We’ve seen plenty of Gotham footage at this point, and even heard quite a few positive reactions to the pilot. But why not see one more trailer? This one is good, because it spotlights the villains, including The Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor), Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Catwoman (Camren Bicondova). Bruno Heller‘s show (with a pilot directed […]
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- 6/19/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Feature Louisa Mellor 31 Jan 2014 - 07:00
A look at the pre-Grimm work of co-creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, a screenwriting partnership that’s lasted over thirty years…
A poker table in the late seventies, a bathroom in the mid-noughties… television shows have many birthplaces. Had screenwriters David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf not been introduced at a card game over thirty years ago, and had producer Todd Milliner not taken a 2006 shower in which he pondered what existing stories were in need of a modern update for TV, then Grimm might never have existed.
First, that poker game. Greenwalt and Kouf’s friendship began a couple of years before their first official screenwriting credit on 1982’s horror spoof Wacko, a job for which the pair were paid the princely sum of fifteen thousand dollars…
“We did a lot of fun movies back then”
That’s what Greenwalt told Collider...
A look at the pre-Grimm work of co-creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, a screenwriting partnership that’s lasted over thirty years…
A poker table in the late seventies, a bathroom in the mid-noughties… television shows have many birthplaces. Had screenwriters David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf not been introduced at a card game over thirty years ago, and had producer Todd Milliner not taken a 2006 shower in which he pondered what existing stories were in need of a modern update for TV, then Grimm might never have existed.
First, that poker game. Greenwalt and Kouf’s friendship began a couple of years before their first official screenwriting credit on 1982’s horror spoof Wacko, a job for which the pair were paid the princely sum of fifteen thousand dollars…
“We did a lot of fun movies back then”
That’s what Greenwalt told Collider...
- 1/30/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
“There's never an easy way,” croons the Morcheeba lady at the start of Passion, and she's bang on the money. The Easy Way does not exist in the atlases of Buffy The Vampire Slayer or Angel. The path of true love is turned into thick, sludgy mud. The road of happiness is blocked by irritating, slow-motion roadworkers and their over-sized rotating red and green lollipops. Even the simple journey of life is more difficult to navigate than a broken compass.
If it's difficulty you're looking for, then Angelus is your chuckling representative. Having lost his soul, he's now taking his crusade to bring Buffy down town to Frowntown to warped new levels. Not only has he gone all creepy Stalker Boy on Buffy and her friends, he's also gone and called time on Giles' love life in the most brutal manner known to man.
And in addition, he kills Willow's pet fish.
If it's difficulty you're looking for, then Angelus is your chuckling representative. Having lost his soul, he's now taking his crusade to bring Buffy down town to Frowntown to warped new levels. Not only has he gone all creepy Stalker Boy on Buffy and her friends, he's also gone and called time on Giles' love life in the most brutal manner known to man.
And in addition, he kills Willow's pet fish.
- 11/26/2013
- Shadowlocked
Birthdays. A celebration of the annual 'hanging another year on the line'. Balloons, cake and presents do the job when you're younger, while Grandpa/Grandma joke cards and booze do the job for the older ones. Buffy, on the other hand, is turning 17 in the bleakest fashion possible. Not only is she up against a giant blue joykiller called The Judge, she's about to find that her boyfriend isn't quite the man she thought he was.
Surprise/Innocence occurs at that mid-point segment of a Buffy season in which the rules change (think of the revelation of Adam or Travers firing Giles, for example). This two-parter is one of the biggest goalpost shifts in the series: the point in which Angel turns from the vampire with a soul to the evil Angelus. Up until now, we've been fed scraps of information about Angelus' fiendish ways: How he killed his family; how he psychologically tortured Drusilla.
Surprise/Innocence occurs at that mid-point segment of a Buffy season in which the rules change (think of the revelation of Adam or Travers firing Giles, for example). This two-parter is one of the biggest goalpost shifts in the series: the point in which Angel turns from the vampire with a soul to the evil Angelus. Up until now, we've been fed scraps of information about Angelus' fiendish ways: How he killed his family; how he psychologically tortured Drusilla.
