets-black-list- top-scribe-graham-moore-for-devil-in-the-white-city-leonardo -dicaprio-to-play-serial-killer/
And finally - I really didn't realise I "had" this much stuff! - Trailerz!
ParaNorman:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/hot-trailer-focuslaikas-para norman/
Jack the Giant Killer:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/jack-the-giant-killer-traile r/
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Wed, 21 December 2011 12:15 |
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Oh, what a day! I mean, I just... all right, I'm babbling, aren't I? Yes, I'm babbling so... (pulls herself together).
I just saw this - "A Memory of Light" - yes, first draft, I know is...:
http://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/1494866904472739 84
http://twitter.com/#!/BrandSanderson/status/1494884934065848 33
More about War Horse:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/war-horse-movie-ric hard-curtis-jeremy-irvine_n_1140789.html
http://www.movieline.com/2011/12/janusz-kaminski-on-shooting -war-horse-the-end-of-film-and-those-spielberg-close-ups.php
And now - trailerz!
I was really excited to see this - Dark Knight Rises:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/hot-trailer-the-dark-knight- rises/
But - oh, be still my heart! - this is... is - The Hobbit!:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16281896
A breakdown of the trailer:
http://www.empireonline.com/features/the-hobbit-teaser-trail er-breakdown
(Leaves before indulging in unseemly squeeing outburst..)
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Anna - indeed.
Happy New Year everyone! And lo and behold, here is the first "batch" of this & that of the year for your delectation. (Well, hopefull something of interest will be found... )
So, more info on Lindsey Davis' new book:
http://www.lindseydavis.co.uk/master&god.htm
No details, as yet, about what the next book will be, except that it won't be a Falco either. (Thanks to my "system", I've got a lot of Falco:s left to read, and am in no danger of running out any time soon... )
More Ender's Game casting:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32651
Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin...
Disney is planning a Snow Queen movie:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32752
Should anyone have been worried over the director-less state of Thor 2, they can now put their fears to rest:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/thor-2-director-will-be-game -of-thrones-helmer-alan-taylor/
Anne Hathaway on her role as Catwoman in Dark Knight Rises:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32769
And a look at the coming movies of 2012:
http://www.empireonline.com/features/2012-movie-preview/
And today's video offering again comes courtesy of The Hobbit, though it's a production blog and not a trailer this time:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/the-hobbit-production-diary- 5/
It's the 5th - and I'm cudgelling my brains trying to recollect if I've really seen four... or - have I missed one?!?
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Sharon Kay Penman on her progress on the sequel to "Lionheart":
http://sharonkaypenman.com/blog/?p=291
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Since this blog began with Lionheart, it seems right to end it with A King’s Ransom. Some of my readers have asked for reports on its progress—or the lack thereof. Well, I have just finished a chapter in which Richard was shipwrecked twice, so he is not in the best of moods. I am putting up photos of the site of his first shipwreck—the island of Lokrum, one-half mile from Dubrovnik; in Richard’s time, they were known as La Croma and Ragusa. In Lionheart, Eleanor crossed the Alps at Mont Genevre, which is today a posh ski resort, and I wondered what she’d make of that. Well, the place where Richard came ashore on Lokrum is now a celebrated nudist beach! The chapter ends with the second shipwreck, where they find themselves in a desolate, barren, deserted marsh, and Richard speaks for them all when he says, “Where in God’s Holy Name are we?”
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http://sharonkaypenman.com/blog/?p=295
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And I also would like to do occasional updates about the progress of A King’s Ransom—or the lack thereof. So far Coeur de Lion is being unusually cooperative for an Angevin, but in dealing with the Devil’s Brood, I never know how long that will last.
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Tom Hiddleston talks a little - but only a little! - about Loki:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32829
This sounds interesting - a movie set in the early days of the French Revolution:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/berlin-film-festival-to-open -with-diane-kruger-in-farewell-my-queen/
Anyone here read the book upon which it is based?
Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek 2:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/star-trek-sequel-hires-hot-b ritish-actor/
More Copper-casting (er... oh, never mind!):
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/tom-weston-jones-lands-lead- in-copper-franka-potente-tessa-thompson-co-star/
More info on the Star Wars series that is coming to a TV near you - no time soon:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32836
On the other hand, this is what BBC One has in store for its viewers (and hopefully it will come to the rest of us at some point as well):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/1101drama.h tml
Don't forget to read to the end, where they have some extra info - this is what caught my eye for instance:
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Matthew Macfadyen cast in lead role of Ripper Street.
