Posts with tag Crash
Posted Jun 5th 2008 9:02PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Dennis Hopper is set to star in the new original series
Crash, produced by Starz and Lionsgate. This is the first drama series for the network. Based on the Academy Award-winning movie,
Crash has begun filming in New Mexico and Los Angeles. Sanford Bookstaver (
Jericho,
Bones,
The O.C.) will direct the premiere episode.
According to the press release, the show "will continue to focus on an ensemble cast of characters" and "will explore the complexities of social tolerance in contemporary America by digging at the meaning of what it takes to reach the American dream." Hopper will play Ben, a veteran, maverick producer in the music biz who is looking for his last big score. Other stars include Clare Carey, Luis Chavez, Ross McCall, Jocko Sims, Brian Tee, and Arlene Tur.
Crash will come to Starz in October.
Watch your backs, HBO and Showtime! This show looks good. And Paul Haggis is on the team of executive producers. He didn't just give us
Crash. He gave us
thirtysomething and
The Black Donnellys. Don't mess with the Hag.
Posted May 30th 2008 8:22AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, CSI, The Shield, Grey's Anatomy, Entourage, Jericho, Casting, Private Practice, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free
Shortly after the release of 2005's
Crash in theaters, I remember reading that a TV series based on the film was in the works. I even pitched the story to a TV trade magazine, but the editor didn't go for it. She must have guessed the show would be years in the works, and she was right.
Three years later, a TV series is finally starting to gain some steam.
The Hollywood Reporter just posted a story that
five actors have joined the cast of the series produced by Don Cheadle,
Paul Haggis (pictured), Mark R. Harris, Robert Moresco, Tom Nunan, and Bob Yari, all of whom were involved with the movie. Produced by Lionsgate, the series is anticipated to
premiere on Starz in 2009.
Here's a rundown on the actors who've just signed. It's interesting that most of these folks are not big-name actors, which I find refreshing in an era where many mega-movie stars are crossing over into TV:
Continue reading Crash gears up with cast
Posted Feb 26th 2008 10:38AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The Shield, Cable/Satellite, Pickups and Renewals, Life
Starz, the cable network, is getting into original production and their first project will be based on the 2005 Best Picture Oscar-winning film
Crash. Glen Mazzara, whose credits include
Life, The Shield, Stand-Off and
Nash Bridges,
has been named executive producer/showrunner for the drama series. Lionsgate TV will co-produce with Starz, and they've greenlighted 13 episodes.
The controversial film, which dealt with the intersecting lives of a myriad of people living in Los Angeles in just 48 hours, centers on the character of Detective Graham Waters. Waters, a police detective, is struggling with his career, his drug addict mother and a criminal brother. The role was played by Don Cheadle (
Picket Fences), who was also one of the film's producers. He is expected to reprise the part in the Starz production and may even direct a few episodes. In addition, director/co-writer/producer Paul Haggis and others from the film are also on board for Starz.
Continue reading Starz first series will be Crash
Posted Jun 7th 2007 4:41PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Drama Shows
If you wanted to get your conspiracy theory fix and are bummed out the upcoming HBO documentary on JFK will be free of such theories, than you might want to check out The Murder of Princess Diana, a TV movie that hits Lifetime this August, the ten-year anniversary of her death.
The TV movie, based on the book of the same name by Noel Botham, will focus on a supposed conspiracy that resulted in the princess' death in a car crash.
Continue reading Lifetime begins production on TV movie about death of Princess Diana
Posted Feb 26th 2007 10:05AM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Interviews, The Sopranos, The Black Donnellys
There are a lot of initial discrepancies about NBC's
The Black Donnellys from the moment you watch the show.
If you are a born and raised New Yorker, you might find it initially hard to relate to the creators insistence on piecing together different but real geographical areas and their claim that it's one fictional neighborhood, unlike other shows using a New York backdrop such as
The Sopranos,
Law and Order or even
Sex and the City. If you are Canadian, you might be even more confused by the creators choice of the title,
which until recently has been a famous historical reference to one of the most gruesome murders in Canadian history.
