On October 2 CBS Home Entertainment will launch its Season One DVD release of “Jericho.” What will be unique about this offering is the way CBS will be hyping their product. Instead of using the usual technique of boasting about how great the show was, they have decided to get on the “Save Jericho” train and push the DVD with an massive add campaign with the tagline — “Save It Again…On DVD.” Hmmm, if they had used that much ad energy in the first place before the show originally aired, perhaps this “Save Jericho” effort wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. Regardless, go out and buy the DVD. Not, just to lend support for a series that should get more than 7 more episodes in the next season, but because it’s a pretty good show on its on merit and deserves a strong fan following.
The World Series of Video Games has closed down right in the middle of its second season of existence. The cause? The gaming series couldn’t get enough sponsorship. The enterprise that was once thought to be the pinnacle of big league video gaming, one that made a lucrative deal with CBS Sports for national airtime on the network, has sputtered to an abrupt halt. One of its main competitors, World Cyber Games is fairing a bit better at this juncture, however, the jury is still out if it too can continue to draw the revenue needed to continue in the big leagues of network and cable programming. All is not lost. Both events will continue as they focus more on what has worked for them in the past — Videogame Websites.
Warner Bros. is teaming again with “Harry Potter” producer David Heyman to bring another British kids classic to the bigscreen — “Paddington Bear” according to Variety.
Hamish McColl (“Mr. Bean’s Holiday”) is writing the screenplay for a live-action movie based on Michael Bond’s series of books for young children about a talking bear who’s adopted by a London family when they find him lost at Paddington Station.
Yeah…..Richard Kelly, director of the upcoming SF movie “Southland Tales,” has now stated that the movie is done. We think it only appropriate that since it has taken Kelly so long to get this project off the ground and on film that the movie’s runtime of two hours, 24 minutes seems a bit prophetic. “Southland Tales,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar, opens November 9, 2007.
Japan launched its first lunar probe today, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the latest move in a new race with China, India and the United States to explore the moon. The Moon mission will concentrate of imaging the moon and Earth with two satellites and fourteen different observation instruments designed to examine surface terrain, gravity and other features for clues on the origin and evolution of the moon, as well as record Earth-rise from lunar orbit.
Vigilante flick “The Brave One,” starring Jodie Foster, Naveen Andrews (“Lost”) and Terrence Howard is expected to top the box office this weekend.
Three new actors have been added to the new horror film “The Haunting in Connecticut,” which began shooting this week in Winnipeg. Already cast was “The Number 23″ actress, Virginia Madsen. Joining her will be Martin Donovan as her husband, Kyle Gallner will portray their son who suffers from terminal cancer. Gallner’s character becomes attune to paranormal activity which begins to overtake his life and that of his family. Elias Koteas comes onboard as the priest Madsen’s character looks to for help. He also suffers from cancer. This Peter Cornwell film is looking to be released sometime next year.
I just hope they stick to stop motion animation and paper backgrounds of the original TV series of Paddington Bear.