Quotables: Tina Fey at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmys
“We want to thank our friends at NBC, Jeff Zucker, Ben Silverman, Jeff Gaspin, for keeping us on the air even though we are so much more expensive than a talk show.” -Tina Fey accepting 30 Rock‘s award for Best Comedy...
Read More30 Rock, Mad Men take top Emmy honors – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: For the second year in a row, Mad Men won the Emmy for Best Drama Series and 30 Rock nabbed the Best Comedy Series Emmy. (That’s 3 wins now for 30 Rock!) Other winners include Bryan Cranston for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Glenn Close for Best Actress in a Drama Series, Toni Collette for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Alec Baldwin for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. (Variety) In Other News: Four “posthumous” Emmy wins for the canceled ABC series Pushing Daisies, including Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Kristin Chenoweth, could mean new life for the show. Bryan Fuller told THR, “It’s a tremendous honor to see ‘Daisies’ win in so many categories — and in the spirit of the show… Now can we please make the ‘Pushing Daisies’...
Read MoreDamon to star in Eastwood’s Hereafter – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Clint Eastwood must like what he saw from Matt Damon in his upcoming Invictus because Damon is set for the director’s next picture, Hereafter. The Queen‘s Peter Morgan wrote the script for what is being describe a supernatural thriller in the vein of The Sixth Sense. (Variety) In Other News: Rebecca Hall will play the lead in Richard Linklater’s Liar A-E. (THR) Opening Today: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs The Informant! Jennifer’s Body Love...
Read MoreAfterschool trailer
From IFC Films: A riveting thriller which follows the fallout in a NY prep school after the horrible deaths of two popular girls is caught on video, the film will hit theaters October 2nd and become available on demand Sept....
Read MoreSpike Lee & De Niro plan Alphabet City series – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: New York, they love you. Spike Lee and Robert De Niro are teaming with Showtime to develop a series about New York’s Alphabet City, titled Alphaville. The show will be set in the 1980s, chronicling the lives of the pre-gentrified neighborhood’s residents, including Puerto Ricans, African Americans, musicians, and artists. Lee will direct the pilot and executive produce with De Niro and writer John Ridley. Sounds like that dream of seeing Lee at the helm of Rent will finally come true. Well, half true. (THR) In Other News: Sony Pictures has picked up Defendor, superhero drama starring Woody Harrelson, at Toronto. (Variety) Focus Features is teaming up with Oprah’s Harpo Films and Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Prods. for an adaptation of Netherland, based on the novel by Joseph O’Neill. Christopher Hampton will write the screenplay with Mendes...
Read MoreAlfredson, Kidman aboard Danish Girl – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Let the Right One In helmer Tomas Alfredson will direct Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl, the true story of the first person to undergo a sex-change operation. (Variety) In Other News: Zach Galifianakis is in negotiations to star in It’s Kind of a Funny Story for Half Nelson filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. (THR) Jessica Biel and District 9‘s Sharlto Copley are in talks to join The A-Team. Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, and Quinton Jackson are already attached to the Joe Carnahan-directed feature. (Variety)...
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