Bobby Moresco and Paul Haggis, the Oscar winning team behind
Crash and the creators of
The Black Donnellys implore you to throw pre-conceived notions out the window when you watch the premiere Monday night and want to remind us that although the show is heavily based on their personal experiences growing up in New York City's Hell Kitchen, the story and places are indeed fictional and should feel timeless.
Continue reading Who are The Black Donnellys?
Posted Feb 1st 2007 8:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Prison Break, Celebrities
Prison Break actor Lane Garrison will likely be charged with felony vehicular manslaughter for an accident that killed a 17-year old girl
last month. Beverly Hills police say that Garrison was high on cocaine and drunk when he slammed his SUV into a tree, killing his teen-age passenger. Two other 15-year old girls in the car were injured. Police say Garrison's blood-alcohol level that night was .20 percent, more than twice the legal limit, and they found a number of empty alcohol containers in his SUV.
Garrison, 26, played "Tweener" on
Prison Break, but his character was killed off earlier this season. If convicted, he could face up to ten years in actual prison.
Posted Jan 31st 2007 2:27PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Video, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
After his
plug for Vista interview with Jon Stewart on
The Daily Show on Monday night, Bill Gates practically sprinted off the set and out of the studio... before the director had a chance to cut to commercial. I interpreted it as his uber-geekiness/social handicap kicking in. I mean, this guy doesn't do talk shows or even watch talk shows! He's too smart for such things.
Well, I was wrong.
Last night on
The Daily Show, Jon Stewart showed what really happened. I should've known. Video is after the jump:
[Via
Digg]
Continue reading Why Bill Gates left The Daily Show so quickly - VIDEO
Posted Mar 28th 2006 10:44AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Talent, Law and Order
Ludacris, the rapper-turned-actor who did
a remarkable job in the Oscar-winning movie
Crash and in
Hustle and Flow, will appear on a new episode
of
Law & Order: SVU tonight. As
Adam mentioned last month, he'll
play Det. Tutuola's (Ice-T) nephew, who has a secret that gets exposed when Tutuola's son is accused of homicide.
Said Ludacris, "There was no way I could turn down this amazing opportunity. The character was so rich and
the storyline so complex, that I knew it was something I had to do." I'm sold.
SVU airs at 10
pm ET tonight on NBC.
Posted Mar 18th 2006 1:19PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Showtime, Programming, Huff
In conjunction with the season two
premiere of
Huff, a Hank Azaria comedy, Showtime is going to be free for one whole weekend. Showtime is
calling the promotion "It's All For You", and it's going to be free from Friday, March 31 through Monday,
April 3. Along with Huff, Showtime will also premiere the Academy award winning movie,
Crash, that weekend, as
well as some boxing and the digitally remastered classic,
Liza with a Z. The free weekend wraps up with the
season premiere of
Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t!.
Posted Mar 17th 2006 10:32AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Programming
While the upfronts are still a few weeks away, NBC has
placed early orders for two
new dramas,
Kidnapped and
The Black Donnellys.
Kidnapped stars Dana Delany and Timothy
Hutton as parents whose son is abducted. The show is in the same style as FOX's
Prison Break, where it's meant
to stretch out only one season. It will be told from three views: the family, the FBI agents, and the kidnappers.
Perhaps
Crash's win at the Academy awards solidified
NBC's love for
The
Black Donnellys. It is written and created by
Crash screenwriters Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco.
The
Black Donnellys is about four Irish-American brothers involved in the Irish mob.
Each drama received a
13-episode order from NBC.
Posted Feb 20th 2006 9:37PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: OpEd, PVR Wire
Last month,
I broke up with my TiVo. Thanks to the
support from TV Squad readers, we
have
reconciled. Unfortunately, things are getting a little bit rocky in our relationship.