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Woohoo! say I. Overall it does seem to be a "something for everybody" kind of thing. Though wasn't the Greg Wise/Keeley Hawes Moonstone rather recent? - I'd have preferred that they adapt something new (Wilkie Collins was quite prolific after all... ), but I'm at least pleased that the BBC seem to have let go of the "no costume drama"-nonsense. (Oops! Was that unPollyanna?)
Today's trailer comes to us courtesy of... the Oscars:
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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First off, some forthcoming fantasy/sf books (mostly fantasy, I think?):
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2012/01/shape-of-things-to-c ome-books-for-2012.html
Joyous news for Sherlock-fans! There will indeed be a third series:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16573066
Two period pilots have been picked up -
the Western The Frontier:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/nbc-picks-up-drama-pilots-mi dnights-sun-do-not-harm/
& the 1890s hotel drama Gilded Lillys:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/abc-picks-up-shonda-rhimeskj -steinberg-period-drama-pilot-gilded-lillys/
- obviously this may all come to nothing, but... so far so good.
An adaptation of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16549212
directed by Kenneth Branagh & starring Kate Winslet.
Scriptwriter and director for Catching Fire:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32893
Production has begun on Star Trek 2:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/production-begins-on-j-j-abr ams-star-trek-sequel/
A new Hobbit-photo has emerged:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32890
New in the voicecast for Madagascar 3:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32879
And having already linked to the trailers included in the two above articles, it behoved me to come up with something else - and this is what I have been able to find*:
from the movie short Tangled Ever After:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c jj5mqyszKE#!
*That is of any interest to Me - which is obviously my most important criteria. (Criterion?) Anyway, as a note to this - naturally these posts reflect my rather - perhaps - odd tastes, so if someone is looking forward to something that I have NOT mentioned, please do so, as chances are good that there are other people on the forum who will like it too.
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Anna - they don't work in my region, alas...
Julia - Yes, one unexpected benefit for me in compiling these posts is that I'm constantly surprised, when I see the whole post, at how much stuff there really is. True, some things may come to naught, and some things may... not turn out to be to my taste (being Pollyanna), but that still leaves more than I had thought there was. It's nice to see it all together, somehow...
Since I thought that, typically, I didn't find much for a while, but now, thanks to Discworld Monthly
http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk/dwm0178.php
I've got something worth basing a post around - which means, of course, that I found some other stuff as well.
Info on Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter's upcoming book "The Long Earth":
http://www.pjsmprints.com/news/jan2012.html
My attention was espeially caught by:
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1916: the Western Front, France. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up.
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Percy Blakeney, did you say? (pricks up ears)
Alas, the news seems not to be as good re the City Watch series:
http://twitter.com/#!/terryandrob/status/159318624245522433/ photo/1
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So... Just had a Watch script meeting at Prime Focus. Not going as well as we'd expected.
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Hmmmm... the photo... ?
A series that I just heard of, and that I'm quite excited about actually, is one based on P G Wodehouse's Blanding series:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/blandings.h tml
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Storm-battered Clarence, somehow never vanquished, occasionally makes everything right through an inspired or accidental intervention.
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Huh? He does? Are we talking about the same person as in the books? Still, I'm not going to panic just yet, as I very well remember the press release about Little Dorrit talking about "the dashing Arthur Clennam", which made me wonder if they'd even read the book? But thankfully that turned out all right...
Some pilot pick-up news - which, obviously, may go nowhere, but...
A fairy tale series, namely Beauty and the Beast:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/abc-picks-up-beauty-and-the- best-to-pilot/
(Not to be confused by the pilot of the same name ordered by - I think? - the CW; that one is a remake of the '80s series, but since I'm a fairy tale fan, this is the one I'm "going with", so to speak... )
And a series that sounds pleasantly spooky, 666 Park Ave:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/abc-picks-up-supernatural-dr ama-pilot/
rather than outright horror (I'm always to be found on the less graphic side of things... ). Has anyone read the books?
And some casting news.
An illustrious addition to Downton Abbey:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16796462
- namely, Shirley MacLaine.
