As we reported a couple weeks ago, Richard Madden – who plays the King of the North Robb Stark on HBO’s Game of Thrones - has officially been cast as the Prince Charming opposite Lily James in Disney’s upcoming live action version of Cinderella. Cate Blanchett will play the evil stepmother with Kenneth Branagh directing. How do you feel about the film’s casting so far?
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 The Producers Guild of America announced their nominations today for TV and Digital Series and as one might expect, many of the nominees were also Emmy nominated. In the Drama category, every Emmy nominated show except for Boardwalk Empire, made it while Louie is the lone Comedy choice that wasn’t up for its respective award at the Emmys. All other nominations for the 2013 Producers Guild Award categories will be announced January 3, 2013, along with the individual producers. The awards themselves will be held Jan. 26, 2013, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, with special honors going to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, J.J. Abrams, and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. See the full list of nominees after the jump! Read more on Emmy nominated shows dominate Producers Guild TV and Digital Series nominations…
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 HBO broke out in a big way at last night’s Creative Arts Emmys racking up 17 wins, including 6 for its top rated series Game of Thrones. CBS lead all broadcast networks with 13 wins and NBC’s SMASH beat out heavy favorite So You Think You Can Dance to win Best Choreography. In an interesting twist, both Julia Ormond and Ben Feldmen lost their respective Guest Actor categories, bringing Mad Men‘s to a whopping 21 acting losses. Will that carry over to the Primetime Emmy Awards? The Creative Arts Emmys highlight Guest Actors and below the line talent before the Primetime Emmy Awards and will air this coming Saturday on ReelzChannel. Check out the full list after the jump!
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 This is Part 2 of the Drama Series chat. You can check out Part 1 where Joseph and I discussed the supporting actors here.
Terence: Well since you mention sign sealed and delivered awards last time, do we see Jon Hamm finding some way to rig ballots so Bryan Cranston won’t win again?
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Hugh Bonneville, Downton Abbey
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Damian Lewis, Homeland
Jon Hamm realizing Cranston will win again
Joseph: No, no, and no. And I hate that. Jon Hamm has deserved his Emmy win for so long. Every time people think it’s his year, it suddenly isn’t and some other person gets the win, mostly Cranston. But Cranston’s new found Hollywood upsurge really makes him an even stronger contender than before, Hamm’s acting hasn’t been praised outside of Mad Men, whereas Cranston’s has been.
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 This is part 1 of a two-part look at the Drama contenders. Part 2 coming soon…
Terence: Alright everyone we’re back with the last Emmy Chatter in what I’m dubbing it as Drama in two acts as we’re spreading this one out to give you more detail than ever before.
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 Casting News
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire sequel seems to be releasing casting news by the day. They’ve cast the extremely underated actor Alan Ritchson to play Gloss and extremely overrated Sam Claflin to play Finnick.
Abie Cornish, who wowed in Bright Star, is stepping into another biographical film, Fellini Black and White. She’ll play a woman who Fellini meets and falls in love with. – Indiewire
Jason Momoa has cut many an imposing figure as Conan the Barbarian and Khal Drogol on Game of Thrones. He’s now set to terrorize Lucas Till as the werewolf pack leader in the aptly titled, Wolves – Film School Rejects
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 The Emmys, even more so than the Oscars, are strangely predictable; once the TV Academy likes a show or actor they continue to nominate them over and over. It’s the reason Mad Men, Modern Family and 30 Rock will be in contention again, and why Mariska Hargitay will never be far from the Emmy spotlight. What then to make of upstarts like Homeland, Downton Abbey, Girls, Revenge, and New Girl? Or overlooked shows like Community? The acting races seem even tighter than usual, especially in the comedy categories with shows like Happy Endings and Parks and Recreation trying to break through in the crowded supporting categories. It’ll be interesting to see what shows and which actors land nominations tomorrow, so without further ado here are my predictions!
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 Hey everyone! Terence here, reporting on a pretty calm end to my time at Comic-Con, mostly due to the INSANE line to get into Hall H. I got to get some much needed rest after yesterday’s marathon Hall H day before heading to the Hilton Bayfront to do some interviews with members of the Art Directors Guild. I really enjoyed talking with them about their experiences working on movies and TV shows. Film and TV, being visual mediums, require great imagination and skill to bring forth the written words on the page and I definitely got a sense of the work required to bring that to life. After interviewing these great designers, I tried to see about getting into some panels but everywhere I turned there was a long line, so I decided to head back to my room and get a few things in order.
