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The 1980s was a golden era for TV animation. It was the decade of Thundercats, Inspector Gadget, Transformers, Ducktales, The Smurfs, He-Man and The Masters of the Universe, Care Bears, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Yet arguably, the best of them all was The Real Ghostbusters.
The show arrived at a time when studios were eager to translate box office gold into something palatable for younger audiences. It didn’t always quite go to plan, of course, as short-lived and ill-advised animated incarnations of everything from Rambo to The Karate Kid can attest.
But The Real Ghostbusters was different, running for 140 episodes across seven seasons.
It was a little different from the film. For one thing, the title had to be tweaked due to a dispute with Filmation, who was making an animated version...
The 1980s was a golden era for TV animation. It was the decade of Thundercats, Inspector Gadget, Transformers, Ducktales, The Smurfs, He-Man and The Masters of the Universe, Care Bears, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Yet arguably, the best of them all was The Real Ghostbusters.
The show arrived at a time when studios were eager to translate box office gold into something palatable for younger audiences. It didn’t always quite go to plan, of course, as short-lived and ill-advised animated incarnations of everything from Rambo to The Karate Kid can attest.
But The Real Ghostbusters was different, running for 140 episodes across seven seasons.
It was a little different from the film. For one thing, the title had to be tweaked due to a dispute with Filmation, who was making an animated version...
- 10/14/2023
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
The highly anticipated thriller Feast Of Varanasi premiered to a packed audience on Saturday 5th March as part of the London Asian Film Festival in central London.
Attended by the main cast and crew including director Rajan Kumar Patel, Ashwath Bhatt, Holly Gilbert and award winning producer Caroline O Reilly, the dark thriller has received huge praise from critics and the audience alike. Guests included: The Mayor and Mayoress of Kingston Upon Thames, EastEnder’s star Nitin Ganatra, comedian and playwright Nigel Planer and actress Seeta Indrani.
Director Rajan Patel commented: “It was great to see so many people support Independent cinema. It’s so important for independent filmmakers to be given a platform to showcase their talent. The whole project from start to finish has been a real labour of love for everyone involved. I have had the good fortune to work with such a wonderful production team and...
Attended by the main cast and crew including director Rajan Kumar Patel, Ashwath Bhatt, Holly Gilbert and award winning producer Caroline O Reilly, the dark thriller has received huge praise from critics and the audience alike. Guests included: The Mayor and Mayoress of Kingston Upon Thames, EastEnder’s star Nitin Ganatra, comedian and playwright Nigel Planer and actress Seeta Indrani.
Director Rajan Patel commented: “It was great to see so many people support Independent cinema. It’s so important for independent filmmakers to be given a platform to showcase their talent. The whole project from start to finish has been a real labour of love for everyone involved. I have had the good fortune to work with such a wonderful production team and...
- 3/11/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
David Thewlis will lead the cast of BBC One's new adaptation of An Inspector Calls.
The Harry Potter and War Horse actor will play The Inspector in the Aisling Walsh-directed drama, which will air as part of the channel's season of classic 20th century literature adaptations.
Thewlis will be joined by Ken Stott (The Hobbit) as Arthur Birling and Miranda Richardson (Parade's End) as Sybil Birling.
Chloe Pirrie (Black Mirror), Kyle Soller (Poldark) and Sophie Rundle (Happy Valley) will also star.
Thewlis said: "An Inspector Calls is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh."
The adaptation will be produced by Drama Republic, who recently worked on The Honourable Woman for BBC Two. Playwright Helen Edmunson will adapt the play for television.
Lucy Richer, Commissioning Editor of BBC Drama, added: "The mysterious and elusive Inspector Goole has fascinated audiences for generations,...
The Harry Potter and War Horse actor will play The Inspector in the Aisling Walsh-directed drama, which will air as part of the channel's season of classic 20th century literature adaptations.
Thewlis will be joined by Ken Stott (The Hobbit) as Arthur Birling and Miranda Richardson (Parade's End) as Sybil Birling.
Chloe Pirrie (Black Mirror), Kyle Soller (Poldark) and Sophie Rundle (Happy Valley) will also star.
Thewlis said: "An Inspector Calls is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh."
The adaptation will be produced by Drama Republic, who recently worked on The Honourable Woman for BBC Two. Playwright Helen Edmunson will adapt the play for television.
Lucy Richer, Commissioning Editor of BBC Drama, added: "The mysterious and elusive Inspector Goole has fascinated audiences for generations,...