And some additional cast for Ender's Game:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/ben-kingsley-joins-cast-of-e nders-game/
The voice cast of Saving Santa:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/m
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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I do hope the City Watch-series does get made - I cannot wait to hear who they will cast for Sam Vimes. Since I don't really visualise characters, I don't know who would suit. Any thoughts?
A change in the publishing date of "A Memory of Light", and Brandon Sanderson explains why:
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/1058/A-MEMORY-OF-LIGHT- Release-Date
And a look at Sanderson's books for.. well... the foreseeable future, really:
http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2012/02/brandon-sanderson-pl ans-36-volume.html
Quite an ambitious plan.
In other news - additional casting for The Hobbit:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/billy-connolly-joining-peter -jacksons-the-hobbit/
Billy Connolly.
More Ender's Game-casting:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33040
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/nonso-anozie-joins-harrison- ford-ben-kingsley-and-viola-davis-in-enders-game/
More Dirk Gently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/160212dirkgently .html
Al Pacino in Despicable Me 2:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/al-pacino-signs-on-for-despi cable-me-2/
- or his voice, rather.
Beauty and the Beast-pilot news:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/beast-master-gary-fleder-to- produce-one-beauty-the-beast-pilot-direct-the-other/
- both of 'em.
And the movie (not the one Guillermo del Toro might be making, discussed elsewhere on the forum ):
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33104
Casting news for the Gilded Lillys pilot:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/blythe-danner-sarah-bolger-m adeline-zima-cast-in-abc-pilot-gilded-lilys/
And this isn't exactly "looking forward to" news, but in case there are House-fans here, they may be interested in knowing that:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/house-to-end-run-on-fox-afte r-8-seasons/#more-228019
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/david-shore-katie-jacobs-and -hugh-laurie-on-the-end-of-house/#more-228211
The date for the Wolverine-sequel called... er... The Wolverine (for reasons no doubt best known to the film-makers... ):
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/fox-dates-the-wolverine-for- july-2013/
New trailerz for:
The Lorax:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/super-bowl-spot-dr-seuss-the -lorax/
The Avengers:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/super-bowl-spot-marvels-the- avengers/
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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It never rains but it pours, and before I get entirely flooded, I had better get these off my chest... or back... or whatever part of my anatomy they're "at". (The risk is that I'll forget something - and while I can of course always add on later - I first need to remember that I've forgotten... if you see what I mean? )
Well, first off, there's some news on J K Rowling's next book:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17146455
Not that there's much - it will be adult, and completely different from HP, and that's it, basically.
Some pilot casting:
Beauty and the Beast:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/abcs-beauty-and-the-beast-ca sts-beast/
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/jake-lacy-lands-goodwin-lead -caitlin-fitzgerald-cast-in-masters-of-sex-david-eigenberg-f -murray-abraham-join-pilots/#more-237028
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/abcs-beauty-and-the-beast-ca sts-lead/
Gilded Lilys:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/brian-obyrne-lands-starring- role-in-abc-period-drama-pilot-gilded-lilys/
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/matt-long-brigid-brannagh-ca st-in-gilded-lilys-erinn-hayes-in-mandy-moore-comedy/
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/amy-smart-joins-nbc-pilot-ba d-girls-matt-lauria-cast-in-abcs-gilded-lilys-abc-family-ser ies-baby-daddy-recasts-lead/
(Yes, I know, I know - just because I'm concentrating on these two no doubt means that neither will be picked up to series... I just think "following" them is fun. And there are other pilots that look as if they might be fun/interesting - depending on how they're made. But costume drama/fantasy/fairy tale means that I'm already interested.)
I didn't know that more Kenneth Branagh Wallander was being made, but I learnt incidentally from this that there is:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/oscars-kenneth-branagh-my-we ek-with-marilyn/
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Some movie news - so it seems that there are adaptations on the way for:
The Night Circus:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/moira-buffini-to-write-the-n ight-circus-for-summit-entertainment/
The Book Thief:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/fox-2000-taps-downton-abbeys -brian-percival-to-direct-the-book-thief/
There is, it seems, great anticipation for the Hunger Games-movie:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/hunger-games-comes-on-tracki ng-huge/
I'm linking to this article primarily, however, as it includes what Suzanne Collins herself thinks of the movie - which I thought might be of interest to lovers of the book.
