Paul Bettany stars in the Uncle Frank trailer as a closeted gay man on a road trip with his niece back to the hometown that he fled.
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In the Here and Now trailer, HBO introduces a multi-racial family lead by Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins in Alan Balls new modern family drama.
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The Here and Now trailer reveals a cryptic, hypnotic look at the new HBO drama from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, featuring Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter
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At the TCA sessions with HBO, details on the new Jon Stewart HBO show were revealed as well as a premiere dates for Westworld, Divorce and much more
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The American Beauty Live Read by Jason Reitman featured his cast of Men, Women and Children. Here's a recap of the once in a lifetime event.
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Ben Stiller is in talks for a lead role in Alan Ball's film about the creation and wild success of the Chippendales.
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Today's TV Bits comes with the caveat that none of this applies if the world actually ends on 12/21/12. After the jump: Black Dynamite, Catfish, The League, and Psych get renewed Cinemax sets a January premiere date for Alan Ball's Banshee Game of Thrones gets more screen time and its own beer Jason Schwartzman and Jenny…
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Fall doesn't technically start for another three weeks, but we all know Labor Day is the unofficial turn of the season. In this very late summer edition of TV Bits: MTV announces Jersey Shore will end after Season 6 Robin Williams could return to TV with David E. Kelley Jorge Garcia lands a guest spot…
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We look ahead to the new seasons of a few popular shows and more in this edition of TV Bits. After the jump read about: HBO has renewed True Blood and The Newsroom for next season. Check out your first look at the prison which will house most of The Walking Dead season 3. Lost…
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With the exception of True Blood creator Alan Ball's very serious-sounding Banshee, today's TV Bits is all about the funny. After the jump: Dwight Schrute could leave Dunder Mifflin for Schrute Farms Paul Feig will direct Goldie Hawn in HBO's The Viagra Diaries CBS orders a pilot written by and starring Bridesmaids' Rebel Wilson Alan Ball…
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Quentin Tarantino is notorious for talking up his projects and then continuously delaying them (if not outright abandoning them), but recent years have proven a refreshing change of pace. After announcing at Cannes 2008 that he would finally make Inglourious Basterds by the end of the year, he actually delivered. Then there's Kill Bill: The…
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Alan Ball goes to the well once again, Judd Apatow makes a return to TV and Professor Dumbledore bets the ponies. Just another day on the cable powerhouse that is HBO. Ball, the Oscar-winning show runner of Six Feet Under and True Blood just shot a pilot called All Signs of Death, based on Charlie…
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Briefly: Alan Ball has quite a career as a writer and producer (Six Feet Under, True Blood, and there's his Oscar for American Beauty) but a thinner resume when it comes to directing theatrical features. In 2007, his adaptation of Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead was better than some narrow-minded controversy-stirring appraisals made it out to…
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True Blood has quickly become my favorite summer show. With the airing of last night's season two finale, "Beyond Here Lies Nothin", I can already feel the pain of another year-long wait ahead of me. Just like Dollhouse, the first season of True Blood took a few episodes to truly get in gear---but once the…
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The True Blood panel at Comic-Con was one of the bigger ones. Many cast members showed up alongside writer/creator Alan Ball and Charleane Harris, author of the books that led to the show. They seemed grateful for all of the fan response and the packed room. Apparently their panel was in a much smaller space…
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Academy Award winning screenwriter turned director Alan Ball (American Beauty) recently revealed details about two possible upcoming film projects: He hopes to direct a screwball comedy/romantic farce he wrote right before coming across Towelhead, about two incredibly wealthy egomaniacal people "negotiating their sexual relationship within standards of that time, with that language, and with all…
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When I first screened Alan Ball's directorial debut at the Tonroto International Film Festival last year, it was titled Nothing is Private. In my review, I wondered why Ball had decided to change the title from that of the book it was based on - Towelhead. The obvious answer is political correctness. And a few…
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Big banner ads all over Comic Con are advertising Tru Blood, the fictional "synthetic blood nourishment beverage" that serves as a blood replacement for vampires in Alan Ball's new series, True Blood. Eerily convincing, they serve as a clever reminder of the show's ARG, which also includes a vampire dating site and a blog. Naturally,…
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HBO has released a poster for Alan Ball's upcoming HBO series True Blood. In addition to creating Six Feet Under, Ball won an Adademy Award for America Beauty, and directed the upcoming film adaptation of Towelhead. True Blood is based on Charlaine Harris' "Southern Vampire" novel series. The series follows the world of vampires set…
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Alan Ball's feature directorial debut is more Six Feet Under than American Beauty in tone, and more of the latter in story. There are more than a few structural similarities to Beauty, including the typical but still wonderful Thomas Newman score, an older man who becomes sexually infatuated with a young girl, and a series…
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