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News Archives
All the old news!
Here's where all the old news is stored, you can still view many of the articles.
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Sarah M. Gellar News |
Sarah to Host Awards
Glamour magazine will broadcast its "Women of the Year Awards" for the first time ever this year, according to an announcement by the magazine's editor-in-chief. SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR, a previous winner of the award and one of America's favorite stars, is set to host the event next Monday at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 02 Nov 2004 :: |
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Charisma News |
Charisma Joins LAX
Spoilers on Charisma's appearance on LAX. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 02 Nov 2004 :: |
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David Boreanaz News |
Angel, David Boreanaz, Up For ABC Project
David Boreanaz, former star of WB's Angel, reportedly may return to network TV in an ABC drama about undercover hit man Jack Ballantine. Boreanaz will play an undercover cop in the murder for hire world for the TV project, which has a script commitment from ABC, said Monday's Hollywood Reporter.
Angel Gets a Badge
Boreanaz, whose long-running "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" spin-off wrapped up last spring after five seasons on the WB Network, is set to star in a new ABC drama pilot about an undercover hitman. If the show makes it onto the network's schedule, Boreanaz will play a cop who goes undercover in the world of murder for hire, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is based on the life of Jack Ballantine, a longtime member of the Phoenix Police Department who spent years doing deep cover work as a mob hit man and motorcycle gang member.
ABC Drama Sinks Teeth into Angel Star
"Angel" fans will probably be happy to have star David Boreanaz back on the small screen, but the actor's new ABC drama project could put a temporary stake in all of those "Angel" telefilm rumors. After taking a one year television vacation, Boreanaz is set to star in an untitled drama from Warner Bros. TV intended for ABC. The pilot, based on the life of undercover hit man Jack Ballantine, has received a script commitment from the network. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 02 Nov 2004 :: |
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Angel DVD News |
Angel Season 5
Fox Home Entertainment has set February 15, 2005 as the release date for Angel Season 5, the last season of the Buffy spinoff. The six-disc set will cost $59.98. The video will be in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen video with English, Spanish and French Dolby 2.0 audio. There will be seven commentaries and featurettes on every disc, plus Angel: The Final Season, To Live & Die in L.A.: The Best of Angel, Halos and Horns: Recurring Villainy and a gag reel. Sorry, no cover art as yet. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 02 Nov 2004 :: |
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Firefly News |
Firefly DVD Review
In the words of Captain Mal Reynolds from the 'Firefly' title sequence, 'Here's how it was.' Seldom can there have been a TV show that was destined to be such a sure-fire hit as 'Firefly'. Created by Joss Whedon, who had already changed the shape of genre television by unleashing the Buffyverse on an unsuspecting world - and was also strongly suspected of inventing the word 'zeitgeist' by an enthralled TV industry, this was his first stab at out and out SF. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 01 Nov 2004 :: |
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Sarah M. Gellar News |
Gellars Wins Second Week Grudge Match
Buffy's still got it. Sarah Michelle Gellar continues her horror reign as the little blonde who'll take on the supernatural spooks as her latest thriller "The Grudge" tops the box office for the second weekend in a row with an estimated $22.4 million. Although the film, which is the English-language remake of the Japanese scarefest "Ju-on," dropped the requisite 43 percent in its sophomore run, the Halloween festivities kept moviegoers in the mood for thrills and chills. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 01 Nov 2004 :: |
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David Boreanaz News |
Contract out on Boreanaz for ABC Show
David Boreanaz is looking to return to series television. The former star of the WB Network's "Angel" is set to star in an ABC drama about an undercover cop in the world of murder for hire. The show has received a script commitment from the network. Patrick Smith Kelly ("Don't Say a Word") is writing the script. Boreanaz recently completed the indie films "Mr. Fix It" and "The Hard Easy." He is filming another indie, "These Girls." |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 01 Nov 2004 :: |
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Michelle News |
London Film Festival - Mysterious Skin (Starring Michelle Tractenberg
I start the day over coffee with Gregg Araki, whose best film to date, Mysterious Skin, is amongst the strong US indie contingent here at the Festival. As Araki says himself, with films such as Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation and Nowhere he's become known as an arch purveyor of 'unadulterated fun and mayhem'. Mysterious Skin, on the other hand, is a serious and sensitive film about child abuse. Araki fans in particular will be doing some double-takes. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 01 Nov 2004 :: |
