Archive: November 2009 (381-390 of 429)

Nov 4 2009 03:26 PM ET

Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford, together at last

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hanks-whitford_lI don’t want to start watching another cop show, but it looks like I might have to: Colin Hanks has been cast alongside Bradley Whitford in an upcoming Fox cop “action comedy” from Matt Nix, creator of Burn Notice. Hanks will play an “ambitious, by-the-book detective” while Josh Lyman Whitford will be a “a drunken, lecherous, wild-card cop who hangs onto his job only because of a heroic act years before,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Does this sound a little hokey? Maybe. But Burn Notice can sound sort of lame, and that show’s a lot of fun. Mostly, though, I’m stoked to see Whitford as a decrepit sack of grumpiness and Hanks as a softie. Gird your LiveJournals, fan fic writers! Something tells me there’s a lot of slash fiction heading our way once Jack and Dan debuts.

Are you aboard my enthusiasm train, PopWatchers?

Photo credits: Hanks: Sylvain Gaboury/PR Photos; Whitford: Anthon

Nov 4 2009 03:08 PM ET

'New Moon' featurette: The Volturi are coming

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The latest clip whetting Twilight fans’ appetites for the ever-approaching New Moon takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Volturi’s general badass-ness. Lots of neck-snapping, ruling from thrones, marble-slab-smashing, and even some Matrix-y fight sequences:

What do you think of the way they handled the Volturi, New Moon fans? Do these fight sequences make you want to smash marble columns with your bare hands (and in a good way or bad way)? How many more clips before we've seen the whole flick?

Nov 4 2009 03:00 PM ET

‘Glee’ giveaway: Win tickets to an advance episode screening!

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This is very exciting, Gleeks: EW.com is giving away 20 pairs of tickets (that’s one ticket for you and one for a guest) to an exclusive advance screening of “Wheels,” the  Nov. 11 episode of Glee, on Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. PT in Los Angeles, hosted by Fox and Columbia Records!

I’m sure some of you Gleeks out there just piddled yourself with joy. Sadly, since this is a West Coast-based screening, this is only open to residents of California who are 14 and older (and be prepared to prove it!).

So here’s how to enter to win: go to EW’s Facebook page and become a fan — if you aren’t already one and, I mean, you should be — and then post a haiku on our wall about how much you LOVE Glee. Please keep it clean, pottymouths. And write fast: You’ll only have from 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET (that’s NOW) until 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET TODAY to post your haiku! If you’re one of the 20 winners, we’ll notify you via a message on Facebook by Nov. 8.

Click here for the official rules page before entering to make sure you qualify!

This is a great, great episode Glee fans and it is sure to be an amazing night. I’ve seen “Wheels” and I cried at least a couple of times. Plus, it features a dynamic version of “Defying Gravity” by Leah Michele and Chris Colfer that’s featured on the Glee soundtrack, in stores now!

Nov 4 2009 01:13 PM ET

'Old Dogs' trailer: Do ball jokes count as new tricks? (No)

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A new trailer — well, “trailer” — for the John Travolta/Robin Williams comedy Old Dogs is out, and it’s about testicles. Ha, ha, ha. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 4 2009 12:39 PM ET

'Harry Potter' star Rupert Grint as Eddie the Eagle: Method acting at its most daring

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The Winter Games in Vancouver begin in three months, and Stephen Colbert recent announcement that his Colbert Nation would sponsor the U.S. Speedskating team sprinkled the first flakes of Olympic spirit. Consider it a blizzard. At least in my house. That’s because the red-headed stepchild of the Harry Potter franchise, Rupert Grint, is reportedly the choice to play British ski-jumper Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards in a long-in-the-works biopic.

A little background: Back at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Edwards, a bespectacled English plasterer with relatively no athletic training finished dead last in the ski-jump. But his jumps were nevertheless riveting since his every attempt was a potential “agony of defeat” video clip. Ski-jumping officials did their darnedest to keep him out of the competition — for his own safety. Somehow, “the Inspector Clouseau of ski jumping“ survived to bask in more than 15 minutes of fame, appearing on Johnny Carson and recording an atrocious single, “Fly, Eddie, Fly.”

In my New Jersey home, the redundantly named yokel was the highlight of the entire games and quickly became synonymous with our own half-baked attempts to defy gravity and common sense. Jump from the trampoline into the tree? Eddie the Eagle!  Scale the brick-faced school building after hours? Eddie the Eagle! He was the original Jackass.

Clearly, I could not be more excited about an Eddie the Eagle movie. Steve Coogan was original mentioned as a candidate to play Edwards, but I’ll settle for Grint. It’s the perfect opportunity for the 21-year-old actor, who couldn’t ask for a better project to segue out of Harry Potter. The best part about the role is that it requires absolutely no athletic training. Just slap on the skis and have someone shove you down the slope, Rupe. Method acting at its most daring.

