Posts by Zach Dionne

  • The Walking Dead

    Afternoon Links: Most TVs Are Now Just Walking Dead–Playing Devices

    AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad will always be remembered as cornerstones of Television’s Great New Age Characterized by the Shiny Mineral of Your Choice, but The Walking Dead, like it or not, is going to be remembered as the cable series that delivered the hardest punch to network TV. The Hollywood Reporter writes that […]

  • Bill Murray

    Bill Murray Will Donate Some of His Magic to Cameron Crowe’s New Movie

    Until now, Cameron Crowe’s next film has been whispered about only as “more Jerry Maguire/Almost Famous, less We Bought a Zoo,” which seemed like a good thing. Another good thing, though, is Bill Murray, who’s looking to join Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel, and Alec Baldwin in Crowe’s latest. The […]

  • Captain Phillips

    Box Office Top Five: Gravity Wins Again, But Plays Nice With Captain Phillips

    1. Gravity, $44.2 million (last week: no. 1; $123.4 million cumulative) Everyone is writing about how Gravity’s intergalactic/planetary word of mouth kept it on top for a second consecutive week, which makes sense. It’s an amazing movie. It’s amazing in 3-D. It’s really amazing in IMAX. But can we pause to give a little credit […]

  • Afternoon Links: Prince’s ‘Breakfast Can Wait’ Video Goes Light on the Bacon and the Chappelle

    Actually, it flings the bacon straight off the table and leaves Chappelle at home in order to get to dancier places more apropos for an earnest homage to a.m. fornication. It’s a perfect jumping-off point for people who are pro-Prince but haven’t figured out exactly what’s going on with the tweets — nothing but a […]

  • Bob Odenkirk

    Bob Odenkirk Joins the Stacked Cast of FX’s Fargo

    FX, you may recall, is turning Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 film about murder and Midwestern accents into a 10-episode TV product. Despite the arbitrary timing, it almost definitely will not suck. The Coens are executive producing, and it’s certainly not a rush job, having been announced more than a year ago. Giving us the […]

  • Jamie Foxx

    Oliver Stone Might Make a Martin Luther King Biopic Starring Jamie Foxx

    In a focused effort to use up the entire alphabet making biopics out of initials, Oliver Stone is looking to add MLK to his JFK and W. series. Jamie Foxx is interested in playing King in a project that’ll be produced by Steven Spielberg alongside members of King’s family. “Neither Stone nor Foxx have offers […]

  • Afternoon Links: Tobey Maguire Will Now Star in Something Utterly Unmissable

    The Spoils of Babylon isn’t coming to IFC for another three months, so we’ve got a while to ponder this brazenly mysterious trailer. Is it There Will Be Blood meets The Royal Tenenbaums? Casino meets Walk Hard? The family saga about amorous siblings (Kristen Wiig and Tobey Maguire) comes from Will Ferrell and Casa de […]

  • Breaking Bad Season 1

    Some Sicko Bought Walter White’s Tighty Whities for $10,000

    Or $9,900, actually, but that’s only $100 less gross. The auction of iconic Breaking Bad props happened over at ScreenBid, where more than 300 items were pawned off to shore up Vince Gilligan’s Vince Gilligan Is the Best Foundation. (We jest — Sony Pictures Television will net something like 80 percent of the $1 million […]

  • Jerry O'Connell, Chris Smith

    CancellationWatch: CBS’s We Are Men

    How Long Has It Been On? Two episodes How Long Does It Have Left, Doctor? Zero more episodes. (Although the fate of its full 13-episode order is TBD; CBS might burn those off someday.) Does It Have a Replacement? 2 Broke Girls will take over the 8:30 p.m. time slot; Mike & Molly will return […]

  • Super Clyde

    Afternoon Links: Ron Weasley TV Show Was Doomed, But You Can See the Pilot

    While Harry Potter costars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson continued to skip along the movie path fairly successfully, Rupert Grint decided to try a half-hour CBS pilot. The ill-fated Super Clyde, also starring Stephen Fry, details a shy geek who inherits a fortune and sets about trying to use it to become an everyday superhero. […]

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