When the Hulk returns to the silver-screen in “The Incredible Hulk,” the green goliath will have a different look.
Rhythm & Hues Studios have signed on to bring the new CGI version of the Hulk to life on the big-screen. The company, which has done digital effects for “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe”, won the job after months of research and development, including their creation of a new digital Hulk.
The previous “Hulk” film featured lead digital animation from ILM.
“The Incredible Hulk” begins production this summer in Toronto.
With “Battlestar Galactica” gone from our screens until 2008 and new episodes of “Heroes” still two weeks away, are you starting to feel some withdrawal pangs?
NBC and MySpace feel your pain and have offered up some exclusive footage from the next installment of “Heroes.”
The footage is rough footage and promises a major reveal from the next new episode. Consider this your SPOILER warning and view at your own risk.
“Heroes” returns to NBC on April 23.
The rumors of David Tennant’s forthcoming re-generation have been greatly exaggerated.
Coming off stellar ratings for the premire of “Smith and Jones,” “Doctor Who” star David Tennant told British papers he’s not leaving the show any time soon. Tennant confirmed that he will be in the role as the Doctor for the full runs of both series three and four.
Rumors had sprung up that Tennant might pass the mantle mid-way through the fourth series of the show.
“Doctor Who” continues its third season this Saturday with “The Shakespeare Code” on BBC 1
From the BBC comes this little gem. An Italian film which features Jesus drinking from a can of Coca-Cola will miss its Easter release date after the drinks giant complained. Seven Kilometres from Jerusalem tells the story of an advertising executive suffering a mid-life crisis when he meets a man who appears to be Jesus.
In the course of the film, Jesus drinks a can of Coke, and the ad man exclaims: “God, what a great endorsement!”
Coca-Cola said permission to use its trademark had not been granted.
“We don’t think it’s appropriate to use the subject of this film to create publicity for our brands,” it said in a statement.
“We advised the producer of this in writing, and are very disappointed that our request was not respected.”
The drinks company asked for the scene to be cut, but the director and producers argued that changing the film would be costly and time consuming.
After a week of legal wrangling, they have now been forced to postpone the Good Friday release date as the film is re-edited.
Producers say it could be up to three weeks before the film hits cinemas.
David Cross and Erica Christensen are going to hell as part of a new comedy pilot for CBS this fall.
The comedy pilot, “I’m In Hell” centers on a high-flying Wall-Street player, played by Jason Biggs of “American Pie” fame. Bigg’s character is killed in a BlackBerry related accident and sent to hell, only to find it’s too full. He’s sent back to Hell on earth as punishment instead. Now he has to find a way to exist without his career and all the former trappings from it.
Christensen will play a nanny and love-interest for Bigg’s character.
Cross will play the role of Scott, an emissary from hell sent to look in on Bigg’s case.
“I’m in Hell” is currently in the pilot stage and would run on CBS this fall if picked up.
Arguabily the biggest moment in genre TV this season was the death of Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on the hit Sci-Fi series, “Battlestar Galactica.” OK, so maybe the sudden return of Starbuck in the season finale was bigger….
What do these two big moments have in common other than a connection to Starbuck?
Both secrets were incredibly difficult for actress Kate Sackoff to keep, according to a story in the LA Times. Sackoff knew that the character of Starbuck would appear to die in the episode “Maelstrom” but that the producers, Ronald D. Moore and David Eick had a trick up their sleeve.
“David and Ron said, ‘We want to start this phone call out by saying that we love you,’ ” Sackhoff said.
Sackhoff knew she might not like what came next. And she didn’t. “They said, ‘You’re not really gonna die — but we’re gonna blow you up.’ ”
Eick admitted that he and Moore delibrately planted information to mislead hardcore “Galactica” fans and to keep Starbuck’s return in the dark until the big reveal at season’s end. Moore even went along with this in his popular podcast, saying that Starbuck was dead in the commentary for “Maelstrom.”
Eick worked very hard to make sure the knowledge never leaked out. Certain cast and crew were told of the twist, but asked to keep it a secret. The information that Starbuck was coming back was kept on a need-to-know basis.
“It wasn’t fair to her,” he said. “She was going to have to lie to literally everybody in the cast: ‘Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s awfully sad. I’m gonna miss you guys!’ It got ridiculous at a certain point. She was a trooper; I think she would have done anything we asked her to. But she’s not inhuman!”
“Everyone thought it was because of me,” Sackhoff said. “It turned into, ‘Katee Sackhoff, the angry actress, pulling a Duchovny.’ Which is what we call trying to get the show out of Vancouver.” (David Duchovny publicly prevailed upon “The X-Files” to move its production from Vancouver to Los Angeles after five seasons.)
“That was the most frustrating part,” she said. “People like working with me! But you can’t defend yourself, because a guilty person defends themselves.”