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Angel DVD News |
| Angel - Halloween Announcement for Final Season DVDsThat's the tag line for Angel - The Complete 5th Season, which Fox is announcing this Halloween weekend (how appropriate!) for an in-store date of February 15, 2005. Fox's information shows that this will be released in 16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen, which is what we would expect (please read the "Video" section of our 4th Season review, as well as Creator Joss Whedon's statement for more details). Sound is in Dolby Digital Surround 2.0 for each of the English, French, and Spanish soundtracks provided. Also found are English and Spanish subtitles. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 31 Oct 2004 :: |
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Sarah M. Gellar News |
Gellar Enjoys Scare Stories
Sarah Michelle Gellar's is a classic when it comes to movie understatements ... "I like to be scared," she says. "Don't most people?" Well, there's being scared and there's being scared, Sarah Michelle. In your case you seem to be making not so much a habit of it, but a full-blown and highly successful career. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 30 Oct 2004 :: |
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Jane Espenson News |
Utopia
Buffy writer reveals details of new project. Posting on her website, Jane Espenson has spilled the beans on the script she is writing for Fox. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 30 Oct 2004 :: |
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Jane Espenson News |
Jane Espenson Interview: Buffy Post Mortem
Jane Espenson joined the writing staff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the show's third season, penning such memorable episodes as "Band Candy", "Earshot" and "Gingerbread". She has since gone on to become one of the series' most popular writers and even won a Hugo Award for her contribution - with Drew Goddard - to the fan favourite episode, "Conversations With Dead People". |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 28 Oct 2004 :: |
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Joss News |
Joss Out of TV
Joss Whedon and Fox TV part company due to lack of ideas. As reported in Variety, Twentieth Century Fox have agreed to release Whedon, and in effect Mutant Enemy, from his contract, which allowed them first-refusal on any TV projects. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 28 Oct 2004 :: |
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BtVS News |
Buffy Set the Bar for Teen Horror Morality
From 1997 to 2003, TV viewers were blessed with a big fat exception to the designed vapidity of American mass entertainment. Week in, week out, a flavorsome blend of high wit and kitchen-sink operatics seduced audiences into reconsidering the dangers of corporate/political corruption, class war, homophobia and hypermilitarism – all on Rupert Murdoch's dime, yet. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 28 Oct 2004 :: |
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Charisma News |
Charisma Makes a Stop-Over in LAX
Charisma Carpenter, best known as Cordelia on BUFFY and ANGEL, will guest star in an upcoming episode of NBC's airport series LAX. Carpenter will play Heather Locklear's sister in the Thanksgiving episode of the series airing on November 10. The show also stars Blair Underwood. LAX airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 27 Oct 2004 :: |
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BtVS Merchandise News |
The Slayer Collection DVD Preview
20th Century Fox has announced part two of the Slayer Collection. Released as four separate volumes, each DVD will focus on a different character from the Buffy the Vampire layer series, including Dawn, Cordelia, Giles and Xander. Each disc will include four episodes—in a mixture of 1.33:1 and 178:1 transfers, with Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround audio—and will feature fifteen minute character profiles and trailer for Buffy and Angel. You can expect to pay around £12.99 per disc when they are released on the 1st of November. You can pre-order the Dawn, Giles, Xander and Cordelia Slayer Collections from Sendit.com, for only £9.99 each, with free P&P. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 27 Oct 2004 :: |
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Seth Green News |
Seth Green is the Best Man for the Job
I'm no Hollywood player, but I know that if I had a career based on being small and sort of nerdy and my latest project involved me playing a porn-addicted loser I might think of getting a new agent. But Seth Green soldiers on anyway, even after the utter humiliation of Without A Paddle, a movie too fluffy to actually qualify as bad. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 26 Oct 2004 :: |
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TV Appearances |
David & James on UK TV
Catch David Boreanaz and James Marsters on GMTV this Thursday, in the UK! |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 26 Oct 2004 :: |
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Sarah M. Gellar News |
The Grudge Makes a Killing at the US Box Office
The Grudge has scared off the opposition and shot to the top of the US box office this weekend, grossing a fantastic $40,000,000 in 3,245 theatres, with an average of over $12,000 per venue. This makes The Grudge the third biggest October opening of all time.