It's been a month
since I put my old DirecTV TiVo in the garage and replaced it with two new TiVos, a 40-hour machine named Patrick and
an 80-hour one named SpongeBob. We hooked the boxes up to cable (which is inferior to satellite) and to our home's
wireless network. Poor Patrick is having a rough time. He keeps crashing and resetting himself. SpongeBob crashes about
once a day. The last straw was Friday night when Patrick crashed and wiped out
Battlestar Galactica.
Continue reading The latest in my TiVo saga
Posted Feb 15th 2006 10:03AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
Shannen Doherty, former star of
Charmed and
90210, got into a car wreck that sent one person to the hospital. California police say Shannen was taking a
left turn onto the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu when the Range Rover she was driving collided with another vehicle.
It's not yet clear how that collision happened but the accident report says Shannen is mostly at fault. Shannen only
suffered some bruising and a cut on her thigh, for which she refused medical attention. Can't you just picture her
going off on the paramedic? Me too.
Posted Feb 7th 2006 10:27AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, NBC, CBS, Cable, Programming, Numb3rs, Monk
If you're going to pitch a
pilot to television network execs in L.A., one key word is 'patience'. Another is 'persistence'.
Here
is an interesting article about a handful of pilots that are finally getting picked up by the networks, after their
creators have re-worked and re-tooled them for years. One example is
Numb3rs, which didn't make the cut the
first time around. The creators went back to the drawing board, pitched it the next year, and now it's a successful
series. Another example is
Monk, which was originally created for ABC but never got off the ground. A network
exec moved from ABC to USA, where
Monk found a following.
One of the most extreme cases comes this
year. For eight years, writer Paul Haggis (
Crash &
Million Dollar Baby) has been trying to get
the series,
The Truth About Joey Ice Cream on the air. It's a show about four Irish brothers who keep finding
themselves tangled up in the mob. Sound familiar? It should. We
reported on it last
month, when NBC finally picked it up as
The Black Donnellys. I actually kind-of prefer the original title
because it's quirky. Did the show really change that much or is it just because Haggis is hot right now? Probably the
latter. It's the same for Shonda Rhimes, the creator of the very-hot-right-now
Grey's Anatomy. She developed a
journalism-themed series one year before
Grey's and now has been asked to re-develop it.
Posted Jan 23rd 2006 9:45AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Programming
NBC is banking on gritty writer Paul Haggis for one of its new fall dramas, called
The Black Donnellys.
Haggis wrote the screenplays for
Million Dollar Baby and
Crash, and has also won two Emmys for his
writing on
Thirtysomething. The new series, created by Haggis and Bobby Moresco, is about four Irish brothers
in New York's Hell's Kitchen and their lives in organized crime. It's one of those "they keep pullin' me back
in" kind of things. The series will actually be shot in New York.
With
The Sopranos
concluding next year, NBC must be hoping that we'll still want our violent mobster fix.
Posted Jan 8th 2006 11:00AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on the Bigscreen
The
British think that
Serenity, the movie based on the short-lived
Firefly series, was pretty damn good.
Good enough, in fact, that they voted it among the top movies of the year in a poll for Channel 4. It comes in at
Number 3.
The station's website says "the excitement and spectacular set-pieces are in place, but they
are balanced by strong characterisation, distinctive dialogue and effective performances." Yes, that is a rather
tempered way of saying "we love these guys!" I know it was my favorite movie-going experience of the year
because 1) I went on opening night with a bunch of
Firefly fans who cheered throughout the movie and then
freaked out when a certain character met up with a certain toothpick the size of a telephone pole, and 2) I
love those those guys!
Here are the Top 5 movies according to the Channel 4 poll:
5.
Crash4.
King Kong3.
Serenity2.
Batman Begins1.
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of FireThat number one pick is a real shocker, eh?
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