- 1/30/2015
- Digital Spy
If you’re not watching BBC 2’s gangster western Peaky Blinders, stop reading now and seek it out on iPlayer – there’s still one episode left so you have time to join the party. Peaky Blinders is the slow burning tale of a volatile, family led criminal gang, headed by calculating brother Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), and their rise to power in post-World War I Birmingham. It does not sound glamorous and it isn’t, yet is all the more compelling for embracing the filthy side of what many considered to be the cusp of the ‘Roaring Twenties’. Not in Birmingham it wasn’t.
Thankfully Peaky Blinders had costume designer Stephanie Collie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Look of Love) on board to recreate this era in, her own words, “a heightened way”. Peaky Blinders is not intended for school history lessons, it’s a ‘Hollywoodised’ vision of 1919 with a TV budget.
Thankfully Peaky Blinders had costume designer Stephanie Collie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Look of Love) on board to recreate this era in, her own words, “a heightened way”. Peaky Blinders is not intended for school history lessons, it’s a ‘Hollywoodised’ vision of 1919 with a TV budget.
- 10/15/2013
- by Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Every year, film executive Franklin Leonard releases his list, called The Black List, of most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. This year's list was compiled from the suggestions of 290 film executives, each of whom picked up to ten of their favorite scripts. Since the list started in 2004, many screenplays ended up being turned into films. In 2005, two of the top three scripts were "Lars and the Real Girl" which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and "Juno" which actually won the Oscar. See the 2012 Black List below, broken up by how many votes each screenplay received. Some of the projects are already in the works. 65 - Draft Day (Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman) On the day of the NFL Draft, Bills General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Buffalo when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in...
- 12/19/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
Hollywood producers are always looking to find the next blockbuster hit, but with the great influx of scripts that studios receive, it’s likely that something outstanding can get lost in the shuffle. In an effort to make things easier for everyone, former production executive Franklin Leonard started the Black List in 2004. The list takes 10 nominations from 290 film executives, and if a script gets 6 nominations it makes the list.
The website makes it clear that this isn’t a “best of” list, it’s simply a “most liked” list, but being the most liked definitely is an indicator of something good, so the list is worth paying attention to.
Many extremely successful films have come from the list in past years. For example, the 2010 list featured scripts like Safe House, Argo, Chronicle, Snow White And The Huntsman and Looper.
Check out the five scripts with the most nominations this year below,...
The website makes it clear that this isn’t a “best of” list, it’s simply a “most liked” list, but being the most liked definitely is an indicator of something good, so the list is worth paying attention to.
Many extremely successful films have come from the list in past years. For example, the 2010 list featured scripts like Safe House, Argo, Chronicle, Snow White And The Huntsman and Looper.
Check out the five scripts with the most nominations this year below,...
- 12/18/2012
- by Alex Lowe
- We Got This Covered
There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of their favorite screenplays of the year and the consensus first overall pick (with 65 votes) comes from the recently featured in Variety (10 Screenwriters to Watch 2012) tandem of Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman and their drama which has nothing to do with enlisting in the armed forces. Draft Day – about the day in the life of a fictitious Buffalo Bills Gm appears to currently be in turnaround — which only means I expect to see this greenlight perhaps a little later than sooner – worth noting: top spot almost guarantees that the film will indeed go into production (2006, 2010 and 2011 are the exceptions.) Among the more alluring logline subjects we find on the list, I’d be keen on reading the...
- 12/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Verdict by Agatha Christie
Directed by Noel MacDuffie
The Heights Players
Weekends through November 18, 2012
Since 1957 the Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights have continually presented quality community theater, and their latest offering maintains the high standard theater-goers have come to expect from this venerable company. Verdict is a curio from British mystery writer Agatha Christie, famous for her whodunit novels, stage adaptations of those novels, and original plays (the most famous of which is Witness for the Prosecution).Verdict, written solely for the stage, is a psychological living room play in which a murder does occur, but regarding the perpetrator's identity there is nothing to figure out: the murderer is revealed bluntly and in no uncertain terms. The meat of the matter comes from the complications that follow that revelation.
The central character of the play is Karl Hendryk, a professor who along with his wife and her first cousin have immigrated to England,...
