TVGuide.com interviews Smallville Executive producer Kelly Souders about season 9, here’s the shipper stuff from the interview:
TVGuide.com: Could there be a new love interest in her future?
Souders: Oh, just maybe yes. I think there’s going to be a hint of some feelings under the surface. If you pay attention, I think there’s somebody she maybe has a little bit of a fire for. I’m not saying [who], I’ll give you this much: It’s somebody who is very charming and it would be hard for anybody not to have a fire for.
TVGuide.com: How are you approaching Clark and Lois (Erica Durance) finally being a couple this season?
Souders: They have their ups and downs just like every other couple. What comes out in the first half of this season is exactly what their issues are as far as their relationship goes. You get a little more insight, particularly into Lois. In the past, Clark was always hesitant to get into a relationship. He’s finally met his match in Lois and I think she’s even more hesitant in some ways than he is. The issues that she’s grappling with romantically will start to emerge more clearly over this first half of the season.
TVGuide.com: Will she find out Clark’s secret now that they’re dating?
Souders: Well… there’s a really great episode called “Idol” that’s coming up that if you’re curious about Lois and Clark and the secret, you should definitely watch that one. As we know we have to line up with the mythos, in which case she doesn’t know his secret, but watch “Idol,” it’s very, very fun.
TVGuide.com: I take “Pandora” to be the episode when Clark discovers the content of Lois’ visions. How does he come to discover it and how does it affect the future story lines in learning this?
Souders: It greatly affects Clark’s storyline and shines a big light on Zod [Callum Blue] and the other Kandorians who have come. It informs what Clark does from that point forward. He discovers it through Lois’ point of view, through her visions of the future. It’s Smallville, so we have to do something more visual than her just telling him. It’s not another power, there’s nothing unreal about it, but he gets to see the world through her eyes in a sense.
Wanting to capitalize on the teen vampire movie craze it stirred last year, Summit Entertainment is planning to re-release “Twilight” in more than 2,000 theaters on Nov. 19, the night before the arrival of the highly anticipated sequel, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
Summit’s distribution executives have been in conversations with the nation’s theater owners about a one-night-only screening of “Twilight” at 9:00 p.m. or 9:30 p.m. just prior to the 12:01 a.m. showings of “New Moon.” Plans are just now being formalized, according to one person with knowledge of the matter, who said that exhibitors (who naturally have dollar signs in their eyes) are very high on the idea.
“Twilight” will likely wind up playing in many of the same theaters that will have those midnight screenings of “New Moon.”
Released last November, “Twilight,” the first film based on Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling book series, became a runaway hit both in theaters and on DVD. The vampire movie, which stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as chaste lovers, grossed $383.5 million at the worldwide box office and is this year’s top-selling DVD, with about 8 million units sold in the U.S. and Canada alone.
Even though the film is out on DVD, Summit is banking on herds of bloodthirsty teens coming back out for the social experience of sitting in a darkened theater, especially as excitement builds for “New Moon.” For theater owners, the two-for could be a huge windfall.
This would mark the second time Summit has re-released “Twilight” on the big screen. In July, the movie had a one-night-only theatrical release during the annual Comic-Con Convention in San Diego on the night before the studio showed exclusive footage of “New Moon” there.
A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge. Ship:
Kate (Lynn Collins) and Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Ian Somerhalder, star of the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” has signed to topline the romantic gothic fairy tale “Cradlewood.” Hand Picked Films and Instinct Entertainment are behind the indie being directed by Harry Weinmann.
The movie centers on an Australian woman living in Boston with the heir (Somerhalder) to an incredible fortune whose family history is swirled in a legend that tells of a pact made with a demon which ensures that whenever a boy is born into the family, the father is killed.
The heir suspects his girlfriend is pregnant, and after strange events occur, he comes to believe he will die if he continues to fall in love.
Actress/singer Mandy Moore has been tapped to lend voice to a Disney princess in Rapunzel, and has shared her insight on her titular character. To Empire Online, the 25-year-old described Rapunzel as the “sort of the quintessential sassy, feisty Disney heroine”, adding “She’s quite modern, quite a curious girl as well.”
Revealing that she has begun working on the voicepart, Moore further explained, “She’s just coming into her own and is anxious to figure out a way to see the world around her that she’s been kept away from for so many years.” On her taking a part in the passion project of Disney’s head John Lasseter, the former girlfriend of actor Zach Braff said, “I just feel honored to be in such good company. Being a Disney Princess is kind of every girl’s ultimate dream.”
Based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm, “Rapunzel” is being co-directed by story artist Nathan Greno and “Bolt” helmer Byron Howard. It will be the 50th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and is aimed for release in 2010.