- 11/4/2013
- Shadowlocked
Well, the name of this one pretty much sums it up. While Bad Eggs is the comparative calm before the storm, it's still a disposable, throwaway episode that's the equivalent of an overdone omelette.
If Ted looked at the problems of the substitute father, Bad Eggs has a looser theme of responsible parenting. Yes, it's sex education time at Sunnydale High. Whereas your average blushing teacher will shove a video cassette of a patronising, awkward schools programme into the machine, Sunnydale's Mr Whitmore takes a far blunter approach. Teaching the dangers of teen pregnancy, he elects to give paired up students their very own baby egg to look after. Whether or not the students want to call the egg a name, give it milk and buy it an egg cosy is presumably up to them. It's not the most orthodox approach to teaching responsible parenting, but this being Sunnydale, naturally,...
If Ted looked at the problems of the substitute father, Bad Eggs has a looser theme of responsible parenting. Yes, it's sex education time at Sunnydale High. Whereas your average blushing teacher will shove a video cassette of a patronising, awkward schools programme into the machine, Sunnydale's Mr Whitmore takes a far blunter approach. Teaching the dangers of teen pregnancy, he elects to give paired up students their very own baby egg to look after. Whether or not the students want to call the egg a name, give it milk and buy it an egg cosy is presumably up to them. It's not the most orthodox approach to teaching responsible parenting, but this being Sunnydale, naturally,...
- 10/31/2013
- Shadowlocked
Ted Buchanan, on the face of it, is a multi-tasking genius. He's a master at selling computer software, out-performing his colleagues at work. “Nobody beats The Machine,” frowns downcast walrus-moustached colleague Neal. “Guy's a genius.” He's a whizz at mini golf. He's also a dab hand in the kitchen, conjuring all sorts of culinary treats such as buns, cookies and mini pizzas. Remember, cooking kids, use a cast iron skillet to fry pizzas in herbs and olive oil. “No room for compromise there!”
So why is Buffy so down on poor old Ted? Granted, he has a dubious mullet that makes him look a bit like a soft rock star from 1977, but beyond this, there's no reason for all this Buchanan Bile. Well, apart from the fact that he's made some fast moves on her mother, Joyce. Having met her at the gallery, Ted has swept Joyce off her feet with his cooking,...
So why is Buffy so down on poor old Ted? Granted, he has a dubious mullet that makes him look a bit like a soft rock star from 1977, but beyond this, there's no reason for all this Buchanan Bile. Well, apart from the fact that he's made some fast moves on her mother, Joyce. Having met her at the gallery, Ted has swept Joyce off her feet with his cooking,...
- 10/29/2013
- Shadowlocked
Feature Juliette Harrisson 16 Apr 2013 - 07:00
In the first of a new series, Juliette makes the case for Buffy the Vampire Slayer's second season being the best of a good bunch...
This feature contains Buffy the Vampire Slayer spoilers.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for seven wonderful years and many viewers thoroughly enjoyed them all. But no show, no matter how great, can keep hitting the same heights over and over again – every show has its highest points, and its lowest.
In Buffy’s case, although seasons one, four, five, and even six and seven have their fans, the competition for which season was the high point of the show is pretty much a straight fight between season two and season three.
The arguments in favour ofseason three are not to be dismissed lightly. Fighting in season three’s corner are two of Buffy’s best antagonists; Faith and the Mayor.
In the first of a new series, Juliette makes the case for Buffy the Vampire Slayer's second season being the best of a good bunch...
This feature contains Buffy the Vampire Slayer spoilers.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for seven wonderful years and many viewers thoroughly enjoyed them all. But no show, no matter how great, can keep hitting the same heights over and over again – every show has its highest points, and its lowest.
