CBS has pulled the plug on low-rated sitcom Partners, while ABC cancels freshman drama's 666 Park Avenue and Last Resort. While Partners was pulled, both ABC shows will air all 13 of their original episode order before vanishing to possible popularity on Hulu or Netflix.
FX’s anthology series American Horror Story has been renewed
for a third season of bat-shit cray-cray. Actress Jessica Lange, who has found
a whole new generation of fans thanks to her Emmy and Golden Globe winning role
on the series, will return as well.
Two video games are heading to
the big screen, as CBS Films will bring Deus
Ex: Human Revolution, while Warner Bros. is looking to sign Tom Hardy to
star in their version of Splinter Cell,
which was created with the help of Tom Clancy and has spawned several
successful tie-in novels.
Casting continues on Starz’s new
eight-episode pirate series Black Sails,
that is a prequel series set about 20 years before the events of Robert Louis
Stevensons classic high seas adventure novel, Treasure Island. Zach McGowan,
Luke Arnold and Jessica Parker Kennedy (the CW’s The Secret Circle) are recent adds. McGowan will play Captain
Charles Vane, a rival to the feared buccaneer Captain Flint (Toby Stephens),
whose exploits serve as the focal point of the series. Arnold will take on the role of the iconic
seafarer John Silver in the years before his well-known feats. Meanwhile,
Kennedy is cast as Max, a tortured young prostitute. Additional cast members
include Hakeem Kae Kazim (Hotel Rwanda),
Toby Schmitz (The Pacific) and Clara
Paget (The Fast and The Furious 6).
Production begins this fall in Cape Town, South Africa and is expected to debut
on the premium cable net in early 2014.
Voice actress Lucille Bliss, who
brought Smurfette to life in the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, The Smurfs, died November 8, 2012 at
the age of 96 of natural causes. Animation historian Charles Solomon told the Los
Angeles Times that, "She was a pioneer in television animation." In
the 1950’s, she was the voice of the popular Crusader Rabbit and was Sunflower and Turnip in Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. In the 60’s she
lent her voice for Elroy Jetson on The
Jestons and Bamm Bamm Rubble on The
Flintstones. She also provided voice work for modern audiences, including
Mrs. Bitters on Invader Zim and as
Yagoda on 2 episodes of Avatar: The Last
Airbender.
Sony Animation has scheduled
September 26, 2014 for an updated 3D Popeye
movie from director Genndy Tartakovsky and The
Smurfs writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn. Tartakovsky has also signed on
to helm Hotel Transylvania 2,
slotted for September 25, 2015. I’m guessing the voice actors have options for
a sequel, but Sony would not confirm if anyone of them would be back.
Warner Bros has brought in Jane
Goldman to rework Bryan Fuller’s original updated script for a live action
version of Pinocchio to star Robert
Downey, Jr. and be helmed by Tim Burton. While neither actor nor director is
confirmed for the project, there is hope that Goldman’s rewrite will land both
of them. The new take on the classic story would find Downey Jr. playing
Geppetto, the woodcarver responsible for creating the puppet boy Pinocchio who
comes to life. When Pinocchio goes
missing, Geppetto must embark on a quest to bring him back. This is one of three Pinocchio-centered projects in development at the moment, including
a stop-motion animated take from Guillermo del Toro and 20th Century Fox’s The Three Misfortunes of Geppetto.
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