Some Lone Ranger replacement casting:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/william-fichtner-to-replace- dwight-yoakam-in-lone-ranger/
And an interview with Benedict Cumberbatch about his work on The Hobbit
http://the-hobbit-movie.com/2012/02/29/the-hobbit-is-going-t o-be-amazing/
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Good news for those who enjoyed Terry Pratchett's "Nation" (I haven't read it myself yet), there will be a new book set in that world:
http://thewertzone.blogspot.se/2012/03/new-terry-pratchett-n ovel-given-title.html
More Beauty and the Beast castings:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/abc-pilots-add-quarter-of-ac tors/
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/quartet-of-actors-join-broad cast-pilots/#more-242359
And more Gilded Lilys:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/torchwood-star-cast-in-abcs- gilded-lilys/
And William Moseley - of Narnia fame - has been cast in the CW's pilot The Selection:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/william-moseley-aspen-the-se lection-cw-pilot/
based on, I believe, this (forthcoming) book:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/kiera-cass/selection.htm
In existing series news, Once Upon a Time, though not yet officially renewed, is looking forward to season two:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/producers-cast-of-abc%e2%80% 99s-%e2%80%98once-upon-a-time%e2%80%99-look-forward-to-secon d-season/
And Revenge is tying up loose ends in case of cancellation, while at the same time setting up events for a potential second season:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/revenge-will-end-season-with -cliffhanger-but-tie-loose-ends-in-case-its-not-renewed/
Whilst both the above series have yet to be renewed, CBS has renewed several shows:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/blue-bloods-picked-up-for-th ird-season-as-cbs-nears-renewals-on-other-series/
And NBC has renewed Grimm:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/grimm-renewed-as-nbc-is-prep ping-renewals/
Apparently the networks have been slow in renewing this year, so "stay tuned" for more news, as hopefully there will be more renewals soon.
In movie news, Elle Fanning has been cast in Maleficent:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/elle-fanning-to-join-angelin a-jolie-in-maleficent/
Apparently there is a Percy Jackson sequel on the way:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33421
And - after the success of The Lorax - an animated version of The Cat in the Hat:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/dr-seuss-the-cat-in-the-hat- get-new-life-at-chris-meledandris-illumination/
A review of The Hunger Games (movie):
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=1 36210
A new installment of Peter Lord's The Pirates!-blog:
http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p 1207
And video interviews with John Cusack apropos his forthcoming movie The Raven:
http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=147 5
Finally, trailerz:
Ice Age 4:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33327
Men in Black 3:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/hot-trailer-men-in-black-3-2 /
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Well, long time no see - on this thread, I mean. I've just been swallowed whole by figure skating and my old passion for old Indian film music (you can lose yourself for hours on Youtube, really you can - that place is dangerous!), so while I may have found the time, I did not have the attention to spare for other things. But - now I'm back, though I can't promise that I'll be "better than ever" - in fact, I believe the risk is that some of my "news" may be a bit old, and some stuff is likely to have fallen by the wayside, so to speak. So, if anyone feels the urge to fill in some of the gaps, such help would be gratefully received.
Talking of which - thanks to Beauty/Anna for the Doctor Who-updates! (To be found on the "Links to Amuse"&c-thread.) Which reminded me, of course, of what it was I had forgotten a couple of posts back - namely, that filming had begun on Doctor Who - Ooops!
The title of J K Rowling's upcoming book - plus a little of what it is actually about - has been revealed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17693206
Proving that delays can have their advantages too - being busy with other things hindered me from posting the rumour that series 3 of Downton Abbey was to be Dame Maggie Smith's last, as this is now declared to be false by the producers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17739522
I don't generally post things based on hearsay, but I was going to post this, so no doubt this will teach me to be more circumspect in future.