Directed by Noel MacDuffie
The Heights Players
Weekends through November 18, 2012
Since 1957 the Heights Players in Brooklyn Heights have continually presented quality community theater, and their latest offering maintains the high standard theater-goers have come to expect from this venerable company. Verdict is a curio from British mystery writer Agatha Christie, famous for her whodunit novels, stage adaptations of those novels, and original plays (the most famous of which is Witness for the Prosecution).Verdict, written solely for the stage, is a psychological living room play in which a murder does occur, but regarding the perpetrator's identity there is nothing to figure out: the murderer is revealed bluntly and in no uncertain terms. The meat of the matter comes from the complications that follow that revelation.
The central character of the play is Karl Hendryk, a professor who along with his wife and her first cousin have immigrated to England,...
- 11/9/2012
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Herbie Goes Bananas
Written by Don Tait, based on the novel Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford
Directed By Vincent McEveety
USA, 1980, imdb
Listen to our Mousterpiece Cinema Herbie Goes Bananas podcast or read Josh‘s extended thoughts about the film.
*****
Some films acquire a bad reputation that sticks like a bad smell, driving potential viewers away before they ever see it. Everyone knows that Alien³ and Alien Resurrection are terrible even especially those who have never seen the film. This fate happens particularly to notorious bombs – especially to films that (temporarily) kill off franchises. There is a perverse feedback loop in place, the film bombed because no one went to see it, and since the film bombed it must be terrible, so no one wants to watch it.
But this is confusing quality with popularity. They can be linked, but films bombing may result from any number of factors...
Written by Don Tait, based on the novel Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford
Directed By Vincent McEveety
USA, 1980, imdb
Listen to our Mousterpiece Cinema Herbie Goes Bananas podcast or read Josh‘s extended thoughts about the film.
*****
Some films acquire a bad reputation that sticks like a bad smell, driving potential viewers away before they ever see it. Everyone knows that Alien³ and Alien Resurrection are terrible even especially those who have never seen the film. This fate happens particularly to notorious bombs – especially to films that (temporarily) kill off franchises. There is a perverse feedback loop in place, the film bombed because no one went to see it, and since the film bombed it must be terrible, so no one wants to watch it.
But this is confusing quality with popularity. They can be linked, but films bombing may result from any number of factors...
- 7/10/2012
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Writer-director: Lalit Marathe, Producer: Ram Gopal Varma, Actors: Eesha Koppikar, Raj Arjun , Manish Wadhwan, Zakir Hussain
Shabri sucks us into the grimy underbelly of Mumbai yet again: the world of ruthless gangsters, mindless killings, third degree police tortures and an autonomous world of criminals and the abusers of power (read police) where there can be no trace of humanity whatsoever. Justice as a concept is alien to this land and the only way to get even is by seeking an eye for an eye. Going by this description, no gangster film is essentially different from the other; but a certain pace and suspense makes them work; and as far as Shabri is concerned, the film manages to create the horror and thrill of the underworld effectively and with conviction.
Eesha Koppikar’s Shabri is no femme fatale but an ordinary victim of extraordinary situations that lead her to overthrow the ‘matka’ kingpin of the city.
Shabri sucks us into the grimy underbelly of Mumbai yet again: the world of ruthless gangsters, mindless killings, third degree police tortures and an autonomous world of criminals and the abusers of power (read police) where there can be no trace of humanity whatsoever. Justice as a concept is alien to this land and the only way to get even is by seeking an eye for an eye. Going by this description, no gangster film is essentially different from the other; but a certain pace and suspense makes them work; and as far as Shabri is concerned, the film manages to create the horror and thrill of the underworld effectively and with conviction.
Eesha Koppikar’s Shabri is no femme fatale but an ordinary victim of extraordinary situations that lead her to overthrow the ‘matka’ kingpin of the city.
- 8/26/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Acorn Media continues its mission of bringing the finest British television series to the U.S market with the upcoming release of the suspenseful crime-mystery show Vera starring two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice, Secrets & Lies) on DVD on August 30 for a list price of $59.99.
Brenda Blethyn is on the case as Vera.
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves, the ITV series stars Blethyn as the solitary, obsessed and quite cantankerous investigator Vera Stanhope, a Northern England detective who happens to be pure genius at her job. Always proficient but occasionally cruel, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope solves unthinkable crimes aided by her long-suffering team, portrayed by David Leon, Wunmi Mosaku and Paul Ritter.
The show premiered in May 2011 in the U.K. to rave reviews and already commissioned for a second TV season.
We’re big fans of Prime Suspect, that awesome British crime procedural with...
