To commemorate the five-year anniversary of the Smallville series finale, TVLine is republishing this oral history which was first compiled by Matt Webb Mitovich for the June 2011 issue of CBS’ Watch! Magazine (and has been enhanced for this update).
With those words, spoken by Jonathan Kent in the Smallville pilot, a new take on the superman saga found a home that would last for 10 years.
Developed for TV by Al Gough and Miles Millar, Smallville— which followed the adventures of Clark Kent in the fictional town of Smallville, Kan., before he becomes Superman — made its debut Oct. 16, 2001, on The WB.
With those words, spoken by Jonathan Kent in the Smallville pilot, a new take on the superman saga found a home that would last for 10 years.
Developed for TV by Al Gough and Miles Millar, Smallville— which followed the adventures of Clark Kent in the fictional town of Smallville, Kan., before he becomes Superman — made its debut Oct. 16, 2001, on The WB.
- 5/13/2016
- TVLine.com
Did NCIS‘ Ziva (gasp) “Friend” Tony? Which Castle couple is due for more lovin’? Which NCIS: La agent will get a blast from the past? Who’s conspicuously silent in Psych‘s musical episode? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.
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NCIS | To Inside Liners Nisha, Joyce and others, this is for you. With many “Tiva” fans fretting that the pair’s season-ending heart-to-heart essentially landed Tony in the dreaded Friend Zone, showrunner Gary Glasberg maintains that over the course of Season 10, “We made huge strides.
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NCIS | To Inside Liners Nisha, Joyce and others, this is for you. With many “Tiva” fans fretting that the pair’s season-ending heart-to-heart essentially landed Tony in the dreaded Friend Zone, showrunner Gary Glasberg maintains that over the course of Season 10, “We made huge strides.
- 5/23/2013
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Let's talk a little about horror--particularly first-person horror.
Outlast is the first project from Red Barrels, the Montreal-based studio made up of Ubisoft vets. The trailer for the game made its debut last week via a teaser trailer, and today, they'll be releasing a full trailer for the survival horror project set inside of a very haunted asylum. I spoke with designer Philippe Morin, who's credits include Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune about the genesis of Outlast and getting survival horror right in an era where most games in the genre have traded in frantic gun battles for sustained scares.
First, a little history: Red Barrels got its start back in 2011, Morin and and a handful of Ubisoft vets left that company. Casting about for their first project, Morin says they started making a list of the kinds of games they wanted...
Outlast is the first project from Red Barrels, the Montreal-based studio made up of Ubisoft vets. The trailer for the game made its debut last week via a teaser trailer, and today, they'll be releasing a full trailer for the survival horror project set inside of a very haunted asylum. I spoke with designer Philippe Morin, who's credits include Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune about the genesis of Outlast and getting survival horror right in an era where most games in the genre have traded in frantic gun battles for sustained scares.
First, a little history: Red Barrels got its start back in 2011, Morin and and a handful of Ubisoft vets left that company. Casting about for their first project, Morin says they started making a list of the kinds of games they wanted...
- 10/31/2012
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
What has Vampire Diaries‘ Stefan been up to? Is Will bitter over his break-up with Good mom Alicia? What’s nudes with Chuck and Sarah? Read on for those answers, plus other teases from TV’s hottest shows.
The Vampire Diaries | Let’s start by dipping into the mailbag and helping fans of this CW drama cope a bit with the holiday hiatus. Amy asks, “Can you give me any Tvd scoop? Specifically, Caroline and/or Stefan scoop?” Amy, here is exec producer Julie Plec’s holiday gift to you: “When the show returns [on Jan. 5], Stefan has been Mia since he stole Klaus’s family coffins,...
The Vampire Diaries | Let’s start by dipping into the mailbag and helping fans of this CW drama cope a bit with the holiday hiatus. Amy asks, “Can you give me any Tvd scoop? Specifically, Caroline and/or Stefan scoop?” Amy, here is exec producer Julie Plec’s holiday gift to you: “When the show returns [on Jan. 5], Stefan has been Mia since he stole Klaus’s family coffins,...
- 12/8/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Got the Monday blahs? Let’s see if I can perk up the start of your week with a flurry of scoops, teases and sound bites from some of TV’s hottest shows and stars.
NCIS First Look: The New Team Moves In!
Nc-Eye-s | The eyeball that popped up at the end of last week’s NCIS, are you assuming it came from one of the Port-to-Port Killer’s already found victims? Think again – and brace for the worst. In this Tuesday’s episode of CBS’ hit drama, the identity of the orb’s owner will be explored, and as Sarah Jane Morris (Ej) teases,...
