Danny Boyle has a new project out this year, but it won't be found in theaters. Instead, it'll be premiering later this year on television. Babylon stars Brit Marling as Liz Garvey, a PR manager hired by Chief Constable Richard Miller (James Nesbitt) to give the London police department an image makeover. Of course, that's…
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Here are the first promo photos for the cop show Babylon, which comes from director Danny Boyle and Peep Show writers Sam Bains and Jesse Armstrong. The show revolves around an American media guru who arrives in London to put a new PR spin on the city's cops. The cast is led by Brit Marling and James Nesbitt, playing the PR advisor…
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With the last teaser poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Warner Bros. marketing team quite consciously called back to Peter Jackson's earlier Lord of the Rings trilogy. The portrait of a sword-wielding Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) was of a piece with the posters for Fellowship of the Rings and Return of the King,…
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Ten years ago this week The Fellowship of the Ring was released. Peter Jackson's first Tolkien adaption silenced a great many naysayers who said J.R.R. Tolkien's novels could never be properly translated to film. It also fostered a mainstream interest in fantasy movies that continues a decade later. The development of a film based on…
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Much in the way that Lionsgate teased out Hunger Games casting for weeks, steadily releasing small pieces of info over time, Warner Bros. seems to be revealing first looks at the characters from The Hobbit bit by little tiny bit. We've already gotten eyefuls of Dori, Nori & Ori, Oin and Gloin, and Fili and…
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Warner Bros/New Line Cinema and MGM have announced the start of production on The Hobbit in New Zealand, which includes a full update on the signed cast (many of which have been previously announced or rumored, but a couple new additions): Martin Freeman takes the title role as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen returns in…
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Warner Bros has just officially confirmed that James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday, Millions, Waking Ned Devine) and newcomer Adam Brown have joined the cast of Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of The Hobbit. Nesbitt will play Bofur, "a disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave Dwarf." Brown will play Ori, "another of the Dwarf Company which sets…
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