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BtVS News |
BtVS in the UK on Five?
Yes it's true, BtVS will now be airing on Five in the UK, starting on Saturday 19th March 18:40, with Welcome to the Hellmouth. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 11 Mar 2005 :: |
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Amber Benson News |
Chance: Even Buffy Fans May Not Dig This
In Chance, Tara is alive. But she's not a witch, involved with Willow or particularly nice. Spike, neither English nor a vampire (soul restored or otherwise), is her roommate. They live together in Los Angeles. Apparently he's run out of TV shows to work on, or Lost hasn't been created yet, because writer-producer David Fury is delivering pizza to them. Oh, and Lorne is still singing in nightclubs, although he's no longer a demon. Without the horns and green makeup he's actually kind of hot.
Chances Are Good for Disappointment
Chance presents a great temptation to rabid fans of the late, great Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written, directed and produced by Amber Benson, who played the doomed witch Tara for a couple of seasons, the low-low-low-budget romantic comedy from 2002 stars Benson and popular Buffy alum James Marsters -- truly the best thing that ever happened to the TV series -- as roommates who can't quite make the leap to becoming lovers. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 11 Mar 2005 :: |
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Michelle Trachtenberg News |
Michelle Trachtenberg: Soon to be a star on ice
Michelle Trachtenberg is a woman now. It's a scary thought, but the cute little girl of The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1994-96), Harriet the Spy (1996) and Inspector Gadget (1999) will turn 20 in October. That's a big, big number for me, Trachtenberg admits. It's my last year being a teenager. The day I turn 20 will be the same day that, 10 years ago, we started principal photography on Harriet the Spy. That's a lifetime already. I have 10 years in SAG before some people who are 35 years old. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 10 Mar 2005 :: |
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David Boreanaz News |
AICN Review Wicked Prayer
First off, the movie has a very Western tone?no big city rooftops in sight. Eddy plays an ex-con, whose hot girlfriend is the daughter of the town sheriff. Enter David Boranez, the guy from Angel, whose plan is to become the Devil and needs both Furlong?s heart and his girlfriend?s eyes to do it. Tara Reid plays David?s girlfriend/witch who whips up the spells to pull it off. The story isn?t much, guy comes back from dead, angel versus devil etc. but it?s got a lot going and has some real good performances to boot.
David in These Girls
Based on the humorously edgy play by Vivienne Laxdal, These Girls is the story of three teenage girls who, in turn, seduce and then attempt to share Keith, an older married man. It is a tale of innocence, jealousy and friendship told as a provocative coming-of-age story. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 10 Mar 2005 :: |
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Serenity News |
Ejiofor Plays Bad In Serenity
Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays the main villain in the upcoming SF movie Serenity, told SCI FI Wire that he enjoyed working with writer-director Joss Whedon on the big-screen version of Whedon's canceled Fox TV series, Firefly. (Article contains minor spoilers.) |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 10 Mar 2005 :: |
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James Marsters News |
James Marsters' Solo Album
James' solo album will be released in April this year, titled Civilized Man. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 09 Mar 2005 :: |
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Elisabeth Rohm News |
Elisabeth in New Show
Briar & graves (FOX) - Elizabeth Rohm ("Law & Order") and Charles Mesure ("Boogeyman") will play the title roles of Briar and Graves respectively in the drama pilot, about a hard-living priest (Mesure) who partners with a female doctor (Rohm) to investigate unexplained religious phenomena. Paul Sheuring, Marty Adelstein and Dawn Parouse are behind the project, which is set up at 20th Century Fox Television and the latter duo's Adelstein/Parouse Productions. Dondre Whitfield, Graham Beckel and Angel Desai also star. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 09 Mar 2005 :: |
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Serenity News |
Diamond Select Announces Serenity Action Figures
Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles announced today its licensing agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group to produce action figures inspired by Universal Pictures' upcoming futuristic action-adventure film, Serenity. Directed by Oscar®- and Emmy-nominated writer/director Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel), the film is scheduled for release on September 30th, 2005. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 09 Mar 2005 :: |
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Joss Whedon News |
Is There Enough Joss Whedon to go Around?