Summary:
Ryan Bingham, is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Ship:
Ryan (George Clooney) and Alex (Vera Farmiga)
Eonline is reporting that New Moon premiere night tickets are already being told out from advance-ticket sellers.
MovieTickets.com says more than a dozen of its show times have been picked clean. Fandango reports 50 sell-outs, and says New Moon is its top-seller heading into this weekend.
Now I’m in a panic, because I normally buy my tickets at the boxoffice…
Summary:
In an alternate reality, lying — even the concept of a lie — does not even exist. Everyone — from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street — speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.
Ship:
Mark (Ricky Gervais) and Jennifer (Jennifer Garner)
Walt Disney Pictures has chosen Mandy Moore to voice the lead role in its Digital 3D-animated musical action-adventure Rapunzel, while asZachary Levi, star of NBC’s “Chuck,” has been cast as the voice of the dashing bandit who finds himself on the road with the rebellious, teenage hair apparent.
Summary:
Tommy, a gifted teenager composer, dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Unfortunately, a good band is hard to find in the middle of Outback Australia - until a strange incident involving flying watermelons leads him to a group of talented prison inmates.
Last week TheCW premiered The Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place and the clear winner in the rating war was The Vampire Diaries, it got the highest series premiere rating in the history of TheCW, with a grand total of 4.84 million viewers! Melrose Place on the other hand sadly didn’t make a big impression at all, with just 2.3 million viewers. Which where I’m standing, isn’t all that surprising, the promos for Melrose Place 2.0 didn’t make the series look all that interesting… unlike The Vampire Diaries which managed to won my heart with some of its first promos!
Entertainment Weekly has reported that Kristin Kreuk, known for her role as Lana Lang on Smallville and Brandon Routh known for his role as Clark Kent in Superman Returns, will both be joining NBC’s Chuck in its 3rd season as guest stars! Both will be playing love interests, but not to each other, Kristin’s character will play love interest to Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Brandon’s character to Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski).
It’s going to be SUPER! …Will not so much for the Chuck/Sarah shippers…
Gillian Anderson made an appearance at the Sarajevo Film Festival where she spoke briefly about the X-Files and whether there is any potential of a third feature film:
They talked about maybe doing it in 2012, I think there were discussions about that. I don’t know whether that’s going to happen or not, but there isn’t any reason not to do it. It was fun, it was hard work. I feel a certain commitment to that group of people that I worked with and we still enjoy doing it, when we do it. There is no reason why not to come together and do it again. If they can pull it off, we’ll find some reason to make it.
As long as there’s a lot of Mulder and Scully, it’s all gravy!
ABC is teaming with “Friends” creator Marta Kauffman and Warner Bros. Television to adapt The Time Traveler’s Wife as a weekly series.
The news follows this weekend’s successful opening of the motion-picture version of “Time Traveler’s.” Starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, the New Line movie grossed nearly $20 million in its first three days and served as successful counterprogramming to more male-dominated fare.
ABC’s interest in the adaptation substantially pre-dates the movie, however. The network has been talking to Kauffman “for years” about bringing the project to the small screen, industry insiders said.
Kauffman will write and executive produce.
ABC executives believe the complex plot of the original novel will work well in series form, since Kauffman will be able to explore the romantic relationship at the core of the story over the course of several seasons.
Individual episodes will likely feature self-contained storylines as well.
ABC has given Warner’s TV a pilot commitment for “Time Traveler’s.” It’s not yet clear whether Brad Pitt’s Plan B banner, which produced the movie version with New Line, will be involved.
First published as a novel in 2003, “Time Traveler’s” revolves around a man named Henry (played by Bana in the movie) with a genetic disorder that results in spontaneous time travel. He ends up falling in love and marrying Clare (McAdams), an artist who patiently endures his frequent disappearances.
The novel was the debut for author Audrey Niffenegger.
Kauffman’s most recent effort for ABC was two years ago, when she teamed with Goldie Hawn to develop the nonfiction book “Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?”
It’s true and it breaks me heart. Lionsgate is developing a remake of the 1987 classic Dirty Dancing from a new script by the writer of the film Uptown Girl (that film was alright).
The original, released in theaters by Vestron, staring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. It was made for $6 million but went on to earn $213.95 million worldwide.
A follow-up, titled Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, was distributed by Lionsgate in 2004. Produced for $25 million, the movie earned just $27.7 million worldwide.
That should say something right there, KEEP AWAY LIONGATE!!!!
Get the tissues ready, another Nicholas Sparks novel has been turned into a motion picture!
Dear John is a three part book that starts out with 23 year-old John Tyree, an army enlistee.
The Prologue starts of with the ultimate question, “What does it mean to truly love another?” John Tyree watches as he relives every memory, emotion, and touch while falling in love with Savannah Lynn Curtis.
