DISCUSSION

Television

• Gotham High – The animated series that almost was
• Why Nicholas Cage REALLY left The Green Hornet
• Torchwood US will be called Torchwood: Miracle Day, Bill Pullman lands villain role.
• Liz Tigelaar signs a two-year, seven-figure deal with ABC Studios

Quick Hits:

• The Good Guys and Running Wilde have been canceled
• Castle gets 4th season pick-up
• The Big Bang Theory gets renewed for THREE more seasons
• Michel Gondry will be directing an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Wicked is being adapted into an 8-hour TV mini-series
• David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman is turned down by every network
• A Game of Thrones premieres April 17
• The History Channel cancels ‘The Kennedys” mini-series

Movies

• Judd Apatow’s next film will be a Knocked Up spin-off featuring Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters

Quick Hits:

• Sam Mendes officially directing Bond 23 for release on Nov. 9, 2012
• Lena Heady cast as villain “Mama” in Dredd
• Trent Reznor is scoring David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo’
• Super 8, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Transformers 3, and Tin Tin will be released in IMAX

Other

• Star Wars is coming to Blu-ray September 2011

Geek Jerk Reaction - The Dilemma, The Green Hornet

And as this latest bit of news proves; Judd Apatow is truely sucessful. On the eve of his newest directorial effort, Funny People, (Seeing it tomorrow; so excited!) the biggest name in comedy has decided to reach out his handand help out some truely talented, but relatively unknown indie filmmakers and help them with future projects. He and John Carney, director of the beautiful and fantastic Once, will be making a comedic project with Apatow producing and Carney directing and possibly writing. Apatow will also be teaming up with the Oscar-winning Kimberly Pierce, who directed Hilary Swank to first Oscar with Boys Don’t Cry and recently made the well-made, but little seen Stop-Loss. While the details of the Apatow/Carney project is unknown, the Pierce-directed film will be a sex comedy about a group of women giving their friend advice after a bad breakup. This is interestign news, as some of Apatow’s critics have given the filmmaker some guff for his somewhat male-centric stories. The plot for the John Carney film is currently unknown

I loved Apatow before, but this boosts my respect for him as an artist 10 fold. After seeing what a guy like David Gordon Green did with Pineapple Express, I can’t wait to see what two talents like Pierce and Carney can two when teamed up with Comedy’s Humble Genius.