Joss Whedon has a lot on his plate. Has he spread himself too thin? Organizers of the Whedonverse Multimedia Project don’t think so. In fact, their goal is to spread his creations Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly even further by donating DVDs of the shows to public libraries. The idea for the Project was inspired by the efforts of SaveFarscape.com and was first introduced to Whedon fans in August 2004. The Project truly came into its own in January 2005 when it established Whedonverse.org. Now off to a modest start, the Project hopes to steadily build from its successes. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 09 Mar 2005 :: |
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Seth Green News |
Talking the Freshman with Seth Green & Hugh Sterbakov
This summer, Seth Green, Hugh Sterbakov and Leonard Kirk are combining super-heroes and college life and launching The Freshmen, a new series from Top Cow that’s been described by Sterbakov as American Pie meets X-Men. Or as Seth Green describes it, The Freshmen is “Revenge of the Nerds meets X2.” Yes, the Seth Green. Scott Evil (from the Austen Powers films). Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne from Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television series. Co-creator, writer and director of Robot Chicken. Yes, that Seth Green. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 08 Mar 2005 :: |
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Anthony S. Head News |
Anthony new Who Narrator
Outpost Gallifrey has learned that Anthony Stewart Head has taken over as the narrator for the forthcoming two-part radio documentary "Project: Who," airing on Radio 2 on March 22 and 29, after original narrator Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation) had to pull out due to schedule difficulties. Head, best known to science fiction fans as Rupert Giles on "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer," previously starred in Big Finish's "Excelis" audio series, and is familiar to (and with) fans of the Doctor Who genre. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 08 Mar 2005 :: |
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Vincent Kartheiser News |
Angel's Vincent Kartheiser to Headline Slag Heap at the Cherry Lane Theatre
Angel's Vincent Kartheiser will headline Anton Dudley's Slag Heap at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Previews of the show are scheduled to begin on March 29. Kartheiser played the son of the title character in Angel. His film credits include Untamed Heart, Little Big League, The Indian in the Cupboard, Alaska, Masterminds, Another Day in Paradise and Dandelion. His theatrical credits include regional mountings of The History of Henry IV and V, Rebecca of Sunnybrooke Farm, Pippi Longstocking, A Christmas Carol, The Velveteen Rabbit and Raggedy Ann and Andy. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 08 Mar 2005 :: |
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Alyson Hannigan News |
Alyson Hannigan in new Pilot
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (CBS) - Alyson Hannigan ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") has joined the cast of the comedy pilot, about the exploits of a single man (Josh Radnor), as told through his own eyes 20 years later. No details were available about Hannigan's character. In addition, Rob Greenberg ("Frasier") has signed on as an executive producer of the 20th Century Fox Television-based project, which was created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas ("American Dad") |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 08 Mar 2005 :: |
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David Boreanaz News |
David Boreanaz in new Pilot
BONES (FOX) - Emily Deschanel ("Boogeyman") has scored the lead role in the drama pilot, about a team of forensic anthropologists who solve crimes using evidence supplied by skeletal remains. She'll play Temperance Brennan, the leader of said team in the 20th Century Fox Television-based project. David Boreanaz and Michaela Conlin also star in the pilot, which comes from executive producers Barry Josephson and Hart Hanson and is based on the "Brennan" novels by Kathy Reichs. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 08 Mar 2005 :: |
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Michelle Trachtenberg News |
New films filch ideas for posters, ads and plotlines
Disney's The Ice Princess, starring Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and premiering March 18, borrows slightly from the not-so-family-friendly 1984 film Angel - each poster sports the lead actress in back-to-back poses showing her before and after character transformation. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 08 Mar 2005 :: |
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Serenity News |
Chiwetel Ejiofor on Serenity
Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor first got attention for his leading role in Stephen Frear's Dirty Pretty Things as an immigrant bellhop, and after a minor role in Spike Lee's last film, he kicks off 2005 by being the first black actor to have a major role in a Woody Allen film, the upcoming Melinda and Melinda (pictured left). Later this year, he will be starring in a few bigger films including Joss Whedon's science fiction epic Serenity, a feature film adaptation of his FOX show Firefly. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 07 Mar 2005 :: |
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Morena Baccarin News |
Meet Morena Baccarin
To celebrate the premiere of m Morena's new movie, Way Off Broadway, she will be appearing alongside co-star Forbes March on opening weekend for a Q&A. Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of conflict in friendship involving sex, love, failure and betrayal. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 06 Mar 2005 :: |
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Michelle Trachtenberg News |
Ice Princess Review
I think Michelle Trachtenberg made a good career move with this film. She’s been trying to make the transition from television to film since Buffy the Vampire Slayer was cancelled. Her role in Eurotrip seemed to be too drastic of a change from her Dawn character on Buffy. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 06 Mar 2005 :: |
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BtVS News |
A Buffy Series Without Joss Whedon?
For more than a decade, Writer/Producer/Director Joss Whedon has been synonymous with the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" franchise, so much so that it seems inconceivable that anyone would even attempt to launch a new film or television series about the legendary super heroine without him. But strangely enough, that was, or maybe still is, a plan in the works. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 05 Mar 2005 :: |
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Angel News |
Illyria and the Liberating Potential of Chaotic Postmodern Identity
Though we have entered a new millennium, we still contend with a postmodern world fraught with ambiguities. Having torn down the solid walls of traditional systems that once lucidly demarcated and defined our sense of reality and self, we have, one may argue, become chaotic—that is to say, physically and psychically sensitive to the absence of these systems, uncertain whether this absence reduces us and reality to nothing or opens both to endless possibilities. The television series Angel, spin-off to the cult horror hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer, addresses this postmodern dilemma with tales of volatile characters that destabilize traditional identifying systems, blurring lines between natural and supernatural, good and evil, human and demon, and everything in between. |
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:: Posted by Jaina on 04 Mar 2005 :: |
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