This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.

Buffy ,'Potential'


Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell  

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Cashmere - May 22, 2006 3:01:07 pm PDT #1812 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I agree with the reviewer dcp linked to that Tom Hanks' hair didn't look half as bad as it did in the stills.

I didn't have time to read the review but I totally agree with that. The stills looked awful but it actually looked pretty good in the film.

Audrey Tautou is stunningly gorgeous. And teeny tiny.

And Paul Bettany looks fantastic naked, in spite of the awful bloody wounds on his back.


quester - May 22, 2006 6:08:23 pm PDT #1813 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I saw Poseidon. I expected the worst, after all the original was total crap, but was pleasently entertained. It is totally silly, but it moved along pretty quickly.


Sophia Brooks - May 23, 2006 4:07:58 am PDT #1814 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

OK. Cashmere's white font in re Paul Bettany makes me want to see the movie now!


Cashmere - May 23, 2006 4:12:06 am PDT #1815 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I forgot to mention that I saw a trailer for the new Bond movie. I can't really see what the fuss over Daniel Craig is. He struck me as dead sexy and very Bond like.

Cashmere's white font in re Paul Bettany makes me want to see the movie now!

Heh. Those scenes are sadly very short.


Frankenbuddha - May 23, 2006 4:13:28 am PDT #1816 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

So does Bettany look like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS-era Anthony Michael Hall the way he does in the previews, or is that another thing like Hanks' hair?


dcp - May 23, 2006 6:59:31 pm PDT #1817 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I wonder if they will film Angels & Demons, because visually I think it would make a prettier film.

Looks like they might: [link]


sj - May 23, 2006 7:06:14 pm PDT #1818 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Thanks, dcp. Chronologically Angels and Demons comes first, but that should be easy enough to get around.


Hayden - May 24, 2006 9:47:10 am PDT #1819 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Another trailer mashup (anyone have a catchy single word for these?):

Something Blue.


tommyrot - May 25, 2006 5:34:22 am PDT #1820 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Anne McCaffrey's best-selling and long-running SF book series The Dragonriders of Pern will be adapted for the big screen by Canadian production company Copperheart Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Copperheart, which was behind the 2005 Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, has optioned the 19-book series, which began with the Dragonflight in 1968. The books are best known for having humans ride dragons with which they telepathically bond. With Dragonflight, McCaffrey became the first woman ever to win a Hugo Award for fiction, and she is one of the 2006 inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Copperheart, run by Steve Hoban, also has produced the Imax 3-D movie Cyberworld.

Pern nearly came to TV in a 2001 series for The WB from Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore, but the network pulled the plug on the pilot after Moore refused to make changes to the Pern mythos that he thought would harm its integrity.

[link]


Dana - May 25, 2006 5:47:24 am PDT #1821 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

after Moore refused to make changes to the Pern mythos that he thought would harm its integrity.

Um. Okay.

has optioned the 19-book series

Good lord. It went to 19?