Brenda Blethyn is on the case as Vera.
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves, the ITV series stars Blethyn as the solitary, obsessed and quite cantankerous investigator Vera Stanhope, a Northern England detective who happens to be pure genius at her job. Always proficient but occasionally cruel, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope solves unthinkable crimes aided by her long-suffering team, portrayed by David Leon, Wunmi Mosaku and Paul Ritter.
The show premiered in May 2011 in the U.K. to rave reviews and already commissioned for a second TV season.
We’re big fans of Prime Suspect, that awesome British crime procedural with...
- 7/8/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Washington, D.C., March 14, 2011 . Academy Award®-winning actress Helen Mirren will receive the “CinemaCon Career Achievement Award,” it was announced today by Mitch Neuhauser, managing director of CinemaCon, which will be held March 28-31, 2011, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Mirren will be presented with this special honor at the inaugural “CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards” ceremony to take place on Thursday evening, March 31st, in The Colosseum of Caesars Palace. The Coca-Cola Company, Official Presenting Sponsor of CinemaCon will host the final night gala awards program.
“A consummate actress, Helen Mirren has entertained audiences around the globe for over four decades with her stunning performances on the big screen,” noted Neuhauser. “With an incredible diversity in role selection, Mirren has graced the screen in such memorable movies as ‘The Queen,’ ‘The Last Station,’ and the ‘The Madness of King George,’ and, more recently, in 2010′s summer action hit ‘Red,...
“A consummate actress, Helen Mirren has entertained audiences around the globe for over four decades with her stunning performances on the big screen,” noted Neuhauser. “With an incredible diversity in role selection, Mirren has graced the screen in such memorable movies as ‘The Queen,’ ‘The Last Station,’ and the ‘The Madness of King George,’ and, more recently, in 2010′s summer action hit ‘Red,...
- 3/14/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Not too long ago, Anushka Sharma parted ways with boyfriend Ranveer Singh. Cest la vie, life moved on. And turns out, Ranveer will soon be launched with Anushka in Yash Raj.s next Band Baaja Baarat.Though the Delhi Police insist that no formal complaint was lodged, Ranveer was indeed present at the police station outside Igi Domestic Airport for over an hour and a half.An eyewitness reveals, .Ranveer and Anuskha were flying business class to Delhi for promoting their movie. Ranveer suddenly spotted his co-passenger clicking pictures of Anushka. Ranveer got angry and a heated argument with the passenger followed. Things got sorted out when the cabin crew intervened. Just before landing, the captain asked the ground staff to arrange for security..Apparently, when transport was ararnged for the passengers to reach the terminal, Ranveer.s co-passenger requested the ground staff for a separate vehicle, saying he did...
- 10/26/2010
- Filmicafe
DVD Playhouse—June 2010
By
Allen Gardner
The White Ribbon (Sony) On the eve of Ww I, a small village in Germany is struck by a series of tragic, seemingly unconnected events until the townspeople, and the audience, start to connect the dots. Shot in stark, beautiful black & white, director Michael Haneke has fashioned a haunting metaphorical drama that is as coldly chilling as anything made by Ingmar Bergman, and darkly unsettling as anything from the canon of David Lynch. A rich, tough, brilliant cinematic experience you’re not likely to forget. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bd bonuses: Interviews with cast and crew; featurettes. Widescreen Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Alice In Wonderland (Disney) Tim Burton’s take on the Lewis Carroll classic finds young Alice (Mia Wasikowska), a 19th century girl who finds herself in an unhappy engagement to a boorish suitor, tumbling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, where she encounters magical cakes,...
By
Allen Gardner
The White Ribbon (Sony) On the eve of Ww I, a small village in Germany is struck by a series of tragic, seemingly unconnected events until the townspeople, and the audience, start to connect the dots. Shot in stark, beautiful black & white, director Michael Haneke has fashioned a haunting metaphorical drama that is as coldly chilling as anything made by Ingmar Bergman, and darkly unsettling as anything from the canon of David Lynch. A rich, tough, brilliant cinematic experience you’re not likely to forget. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bd bonuses: Interviews with cast and crew; featurettes. Widescreen Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround.
Alice In Wonderland (Disney) Tim Burton’s take on the Lewis Carroll classic finds young Alice (Mia Wasikowska), a 19th century girl who finds herself in an unhappy engagement to a boorish suitor, tumbling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, where she encounters magical cakes,...
- 6/23/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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