August 09, 2009
August 07, 2009
'Futurama' Crisis Averted
Well, we can cancel our plans to burn down the police stable in outrage. Following news a few weeks back that 20th Century Fox was looking to replace the voice cast of Futurama with cheaper replacements, it's now been announced that a deal a has been struck, and the original voices will be returning:
Casting execs were set to begin meeting with replacement thesps this week. But the five stars -- John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille -- finally sealed pacts late Friday with 20th Century Fox TV to return to the show.
Both the actors and 20th are believed to have found a compromise. Move comes after 20th put out a casting call in July to find replacement voice actors for the show.
"We are thrilled to have our incredible cast back," creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen said in a statement. "The call has already gone out to the animators to put the mouths back on the characters."
Phew! Glad that's taken care of. I wasn't ready for another jarring change of cast--I'm still reeling from the controversial Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Aunt Viv switch of '93. [Via iwatchstuff]
August 06, 2009
August 05, 2009
'Star Wars' Home Movies
Think the Star Wars DVD special features, Star Wars making-of books, and Star Wars Trivial Pursuits have shown you everything that could be known about the making of George's Lucas eternally tinkered-with sci-fi adventure? Wrong! Now available on internet: 8mm home movies of the original special effects team who made all that lightsabering possible.
Via iwatchstuff
First Look at Curb's 'Seinfeld' Pseudo-Reunion
The first shot of Curb Your Enthusiasm's long-awaited Seinfeld reunion been released by the Home Box Office Television Channel. Furthermore, Larry David talked to press about the scenario's inspiration, and how it will play out:
"The context is for years I've been asked about a 'Seinfeld' reunion -- as has Jerry and the other cast members," Larry David said at the "Curb" panel at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Pasadena.
"I would say, 'No, there's no reunion, we would never do that, it's a lame idea' ... but it might be really funny to do that on 'Curb' ... and I kept thinking of how we could pull this off, and Jerry was game ... so we're doing a 'Seinfeld' reunion show. ... We'll see the read-through, parts of rehearsals, the show being filmed ... you won't see the entire [mock 'Seinfeld' episode] ... you'll get an idea of what happened 11 years later [for the characters]."
"It was like getting on a bicycle," David said of writing "Seinfeld" dialog again. "Coming up with the right ideas about what they'd be doing 11 years later ... that took some thought."
How David, or science, plans to explain that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is somehow way hotter now than she was literally 20 years ago remains a mystery.
Via iwatchstuff
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