HboFilms-related stories
Posted Oct 1st 2009 10:00AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Web, Reality-Free
Television has been trying to cram
3D technology into our eye sockets ever since it realized that offering some kind of gimmick with their product could distract some audiences from the fact that it sucks. 3D TV will only impress three groups of people: children, heavy LSD users who are out of LSD, and the people who helped bring it to a Best Buy near you.
HBO, however, has done something much more interesting and creative with interactive entertainment by applying the 3D concept, not to just the screen, but the story and characters. I hope you've got lots of newspaper down, because your mind is about to blow.
Continue reading HBO's multicamera Imagine engine will blow your mind out of its skull
Posted Jul 20th 2009 10:01AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free
The Emmy nomination process is clearly more flawed than a line of
Dora the Explorer lawn darts.
The system is outdated and always in need of a revamping, as technology and the proliferation of programming increases every year. Some contenders are just going to get a big, ugly, high school prom date snub.
That doesn't mean the process is without its no-brainers. I'm referring, of course, to the shows that deserve special recognition for changing the course of the medium and showing the world its possibilities and not to the people actually doing the nominating. The last season of
The Wire will go down as one of the biggest no-brainers of all time.
Continue reading Is The Wire the biggest Emmy snub of all time, forever and ever, amen?
Posted Apr 14th 2009 9:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
The network that brought you a movie based on the 2000 Presidential Election and would have brought you a movie based on the 2004 Presidential Election had it been more interesting is bringing you another one.
Variety reports that HBO Films has optioned the rights to a book based on the events of the 2008 Presidential Election for another made-for-TV movie. The book, "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime," written by political writers Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, will be released later this year.
So will the movie, written by
Blood Diamond screenwriter Charles Leavitt, be fair and balanced? Will it give both sides equal time? I honestly could not care less. As long as it pisses off the Elizabeth Hasselbecks and Joy Behars of the world, that's fine with me.
Continue reading HBO is making a 2008 election film, but who will play whom?
Posted Nov 18th 2008 6:04PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Industry, Casting, Reality-Free
I might be in the minority here, but I actually like Dan Fogler.
I won't deny that the dude's earned the "Poor Man's Jack Black" title thanks to his roles in
Good Luck Chuck and
Balls of Fury, but I think he'll break out of that shell soon enough.
Fogler is slated to play Alfred Hitchcock in an upcoming Ewan McGregor thriller and,
Variety reports, HBO just hired him to play Sam Kinison in
Brother Sam, an upcoming TV biopic about the controversial stand-up comic.
Continue reading Dan Fogler to play Sam Kinison in HBO biopic
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