Michael Bay has been pulling off some epic stunts on the set the Transformers 3 recently, but an extra in northwest Indiana was seriously hurt Wednesday, just a day before Chicago filming was scheduled to end. The woman, 24-year-old Gabriela Cedillo, was airlifted to a nearby medical center following the incident in East Chicago, which delayed this morning’s 6 a.m. shoot that was supposed to occur in Millenium Park. Fair warning here, the description of the incident sounds a little gruesome.
Rihanna can sing. But can she sink your destroyer? She looks like she’s going to give it her best shot in the first photos of the R&B recording artist in costume to emerge from the set of Battleship. Director Peter Berg of Hancock fame had already added Wolverine: Origins Cajun Taylor Kitsch and True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård to his cast. Now, he’s going to give her a shot at acting as well.
AMC’s TV series adaptation of The Walking Dead has reportedly already been cleared for a second season, which means there should be lots of episode opportunities ahead for producer/director Frank Darabont to work in a part for his friend and former Mist collaborator Thomas Jane. Jane, meanwhile, is adamant that he wants to get on the show at AMC’s earliest convenience.
The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic book, is in the early stages of development as a television series. The title as had a tortured relationship with Hollywood, where a planned film adaptation has languished since at least the mid-1990s.
Fox has given a direct-to-series order to Locke & Key, the adaptation of the Joe Hill horror comic being developed by Star Trek‘s Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The title, published by IDW, revolves around a family that moves into a mysterious mansion in Lovecraft, Massachusetts.
Battlestar Galactica‘s Ronald D. Moore is developing a fantasy series for NBC that’s described as “an adult Harry Potter set in a world ruled not by science but by magic.”
Officially unveiled today at Apple’s upfront presentation, the second-generation Apple TV will allow users to stream content from Netflix and iTunes, and rent HD television series from ABC and Fox for just 99 cents. The new version of the device, priced at $99, will be released late this month.
The CW has released images from the sixth-season premiere of Supernatural, which features the return of Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) as the grandfather of Sam and Dean Winchester. There’s just one problem: He was killed by the Yellow-Eyed Demon years ago, before the boys were even born.
If you’re an AT&T Uverse customer, you may be forgiven for wondering what happened to the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel today. The answer is, of course, an argument over money.
What says “respecting financially destitute America” more than a big budget movie about how life can be when you try and reduce spending? Here’s hoping that Fox’s adaptation of Extensive Frugality isn’t going to be as offensive as it sounds.
Well, into a movie, at least. George Clooney has the directing bug again, apparently, and just like with Good Night and Good Luck, he’s channeling it into a movie that sounds like the kind of smart, political drama that people don’t really make anymore.
Brendan Fraser may not be returning for the sequel to Journey To The Center Of The Earth, but New Line has found a suitable replacement: Dwayne Johnson. Well, where else would you expect the Rock to be, if not deep underground?