David Suchet on saying farewell to Poirot:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17675618
Some news that may be of interest to our David Tennant fans:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/spies-of-wa rsaw.html
More Inspector George Gently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/inspector-g eorge-gently-release.html
More info on Ripper Street:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/bbc-america-stalks-period-cr ime-series-ripper-street-with-matthew-macfadyen/
Meanwhile, the American broadcast network renewals continue to be sluggish - I was expecting to "return" to a slew of news, but alas! not so - however the following shows have been renewed:
Smash
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/nbcs-smash-renewed-for-secon d-season/
Bones
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/fox-renews-bones-for-eigth-s eason/
Glee
New Girl
Raising Hope
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/fox-renews-glee-new-girl-and -raising-hope/
And to show that I have thoroughly learnt my lesson vis à vis posting rumours, here are two early overviews of the current pilot situation:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/primetime-pilot-panic-early- buzz-edition-2/
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/primetime-pilot-panic-early- buzz-update/
which seem to be based almost entirely on speculation. However, I did think that they may give You (dear post reader) an idea of the various pilots in con
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Excited for more George Gently! But will Bacchus ever stop being a jerk?
Libby
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@BriaE - I know how you feel about the Percy Jackson-sequel - me myself am hoping that a sequel to Prince of Persia is still not completely out of the question. (I saw it earlier this year, and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it - and whose scatterbrained idea was it to release the film during the football/soccer World Cup anyway?) Once Upon A Time has yet to be officially renewed, but - afraid of jinxing it, touch wood &c - it looks like there's a really, really good chance that it will be. I think the very fact that they are considering another fairy tale-series - whether the Beauty and the Beast pilot goes forward or no - is in itself a very, very good sign. (I have only "allowed" myself to watch the first episode - I have taped the 11 that were shown in Sweden before they did a season break - but I'm strongly considering buying it when it comes out on DVD - in fact, I'm doing a very good job of persuading myself that it may indeed be My Duty to support the show - and I take My Duty very seriously.  )
@libby.gorman - Indeed, I'm glad too - I haven't seen any Inspector George Gently myself - yet (or only glimpses of it - what you say would explain why ), but I think more period mysteries are always welcome - especially well made ones, which I'm sure this one is. I wonder if anyone here has read the books it's based on?
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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Yes, I'm back with more news/possible items of interest for your delectation - I decided not to wait an entire month this time.
(I'm also trying to be more tidy & orderly and noting down stuff - we'll see how that'll work out... )
Well, first off, the third book in Patricia C Wrede's Frontier Magic:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/patricia-c-wrede/far-wes t.htm
Beginning the TV-section with renewals - still not much, and I believe that ABC has actually yet to renew - anything? But ABC Family has renewed:
The Lying Game
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/abc-family-renews-the-lying- game-for-second-season/
And Fox has renewed
Fringe
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/fringe-renewed-final-season- fox-13-epsiode-order/
for a final season. This is slightly surprising as I believe the ratings have been quite bad - but I'm glad that the fans get a proper ending to the series (I wish this were done more often.)
And we have already got one pilot picked up to series:
Game On
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/nbc-picks-up-matthew-perry-c omedy-pilot-go-on-to-series/
And here is more Pilot Panic:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/primetime-pilot-panic-2nd-ho t-list-update/
for those who - like me - enjoy following the ups & downs of the pilot season.
More similar stuff - new on SyFy?:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/syfy-thinks-big-with-biggest -ever-development-slate-upfronts/
And then some news that doesn't really fit under the "Looking Forward To"-heading - unless it were in a "Well, thank goodness that's gone!" way, which would really not be in the Pollyanna spirit (besides never having made sense to me anyway - why would anyone want to be such a dog in the manger? - yet I've seen such an attitude being quite prevalent. But I digress.) Yes, we have a cancellation:
BBC have axed Upstairs Downstairs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17811617
It doesn't really make sense for me to "report" on everything else, but not this - so long as it's understood that it's the exception to the "looking forward to"-part.
And a new series from CBBC - some
Wizards Vs Aliens anyone? :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/270412-wiza rds-vs-aliens-filming.html
And on the movie end - there seems as if there may be a Graveyard Book adaptation on the way:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/disney-scares-up-deal-for-ne il-gaimans-the-graveyard-book/
Charlie Kaufman is to adapt the first book in Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking trilogy:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/charlie-kaufman-to-adapt-cha os-walking-lionsgates-next-franchise-play/
Anyone here read the books? And/or seen any Kaufman movies? Thoughts?
Some forthcoming animated movies:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/weinstein-company-dates-trio -of-animated-pics-for-2013/
http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/disney-pixar-muppets-animati on-titles/#more-261496
Fort
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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