NCIS First Look: The New Team Moves In!
Nc-Eye-s | The eyeball that popped up at the end of last week’s NCIS, are you assuming it came from one of the Port-to-Port Killer’s already found victims? Think again – and brace for the worst. In this Tuesday’s episode of CBS’ hit drama, the identity of the orb’s owner will be explored, and as Sarah Jane Morris (Ej) teases,...
- 4/11/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Morgan Freeman's diligent, nuanced portrayal of Nelson Mandela fails to save this sporting fable from a creativity deficit
"We need inspiration," declares Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in the midst of Clint Eastwood's ceremonial tale of the 1995 rugby World Cup in post-apartheid South Africa. Mandela is ostensibly talking about the country as a whole, though he may as well be exhorting Invictus itself – a monolithic sporting saga that seems content to pose on the podium, lulled by the belief that its subject matter provides inspiration enough. At times it feels as though Eastwood has elected to skip the contest and proceed straight to the trophy presentation.
It's not that Mandela's turbulent first year as South Africa's president is lacking in drama. Invictus, which has its UK premiere tonight, plays out in a land scarred by apartheid and facing an uncertain future, led by an man still regarded...
"We need inspiration," declares Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in the midst of Clint Eastwood's ceremonial tale of the 1995 rugby World Cup in post-apartheid South Africa. Mandela is ostensibly talking about the country as a whole, though he may as well be exhorting Invictus itself – a monolithic sporting saga that seems content to pose on the podium, lulled by the belief that its subject matter provides inspiration enough. At times it feels as though Eastwood has elected to skip the contest and proceed straight to the trophy presentation.
It's not that Mandela's turbulent first year as South Africa's president is lacking in drama. Invictus, which has its UK premiere tonight, plays out in a land scarred by apartheid and facing an uncertain future, led by an man still regarded...
- 2/1/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Kino International
NEW YORK -- You can't accuse filmmaker Barry J. Hershey of being wasteful, that's for sure. Having auditioned about 350 actresses (!) for three roles in a narrative film he was hoping to direct, he instead decided to incorporate the footage into a documentary feature when the project fell through. The result is Casting About, a simultaneously dispiriting and inspiring portrait of the auditioning process that will be of great interest to actors and casting directors, if not necessarily the public at large.
The real star of this effort is film editor Marc Grossman, who has crafted the footage, culled from about 70 hours of casting tapes, into a sometimes hypnotic montage that only suffers because of the inevitable repetition factor.
The hopeful young actresses, trying out for the roles of a dancer, a nun and a model in an apparent wartime drama, are seen alternately as themselves, reading dialogue from the prospective script, and performing audition pieces culled from the works of Eric Bogosian, David Hare and many others.
The viewer is thus thrust into an almost voyeuristic role, as the actresses, who are examined by the camera with minute precision, reveal themselves in often highly personal ways. One woman, for example, arrives at the audition in an obvious state of anxiety, informing the director that she has arrived directly from the sentencing hearing of the man who was recently convicted of raping her.
Watching the footage, one alternates between admiration for the dedication and passion of the performers, and distaste at the way their bared emotions are sometimes exploited here for dramatic effect.
NEW YORK -- You can't accuse filmmaker Barry J. Hershey of being wasteful, that's for sure. Having auditioned about 350 actresses (!) for three roles in a narrative film he was hoping to direct, he instead decided to incorporate the footage into a documentary feature when the project fell through. The result is Casting About, a simultaneously dispiriting and inspiring portrait of the auditioning process that will be of great interest to actors and casting directors, if not necessarily the public at large.
The real star of this effort is film editor Marc Grossman, who has crafted the footage, culled from about 70 hours of casting tapes, into a sometimes hypnotic montage that only suffers because of the inevitable repetition factor.
The hopeful young actresses, trying out for the roles of a dancer, a nun and a model in an apparent wartime drama, are seen alternately as themselves, reading dialogue from the prospective script, and performing audition pieces culled from the works of Eric Bogosian, David Hare and many others.
The viewer is thus thrust into an almost voyeuristic role, as the actresses, who are examined by the camera with minute precision, reveal themselves in often highly personal ways. One woman, for example, arrives at the audition in an obvious state of anxiety, informing the director that she has arrived directly from the sentencing hearing of the man who was recently convicted of raping her.
Watching the footage, one alternates between admiration for the dedication and passion of the performers, and distaste at the way their bared emotions are sometimes exploited here for dramatic effect.
- 6/14/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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