Do you recall Eddie’s soaring “leaps” at the 1988 Olympics? Did you prefer his antics to the Jamaican bobsled team’s? Do you think Grint is ready to headline a film, and if not, who would you rather see in the Eagle’s skis?

Nov 4 2009 11:00 AM ET

Clip du jour: 'The Golden Age of Video'

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If the first few seconds seem weird, just stick with it. This audio collage is amazing.

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass indeed. This is up there with autotuned scientists for me, PopWatchers. How about you?

Nov 4 2009 11:00 AM ET

‘V’ star Scott Wolf talks cliffhangers, alien-human love and ‘newsguy hair’

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v-scott-wolf_lAs we discovered in last night’s V pilot, Scott Wolf has a meaty new character in ambitious journalist Chad Decker, whose charm gets him an exclusive interview with lead alien Anna (Morena Baccarin). Yet he has to sacrifice some of his integrity to get ahead.

Wolf stopped by EW’s offices a few hours before V’s big premiere yesterday, and he chatted about potential romance between Chad and Anna, how Chad will try to redeem himself as a journalist, the potential existence of alien life, and of course his Party of Five history. Wolf will resume filming V in Vancouver in January (sadly, no spoilers on those episodes to air in March, he hasn’t seen the scripts yet.)

EW.com: What drew you to the script, was it the Chad character or the overall piece?

Scott Wolf: I originally auditioned for a different character. They were seeing lots of folks… I couldn’t put the script down when I read it, it had this intensity and suspense and momentum, and I can be pretty distract-able, but I read this from start to finish. And I picked up the phone right away. So when I heard their interest was me for the role of Chad Decker, I was really excited. It was the first role to jump out at me. It seemed like fun, but it also seemed to be tapping into some personality stuff that I hadn’t explored yet. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 4 2009 10:50 AM ET

'90210' recap: Drugs! Pregnancy! Issues!

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Okay, first off, I love this Ivy girl. It might just be because I want her surfer-chick wardrobe (contrary to popular opinion at West Bev, I don’t think she ever looks like a dude, and I think she always looks casual, not-trying-too-hard hot). Of course a part of my heart will always belong to Naomi, but I can’t think of a better way for Liam to move on from the Jen quagmire than with this super-cool girl with whom he has a genuine friendship, not just hot sex. And on that note: Please, please 90210 gods, bring me a resolution to that sister love triangle once and for all … we seem to be inching ever closer, but it’s high time. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 4 2009 10:32 AM ET

Russian 'Salt' trailer: Angelina Jolie heats up cold war

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The first peek at Angelina Jolie’s Salt has a serious Russian accent. That’s not just because Jolie plays a CIA officer who may or may not be a a Russian sleeper agent (shades of No Way Out). The first online trailer is actually for the film’s Russian release, so have fun with the dialogue, apparently dubbed by Nikolai Volkoff.

The film’s action transcends any language barrier, nyet? Director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games) seems to be borrowing heavily from the Bourne films, and Jolie has a solid track record as an action star (though her Matrix-climb-the-wall-drop-kick at 1:41 was rather low on the vertical).

Are you smitten with Jolie in any language? Does Salt, out in the U.S. next July, solidify her as the only bankable female action hero?

Nov 4 2009 09:00 AM ET

David Tennant gets a pilot: If anyone can save NBC, it's The Doctor, right?

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Anyone who’s had the pleasure of seeing David Tennant as the titular Doctor Who — from seasons 2-4 of the BBC’s most recent incarnation of the classic British show — knows the man can do anything: Free the Ood, make Billie Piper swoon, foil the Daleks‘ plans to pretty much destroy the universe. But now the dishy Scotsman is taking on an even more daunting task by shooting a pilot, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, for (dun dun dunnnn) NBC. Seriously, with not-so-hot ratings for its “all-Leno, all-the-frakkin-time” strategy, the peacock sometimes looks like it’s halfway across the rainbow bridge and about to frolic with the dodo. As of this moment, in fact, my DVR has only two NBC series (The Office and 30 Rock) set as “series recordings.”

A Tennant-led Rex, however, could change that. The IMDb pages for writers Andrew Leeds and David Lampson don’t tell me much, but the show’s premise — a panic-attack-prone attorney teaches his clients to represent themselves — sounds like it has the potential to showcase Tennant’s dramedy chops, and bonus points will be distributed if his debonair accent doesn’t get lost in baggage on its way across the pond. Watch the opening of the wickedly good Doctor Who episode “Midnight” (and find the remainder of the episode after the jump) and tell me if you think NBC deserves a rousing chorus of “right on chaps!” and “cheerio!” for signing Tennant to a deal. I, for one, think (or at least hope) this move signals a turnaround for the network. And I say this as a die-hard Southland fan. You?

(BTW, even if you’ve seen “Midnight,” stick around to the 0:57 mark for a classic Doctor quote: “Taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight: What could possibly go wrong?”)

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