In Buffy’s case, although seasons one, four, five, and even six and seven have their fans, the competition for which season was the high point of the show is pretty much a straight fight between season two and season three.
The arguments in favour ofseason three are not to be dismissed lightly. Fighting in season three’s corner are two of Buffy’s best antagonists; Faith and the Mayor.
- 4/16/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
by Tami Katzoff (@tvtamijo)
With Joss Whedon and the "Avengers" sequel officially going steady, it's about to get a whole lot busier for us here at The Weekly Whedon.
For now, let’s turn our attention to Whedonverse writer/producer Marti Noxon, who’s made some interesting news of her own recently — she’s partnering with M. Night Shyamalan on the Syfy series “Proof.” She’s also scripting a “Valley Girl” remake, a live-action Tinkerbell movie (“Tink”) starring Elizabeth Banks, and an adaptation of the Jeannette Walls memoir “The Glass Castle.” Like Mr. Whedon, she knows how to keep busy.
Noxon has been involved with many major TV and film projects over the years: “Glee,” “Mad Men,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Fright Night,” and “I Am Number Four” are all on her résumé. But it was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” that kick-started her career. Noxon’s agent suggested that she take...
With Joss Whedon and the "Avengers" sequel officially going steady, it's about to get a whole lot busier for us here at The Weekly Whedon.
For now, let’s turn our attention to Whedonverse writer/producer Marti Noxon, who’s made some interesting news of her own recently — she’s partnering with M. Night Shyamalan on the Syfy series “Proof.” She’s also scripting a “Valley Girl” remake, a live-action Tinkerbell movie (“Tink”) starring Elizabeth Banks, and an adaptation of the Jeannette Walls memoir “The Glass Castle.” Like Mr. Whedon, she knows how to keep busy.
Noxon has been involved with many major TV and film projects over the years: “Glee,” “Mad Men,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Fright Night,” and “I Am Number Four” are all on her résumé. But it was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” that kick-started her career. Noxon’s agent suggested that she take...
- 8/10/2012
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
If you ever wondered just what happened to make Norman Bates into the lady-slashing, cross-dressing, maternal skeleton maintaining bag of weirdness he is in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, then you might just get an answer thanks to Us TV network A&E.Executives from Universal Television announced at the Television Critics Association winter tour on Friday that they’d kicked off early development on the series, which aims to peek into Bates’ psyche and see how his skewed worldview came to be. You know, because Hitchcock did such a bad job by not explaining every little detail.The show – assuming it actually gets picked up, which is not guaranteed just yet – will follow the younger Bates and his issues with mum Norma and her lover, detailing just how they damaged him. A TV show about child abuse and psychopaths! How delightful. It has a script by Anthony Cipriano and, if given the go-ahead,...
- 1/14/2012
- EmpireOnline
The Fright Night remake is back on. Back in January, we learned that the project had been halted when they couldn't come up with a good script. Ten months later, The Hollywood Reporter posts that Marti Noxon (executive producer and writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has been hired to rewrite the horror comedy, trading one set of vamps for another.
While Joss Whedon is facing cancellation, Marti Noxon is going strong. The vampire slayer marked Noxon's big break in the biz, and since helping run the show, she's had her hand in a slew of series from Prison Break to Mad Men. This will be her first big cinematic gig, her lone movie credit to this point being the 1998 film Just a Little Harmless Sex. But what will it all mean for a redo of Fright Night, where a kid finds out that a vampire lives next door?
Noxon...
While Joss Whedon is facing cancellation, Marti Noxon is going strong. The vampire slayer marked Noxon's big break in the biz, and since helping run the show, she's had her hand in a slew of series from Prison Break to Mad Men. This will be her first big cinematic gig, her lone movie credit to this point being the 1998 film Just a Little Harmless Sex. But what will it all mean for a redo of Fright Night, where a kid finds out that a vampire lives next door?
Noxon...
- 11/12/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
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