Grudge Holds First Place
Sarah Michelle Gellar's The Grudge scared off the competition and took first place at the box office in its opening weekend, with about $40 million, the Associated Press reported. That was good enough to bump Shark Tale from the top spot it held for the previous three weekends: The animated film took second place in the Oct. 22 weekend ranking, with about $14.3 million, lifting its total to $136.9 million, the AP reported.
Sony Rushing Grudge Sequel into Production?
Sony are smiling from ear to ear this weekend with "The Grudge", a modestly budgeted horror redo, taking home a Clint-salivating $40 million dollar return over the Fri-Sun period. By Monday morning Sony had already started talking sequel. "It was always a consideration, but now the studio is keener than ever", says studio insider 'MissX'. "Talks are going to begin pretty swiflty to see that they can't get the sequel going by the new year. Depends, of course, on Sarah Michelle's schedule". |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 26 Oct 2004 :: |
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Joss News |
Buffy Brain Drained
Buffy Summers and her boyfriend Angel survived many a murderous enemy in their TV days. But their tube papa, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel series creator Joss Whedon, is ending his tube career partly because of a more obnoxious demon: the glut of reality shows on TV airwaves.
Whedon Says Goodbye to Television... for Now
Keeping a show on the air -- especially with high expectations -- is hard. Just asked Chris Carter, who is practically an unknown now after his breakout hit "The X-Files." After an iffy run with "Millennium," and the short shelf lives of "Harsh Realm" and "X-Files" spinoff "The Lone Gunmen," Carter has left his television career up in the air. Joss Whedon, who made it big with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and later "Angel," isn't waiting to head into television uncertainty. Instead, he's hanging up his stake when it comes to television, to spend more time on other projects -- like his big screen adaptation of failed series "Firefly" called "Serenity."
News from the World According to Whedon
At the "High Stakes: Whedon Fans For Kerry-Edwards" rally held over the weekend, Joss Whedon made a few announcements about his upcoming projects. Whedon confirmed that he would not be directing nor writing the X-MEN third movie. However, he is working on a motion picture involving many genres: sci-fi, fantasy, action, horror, drama, comedy, etc.
Whedon Denies X-Men Rumor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon told fans at a John Kerry fund-raising event in Los Angeles Oct. 24 that he won't be writing or directing the third X-Men movie, despite persistent rumors to the contrary. "I did promise I would say whether or not I'm going to be directing the third X-Men movie, and the answer is, I'm sorry to say, no," Whedon told fans gather for a "High Stakes 2004" event in Hollywood. "Quite frankly, I thought about it for a long time, I looked into my heart, and I realized that Fox didn't ask me to," he added, with tongue in cheek.
Singer Talks Superman (Joss Mention)
Question: Would he have liked to do X-3 and his thoughts on Joss Whedon doing it? Answer: “I wish they’d you know, I wish they’d wait around you know, I wish we could do it down the line, I mean I, I have tremendous love for that franchise and for those actors and for those people involved and the people I’ve worked with on it, so ya, but unfortunately in one life, one has to make choices, and after six years of X-Men, Superman is what I’m doing currently, or what I’m about to do has been kind of a dream of mine. I’ve had a concept for it for years, it was never available and, so, but, sure it would be um, I’ll be curious to see what, how it ultimately happens. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 26 Oct 2004 :: |
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