Writer/producer/director John Fasano, best known for his work in the horror genre, died in his sleep Saturday night at the age of 52, his attorney Craig Baumgarten confirmed. No cause of death was available. Fasano was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 1996 for writing the teleplay for The Hunchback for TNT. He also had a hand in more than 40 other film and TV projects, including writing the hit Tom Selleck TV movie Stone Cold, Iraq war TV docudramas Saving Jessica Lynch and The Hunt for Saddam, and films including Alien 3, Meggido: The Omega Code 2, Darkness Falls and Another 48 Hours. Fasano also worked as a script doctor […]...
- 7/20/2014
- Deadline
The Avengers, which has had the biggest Us opening in history, climaxes with towers crumbling and mayhem in Manhattan. Squeamishness, it seems, is shortlived in Hollywood
Mad terror in the streets as flying whatsits and killer robots from outer space ricochet off and, more often, crash through 70-story skyscrapers. Mighty towers crumble; concrete chunks spray from the screen. Total Sensurround: the theatre itself shakes as the non-stop cosmic battle-cum-pinball game that is The Avengers reaches its climax in a digital midtown Manhattan.
It's complete mayhem and, reader, I confess that I enjoyed every minute of this ear-splitting, brain-jarring, inordinately protracted cataclysm – even though something similar, if on a far smaller scale, occurred a bit more than 10 years ago, six blocks from my home. On 11 September 2001, planes crashed, buildings collapsed, and debris rained. Some were buried alive, others ran stunned and screaming through New York's concrete canyons.
My neighbours saw jets...
Mad terror in the streets as flying whatsits and killer robots from outer space ricochet off and, more often, crash through 70-story skyscrapers. Mighty towers crumble; concrete chunks spray from the screen. Total Sensurround: the theatre itself shakes as the non-stop cosmic battle-cum-pinball game that is The Avengers reaches its climax in a digital midtown Manhattan.
It's complete mayhem and, reader, I confess that I enjoyed every minute of this ear-splitting, brain-jarring, inordinately protracted cataclysm – even though something similar, if on a far smaller scale, occurred a bit more than 10 years ago, six blocks from my home. On 11 September 2001, planes crashed, buildings collapsed, and debris rained. Some were buried alive, others ran stunned and screaming through New York's concrete canyons.
My neighbours saw jets...
- 5/11/2012
- by J Hoberman
- The Guardian - Film News
Benjamin King has joined the cast of The Wedding Planners, David E. Kelley's new series for Fox.
Meanwhile, Australian actress Rachael Carpani is set to co-star opposite Janeane Garofalo in Barry Schindel's untitled drama pilot for CBS.
Wedding Planners, from David E. Kelley Prods. and 20th Century Fox TV, revolves around three sisters -- Jane (Teri Polo), Sammy (Sarah Jones) and Annie (KaDee Strickland) -- who run a family wedding-planning business (HR 12/18).
King will play the wedding company's chief corporate officer, the businessman of the group who is happily married to Jane.
Kelley and Jonathan Pontell are executive producing Wedding, which is slated to premiere in the spring. Jon Amiel is directing and executive producing the first episode of the series.
King, whose credits include NBC's original movie Saving Jessica Lynch and the pilots Stroller Wars for CBS and Weekends for NBC, is repped by Innovative Artists and manager Scott Howard.
The untitled Barry Schindel project, from CBS Paramount Network TV and studio-based Scott Free Prods., follows the lives, relationships, cases and careers of a team of public defenders.
Meanwhile, Australian actress Rachael Carpani is set to co-star opposite Janeane Garofalo in Barry Schindel's untitled drama pilot for CBS.
Wedding Planners, from David E. Kelley Prods. and 20th Century Fox TV, revolves around three sisters -- Jane (Teri Polo), Sammy (Sarah Jones) and Annie (KaDee Strickland) -- who run a family wedding-planning business (HR 12/18).
King will play the wedding company's chief corporate officer, the businessman of the group who is happily married to Jane.
Kelley and Jonathan Pontell are executive producing Wedding, which is slated to premiere in the spring. Jon Amiel is directing and executive producing the first episode of the series.
King, whose credits include NBC's original movie Saving Jessica Lynch and the pilots Stroller Wars for CBS and Weekends for NBC, is repped by Innovative Artists and manager Scott Howard.
The untitled Barry Schindel project, from CBS Paramount Network TV and studio-based Scott Free Prods., follows the lives, relationships, cases and careers of a team of public defenders.
- 12/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When it comes to chasing young viewers, NBC is getting some strong competition this month from ... CBS? Healthy numbers for Sunday's telepic The Elizabeth Smart Story -- which held its own against NBC's similarly ripped-from-the-headlines telefilm Saving Jessica Lynch -- have poised the eye for an unlikely second-place finish in the key 18-49 demographic for the current sweep, which ends Nov. 26. CBS, traditionally the oldest-skewing of the Big Four networks, is projecting that when the final weekly numbers are released today, it will tie with NBC in the demo (a 4.6 rating, according to figures from Nielsen Media Research). If so, it will be the first time CBS has been first in a November sweep week since the advent of Nielsen PeopleMeters in 1987. NBC seems in little jeopardy of losing its grip on first place for the sweep overall. The peacock has a 7% demo margin over CBS sweep-to-date and projects that it will carry the sweep by a comfortable one-half of a demo rating point.
- 11/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When it comes to chasing young viewers, NBC is getting some strong competition this month from ... CBS? Healthy numbers for Sunday's telepic The Elizabeth Smart Story -- which held its own against NBC's similarly ripped-from-the-headlines telefilm Saving Jessica Lynch -- have poised the eye for an unlikely second-place finish in the key 18-49 demographic for the current sweep, which ends Nov. 26. CBS, traditionally the oldest-skewing of the Big Four networks, is projecting that when the final weekly numbers are released today, it will tie with NBC in the demo (a 4.6 rating, according to figures from Nielsen Media Research). If so, it will be the first time CBS has been first in a November sweep week since the advent of Nielsen PeopleMeters in 1987. NBC seems in little jeopardy of losing its grip on first place for the sweep overall. The peacock has a 7% demo margin over CBS sweep-to-date and projects that it will carry the sweep by a comfortable one-half of a demo rating point.
- 11/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Benjamin King has joined the cast of the NBC telefilm Saving Jessica Lynch, about the capture and rescue of the 20-year-old U.S. Army private during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He will play 38-year-old Master Sgt. Robert James Dowdy, who, like Lynch, was with the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Co. based out of Fort Bliss, Texas. Dowdy was one of the soldiers who died when their convoy was ambushed March 23. Lynch, who survived the attack, was taken unconscious to a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, from where she was rescued April 1. Canadian actress Laura Regan was tapped to play Lynch, with Nicholas Guilak set to play Mohammed Odeh Al-Rehaief, the Iraqi lawyer who alerted U.S. military officials to Lynch's whereabouts (HR 8/14). Also previously cast in the movie are Crystle Lightning and Nina Kaze. King, seen in this summer's actioner S.W.A.T., also was featured in the indie A Little Inside. He is repped by Don Buchwald & Associates and manager Laina Cohn at Acronym Entertainment.
- 8/22/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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