movies i’m excited to see
↳ the bourne legacy (summer 2012)
Reporting directly from Neil Gaiman’s blog: Good Omens, the fagnificent spawn of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, is being adapted for television by Terry Jones (Monty Python) and Gavin Scott (Small Soldiers). The producer will be Rod Brown, who already lead the BBC versions of Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather and The Colour of Magic. He did a great job capturing the fantastic and gritty ambientation of Discworld’s characters, and I am sure that this coming in 2013 BBC miniseries will be up to the fan base expectations.
Disney and Marvel Studios’ The Avengers is expected to cross the $800 million mark sometime on Thursday, putting it on course to hit $1 billion in global grosses by Sunday or early next week. No film besides James Cameron’s Avatar has reached $1 billion so quickly. Avatar hit the milestone in 17 days; Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, could hit it in 17 days (Sunday). Through Wednesday, the superhero tentpole had grossed $775.4 million worldwide, including a Wednesday take of $31.2 million. Last weekend, it scored the biggest domestic debut of all time in earning $207.4 million.
I made an animalistic noise when I saw that first photo.
Sherlock’s love mystery: First sight of Cumberbatch in new BBC drama aiming to take Downton’s TV crown
We are used to seeing him as Sherlock, the genius detective who is famously awkward with the opposite sex.
But here is Benedict Cumberbatch showing his romantic side in a new £4 million BBC production.
Cumberbatch stars with Bafta winner Rebecca Hall in Parade’s End, a compelling tale of thwarted love in First World War England.
The five-part drama, to be broadcast this autumn, has been adapted by Oscar-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard from novels by literary giant Ford Madox Ford. It marks Sir Tom’s return to television after a break of 20 years.
The BBC hopes Parade’s End will knock Downton Abbey off its perch as TV’s most popular historical drama.
It tells the story of wealthy statistician Christopher Tietjens, played by Cumberbatch, and his unhappy marriage to Sylvia (Hall), a cruel but beautiful socialite who is carrying a baby that may or may not be his.
As Europe plunges into the First World War, Tietjens’s life is transformed by a young suffragette, Valentine Wannop, played by newcomer Adelaide Clemens.
Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett and Anne-Marie Duff also star.
‘The stellar cast simply confirms the buzz and excitement around Sir Tom’s return to British television,’ said Ben Stephenson, controller of BBC Drama Commissioning.
“Superhero movies also represent the pinnacle of cinema as “motion picture”. I’d like to think that the Lumière brothers would thrill at the cat-and-mouse chase through the netherworld streets of Gotham in The Dark Knight, with helicopters tripping on high-tensile wires and falling from the sky, and a huge Joker-driven triple-length truck upending 180 degrees like a Russian acrobat. I hope that they would cheer and delight at the rollercoaster ride through the skies of Manhattan at the end of Avengers Assemble. These scenes are the result of a creative engine set in motion when the Lumières shot L’Arrivée d’un Train en Gare de la Ciotat in 1895. The trains just move a lot faster these days. And not just trains; trucks, bikes, bat-mobiles and men in flying, shining iron suits. The spectacle is part of the fun – part of the art, part of our shared joy.”
