Posts with tag Jerry Bruckheimer
Posted Mar 28th 2008 3:21PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen
Hi-Yo Silver, Away! One more time, that masked man will ride again. Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have enlisted writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio for a
big screen remake of The Lone Ranger. A live action, hoot-hollering, hero on a horseback western epic, if
Bruckheimer follows his pattern of doing things big and bold.
Ted and Terry are the same writers that helped bring
Pirates of the Caribbean to the movie theaters in three box office bonanzas. And with
Pirates, there was a lot less source material.
Pirates of the Caribbean was just a ride at Disneyland (and Disney World).
The Lone Ranger could be called the Long Ranger with its rich history in radio, TV and written word.
Continue reading Hi-Yo, Silver! The Lone Ranger is heading to the silver screen
Posted Feb 27th 2008 1:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, 24, CSI, NCIS
It doesn't take a rocket scientist, let alone a forensic specialist, to detect that the
CSI franchise is hot. CBS currently boasts three shows with
CSI in the title --
CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York -- four if you include the non-Jerry Bruckheimer produced military procedural
NCIS. So, then, it shouldn't come as a surprise that
CSI is expanding. No, there's not a new
CSI TV show happening, but there is an amusement park variation on
CSI coming to life at Magic Mountain, the Valencia, California tourist attraction. (By the way, isn't it nice that Valencia didn't get nuked for real like it did on
24 last season?)
Continue reading CSI: Magic Mountain - it's true
Posted Feb 22nd 2008 2:24PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The Amazing Race, CSI, Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Casting
Nobody would ever confuse Rufus Sewell for Patrick Stewart (
Star Trek: The Next Generation), right? Well, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer
has chosen Sewell for the lead in the $4 million pilot of the British drama series
Eleventh Hour. Presumably, Rufus will be playing the same role Patrick played, that is Professor Ian Hood, Special Advisor to the government's Joint Sciences Committee, enlisted to tackle all kinds of dangerous threats stemming from science gone awry.
Continue reading Rufus Sewell cast in new Bruckheimer pilot
Posted Oct 18th 2007 3:05PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: CSI, Celebrities
It's
no secret that Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle on
CSI, is leaving the show this season. She has a contentious history with the show and was even temporarily fired during contract negotiations in 2004. But, why is she leaving?
Fox gave a quick interview to
EW.com, explaining her departure. She's leaving to broaden her horizons. The actress has been on
CSI for seven years and is looking for something else to do. She says, "If I thought the show was on its last legs, I would've tried harder to stay the course. But I feel like it's going to be around for a while, so I don't want some of those dreams to pass me by."
Continue reading Why Jorja Fox is leaving CSI
Posted Aug 16th 2007 12:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Industry
Jerry Bruckheimer may be taking over yet another hour of programming over at CBS. His production company is already responsible for the
CSI franchises,
Without a Trace,
Cold Case, and
The Amazing Race. Now the network
has ordered a pilot for another Bruckheimer drama about a team of treasure hunters. The series tracks the treasure hunters as they travel all over the world to play
Indiana Jones. It kind-of sounds like
CSI meets
The Amazing Race, doesn't it?
The writers said they want to update
Indiana Jones and make it exciting and cool. I can already picture the musical montages as the adventurers unearth and restore their treasure.
Posted Oct 6th 2006 11:05AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Programming, Justice, Standoff
Fox is changing up its schedule once the World Series is over. It is sending
Vanished to 8 pm on Fridays, the place where television shows go to die. And,
Justice is moving from Wednesdays to Mondays at 9 pm. Fox obviously hopes the large
Prison Break audience will stick around for the new Jerry Bruckheimer procedural drama which has consistently placed 4th among the networks on Wednesdays. Tuesdays will switch up just a bit, with
Standoff moving to the 8 pm hour and
House moving up to 9 pm. On Wednesdays,
Bones will remain at 8 pm with new game show,
The Rich List, following 9 pm. The changes begin on October 23rd.
Posted Oct 4th 2006 7:23PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Justice, Pickups and Renewals
Jerry Bruckheimer's newest crime/law drama is not dead yet. Reuters reports that FOX has ordered up three more scripts for the series.
Justice, starring Victor Garber, has regularly finished fourth in its time slot on Wednesdays at 9 pm (even behind reruns of
Lost- ouch!). Late last month,
Fox announced it was putting
Justice and
Happy Hour on early hiatus ahead of the World Series. That didn't look promising for either show, but at least
Justice gets to take another swing at the viewers. No word on the fate of
Happy Hour.
Even though I really want to see Kerr Smith and Victor Garber be successful, they can do better.
Justice is already predictable... and enough with the handheld cameras!
Posted Sep 18th 2006 11:25AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, CSI: Miami
I think it's a sign that the franchise is dead. Dead bodies keep turning up around
CSI sets.
Last week it was in the building where
CSI:NY was filming in Los Angeles. A near-mummified body was discovered by the landlord as crews were filming on a different floor. This time, it's
CSI: Miami. A dead body washed up on a beach in Biscayne Bay in Miami that crews were using as a staging area for helicopter shots of an investigation scene. Miami police pretty much shrugged it off, saying that homeless people or boaters tend to fall into the bay this time of year. Neither death is considered suspicious, proving that actual crime scene investigation isn't nearly as cool as Jerry Bruckheimer makes it out to be.
Posted Aug 22nd 2006 2:09PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, Industry
First off, let me say that I am very jealous of the sweatshirt that
Keith got from the
Prison Break press kit. Since I'm covering
Justice this season, Keith sent its press kit all the way across the country to my house. FOX didn't quite go all out with this press kit the way it did for
Prison Break. No newspaper. Just a stack of office paper with bios for the actors, including a pathetically short bio for Kerr Smith, and a letter from the law firm instructing me to watch the pilot on DVD (also included).
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