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 With the familiar strain of the theme song and mastermind George R.R. Martin presiding, the Game of Thrones panel featured highlights, fond memories of the second season and perhaps the best Q&A of the day. After showing highlights from the second season, Martin introduced a new clip which previewed some of the new additions to the cast like Clive Russell as Brynden “Blackfish” Tully and Diana Rigg as the Queen of Thorns. Then it was time for the panelists, producers Carolyn Strauss and actors Richard Madden, Michelle Fairley, Alfie Allen, Rose Leslie, and Emilia Clarke, to come out. Carolyn treated the audience to a recap of how the show started and that it fit the HBO aesthetic of genre busting a la The Wire challenging the style of a cop drama. She also talked about the logistics of shooting in 4 countries.
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 Hello everyone! Terence here, reporting live from Comic-Con where my endurance was put to the ultimate test today. With the crazy schedule today and after being alerted of the long line outside Hall H, I was forced to arrive at the hall much earlier than I would have liked to and spent the entire day within the expansive confines. From 10:45 am to 5:50pm, I was sequestered in the big hall to endure both panels good and bad, as well as get treated to some pretty exciting footage and star cameos. Check out my thoughts on the six panels that were held in Hall H today after the jump!
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 In a little under two weeks, legions of people will descend on San Diego’s Convention Center to attend Comic Con. Yours truly will be (for the first time!) one of the denizens there to cover all of the madness that is this unique event for the Awards Circuit. The full schedule has been released by the programmers of Comic Con and it’s packed to the brim with panels and events. Some notable panels included a reunion of Joss Whedon show Firefly, Marvel’s panel where they’re expected to announced two top secret movies, and True Blood. You can check out the full schedule at the Comic Con website. Leave a comment if there’s any panel in particular you’d like to see covered! Here are some more highlights for the various days:
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You voted and now we have the results. The nominations for the first annual ACCA Television Awards are in! Be sure to look over the nominees and narrow down what you feel are the bests in each category, then be sure to check in Friday when you can vote for the winners!
Check out the full list of nominees after the jump…
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 NBC has been much maligned for its programming choices and ratings woes, but the recently announced Critics Choice Television Awards sure make it seem as if they were firing on all cylinders. The network racked up 14 nominations, including six nominations for fan favorite Community, on their way to being the most nominated network. NBC is followed closely by ABC with 13 nominations, FOX and HBO with 12, AMC and FX with 11. The Critics Choice Television Awards are voted on by the Broadcast Television Journalist Association and will be presented on June 18th at a gala in Beverly Hills. The full list of nominees is available after the jump.
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 Richard Madden is currently trying to become King of the North on HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones, but later this year he’ll be tackling a modern character with decidedly different priorities. Variety is reporting that the Scottish actor is in talks to headline the erotic drama Long Nights Short Mornings. The story will follow a young man (Madden) on an erotic odyssey through the streets of New York as he sleeps with seven women in seven nights.
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 If you’re starved for epic settings, intricate plotting, two faced characters or Peter Dinklage, then Game of Thrones is the show for you. With the excellent Blackwater episode that aired this past Sunday, Game of Thrones is more than proving that it’s one of the top television shows on air. Sunday is the finale of Season 2, but HBO knows the Game of Thrones fanboys (Ravens? Fannisters? Starkettes?) want to see which of their favorite characters from the books will show up. The producers recently sat down EW and laid out their plans to introduce 12 new characters from the books into season three. Check out the list after the jump!
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 Winter is near, and war is at hand! Kings clash with sword and sorcery for the realm while the tricksters in the shadows pull their invisible strings of control. So begins Season Two of HBO’s riveting fantasy saga, Game of Thrones. Unlike last season’s “Pilot” episode of GoT, which was slow in parts despite a hell of a suspenseful prologue, this premiere has a pace faster than you can blink. While this may seem to detract from the series’ character development, the writing is so tight and deeply accurate for each individual figure in the story that merely by a few lines of dialogue, you’ll have a quick and definitive understanding of who each of these players are without confusion. Even more so, the faster pace gives us all enough time to regroup with each subplot that we saw come to a head in last summer’s cliffhanger finale. Somehow, writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss don’t just rehash old news like any book sequel tends to do at the beginning. After dispensing briefly with a retelling of prior events, Benioff and Weiss set their sights instead on laying out the fundamental groundwork for how the rest of the intriguing season is going to play out. This is why “The North Remembers” may be the best Game of Thrones episode aside from Season One, Episode Nine’s jaw-dropping “Baelor.” There is nothing quite like a premiere episode which fulfills every desire left from the previous finale while simultaneously making us thirsty for the rest of the season. Read more on TV Review: Game of Thrones: Season 2 (****)…
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